Research Articles

Research Articles published by eLife are full-length studies that present important breakthroughs across the life sciences and biomedicine. There is no maximum length and no limits on the number of display items.

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The Mycobacterium ulcerans toxin mycolactone causes destructive Sec61-dependent loss of the endothelial glycocalyx and vessel basement membrane to drive skin necrosis

    Louise Tzung-Harn Hsieh, Belinda S Hall ... Rachel E Simmonds
    The secreted toxin mycolactone has severe effects on the cells lining blood vessels that will play a critical role in the development of swelling in Buruli ulcer disease.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Akkermansia muciniphila identified as key strain to alleviate gut barrier injury through Wnt signaling pathway

    Xin Ma, Meng Li ... Xinyan Han
    FMT alleviated the intestinal barrier damage caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection in antibiotic-induced microbiome-disordered model through increasing the relative abundance of A. muciniphila in the intestine.
    1. Neuroscience

    Parabrachial CGRP neurons modulate active defensive behavior under a naturalistic threat

    Gyeong Hee Pyeon, Hyewon Cho ... Yong Sang Jo
    CGRP neurons act as a general alarm system, modulating various defensive behaviors based on magnitude of threat.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cortical tracking of hierarchical rhythms orchestrates the multisensory processing of biological motion

    Li Shen, Shuo Li ... Yi Jiang
    Cortical tracking of multi-scale temporal structures supports audiovisual integration of human motion via distinct modes, with superadditive integration at higher-order timescale linked to biological motion processing and autistic traits.
    1. Neuroscience

    Early-life stress induces persistent astrocyte dysfunction associated with fear generalisation

    Mathias Guayasamin, Lewis R Depaauw-Holt ... Ciaran Murphy-Royal
    Amygdala astrocytes play a critical role in mediating the effects of stress during infancy on neuronal excitability, synaptic plasticity, and memory.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    A model-based factorization method for scRNA data unveils bifurcating transcriptional modules underlying cell fate determination

    Jun Ren, Ying Zhou ... Qiyuan Li
    A novel method for factorizing complex cellular trajectories into interpretable bifurcation processes enhances the understanding of cell fate determination through the identification of key biological determinants in scRNA-seq data.
    1. Neuroscience

    Disruption of the CRF1 receptor eliminates morphine-induced sociability deficits and firing of oxytocinergic neurons in male mice

    Alessandro Piccin, Anne-Emilie Allain ... Angelo Contarino
    Both genetic and pharmacological studies reveal an essential role for the CRF1 receptor in social behavior deficits induced by a single morphine administration in male, but not in female, mice.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Microbiota from young mice counteracts susceptibility to age-related gout through modulating butyric acid levels in aged mice

    Ning Song, Hang Gao ... Wenlong Zhang
    Gut microbiota from young mice can alleviate gout and hyperuricemia in aged mice, further revealing that the metabolic product butyrate derived from the gut microbiota exerts similar therapeutic effects.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Intergenerational transport of double-stranded RNA in C. elegans can limit heritable epigenetic changes

    Nathan M Shugarts Devanapally, Aishwarya Sathya ... Antony M Jose
    Transport of double-stranded RNA from parental circulation to progeny using the transmembrane protein SID-1 can occur through multiple routes during C. elegans development and buffer heritable changes in gene expression.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dendritic growth and synaptic organization from activity-independent cues and local activity-dependent plasticity

    Jan H Kirchner, Lucas Euler ... Julijana Gjorgjieva
    A mechanistic model based on the interaction of activity-independent cues from potential synaptic partners and local activity-dependent synaptic plasticity generates growing dendritic morphologies and non-random synaptic organization during development.