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. Neuroscience

    Projection-specific integration of convergent thalamic and retrosplenial signals in the presubicular head direction cortex

    Louis Richevaux, Dongkyun Lim ... Desdemona Fricker
    Nonlinear dendritic integration in single presubicular neurons provides a mechanism for combining vestibular-based head-direction signals and visual landmark signals to anchor the brain’s internal compass.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Class A scavenger receptor MARCO negatively regulates Ace expression and aldosterone production

    Conan JO O'Brien, Giorgio Ratti ... Ana I Domingos
    Loss of class A scavenger receptor MARCO results in elevated lung Ace expression and elevated plasma aldosterone concentrations in male mice, demonstrating an endocrine function of this immune scavenger receptor.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Phospholipid scramblase 1 (PLSCR1) regulates interferon-lambda receptor 1 (IFN-λR1) and IFN-λ signaling in influenza A virus (IAV) infection

    Alina Xiaoyu Yang, Lisa Ramos-Rodriguez ... Yang Zhou
    PLSCR1 is an IFN-λ-stimulated gene that enhances IFN-λR1 expression at both transcriptional and protein level, highlighting the potential for targeting PLSCR1 pathways in anti-influenza therapy.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Nucleosome wrapping energy in CpG islands and the role of epigenetic base modifications

    Rasa Giniūnaitė, Rahul Sharma ... Daiva Petkevičiūtė-Gerlach
    CpG density and epigenetic modification state modulate DNA mechanics, altering its intrinsic compatibility with nucleosome formation.
    1. Medicine

    Are peer reviewers influenced by their work being cited?

    Adrian Barnett
    Some requests by reviewers to cite their own publications are coercive and can unnecessarily delay indexation and publication.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Predictive modeling of hematoma expansion from non-contrast computed tomography in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage patients

    Natasha Ironside, Kareem El Naamani ... VISTA-ICH
    In spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage patients, features of hematoma expansion can be visualized and predicted from non-contrast computed tomography using transport-based morphometry.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Cryptovaranoides is not a squamate

    Michael W Caldwell, Chase D Brownstein ... Tiago R Simões
    Claims for a Triassic-aged crown lizard merit detailed reanalysis, the results of which find that Cryptovaranoides is not only not a lizard, but is a more distantly related diapsid reptile.
    1. Neuroscience

    Vascular endothelial-specific loss of TGF-beta signaling as a model for choroidal neovascularization and central nervous system vascular inflammation

    Yanshu Wang, Amir Rattner ... Jeremy Nathans
    In mice, loss of TGF-beta signaling specifically in vascular endothelial cells leads to retinal hypovascularization, choroidal neovascularization, a pro-inflammatory state within brain and retinal endothelial cells, and an influx of diverse inflammatory cells into the retina.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Functional genomics reveals strain-specific genetic requirements conferring hypoxic growth in Mycobacterium intracellulare

    Yoshitaka Tateishi, Yuriko Ozeki ... Sohkichi Matsumoto
    Transposon sequencing analyses reveal that among genomically diverse clinical Mycobacterium intracellulare strains and the type strain, 131 genes were comprehensively identified as universal essential genes suggesting promising drug targets.