Organ-selective drug action of traditional Chinese medicine that generates systemic immune mediators is proposed and reviewed as a novel mechanistic angle to develop new immunomodulatory drugs.
Chiara Piantoni, Manuel Paina ... Mirko Baruscotti
A Traditional Chinese Medicine botanical drug exerts a competitive antagonism on the cAMP-induced modulation of sinoatrial node pacemaker channels and this functional inhibition reduces the slope of the diastolic depolarization hence spontaneous cell automaticity.
Serum exosomal sequencing combined with cell and animal experiments indicate that miRNA-199b-5p is a novel miRNA associated with osteoarthritis (OA) and can modulate the onset and progression of the disease.
Charumathi Sabanayagam, Feng He ... Ching Yu Cheng
Integrating machine learning (ML) models with selected features improved the prediction accuracy of diabetic kidney disease compared to traditional logistic regression models using established features, revealing potential new markers and supporting the use of ML techniques in epidemiological studies.
The traditional herbal medicine Gastrodia elata Blume, in the water-extracted form as food supplement, improves locomotion and protects dopaminergic neurons in Lrrk2-G2019S Parkinson’s disease models through Nrf2 activation in glia.