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Claudins And Cancer: From Cell Barrier To Precision Therapy

Claudins are tetraspan membrane proteins that form essential tight-junction components and regulate epithelial and endothelial polarity, cell-cell adhesion, and paracellular permeability.

Mechanisms, Functions And Therapeutic Targeting Of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases

Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are enzymes that counterbalance protein tyrosine kinases by regulating reversible tyrosine phosphorylation, a core signal-transduction mechanism in cellular function.

The Interaction Between Inflammageing And Clonal Hematopoiesis And Its Impact On Disease

Inflammageing and clonal hematopoiesis form a self-reinforcing axis in aging biology.

Ufmylation: Mechanisms, Cellular Functions, And Role In Disease

UFMylation is a ubiquitin-like post-translational modification in which ubiquitin-fold modifier 1 (UFM1) is covalently conjugated to protein substrates through an enzymatic cascade.

The Role Of The Sting Signaling Pathway In Lipid Metabolism And Immunity

The STING signaling pathway links cytosolic DNA sensing with innate immunity, inflammation, lipid metabolism, and metabolic disease biology.

Ras: Moving From An Undruggable To A Druggable Target In Cancer

RAS moved from an “undruggable” cancer target to a druggable precision oncology target because decades of failed drug-discovery efforts were followed by direct KRAS inhibitor development, especially KRAS G12C inhibitors such as sotorasib and adagrasib.

Hijacking Of The Nervous System In Cancer: Mechanism And Therapeutic Targets

“Hijacking of the nervous system in cancer” describes bidirectional nerve-tumor crosstalk in which cancer cells remodel neural structures and neural signals reshape the tumor microenvironment, tumor growth, invasion, metastasis, prognosis, and therapeutic response.

Targeting Mitochondria-Associated Endoplasmic Reticulum Membranes (MAMs) And Diabetic Complications

Mitochondria-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAMs) are specialized ER-mitochondria contact sites that maintain interorganelle communication and regulate calcium homeostasis, lipid synthesis and transport, mitochondrial dynamics, ER stress, glucose homeostasis, autophagy, apoptosis, and inflammation in diabetic complications.

Interleukins In Cancer: From Biology To Therapy

Interleukins are cytokines that coordinate communication between cancer cells, immune cells, stromal cells, and the tumor microenvironment.

Maybe Hedgehog Signaling Helps To Extend Healthspan

Hedgehog signaling is a conserved developmental pathway that remains active in adult tissue maintenance, regeneration, repair, and disease biology.

The Major Anti-Aging Signaling Pathways

Major anti-aging signaling pathways are conserved molecular networks that regulate lifespan, healthspan, stress resistance, metabolism, proteostasis, autophagy, cellular senescence, mitochondrial function, and age-related disease risk.

Major Hurdles Facing Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases (PTPs)-Targeted Drugs

Protein tyrosine phosphatases regulate phosphorylation-dependent signaling by removing phosphate groups from tyrosine residues.

Ion Channel Targets Drugged Strategy

Ion channel target drugging uses small molecules, peptides, biologics, natural products, and emerging light-controlled compounds to modulate channels that regulate membrane potential, ion flux, excitability, secretion, contraction, pain signaling, and cellular homeostasis.

Solute Carrier (SLC) Transporters Serves As Gatekeepers In Metabolite Ecosystem

Solute carrier transporters are membrane proteins that maintain cellular and organismal homeostasis by transporting small molecules and ions.

Post-Translational Modifications (PTMs) Of Proteins Aging-Related Diseases

Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are biochemical changes that occur during or after protein translation and regulate protein activity, localization, stability, degradation, and interactions.

From Antibiotic Targeting Mechanisms To The Issue Of Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotics act by disrupting bacterial processes required for survival, including cell wall synthesis, protein synthesis, DNA replication, RNA synthesis, membrane integrity, and folate metabolism.

Evolution Of Therapeutic Targets For Obesity

Obesity pharmacotherapy has evolved from approaches that broadly suppress appetite or nutrient absorption toward therapies that target the biological systems governing energy homeostasis, satiety, nutrient sensing, and metabolic adaptation.

The Role Of Nuclear Receptors In Energy Metabolism Balance

Nuclear receptors are a superfamily of ligand-activated transcription factors that function as metabolic sensors linking nutrient availability, hormonal signals, and gene expression programs that regulate energy homeostasis.

Mrna Therapeutics Beyond Vaccines In Cancer And Rare Diseases

mRNA therapeutics beyond vaccines use synthetic messenger RNA as a transient template for in situ protein production, enabling cancer immunotherapy, protein replacement therapy, and genome editing.

Crispr-Cas Gene Editing In In Vivo Therapeutic Applications

CRISPR-Cas gene editing in in vivo therapeutic applications uses programmable nucleases or newer genome editors delivered directly into the body to delete, insert, modify, or block disease-related genes.

Exosome-Mediated Neuroprotection

Exosome-mediated neuroprotection refers to the use of exosomes and extracellular vesicles as intercellular communication systems that carry proteins, lipids, RNA, and other bioactive molecules to regulate neuronal survival, inflammation, oxidative stress, apoptosis, autophagy, and blood-brain barrier integrity.

Blood-Brain Barrier Engineering For Neurotherapeutic Delivery

Blood-brain barrier engineering for neurotherapeutic delivery focuses on designing drug delivery systems that cross or transiently modulate the BBB to move therapeutic molecules into the central nervous system.

Innate And Adaptive Immune Engineering In Oncology

Innate and adaptive immune engineering in oncology uses genetic, cellular, and molecular design to redirect immune recognition, tumor killing, antigen presentation, and immune-memory formation.

Antibody-Based Immunotherapy And Targeted Immune Activation

Antibody-based immunotherapy uses monoclonal antibodies and antibody derivatives to target selected immune response components in cancer treatment.

Car-T & TME Remodeling

CAR-T and tumor microenvironment remodeling describes strategies that engineer chimeric antigen receptor T cells while modifying the tumor microenvironment that limits their activity.

The STING-NF-κB Anti-Infection Signaling Cascade

STING-NF-κB anti-infection signaling describes a cytosolic DNA-sensing cascade that links microbial DNA detection to inflammatory cytokine production and host defense.

Regulation of Type I Interferon in the Prevention and Treatment of Viral and Inflammatory Diseases

Regulation of type I interferon in the prevention and treatment of viral and inflammatory diseases refers to the control of interferon-α and interferon-β production, signaling, and biological activity to balance antiviral defense with immune homeostasis.

Thymic T Cells and Immunotherapy

Thymic T cells and immunotherapy are connected through the thymus-dependent generation, selection, and maintenance of the T-cell repertoire that underlies antitumor immune responses.

Escape Route Built by TGF-β Signaling

Escape route built by TGF-β signaling refers to the immunosuppressive and stromal remodeling program through which tumors avoid immune elimination and reduce response to cancer immunotherapy.

How Wnt Signaling Preserves Stem Cell Renewal

How Wnt signaling preserves stem cell renewal describes how Wnt-regulated pathways maintain stem cell self-renewal, proliferation, quiescence, and differentiation balance in specialized stem cell niches.

Histone Lactylation as a Signal for Macrophage Polarization

Histone lactylation as a signal for macrophage polarization refers to a metabolically driven epigenetic mechanism in which lactate-derived lysine lactylation on histones links cellular glycolysis to transcriptional regulation of macrophage phenotypes.

How m6A Marks Decide Immune Cell Fate

How m6A marks decide immune cell fate centers on N6-methyladenosine as an mRNA modification that connects RNA metabolism with immune cell homeostasis, differentiation, and disease-linked immune responses.

How NF-κB Writes Inflammatory Memory

How NF-κB writes inflammatory memory refers to the capacity of NF-κB signaling to convert transient inflammatory stimuli into persistent transcriptional, epigenetic, and cellular states that influence future immune responses.

Kinase Bottleneck in JAK-STAT Cytokine Responses

The kinase bottleneck in JAK-STAT cytokine responses refers to the central requirement for Janus kinases (JAKs) to convert extracellular cytokine signals into transcriptional programs through signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) proteins.

The Cellular Logistics of Autophagy-Driven Antigen Presentation

The cellular logistics of autophagy-driven antigen presentation refers to the intracellular trafficking network through which autophagy directs endogenous and exogenous antigens toward antigen-processing compartments and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) loading pathways.

Autophagy as the Routing System for Antigen Presentation

Autophagy functions as a routing system for antigen presentation by delivering intracellular proteins, pathogens, organelles, and protein aggregates to antigen-processing compartments, thereby connecting cellular quality control with adaptive immunity.

When Mitophagy Becomes an Innate Immune Checkpoint

Mitophagy becomes an innate immune checkpoint when selective autophagic removal of damaged mitochondria regulates the availability of mitochondrial danger signals that activate innate immune pathways.

Ferroptosis Route to Tumor Immune Remodeling

Ferroptosis route to tumor immune remodeling refers to the integration of iron-dependent lipid peroxidation with antitumor immunity, whereby ferroptotic signaling reshapes the tumor microenvironment and influences immune-cell function.

Molecular Spark of cGAS-STING-Mediated Cellular Senescence

Cellular senescence is a stress-response program characterized by irreversible cell-cycle arrest and the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), originally recognized as a tumor-suppressive mechanism and now considered a central process in aging biology, inflammation, and cancer research.

Hidden Logic Behind STING-Driven Antitumor Immunity

STING-driven antitumor immunity describes cytosolic DNA sensing that converts tumor-derived DNA or treatment-induced DNA damage into type I interferon signaling, dendritic-cell activation, T-cell priming, and tumor immune infiltration.

Process of PD-1/PD-L1-Mediated Tumor Immune Evasion

PD-1/PD-L1-mediated tumor immune evasion is a central mechanism by which tumors suppress antitumor immunity through immune checkpoint signaling.

Senolytics and Senomorphic Strategies in Aging Research

Cellular senescence is a stable state of cell-cycle arrest triggered by DNA damage, telomere attrition, oncogenic signaling, and other forms of cellular stress.

Organoid Co-culture Models in Tumor Immunology

Organoid co-culture models in tumor immunology are three-dimensional experimental systems that combine patient-derived or stem cell-derived tumor organoids with immune cells and other components of the tumor microenvironment to recapitulate tumor-immune interactions in vitro.

Trained Immunity: Innate Immune Memory in Inflammation and Disease

Trained immunity refers to the capacity of the innate immune system to develop a long-term altered response following exposure to microbial products, vaccines, or endogenous danger signals, resulting in enhanced responsiveness to subsequent heterologous challenges.

Cuproptosis: Copper-Dependent Cell Death and Mitochondrial Metabolism

Cuproptosis is a recently defined copper-dependent form of regulated cell death that is mechanistically distinct from apoptosis, necroptosis, pyroptosis, and ferroptosis, and is tightly linked to mitochondrial respiration and tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle activity.

Disulfidptosis: Actin Cytoskeleton Collapse Under Disulfide Stress

Disulfidptosis is a recently identified form of regulated cell death driven by disulfide stress and characterized by collapse of the actin cytoskeleton rather than by the canonical mechanisms that define apoptosis, necroptosis, ferroptosis, pyroptosis, or other established cell death programs.

PANoptosis: Crosstalk Between Pyroptosis, Apoptosis and Necroptosis

PANoptosis is a regulated inflammatory cell death pathway that integrates key features of pyroptosis, apoptosis, and necroptosis and cannot be fully explained by any individual pathway alone.

The Guiding Significance of Erythrocyte "Spectosis".

Spectosis is a lytic programmed cell death pathway in mature red blood cells triggered by complement activation and involving NLRP3 signaling.

TCE (T cell engager) Potential in Solid Tumors

T-cell engagers (TCEs) are engineered immunotherapeutic molecules designed to redirect endogenous T cells toward tumor cells through simultaneous binding of a T-cell receptor component, most commonly CD3, and a tumor-associated antigen (TAA) expressed on malignant cells.

CAR-T Cell Therapy & Neurodegenerative Diseases

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy is an adoptive cellular immunotherapy originally developed for cancer treatment and is now being explored for neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s disease.