supported by the Research Funds of the Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM,No.QYZD20220002;the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.82071357;a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,No.2019YFA0405600 (all to BH)。
Rab5 is a GTPase protein that is involved in intracellular membrane trafficking. It functions by binding to various effector proteins and regulating cellular responses, including the formation of transport vesicles an...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.82202681(to JW);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province,Nos.LZ22H090003(to QC),LR23H060001(to CL).
Spinal cord injuries impose a notably economic burden on society,mainly because of the severe after-effects they cause.Despite the ongoing development of various therapies for spinal cord injuries,their effectiveness ...
supported by the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation,Nos.2021A1515011371 (to JP),2021A1515110290 (to YO),2020A1515110564 (to XW);2023A 1 515010150 (to MZ);Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou,No.202102020977 (to ZF);the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Nos.82201516 (to YO) and 81900709 (to ZF);President Foundation of Nanfang Hospital,Southern Medical University,Nos.2019C001 (to MZ),2019C016 (to XW), 2021C045 (to YO)。
Previous studies have shown that growth hormone can regulate hypothalamic energy metabolism, stress, and hormone release. Therefore, growth hormone has great potential for treating hypothalamic injury. In this study, ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.32371048(to YK);the Peking University People’s Hospital Research and Development Funds,No.RDX2021-01(to YK);the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing,No.7222198(to NH)。
Macrophages play an important role in peripheral nerve regeneration,but the specific mechanism of regeneration is still unclear.Our preliminary findings indicated that neutrophil peptide 1 is an innate immune peptide ...
supported by a startup fund from the Chinese Institute for Brain Research to H.Z.and W.-P.G.,the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82101059 to Y.Y.);the Research Funding from West China School/Hospital of Stomatology Sichuan University(RCDWJS2022-11 to Y.Y.).
Achieving uniform optical resolution for a large tissue sample is a major challenge for deep imaging.For conventional tissue clearing methods,loss of resolution and quality in deep regions is inevitable due to limited...
In this paper, the authors extend [1] and provide more details of how the brain may act like a quantum computer. In particular, positing the difference between voltages on two axons as the environment for ions undergo...
funded by a Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust(UK),206634/Z/17/Z。
The Schwann cell reaction to nerve injury,termed the repair program,is crucial to successful nerve regeneration.Over the last decade,substantial advances have been made in elucidating the underlying molecular mechanis...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No. 81870977 (to YW);the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China,No. JQ2021H004 (to YW);PhD research foundation of Mudanjiang Medicine College,No. 2021-MYBSKY-039 (to WYL);Fundamental Research Funds for Heilongjiang Provincial Universities,No. 2021-KYYWF-0469 (to WYL)。
Chx10-expressing V2 a(Chx10+V2 a) spinal interneurons play a large role in the excitatory drive of motoneurons. Chemogenetic ablation studies have demonstrated the essential nature of Chx10+V2 a interneurons in the re...
supported by funding from the Key Research and Development Program of Sichuan(2021YFS0382 to CX);the Medical Research Project of Jiangsu Commission of Health(M2022004 to CWL);Huai'an Natural Science Research Program(HAB202239 to CWL);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(General Program)(82271524 to LWD);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Key Program)(32220103006 to LWD).
Tremendous research efforts have been made regarding the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease(PD).However,there are still no effective strategies to restore midbrain dopaminergic(mDA)innervation and prevent disease pr...
The authors would like to thank Elizabeth Boyle for technical support.Financial support provided by the U.S.Department of Defense[CDMRP/JPC8-CRMRP W81XWH-16-1-0796(Cullen)&CDMRP/PRORP W81XWH-19-1-0867(Cullen&Das)];the Department of Veterans Affairs[BLR&D Merit Review I01-BX003748(Cullen)];the National Institutes of Health[R44-NS108869(Katiyar&Cullen);T32-EB005583(Shultz),TL1-TR001880(Burrell)];the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania.Opinions,interpretations,conclusions and recommendations are those of the author(s)and are not necessarily endorsed by the Department of Defense,the Department of Veterans Affairs,or the National Institutes of Health.
Nerve injury requiring surgical repair often results in poor functional recovery due to the inability of host axons to re-grow long distances and reform meaningful connections with the target muscle. While surgeons ca...