supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFA1100600);National Natural Science Foundation of China(82170955,32101096,and 32100953);Shaanxi Provincial Key Research and Development Plan Project(2022SF-095);the Youth Talent Training Project for School of Stomatology in Fourth Military Medical University(2020QNYC01)。
Severe muscle injury is hard to heal and always results in a poor prognosis.Recent studies found that extracellular vesicle-based therapy has promising prospects for regeneration medicine,however,whether extracellular...
AIM: To evaluate plasma and aqueous levels of adiponutrin and pannexin 1 in patients with and without diabetic retinopathy.METHODS: The study included three age and gendermatched groups of 20 cataract patients with no...
This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82070712,81873603,81670664)to LML,and(No.81873603)to XXW.The authors would like to thank the research participants for volunteering their time in the study.
Ischemia/reperfusion(I/R)injury is a major cause of acute kidney injury(AKI)in clinic.The activation of NLRP3 inflammasome is associated with inflammation and renal injury in I/R-induced AKI.In the current study we ex...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Nos.31900718(to ZYW),31872773(to GC);the National Key Research and Development Program of China,No.2017YFA0104704(to GC);Basic Research Program of the Education Department of Jiangsu Province of China,Nos.19KJB180024(to ZYW),18KJB180020(to WXS);Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China,No.2019M651925(to ZYW),Jiangsu Students’Platform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program of China,No.201810304031Z(to YJD);Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province of China,No.WSN-007(to WXS).
Pannexin 1(Panx 1),as a large-pore membrane channel,is highly permeable to ATP and other signaling molecules.Previous studies have demonstrated the expression of Panx 1 in the nervous system,including astrocytes,micro...
supported in part by New Zealand Lottery Health Research;the Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust;the New Zealand Optometric Vision Research Foundation。
Compounds that block the function of connexin and pannexin protein channels have been suggested to be valuable therapeutics for a range of diseases.Some of these compounds are now in clinical trials,but for many of th...
This work was supported by the grants from the National Natu-ral Science Foundation of China(Nos.81670265 and 81970431);Innovation Platform Open Foundation of Education Department of Hunan Province(No.18K073);Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department Document(No.2019-56).
Connexins and pannexins are two kinds of transmembrane pro-teins,which play important physiological roles.Connexins form hemichannels and channels,mainly contributing to the formation of gap junctions.Pannexins are ne...
supported partially by Helen Vosburg Mc Crillus Plummer;Robert Edward Lee Plummer,Jr.Chair in Neurosurgery(to JHH);NIH-R01-NS-067435(to JHH)
The contribution of an impaired astrocytic K^+ regulation system to epileptic neuronal hyperexcitability has been increasingly recognized in the last decade.A defective K^+ regulation leads to an elevated extracellula...
This work was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFA0505700,2016YFC1000600,2017YFC1001500,2018YFC1003800);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31771115,81725006,81822019,81771581,81571501,81971450,81971382);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science(XDB32020000,XDA12010317);the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(2018SHZDZX05,2017SHZDZX01);the CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research(SIMM1804YKF-03);the Thousand Young Talents Program,the 100 Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(18ZR1447700);Shanghai Rising-Star Program(grant 17QA1404800).
Dear Editor,Cellular communication is crucial during basic development and in the maintenance of homeostasis in adult organisms,and such communication involves the connexin and pannexin(PANX)families of large-pore cha...
This work was supported in part by Ministry of Science and Technology(2016YFA0500404 to S.Y.,2018YFA0508100 to J.G.,2016YFA0501102 to X.Z.,and 2016YFA0500700 to N.G);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31525001 and 31971127 to S.Y,31870724 to J.G.,31600606 to X.Z.,31725007 and 31630087 to N.G.,and 31700655 to N.L.);Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation(LR19C050002 to J.G);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(to S.Y.,J.G.,X.Z.,and N.G.).
Dear Editor,Pannexin 1(PANX1)channel mediates adenosine-5’-triphosphate(ATP)release for purinergic signaling,1 playing important roles in multiple physiological and pathological processes including apoptotic clearanc...