In this study, researchers explored the role of the TAK1 activation pathway in CAR T cell therapy-associated immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS). They established a mouse ICANS model and found that following the transfer of CAR19 T cells, cerebellar cells were activated, underwent morphological changes, and expressed more...
Overcoming Acquired Resistance in Colorectal Cancer by Targeting LGR4 Research Background: Acquired drug resistance is a major obstacle in cancer treatment and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths. However, the mechanisms of resistance are diverse, and how to specifically target resistant cancer cells remains a significant clinical challenge. A...
Utilizing Dynamic Single-Cell Analysis to Discover a Clinically Effective Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Subset for Treating Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Research Background Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has been proven to be an effective treatment for B-cell malignancies. However, it remains challenging to predict individual cl...
This is a long-term outcome study on survivors of pediatric glioma. The main purpose of the study was to evaluate the impact of changes in treatment approaches for pediatric glioma over the past few decades on long-term mortality, chronic health conditions, and subsequent tumor risk among survivors. Background: In the past, treatment for pediatric ...
There has long been a problem of “weak supervision” in the field of artificial intelligence, where only part of the labels are observable in the training data, while the remaining labels are unknown. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a paradigm to address this issue. In MIL, the training data is divided into multiple “bags”, each containing multi...
Circuit Mechanisms of Hue Selectivity in the Fruit Fly Visual System Color perception is a key aspect of visual experience, playing an important role in the interaction between organisms and their environment. In primates and other animals with three types of photoreceptor cells, neurons in the visual cortex have been found to selectively respond t...
This paper reports on research investigating how zebra finches recover their complex learned behaviors following large-scale neuronal perturbations. The researchers selectively disrupted the activity of the projection neurons in the HVC (hyperpallium ventralis) region critical for song sequence generation in zebra finches using genetic tools, leadi...
Brain Clearance Mechanism Suppressed During Sleep and Anesthesia Background Clearing metabolic wastes and toxic substances from the brain is a crucial process for maintaining a healthy nervous system. However, the specific mechanism of this process has been debated. A widely discussed viewpoint suggests that the sleep state promotes the function of...
Obsessive-compulsive behaviors have long been associated with overactivation of the striatum. The GABA-ergic parvalbumin-positive interneurons (PVIs) in the striatum play a crucial role in regulating striatal activity and inhibiting inappropriate motivated behaviors. To investigate the potential role of striatal PVIs in regulating obsessive-compuls...
This paper reports a study on the cognitive representation of intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) of midbrain dopamine neurons. The authors aimed to answer why rats work to obtain ICSS, i.e., how the pulsatile activation of dopamine neurons is represented in the brain. Research Background: The pulsatile activation of dopamine neurons is typically ...