Targeting TGFβ-activated kinase-1 activation in microglia reduces CAR T immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome

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...

Targeted Activation of Ferroptosis in Colorectal Cancer via LGR4 Targeting Overcomes Acquired Drug Resistance

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...

Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling

Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling

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...

Hyperbolic secant representation of the logistic function: Application to probabilistic multiple instance learning for CT intracranial hemorrhage detection

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...

Unsupervised restoration of a complex learned behavior after large-scale neuronal perturbation

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...

Closed-loop recruitment of striatal interneurons prevents compulsive-like grooming behaviors

Closed-loop recruitment of striatal interneurons prevents compulsive-like grooming behaviors

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...

Cognitive representations of intracranial self-stimulation of midbrain dopamine neurons depend on stimulation frequency

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 ...

The subcommissural organ regulates brain development via secreted peptides

The subcommissural organ regulates brain development via secreted peptides

I. Research Background and Purpose The subcommissural organ (SCO) is a glandular structure located at the entrance of the ventricular system, which is present in humans and other vertebrates, but its function has not been fully elucidated. Previous studies have suggested that the SCO may be involved in the regulation of neural development and the m...

Dimensionality reduction beyond neural subspaces with slice tensor component analysis

Background Introduction: Large-scale neural recording data can typically be described by patterns of co-activated neurons. However, the view of constraining neural activity variability to a fixed low-dimensional subspace may overlook higher-dimensional structures, such as fixed neural sequences or slowly evolving latent spaces. This study argues th...

Identification of senescent, TREM2-expressing microglia in aging and Alzheimer's disease model mouse brain

Identification of senescent, TREM2-expressing microglia in aging and Alzheimer's disease model mouse brain

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an age-related chronic neurodegenerative disorder, whose pathological mechanism involves multiple factors, including brain inflammation. Microglia, particularly those expressing the AD risk gene TREM2, are believed to play a crucial role in the development of AD, but their exact contribution has not been fully elucidated...