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Methamphetamine (METH) is a highly addictive psychostimulant that causes significant health issues due to high prevalence of its illegal use. Chronic use of METH is associated with cognitive impairments in both human and animal studies, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. METH-induced neuroinflammation is, potentially, one of the factors that causes cognitive impairments. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess whether melatonin could provide protection against inflammation, in a manner comparable to the anti-inflammatory agent, minocycline, with consequent improvements of METH-induced cognitive impairments and associated abnormalities in the mouse hippocampus. Results from the Morris water maze (MWM) test and the novel object recognition test (NORT) showed that melatonin given after METH injections could ameliorate both METH-induced spatial and recognition memory impairments. These memory impairments are associated with changes in the neuroinflammatory profiles, including IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α, both in the blood serum and hippocampus of adult mice. METH-treated mice also exhibited reactive astrocytes and activated microglia in the hippocampus. METH-induced activation of glial cells is associated with the activation of the TLR4/MyD88/NFκB signaling pathway. Moreover, melatonin administration led to recovery of these METH-induced markers to control levels. 1-Deoxynojirimycin mouse Thus, we conclude that melatonin could potentially be used as a cognitive enhancer and anti-inflammatory agent in the treatment of METH use disorder in humans.European Union guidelines indiscriminately discuss a permitted daily exposure (PDE) for pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA) of up to 0.007 μg/kg body weight for oral and for topical exposure to herbal medicinal products. In this study, lycopsamine served as a model substance for measuring the extent of skin permeation of PAs following the application of a spiked comfrey cream (Symphytum officinale s.l.) to abdominal skin from human donors in Franz diffusion cells. PAs could be excluded in the non-spiked cream with a limit of detection of 8 μg/kg. Only small amounts of the applied quantity of lycopsamine had migrated through the skin sample into the receptor cell side of the diffusion cell after 24 h. In five of six diffusion cells, there was no detectable lycopsamine within the skin and only 0.6 ± 0.4% of the applied dose in the receptor fluid. The theoretical skin penetration of 4.9% of the applied quantity of lycopsamine largely resulted from the worst case approach of assuming the presence of at least a quantity corresponding to the limit of detection - the true penetration is probably considerably lower. Even with the worst-case calculation, the currently discussed guidelines on PA overestimate the risk related to topical preparations.
To explore the potential mechanism of polyphyllin I (PPI)-induced apoptosis in lung cancer cells.
The pathological changes in lung cancer tissues and paracancerous tissues were first analysed by H&E staining and IHC staining. After PPI treatment, cell viability and apoptosis were detected by MTT assays, cell cycle analyses and flow cytometry. The expression levels of EZH2 and apoptosis-related molecules were evaluated by qRT-PCR and Western blotting.
EZH2 overexpression decreased proapoptotic proteins, and this effect was reversed by PPI. Knockdown of HOTAIR downregulated EZH2 expression, upregulated proapoptotic proteins, and enhanced the effect of PPI treatment. Moreover, knockdown of STAT3 could counteract the effect of HOTAIR overexpression, which significantly increased the expression of EZH2, thus facilitating cell apoptosis in lung cancer.
PPI induced cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in lung cancer by inhibiting EZH2 through the STAT3/HOTAIR signalling pathway.
PPI induced cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in lung cancer by inhibiting EZH2 through the STAT3/HOTAIR signalling pathway.
Detecting human drowsiness during some critical works like vehicle driving, crane operating, mining blasting, etc. is one of the safeguards to prevent accidents. Among several drowsiness detection (DD) methods, a combination of neuroscience and computer science knowledge has a better ability to differentiate awake and sleep states. Most of the current models are implemented using multi-sensors electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, multi-domain features, predefined features selection algorithms. Therefore, there is great interest in the method of detecting drowsiness on embedded platforms with improved accuracy using generalized best features.
Single-channel EEG based drowsiness detection (DD) model is proposed in this by utilizing wavelet packet transform (WPT) to extract the time-domain features from considered channel EEG. The dimension of the feature vector is reduced by the proposed novel feature selection method.
The proposed model on freely available real-time sleep analysis EEG and Simulated Virtual Driving Driver (SVDD) EEG achieves 94.45% and 85.3% accuracy, respectively.
The results show that the proposed DD method produces better accuracy compared to the state-of-the-art using the physiological dataset with the proposed time-domain sub-band-based features and feature selection method. This task of detecting drowsiness by analyzing the 5-seconds EEG signal with four features is an improvement to my previous work on detecting drowsiness using a 30-seconds EEG signal with 66 features.
Time-domain features obtained from EEG time-domain sub-bands collected using WPT achieving excellent accuracy rate by selecting unique optimization features for all subjects by the proposed feature selection algorithm.
Time-domain features obtained from EEG time-domain sub-bands collected using WPT achieving excellent accuracy rate by selecting unique optimization features for all subjects by the proposed feature selection algorithm.Papulopustular rosacea (PPR) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with limited treatment options. Although multiple pathways have been described to be upregulated in PPR, a mechanistic understanding of the key drivers and interaction between pathways in PPR pathology is lacking. In this study, we utilized PPR skin biopsy explants to integrate both differentially expressed genes and differentially expressed proteins in paired nonlesional and lesional PPR tissue (n = 5 patients). The results of this study identified 92 differentially expressed genes and 20 differentially expressed proteins between paired PPR lesional and nonlesional explants. MAPK and TNF signaling pathways were the most significantly upregulated pathways in PPR lesional tissue and aligned with differently expressed proteins identified in this study. Both MAPK and TNF signaling pathways highlighted IL-1β as a potential central mediator for PPR pathogenesis. In support of this, stimulation of nonlesional explants with IL-1β resulted in transcriptomic and proteomic profiles similar to those of lesional PPR.
