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Nonetheless, none of the food-related properties we examined were found to be associated with this attentional bias for food.IDH1/2 hotspot mutations occur in glioma, cholangiocarcinoma, chondrosarcoma, sinonasal carcinoma, and T-cell lymphoma and have diagnostic, prognostic, and/or therapeutic value. Availability of immunohistochemistry (IHC) protocols for specific IDH2 mutation detection is limited. A targeted exome sequencing assay MSK-IMPACT cohort comprising >38,000 cancer cases was explored for the presence of IDH1/2 mutations in solid malignancies and select T-cell lymphomas. Seventy-four formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded IDH1/2-mutated (n = 62) and wild-type (n = 12) samples were used for testing and optimization of anti-IDH2 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) 14H7, 3C11, and MMab1 targeting R172K, R172G, and R172M mutant proteins, respectively. IDH1/2 mutations were common in glioma (26.8% and 1.6%), intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (23.1% and 5.7%), chondrosarcoma (19.4% and 10.7%), sinonasal undifferentiated/large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (0% and 84.2%), angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (0% and 22%), and peripheral T-cell lymphoma (0 and 5.1%). In other cancers, IDH2 mutations were rare. IDH2 R172 variants included R172K (39%), R172S (29%), R172W (12%), R172G (10%), R172M (5%), and R172T (4%). 14H7, 3C11, and MMab1 detected all IDH2 R172K, R172G, and R172M, respectively, and produced a crisp, granular cytoplasmic staining pattern. 3C11 was also positive in 5 of 6 IDH1 R132G mutants showing a homogeneous, smooth cytoplasmic staining. All 3 mAbs were negative in other IDH1/2 mutant or wild-type cases. IHC using mAbs 14H7, 3C11, and MMab1 can facilitate molecular diagnosis as a reliable, fast, and inexpensive alternative for specific IDH2 variant detection. Given the distinct distribution of IDH2 R172 mutations in cancers, these mAbs could also serve as useful pathologic diagnostic markers.

There is an increasing interest concerning the contribution of astrocytes to the intrinsic bioremediation of ischemic brain injury. The aim of this work was to disclose the effects and mechanism of dexmedetomidine (DEX) on the apoptosis of astrocytes under oxygen glucose deprivation (OGD) condition.

Primary cultured astrocytes separated from Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were subjected to OGD treatment. Astrocytes were transfected with si-JMJD3 or pcDNA3.1-JMJD3 and then treated with DEX or JAK/STAT inhibitor (WP1066) before cell apoptosis was detected by TUNEL apoptosis kit. CHIR-99021 in vitro Western blot was applied to assess the level of apoptosis-related proteins Caspase-3, Bax and Bcl-2. Astrocyte cell viability was assessed by measuring the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level using a LDH assay kit.

Astrocytes received OGD treatment had increased LDH and elevated apoptotic rate (P<0.05). DEX could suppress OGD induced cytotoxic effect on astrocytes, as evidenced by decreased LDH release and suppressed cell apoptosis rate (P<0.05). Meanwhile, DEX and WP1066 treatment were also found to inhibit the phosphorylation level of STAT1 and STAT3 (P<0.05), indicating the DEX could suppress the activation of JAK/STAT signal pathway. JMJD3 overexpression in astrocytes could suppress the anti-apoptotic function of WP1066 in OGD treated astrocytes and hamper the protective effect of DEX in cell apoptosis (P<0.05), suggesting that DEX and JAK/STAT signal pathway inhibits OGD induced apoptosis in astrocytes by down-regulating JMJD3.

DEX protects astrocytes against apoptosis via inhibiting JAK2/STAT3 signal pathway and downregulating JMJD3 expression in vitro.

DEX protects astrocytes against apoptosis via inhibiting JAK2/STAT3 signal pathway and downregulating JMJD3 expression in vitro.Histamine is a pleiotropic biogenic amine, having affinity towards four distinct histamine receptors. The existing pharmacological studies suggest the usefulness of histamine H4 receptor ligands in the treatment of many inflammatory and immunomodulatory diseases, including allergic rhinitis, asthma, atopic dermatitis, colitis or pruritus. Up to date, several potent histamine H4 receptor ligands were developed, none of which was registered as a drug yet. In this study, a series of potent indole-like and triazine derivatives were tested, in radioligand displacement and functional assays at histamine H4 receptor, as well as in human eosinophils adhesion assay to endothelium. For selected compounds permeability, cytotoxicity, metabolic and in vivo studies were conducted. Adhesion assay differentiated the activity of different groups of compounds with a known affinity towards the histamine H4 receptor. Most of the tested compounds downregulated the number of adherent cells. However, adhesion assay revealed additional properties of tested compounds that had not been detected in radioligand displacement and aequorin-based functional assays. Furthermore, for some tested compounds, these abnormal effects were confirmed during the in vivo studies. In conclusion, eosinophils adhesion assay uncovered pharmacological activity of histamine H4 receptor ligands that has been later confirmed in vivo, underscoring the value of well-suited cell-based phenotypic screening approach in drug discovery.When vertebrates are exposed to stressors, the subsequent acute increase in glucocorticoids by the hypothalamic-pituitaryadrenal (HPA) axis triggers a suite of adaptive responses, including mobilization of stored energy and repression of non-essential processes. However, chronic exposure to high concentrations of glucocorticoids can lead to metabolic dysregulation, impaired immune function, and cognitive decline. In developing young, this hormonal stress response shows considerable variation. Generally, the physiological stress response of young of precocial species is comparable to that of adults, whereas offspring of altricial species exhibit an attenuated response compared to adults. The developmental hypothesis of the HPA axis proposes that the dampened stress response in dependent offspring is an adaptive response to avoid the negative effects of elevated glucocorticoids, particularly in altricial species where young lack the ability to mitigate stressful stimuli.We aimed to test the developmental hypothesis in a tropical avian species, the lance-tailed manakin (Chiroxiphia lanceolata).