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As the overlap between heart disease and cancer patients increases as cancer-specific mortality is decreasing and the surviving population is aging, it is necessary to identify cancer patients who are at an increased risk of death from heart disease. The purpose of this study is to identify cancer patients at highest risk of fatal heart disease compared to the general population and other cancer patients at risk of death during the study time period. Here we report that 394,849 of the 7,529,481 cancer patients studied died of heart disease. The heart disease-specific mortality rate is 10.61/10,000-person years, and the standardized mortality ratio (SMR) of fatal heart disease is 2.24 (95% CI 2.23-2.25). Compared to other cancer patients, patients who are older, male, African American, and unmarried are at a greatest risk of fatal heart disease. For almost all cancer survivors, the risk of fatal heart disease increases with time.C-terminal binding protein 2 (CtBP2) is elevated in epithelial ovarian cancer, especially in the aggressive and highly lethal subtype, high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC). However, whether HGSOC tumor progression is dependent on CtBP2 or its paralog CtBP1, is not well understood. Here we report that CtBP1/2 repress HGSOC cell apoptosis through silencing of death receptors (DRs) 4/5. CtBP1 or 2 knockdown upregulated DR4/5 expression, and triggered autonomous apoptosis via caspase 8 activation, but dependent on cell-type context. Activation of DR4/5 by CtBP1/2 loss also sensitized HGSOC cell susceptibility to the proapoptotic DR4/5 ligand TRAIL. AXL1717 order Consistent with its function as transcription corepressor, CtBP1/2 bound to the promoter regions of DR4/5 and repressed DR4/5 expression, presumably through recruitment to a repressive transcription regulatory complex. We also found that CtBP1 and 2 were both required for repression of DR4/5. Collectively, this study identifies CtBP1 and 2 as potent repressors of DR4/5 expression and activity, and supports the targeting of CtBP as a promising therapeutic strategy for HGSOC.Decision confidence reflects our ability to evaluate the quality of decisions and guides subsequent behavior. Experiments on confidence reports have almost exclusively focused on two-alternative decision-making. link2 In this realm, the leading theory is that confidence reflects the probability that a decision is correct (the posterior probability of the chosen option). There is, however, another possibility, namely that people are less confident if the best two options are closer to each other in posterior probability, regardless of how probable they are in absolute terms. link3 This possibility has not previously been considered because in two-alternative decisions, it reduces to the leading theory. Here, we test this alternative theory in a three-alternative visual categorization task. We found that confidence reports are best explained by the difference between the posterior probabilities of the best and the next-best options, rather than by the posterior probability of the chosen (best) option alone, or by the overall uncertainty (entropy) of the posterior distribution. Our results upend the leading notion of decision confidence and instead suggest that confidence reflects the observer's subjective probability that they made the best possible decision.Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic and etiologically refractory inflammatory gut disorder. Although berberine, an isoquinoline alkaloid, has been revealed to exert protective effects on experimental colitis, the underlying molecular mechanism in chronic intestinal inflammation remains ill-defined. This study was designed to uncover the therapeutic efficacy and immunomodulatory role of berberine in chronic UC. Therapeutic effects of oral administration of berberine were investigated in dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced murine chronic UC and the underlying mechanisms were further identified by si-OSMR transfection in human intestinal stromal cells. Berberine significantly attenuated the experimental symptoms and gut inflammation of chronic UC. Berberine treatment could also maintain the intestinal barrier function and rectify tissue fibrosis. In accordance with infiltrations of antigen-presenting cells (APCs), innate lymphoid cells (ILCs), and activated NK cells in colonic lamina propria, increased expression of OSM and OSMR were observed in the inflamed tissue of chronic UC, which were decreased following berberine treatment. Moreover, berberine inhibited the overactivation of human intestinal stromal cells through OSM-mediated JAK-STAT pathway, which was obviously blocked upon siRNA targeting OSMR. The research provided an infusive mechanism of berberine and illustrated that OSM and OSMR intervention might function as the potential target in chronic UC.Many glasses exhibit fractional power law (FPL) between the mean atomic volume va and the first diffraction peak position q1, i.e. [Formula see text] with d ≃ 2.5 deviating from the space dimension D = 3, under compression or composition change. What structural change causes such FPL and whether the FPL and d are universal remain controversial. Here our simulations show that the FPL holds in both two- and three-dimensional glasses under compression when the particle interaction has two length scales which can induce nonuniform local deformations. The exponent d is not universal, but varies linearly with the deformable part of soft particles. In particular, we reveal an unexpected crossover regime with d > D from crystal behavior (d = D) to glass behavior (d  less then  D). The results are explained by two types of bond deformation. We further discover FPLs in real space from the radial distribution functions, which correspond to the FPLs in reciprocal space.Genetics and immunologic dynamics pushing the evolution of colorectal cancer (CRC) from the primary tumor to the metastases are largely unknown; cancer heterogeneity makes challenging both therapy and mechanistic studies. We selected patients developing CRC with lung-limited metastatic disease as only illness during their life in order to find any relevant genotype-phenotype relationship. Analysis of 523 cancer-relevant genes and of immune cells infiltration in primary and metastatic tissues revealed atypical genomic trajectories (TMB decrease, KRAS and SMAD4 regressive mutations), specific genetic events (ERBB2 point mutations) and scarce T-cell infiltration. These insights provide novel information in oligometastatic CRC biology and new perspectives for cancer monitoring and anti-cancer therapeutic strategies.Fucosylation is a biological process that plays a critical role in multiple cellular functions from cell adhesion to immune regulation. Fucosyltransferases (FUTs) mediate fucosylation, and dysregulation of genes encoding FUTs is associated with various diseases. FUT1 and its fucosylated products are expressed in the ocular surface and ocular adnexa; however, the role of FUT1 in the ocular surface health and disease is yet unclear. Here, we investigated the effects of FUT1 on the ocular surface in steady-state conditions with age and under desiccating stress using a Fut1 knockout (KO) mouse model. We found that corneal epithelial defects and stromal opacity developed in Fut1 KO mice. Also, inflammatory responses in the ocular surface and Th1 cell activation in ocular draining lymph nodes (DLNs) were upregulated. Desiccating stress further aggravated Th1 cell-mediated immune responses in DLNs, lacrimal gland, and ocular surface in Fut1 KO mice, leading to severe corneal epithelial disruption and opacity. Mixed lymphocyte reaction assays revealed that the activity of splenocytes to stimulate CD4 T-cell proliferation was increased in Fut1 KO mice. Together, these data demonstrate that FUT1 deficiency induces immune dysregulation in the ocular surface and corneal opacity in steady state and under desiccating stress.The RNA methyltransferase NSUN2 has been involved in the cell proliferation and senescence, and is upregulated in various types of cancers. However, the role and potential mechanism of NSUN2 in gastric cancer remains to be determined. Our study showed that NSUN2 was significantly upregulated in gastric cancers, compared to adjacent normal gastric tissues. Moreover, NSUN2 could promote gastric cancer cell proliferation both in vitro and in vivo. Further study demonstrated that CDKN1C (p57Kip2) was the potential downstream gene of regulated by NSUN2 in gastric cancer. NSUN2 could promote gastric cancer cell proliferation through repressing p57Kip2 in an m5C-dependent manner. Our findings suggested that NSUN2 acted as an oncogene through promoting gastric cancer development by repressing p57Kip2 in an m5C-dependent manner, which may provide a novel therapeutic target against gastric cancer.Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a risk factor for progression of steatohepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and liver cancer. Although pathological condition of NAFLD, which arises from an excessive accumulation of triglyceride in the liver, is accompanied by elevated sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1c (SREBP1c) level, it is largely unknown which factors are involved in the modification of SREBP1c. In this study, we discovered that neddylation of SREBP1c competes with its ubiquitination and stabilizes SREBP1c protein level, and eventually promotes hepatic steatosis. We also demonstrated that human homolog of mouse double minute 2 (HDM2) acts as an E3 neddylation ligase of SREBP1c. Further, treatment with the neddylation inhibitor, MLN4924, attenuates high-fat diet-induced hepatic steatosis by reducing the levels of SREBP1c protein and hepatic triglyceride. Our results indicate that the blockade of SREBP1c neddylation could be a novel approach in the defense against NAFLD.Multiple vaginal delivery (MVD) is an important factor for pelvic floor muscle (PFM) function decline and pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD). PFD is common in middle-aged and elderly women, but its pathogenesis is not clear. In this study, we found that the expression of CACNA1H was lower in the PFM of old mice after MVD compared with old or adult mice. In in-vitro studies, we found that treatment with the T-type Ca2+ channel (T-channel) inhibitor NNC-55 or downregulation of the CACNA1H gene by siRNA intervention promoted myotube atrophy and apoptosis. Mechanistically, we revealed that NNC-55 increased the expression of GRP78 and DDIT3 in myotubes, indicating endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) activation, and that the IRE1 and PERK pathways might be involved in this effect. NNC-55 induced the formation of autophagosomes but inhibited autophagy flux. Moreover, rapamycin, an autophagy activator, did not rescue myotube atrophy or apoptosis induced by NNC-55, and the autophagy inhibitors 3-MA and HCQ accelerated this damage. Further studies showed that the ERS inhibitors 4-PBA and TUDAC relieved NNC-55-induced damage and autophagy flux blockade. Finally, we found multisite muscle atrophy and decreased muscle function in Cacna1h-/- (TH-null) mice, as well as increased autophagy inhibition and apoptotic signals in the PFM of old WT mice after MVD and TH-null mice. Taken together, our results suggest that MVD-associated PFD is partially attributed to CACNA1H downregulation-induced PFM atrophy and that ERS is a potential therapeutic target for this disease.