Understanding the neural mechanisms of general anesthesia from interaction with sleep–wake state: a decade of discovery

WW Bao, S Jiang, WM Qu, WX Li, CH Miao… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of cutting-edge techniques to study specific brain regions and neural
circuits that regulate sleep–wake brain states and general anesthesia (GA), has increased …

Heat of the night: sleep disturbance activates inflammatory mechanisms and induces pain in rheumatoid arthritis

MR Irwin, RH Straub, MT Smith - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2023 - nature.com
Sleep has a homeostatic role in the regulation of the immune system and serves to constrain
activation of inflammatory signalling and expression of cellular inflammation. In patients with …

Monocytes re-enter the bone marrow during fasting and alter the host response to infection

H Janssen, F Kahles, D Liu, J Downey, LL Koekkoek… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Diet profoundly influences physiology. Whereas over-nutrition elevates risk for disease via
its influence on immunity and metabolism, caloric restriction and fasting appear to be …

Unidirectional association of clonal hematopoiesis with atherosclerosis development

M Díez-Díez, BL Ramos-Neble, J de la Barrera… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis, a condition in which acquired somatic mutations in hematopoietic
stem cells lead to the outgrowth of a mutant hematopoietic clone, is associated with a higher …

Effects of lifestyle factors on leukocytes in cardiovascular health and disease

H Janssen, LL Koekkoek, FK Swirski - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2024 - nature.com
Exercise, stress, sleep and diet are four distinct but intertwined lifestyle factors that influence
the cardiovascular system. Abundant epidemiological, clinical and preclinical studies have …

Lifestyle and host determinants of antitumor immunity and cancer health disparities

A Swaby, A Atallah, O Varol, A Cristea, DF Quail - Trends in Cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Lifestyle factors exert profound effects on host physiology and immunology. Disparities in
cancer outcomes persist as a complex and multifaceted challenge, necessitating a …

Myocardial infarction augments sleep to limit cardiac inflammation and damage

P Huynh, JD Hoffmann, T Gerhardt, MG Kiss… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Sleep is integral to cardiovascular health 1, 2. Yet, the circuits that connect cardiovascular
pathology and sleep are incompletely understood. It remains unclear whether cardiac injury …

Extrinsic and intrinsic modulators of inflammation-resolution signaling in heart failure

A Rao, A Gupta, V Kain… - American Journal of …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Chronic and uncleared inflammation is the root cause of various cardiovascular diseases.
Fundamentally, acute inflammation is supportive when overlapping with safe clearance of …

Genomic aging, clonal hematopoiesis, and cardiovascular disease

P Natarajan - Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Chronologic age is the dominant risk factor for coronary artery disease but the features of
aging promoting coronary artery disease are poorly understood. Advances in human …

Mechanistic target of rapamycin in regulating macrophage function in inflammatory cardiovascular diseases

MSC Mangione, J Wen, DJ Cao - Journal of molecular and cellular …, 2024 - Elsevier
The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) is evolutionarily conserved from yeast to
humans and is one of the most fundamental pathways of living organisms. Since its …