The neuromuscular junction is a focal point of mTORC1 signaling in sarcopenia

DJ Ham, A Börsch, S Lin, M Thürkauf… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
With human median lifespan extending into the 80s in many developed countries, the
societal burden of age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia) is increasing. mTORC1 promotes …

Intron retention and nuclear loss of SFPQ are molecular hallmarks of ALS

R Luisier, GE Tyzack, CE Hall, JS Mitchell… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Mutations causing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) strongly implicate ubiquitously
expressed regulators of RNA processing. To understand the molecular impact of ALS …

Molecular and phenotypic analysis of rodent models reveals conserved and species-specific modulators of human sarcopenia

A Börsch, DJ Ham, N Mittal, LA Tintignac… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Sarcopenia, the age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function, affects 5–13% of
individuals aged over 60 years. While rodents are widely-used model organisms, which …

[PDF][PDF] Nrf2, but not β‐catenin, mutation represents an early event in rat hepatocarcinogenesis

P Zavattari, A Perra, S Menegon, MA Kowalik… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) develops through a multistage process, but the nature of
the molecular changes associated with the different steps, the very early ones in particular …

[HTML][HTML] Importance of investigating epigenetic alterations for industry and regulators: An appraisal of current efforts by the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

IR Miousse, R Currie, K Datta, H Ellinger-Ziegelbauer… - Toxicology, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent technological advances have led to rapid progress in the characterization of
epigenetic modifications that control gene expression in a generally heritable way, and are …

Derisking drug-induced carcinogenicity for novel therapeutics

JG Moggs, T MacLachlan, HJ Martus, P Bentley - Trends in Cancer, 2016 - cell.com
Assessing the carcinogenic potential of innovative drugs spanning diverse therapeutic
modalities and target biology represents a major challenge during drug development. Novel …

Automated and unbiased discrimination of ALS from control tissue at single cell resolution

C Hagemann, GE Tyzack, DM Taha, H Devine… - Brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Histopathological analysis of tissue sections is invaluable in neurodegeneration research.
However, cell‐to‐cell variation in both the presence and severity of a given phenotype is a …

Perturbations of PIP3 signalling trigger a global remodelling of mRNA landscape and reveal a transcriptional feedback loop

VY Kiselev, V Juvin, M Malek, N Luscombe… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
PIP3 is synthesized by the Class I PI3Ks and regulates complex cell responses, such as
growth and migration. Signals that drive long-term reshaping of cell phenotypes are difficult …

Drug-induced chromatin accessibility changes associate with sensitivity to liver tumor promotion

A Vitobello, J Perner, J Beil, J Zhu… - Life Science …, 2019 - life-science-alliance.org
Liver cancer susceptibility varies amongst humans and between experimental animal
models because of multiple genetic and epigenetic factors. The molecular characterization …

Meta-analysis of transcriptome data detected new potential players in response to dioxin exposure in humans

E Oshchepkova, Y Sizentsova, D Wiebe… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Dioxins are one of the most potent anthropogenic poisons, causing systemic disorders in
embryonic development and pathologies in adults. The mechanism of dioxin action requires …