Diverging inflammasome signals in tumorigenesis and potential targeting

R Karki, TD Kanneganti - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Inflammasomes are molecular platforms that assemble upon sensing various intracellular
stimuli. Inflammasome assembly leads to activation of caspase 1, thereby promoting the …

Depression and obesity: evidence of shared biological mechanisms

Y Milaneschi, WK Simmons, EFC van Rossum… - Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Depression and obesity are common conditions with major public health implications that
tend to co-occur within individuals. The relationship between these conditions is …

The role of inflammation in depression: from evolutionary imperative to modern treatment target

AH Miller, CL Raison - Nature reviews immunology, 2016 - nature.com
Crosstalk between inflammatory pathways and neurocircuits in the brain can lead to
behavioural responses, such as avoidance and alarm, that are likely to have provided early …

Control of immunity by glucocorticoids in health and disease

A Shimba, K Ikuta - Seminars in Immunopathology, 2020 - Springer
Animals receive environmental stimuli from neural signals in order to produce hormones that
control immune responses. Glucocorticoids (GCs) are a group of steroid hormones …

Design principles of microneedles for drug delivery and sampling applications

Z Le, J Yu, YJ Quek, B Bai, X Li, Y Shou, B Myint, C Xu… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Microneedles technology is a powerful platform to achieve efficient transdermal delivery of
bioactive molecules for local or systemic therapies attributing to their minimally invasive …

Microneedle-assisted genome editing: A transdermal strategy of targeting NLRP3 by CRISPR-Cas9 for synergistic therapy of inflammatory skin disorders

T Wan, Q Pan, Y Ping - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
We report a dissolvable microneedle (MN) patch that can mediate transdermal codelivery of
CRISPR-Cas9–based genome-editing agents and glucocorticoids for the effective treatment …

The role of inflammasomes in human diseases and their potential as therapeutic targets

J Yao, K Sterling, Z Wang, Y Zhang… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Inflammasomes are large protein complexes that play a major role in sensing inflammatory
signals and triggering the innate immune response. Each inflammasome complex has three …

Targeting transcription factors in cancer

AS Bhagwat, CR Vakoc - Trends in cancer, 2015 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) are commonly deregulated in the pathogenesis of human cancer
and are a major class of cancer cell dependencies. Consequently, targeting of TFs can be …

Non-lethal outcomes of engaging regulated cell death pathways in cancer

H Kalkavan, S Rühl, JJP Shaw, DR Green - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Regulated cell death (RCD) is essential for successful systemic cancer therapy. Yet, the
engagement of RCD pathways does not inevitably result in cell death. Instead, RCD …

Somatic and germline genomics in paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

CH Pui, KE Nichols, JJ Yang - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2019 - nature.com
Advances in genomic research and risk-directed therapy have led to improvements in the
long-term survival and quality of life outcomes of patients with childhood acute lymphoblastic …