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It is well-established that symptomatic cancers evade immune destruction by coalescing tumor microenvironments to suppress adaptive immunity. Additionally, mouse models of cervical and other cancers have revealed a capability of tumors to systemically indu ...

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)2025

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Apoptosis controls cell fate, ensuring tissue homeostasis and promoting disease when dysregulated. The rate-limiting step in apoptosis is mitochondrial poration by the effector B cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2) family proteins BAK and BAX, which are activated by i ...

2025

Metabolic signature in nucleus accumbens for anti-depressant-like effects of acetyl-L-carnitine

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Emerging evidence suggests that hierarchical status provide vulnerability to develop stress-induced depression. Energy metabolic changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) were recently related to hierarchical status and vulnerability to develop depression-lik ...

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Combinatorial targeting of angiogenesis with inducers of autophagy in the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme

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EPFL2018

The HDAC inhibitor SAHA improves depressive-like behavior of CRTC1-deficient mice: Possible relevance for treatment-resistant depression

Pierre Magistretti

Major depression is a highly complex disabling psychiatric disorder affecting millions of people worldwide. Despite the availability of several classes of antidepressants, a substantial percentage of patients are unresponsive to these medications. A better ...

Elsevier2016

Involvement of the agmatinergic system in the depressive-like phenotype of the Crtc1 knockout mouse model of depression

Pierre Magistretti

Recent studies implicate the arginine-decarboxylation product agmatine in mood regulation. Agmatine has antidepressant properties in rodent models of depression, and agmatinase (Agmat), the agmatine-degrading enzyme, is upregulated in the brains of mood di ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Regulation of autophagy by perilysosomal calcium: a new player in β-cell lipotoxicity

Andreas Wiederkehr

Autophagy is an essential quality control mechanism for maintaining organellar functions in eukaryotic cells. Defective autophagy in pancreatic beta cells has been shown to be involved in the progression of diabetes through impaired insulin secretion under ...

Springernature2024

CDC7 inhibition impairs neuroendocrine transformation in lung and prostate tumors through MYC degradation

Wouter Richard Karthaus

Neuroendocrine (NE) transformation is a mechanism of resistance to targeted therapy in lung and prostate adenocarcinomas leading to poor prognosis. Up to date, even if patients at high risk of transformation can be identified by the occurrence of Tumor Pro ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Involvement of autophagy in hypoxic-excitotoxic neuronal death

Neuronal autophagy is increased in numerous excitotoxic conditions including neonatal cerebral hypoxia-ischemia (HI). However, the role of this HI-induced autophagy remains unclear. To clarify this role we established an in vitro model of excitotoxicity co ...

Landes Bioscience2014

Targeting the aging of tumor-associated neutrophils in lung cancer

Anita Bodac

Neutrophils are leukocytes that play a key role in innate immunity. Their mode of action in case of infection is well described, but their impact in different chronic diseases, such as cancer, remains unclear. Nevertheless, recent publications describe neu ...

EPFL2024

Orphan nuclear receptor TR3 acts in autophagic cell death via mitochondrial signaling pathway

Yi Zhang, Friedrich Beermann, Jie Zhang, Yan Liu

Autophagy is linked to cell death, yet the associated mechanisms are largely undercharacterized. We discovered that melanoma, which is generally resistant to drug-induced apoptosis, can undergo autophagic cell death with the participation of orphan nuclear ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Development of cysteine cathepsin inhibitors combined with cell type-specific delivery for the treatment of B-cell lymphoma and solid tumors

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Cysteine cathepsins proteases are enzymes that play essential physiological roles, but their activity is also associated to different aspects of cancer progression and to the development of other diseases. Therefore, cysteine cathepsins are relevant and pr ...

EPFL2024

Psychobiological Vulnerability to Stress : Behavioral Traits and Neurobiological Mechanisms

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Jorge Eduardo Castro Cifuentes

Several psychobiological factors are associated with vulnerability/resilience to stress-induced depression. Emerging evidence indicates behavioral traits, such as anxiety, can be related to depression-like symptoms after exposure to chronic stress. However ...

EPFL2012

Fluoxetine regulates the expression of neurotrophic/growth factors and glucose metabolism in astrocytes

Pierre Magistretti, Igor Allaman

RATIONALE: The pharmacological actions of most antidepressants are ascribed to the modulation of serotonergic and/or noradrenergic transmission in the brain. During therapeutic treatment for major depression, fluoxetine, one of the most commonly prescribed ...

Springer Verlag2011

Role of the amygdala in antidepressant effects on hippocampal cell proliferation and survival and on depression-like behavior in the rat

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Guillaume Poirier, Jorge Eduardo Castro Cifuentes

The stimulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis by antidepressants has been associated with multiple molecular pathways, but the potential influence exerted by other brain areas has received much less attention. The basolateral complex of the amygdala (B ...

Public Library of Science2010

Regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the chronic unpredictable stress rat model and the effects of chronic antidepressant treatment

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Chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) is a widely used animal model of depression. The present study was undertaken to investigate behavioral, physiological and molecular effects of CUS and/or chronic antidepressant treatment (venlafaxine or imipramine) in th ...

Elsevier2010

A model for the involvement of neural cell adhesion molecules in stress-related mood disorders

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

Critical interactions between genetic and environmental factors -- among which stress is one of the most potent non-genomic factors -- are involved in the development of mood disorders. Intensive work during the past decade has led to the proposal of the n ...

Karger2007

Elucidating and modulating regulatory pathways so as to reprogram the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment for therapeutic benefit

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Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most frequent and highly malignant form of brain cancer. New therapeutic regimens are urgently needed as GBM patients present with a minimal response to currently-approved therapies. The goal of this project is to identify new the ...

EPFL2023

Caspase-9-mediated cleavage of vimentin attenuates the aggressiveness of leukemic NB4 cells

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Vimentin is a main type 3 intermediate filament protein. It seems that abnormal expression of vimentin is contributed to the appearance of the aggressive feature of cancer cells. So that it has been reported that malignancy and epithelial-mesenchymal trans ...

SPRINGER2023

CellCharter reveals spatial cell niches associated with tissue remodeling and cell plasticity

Albert Santamaria Martinez, Daniele Tavernari

Tissues are organized in cellular niches, the composition and interactions of which can be investigated using spatial omics technologies. However, systematic analyses of tissue composition are challenged by the scale and diversity of the data. Here we pres ...

Nature Portfolio2023