Extracellular Matrix News Volume 14.28 | Jun 21 2023

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    2023-06-22 | ECM 14.28


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    Vol. 14.28 – 21 June, 2023
    TOP STORY

    Psychedelics Reopen the Social Reward Learning Critical Period

    Investigators demonstrated in mice that the ability to reopen the social reward learning critical period was a shared property across psychedelic drugs. The time course of critical period reopening was proportional to the duration of acute subjective effects reported in humans.
    [Nature]

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    Cartilage-Like Protein Hydrogels Engineered via Entanglement

    By introducing chain entanglements into the hydrogel network made of folded elastomeric proteins, researchers were able to engineer highly stiff and tough protein hydrogels, which seamlessly combined mutually incompatible mechanical properties.
    [Nature]

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    Activating Hidden Signals by Mimicking Cryptic Sites in a Synthetic Extracellular Matrix

    Investigators demonstrated that depsipeptides could undergo enzyme-triggered changes in their primary sequence, with proof-of-principle studies showing how trypsin-triggered primary sequence rearrangement forms the bioadhesive pentapeptide YIGSR.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Discovery and Targeting of a Noncanonical Mechanism of Sarcoma Resistance to ADI-PEG20 Mediated by the Microenvironment

    Researchers examined the role of argininosuccinate synthetase 1 silencing on tumor growth and initiation and identified a noncanonical mechanism of resistance, aiming to improve clinical responses to ADI-PEG20.
    [Clinical Cancer Research]

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    Adhesion to Laminin-1 and Collagen IV Induces the Formation of Ca2+ Microdomains That Sensitize Mouse T Cells for Activation

    Adhesion to the ECM proteins collagen IV and laminin-1 increased the number of Ca2+ microdomains in a manner dependent on the kinase FAK, phospholipase C, and all three inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor subtypes and promoted the nuclear translocation of the transcription factor NFAT-1.
    [Science Signaling]

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    Age-Associated Differences in the Human Lung Extracellular Matrix

    Scientists identified and localized age‑associated ECM differences in human lung using comprehensive transcriptomic, proteomic and immunohistochemical analyses.
    [American Journal Of Physiology-Lung Cellular And Molecular Physiology]

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    HOXA3 Accelerates Wound Healing in Diabetic and Aged Non-Diabetic Mammals

    Researchers provide independent replication of foundational in vivo diabetic wound closure studies, observing 16% faster healing under treatment with observable microscopic benefits.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    A Novel Defined Pyroptosis-Related Gene Signature Predicts Prognosis and Correlates with the Tumor Immune Microenvironment in Lung Adenocarcinoma

    The authors identified a prognostic signature of pyroptosis-related genes (PRGs) and explored the connection of PRGs with the tumor microenvironment in lung adenocarcinoma. Gene expression and clinical information were obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas database.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Gravitational Effects on Fibroblasts’ Function in Relation to Wound Healing

    Scientists exposed dermal fibroblasts to a set of altered gravity levels, including transitions between simulated microgravity and hypergravity. The addition of the stress hormone cortisol to the cell culture medium was done to account for possible interaction effects of gravity and cortisol exposure.
    [NPJ Microgravity]

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    The Dorsal Portion of the Bovine Diaphragm as a Useful Tissue for Producing a 3D Muscle Scaffold

    Researchers presented a muscular organoid produced from the bovine diaphragm, which had a peculiar multilayered structure with different fiber orientations depending on the considered area.
    [Journal Of Anatomy]

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    Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts: Mediators of Head and Neck Tumor Microenvironment Remodeling

    The pleiotropic effect of cancer-associated fibroblasts in the tumor microenvironment is likely to reflect the heterogeneity and plasticity of their population, with context-dependent effects on carcinogenesis.
    [Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Reviews On Cancer]

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    Radiomics for Characterization of the Glioma Immune Microenvironment

    The authors provide an overview of the glioma microenvironment, describe novel approaches for clustering patients based on their tumor immune profile, and discuss the latest progress on utilization of radiomics for immune profiling of glioma based on current literature.
    [NPJ Precision Oncology]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Nordic Bioscience’s Unique Biomarker PRO-C3 Gets Green Light for Further Study in Cancer from US FDA in Formal Letter of Support

    Nordic Bioscience announced that the company’s PRO-C3 biomarker assay has received a Letter of Support from the FDA. This letter acknowledges and supports further study of the PRO-C3 biomarker assay as a prognostic biomarker in tumor fibrosis studies.
    [Nordic Bioscience,]

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    MIT Clears Bioengineering Professor of Research Misconduct Allegations

    For nearly four years, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) bioengineering professor remained silent while an inquiry unfolded into allegations that his research copied the work of others. That investigation has concluded, finding no basis that Ram Sasisekharan or the members of his lab engaged in research misconduct.
    [MedCity News]

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    Lung Cancer Expert Dr. McGarry Houghton Receives Satya and Rao Remala Family Endowed Chair

    Dr. McGarry Houghton, a pulmonary physician-scientist whose work explores the immune system’s role in cancer and lung cancer early detection, has been named the first recipient of the Satya and Rao Remala Family Endowed Chair at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
    [Fred Hutch Cancer Center]

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