Researchers from University Hospital Bonn presented data from a study that aimed to evaluate the significance of serum levels of the endoplasmic-reticulum-stress chaperone GRP78 in patients undergoing coronary angiography for suspected coronary artery disease (CAD).
The crosstalk between immune cells and multiple myeloma (MM) cells is an important determinant of MM progression, but the mechanisms behind this have not been fully defined.
There is a lack of biomarkers for disease activity in aortic stenosis (AS). On the other hand, citrullination is involved in many chronic inflammatory processes and citrullinated proteins have been found within atherosclerotic plaque.
Target ALS Foundation Inc. and the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation LLC (ADDF) have announced the first four award recipients in a new initiative to identify and develop biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal degeneration (FTD).
The prognostic role of complement inhibitor CSMD1 was assessed in 1,507 patients with glioma from three different datasets. Results of the bioinformatical analysis suggested that high expression of CSMD1 was associated with increased overall survival and disease-free survival, as well as lower tumor grade.
Hypomyelinating leukodystrophy is a genetic disorder characterized by deficient myelination of the central nervous system white matter. An international team of researchers has published a case report of 4 unrelated families with a hypomyelinating leukodystrophy phenotype.
The usefulness of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCHL1) for the early prediction of long-term traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes has not been well investigated.
Adiponectin (ADIPOQ) is an adipocyte-derived hormone that promotes insulin sensitivity, inhibits cell death and decreases inflammation. Previous studies identified common variants in the ADIPOQ gene that have been associated with aberrant adiponectin levels, obesity, type 2 diabetes and diabetic kidney disease. In a recent study, the first multigenerational family was identified as harboring a protein-truncating mutation in the ADIPOQ gene, p.Gly93GlufsTer73, that cosegregated with diabetes and end-stage renal disease.
Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 3 (TRAF3) is a cytoplasmic protein that controls signal transduction from different receptor families, and plays a key role in regulating immunity.
Chemokines are small signaling cytokines that are involved in many physiological processes such as host immune responses, wound healing and bone remodeling, with two of these chemokines, C-X-C motif chemokine 9 (CXCL9) and CXCL10, being involved in different osteoimmuno-modulating pathways.
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