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The Role of Vitamin A in the Pathogenesis of Psychiatric Disorders

A group of researchers in Newcastle has been investigating the part that vitamin A plays in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders.

12 Mar 2024

RXR: A key protein in the balanced production of different blood cells

In the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells—which are the immature stem cells that produce all the blood cell lineages—the cell protein retinoid X receptor (RXR) is an important element.

19 Dec 2022

Understanding molecular determinants of liver cancer in patients with Indigenous American ancestry

Oncotarget published "Global DNA hypermethylation pattern and unique gene expression signature in liver cancer from patients with Indigenous American ancestry" which reported that contrasting with this pattern, the age structure of HCC in Andean people displays a bimodal distribution with half of the patients developing HCC in adolescence and early adulthood.

2 Jun 2021

Scientists discover link between two signaling pathways crucial to growth of colon cancer

In breakthrough colon cancer research, scientists at ChristianaCare's Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute have discovered a link between two key signaling pathways crucial to the development and growth of colon cancer. The study is published today in the journal PLOS ONE.

29 Oct 2020

Scientists discover molecular mechanism that regulates the body's immune sentinels

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, working in partnership with researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, has discovered a new molecular mechanism mediated by nuclear receptors that determines the identity and expansion of macrophages--one of the cell types that act as immune sentinels in the body.

6 Apr 2020