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🔎 New in
@iScience_CP
!
Scientists at
@DukeCellBiology
propose that the multi-apical domains of
#alveolar
type-2 epithelial cells enables them to be poised to support the
#regeneration
of a large array of alveolar sacs.
Learn more: 🔗
🔬 Dr. Mark Jones from
@unisouthampton
led researchers to uncover some answers to questions around lung fibrosis, including the discovery that the loss of
#alveolar
epithelial NFKBIZ/IκBζ expression dysregulates the IL-6 axis.
@CellReports
📎
A recent paper by scientists at
@TheCrick
and other institutions including Dr. Charles Swanton uncovers the multifaceted roles of A3B in NSCLC and identifies A3B as a potential target for more durable responses to targeted 🎯 cancer therapy.
Dr. Paola Marignani (
@PMarignani
) and colleagues at
@DalhousieU
identified markers of early-stage
#lung
cancer that were validated in primary lung tumors and circulating blood. 💉
A group of scientists including Nicholas E. Banovich (
@NeBanovich
) observed a similar cellular distribution and relative expression of SARS-CoV-2 entry factors in control and samples from chronic
#lung
disease patients.
Read more 👇
📌
Led by Dr.
@Kam_Dua
,
@UTSEngage
researchers formulated berberine-loaded liquid crystalline nanoparticles and investigated their in vitro antiproliferative activity in human
#LungEpithelial
cancer cell line.
#OpenAccess
here 👇
The discovAIR project: a roadmap towards the Human Lung Cell Atlas 🗺️
As part of the
#HumanCellAtlas
consortium, this atlas is anticipated to be the founding stone for a more detailed understanding of the pathogenesis of
#LungDiseases
.
@ERSpublications
|
🥼 Drs. Minze Guo and Yan Xu at
@CincyKidsNeo
led researchers in the development of a computational pipeline utilizing the 🧫 LungMAP CellCards as a dictionary to consolidate single-cell transcriptomic datasets of human & mouse
#lungs
!
@naturecomms
|
A new study published in
@ModernPathology
shows distinct mutational features between preinvasive lesions and invasive tumors with mutations enriched in
#adenocarcinoma
in situ (MEA), suggesting the involvement of MEA in the early stages of tumorigenesis.
Dr.
@RhiannonWerder
collaborated with other researchers, including Dr. Michael Cho (
@mikecho95
), to study chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and genes 🧬 of interest using
#CRISPR
interference in iPSC-derived type 2
#alveolar
epithelial cells.
A recent study published in
@NatureCellBio
indicates that hAEC2 loss and expansion of
#alveolar
metaplastic basal cells in severe human
#lung
injuries are causally connected through an hAEC2-basal cell lineage trajectory driven by aberrant mesenchyme. 🔬
A team of researchers from
@ASTRAZENECAUK
demonstrate that small extracellular vesicles transfer senescence to neighboring 🏘️ healthy cells, promoting the disease state in
#IPF
.
More on their discovery: 👉
What is the
#discovAIR
project? 🤔
It aims to establish the first draft of an integrated
#HumanLung
#CellAtlas
, through single-cell transcriptional and epigenetic profiling and spatially resolving techniques.
📚
@ERSpublications
| 🔗
Researchers from
@unibern
present a second-generation lung-on-a-chip with an array of stretchable 🧘 alveoli made with a biological membrane.
#OpenAccess
in
@CommsBio
🥼
@BiotechBarron
,
@biochemist_hero
& colleagues used a human-derived in vitro air liquid interface culture to model bronchial epithelial-fibroblast cross-talk in idiopathic
#PulmonaryFibrosis
. 🧫
Learn more about their system's utility:
➡️
How do the lungs repair themselves after injury? 🤕
Drs.
@JoePlaner
and Edward Morrisey at
@PennMDForum
review the major mechanisms of damage, regeneration ♻️, and repair within the
#alveolar
niche where gas exchange occurs.
@AnnualReviews
|🔗
Drs.
@Tyson_Sharp
, Sarah Martin, and colleagues at
@QMBCI
identified a novel drug tool with significant preclinical characterization that serves as an excellent candidate to explore and define LIMD1-deficient cancers.
Learn more ⬇️
New in
@AJPLung
! 📍 Scientists at
@UniLeiden
demonstrated an
#organoid
-based expansion of patient-derived primary alveolar type-2 cells for the establishment of alveolus epithelial lung-chip cultures.
#LungOnAChip
Read the full article: 🔓
Led by Dr. Reinoud Gosens (
@gosensr
), University of Groningen (
@univgroningen
) scientists concluded that specific targeting of EP and IP receptors offers therapeutic potential for injury to repair in
#COPD
.
Read it in
@ScienceAdvances
| 📑
Findings detailed in
@Dev_Cell
indicate that during aging, the epigenetic regulation that coordinates lung progenitor cells’ regenerative responses becomes dysregulated, aiding our understanding of age-related susceptibility to lung disease.
📘
Scientists including Dr. Jichao Chen, reported that Nkx2-1 mutant alveolar type 1 (AT1) and AT2 cells gain distinct chromatin accessible sites, suggesting an epigenetic plasticity unexpected from transcriptional changes.
@MDAndersonNews
📝
@NatureComms
🆕 From the lab of
@PGTimmune
:
Scientists provide evidence that excess activity of damage-responsive lung
#fibroblasts
drives lethal immunopathology during severe
#influenza
virus infection.
Led by Dr. Jason Spence (
@TheSpenceLab
) at
@UMichMedSchool
, researchers 🔎 reveal opposing roles for TGFβ- and BMP-signaling in AT2 differentiation and provide a new strategy to generate a 💉 therapeutically relevant cell type.
🏫
@UMichMedSchool
|
Researchers review recent advances in understanding
#PulmonaryFibrosis
pathology, mechanism, and targets, as well as the development of various drug delivery systems for its treatment.
📎
Dr.
@NeBanovich
and team identified disease interaction expression quantitative trait loci and showed that this class of associations is more likely to be cell-type-specific and linked 🔗 to cellular dysregulation in pulmonary
#fibrosis
.
@TGenResearch
☔ The hydrophobic nature of Wnt proteins limits their use.
Scientists devised a strategy to deliver Wnt3a by anchoring ⚓ it to the surface of
#extracellular
vesicles, promoting
#alveolar
epithelial
#regeneration
after injury!
@AdvSciNews
|
🥼 Dr. Wojciech Chrzanowski's team from
@SydneyNano
established two classes of lung-mimicking models, healthy and
#COPD
lungs, in hopes to accelerate 💨 the development of new therapeutics for
#lung
diseases.
🔗
Led by Mahyar Aghapour (
@mbiores
), researchers at Guericke University discuss the immunological mechanisms involved in physical barrier disruption induced by airborne pollutants and outline their implications in asthma and
#COPD
.
@ERSpublications
| 📑
Using airway
#organoid
media developed by
@TheCleversLab
, Kawasaki Medical School scientists succeeded in generating three
#lung
tumoroid lines for long-term culture from 41
#LungCancer
cases.
Open access:
Dr. Kirsty Short (
@K_RenfreeShort
) used primary nasal epithelial cells from children and adults, differentiated at an air–liquid interface, to show that
#SARSCoV2
replicates to significantly lower titers in children. 🔬
@yanshan_zhu
@AshaBowen
Diseases that affect gas exchange ♻️ in the lungs are often caused by the corruption of
#alveolar
cells.
Drs. Mark Krasnow, Tushar Desai & team at
@StanfordMed
find that FGF signaling controls alveolar cell fate selection and maintenance!
@NatureComms
|
New
@NatureComms
paper led by Dr. Ali Önder Yildirim (
@AlionderCPC
)!
🫁 The lab showed that in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, PRMT7 expression is elevated in the lung tissue and localized to the
#macrophages
:
A study led by Dr. Alexander Kabanov (
@alkabanov
) at
@msu_ru
has shown that poly(2-oxazoline)-formulated Resiquimod has a superior tumor inhibitory effect in a metastatic model of lung adenocarcinoma, relative to other therapies.
Check out this new
#review
discussing the role of
#ferroptosis
☠️ in the pathogenesis of pulmonary diseases 🫁 including asthma, lung injury, lung cancer, fibrotic lung diseases, and pulmonary infection.
Published in
@cddpress
:
Mutations of TP53 and STK11/LKB1 are rarely observed in human LUAD, even though engineered co-mutation is highly aggressive in mice.
🤷 What causes this difference? More from Dr. Lewis Cantley's team (
@CantleyLab
) at
@DanaFarber
.
@CD_AACR
|
🔍 Researchers discover that airway basal cells in
#IPF
have the capacity to augment
#fibrosis
, remodeling, and bronchialization in the mouse lung.
Learn more from Drs. Benedikt Jaeger,
@jonas_schupp
, & Antje Prasse from
@Fraunhofer
.
@NatureComms
|🔓
Dr. Giovanni Ligresti at
@BUMedicine
has published in
@NatureComms
! 👇
He shows that lung endothelial
#ChromatinRemodeling
deteriorates with
#aging
, leading to abnormal transcription, vascular disrepair, and persistent fibrosis following injury.
🔗:
A team of
@YalePCCSM
collaborators, led by Drs.
@MaorSauler
and John McDonough (
@jmcdonou
), used scRNA sequencing to highlight cell-specific mechanisms involved in the pathobiology of advanced
#COPD
and characterize its
#AlveolarNiche
. 🔬
➡️:
Dr. Mark McVey's team at
@SickKidsNews
assesses emerging concepts of
#extracellular
vesicles (EVs) as effectors of transfusion-related acute
#LungInjury
(TRALI).
💡 EVs represent targets for therapeutic intervention to prevent or treat TRALI!
@AJPLung
|
🥼 Dr. Elsa Flores and colleagues at
@MoffittNews
grade lung adenocarcinomas (LUAD) with simultaneous segmentation by
#ArtificialIntelligence
.
Check out the benefits of GLASS-AI in
#LUAD
models in studying the molecular pathways of cancer progression.
🔗
To understand why older populations have more severe
#COVID
-19, Dr.
@sidichen
and colleagues at
@YaleMed
have investigated the transcriptome and cellular landscape of the aging human lung in relation to
#SARS
-CoV-2.
The 💎 crystal ribcage and its broad applications presented in this
@naturemethods
study will facilitate further studies of nearly any
#pulmonary
disease and lead to the identification of new treatment strategies.
👏 Congratulations to the team on this fantastic achievement!
We are so excited to share our paper in Nature Methods
We developed
#CrystalRibcage
, a transformative platform that allows real-time probing of a functional lung during active breathing-circulation from whole lobe to single cell, in health and disease 1/10
#Retinoids
have more than just skincare benefits.
🥼
@ColumbiaPS
researchers establish the importance of local cellular retinoid stores within the
#lung
alveolus for maintaining its health in the face of an acute inflammatory challenge.
@NatureComms
|
Dr.
@SerenaZacchigna
's team at
@ICGEB
find that lung endothelial cells 🧫 secrete angiocrine factors that regulate alveolar cell differentiation.
They discuss novel mechanisms by which miR-200c-3p protects from and reverts
#PulmonaryFibrosis
!
@cddpress
|
Scientists found that, in an
#AlveolarOrganoid
acute lung injury model, keratinocyte growth factor in MSC-conditioned medium could improve the proliferation and decrease the differentiation of alveolar type II epithelial cells.
📎
📣 Next up on 4th place in our
#TopTweet
countdown!
🎉 Congratulations to Drs.
@AliDoryab
and Otmar Schmid and the team from
@HelmholtzMunich
on developing a mini-lung fibrosis model for drug testing!
Researchers suggest in
@AgingJrnl
that miR-135a might function as a suppressor of
#NSCLC
cells, and thus could be used as a potential therapeutic target.
#LungCancer
#LungCancer
accounts for nearly 20% of all cancer deaths worldwide. 🔬🩺
Check out this review for an in-depth analysis of the signaling pathways implicated in lung cancer, the mutations involved, and the current treatment strategies being used.
📚
🌡️ Reducing inflammatory damage and improving
#alveolar
epithelium
#regeneration
are two key approaches to promoting lung repair in acute lung injury/
#ARDS
.
👇 Check out the novel therapeutic role of α7nAChR in acute
#lung
injury.
@JCI_insight
|
Check out this new
@cddpress
#review
! 👇
It discusses the role of
#necroptosis
☠️ in airflow limitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
#COPD
Read it here:
💡 Researchers at
@mpi_mr_hd
developed a pulmonary
#alveolar
capillary barrier model that mimics physiological functions!
🧫 They combined a synthetic biofunctionalized
#nanofibrous
membrane system with a novel
#3D
-printed bioreactor.
@ACSBiomaterials
|
University of Washington (
@UWPedsRes
) researchers, led by Dr. Jason Debley, differentiated
#BronchialAirwayEpithelialCells
from children and older adults to generate organotypic cultures.
Read more of their findings in
@SciReports
| 📑
Our SARS-CoV-2 paper is now out in Nature Communications!
We examine three different variants and show new insight into SARS-CoV-2 entry and budding in human airway epithelium.
A new
@JCRnEDITORS
study demonstrates that Fc-receptor-targeted peptide-functionalized polyethylene glycol
#nanoparticles
could overcome multiple obstacles in the airway to prolong the
#pulmonary
retention of drugs.
Learn more:
➡️
👩🔬👨🔬 A group of scientists presented single-cell RNA profiling of
#lung
adenocarcinoma which provides additional prognostic information based on the microenvironment.
Read more 👇
🥼 Dr. Cristina Alvira's team (
@AlviraLab
) at
@StanfordPeds
explored the transcriptional regulators directing pulmonary
#angiogenesis
!
They created a 🐭 mouse model allowing inducible deletion of the NFκB activator, IKKβ, in endothelial cells.
@AJPLung
|
Pim-1 Kinase and the senescent
#LungFibroblast
inflammatory 🌡️ secretome!
@AJPLung
features research led by Drs. Ashley Gao & Andrew Haak (
@aj_haak
) at
@MayoClinic
on a positive feedback loop 🔂 that produces inflammatory cytokines in
#IPF
.
Read more👉
Trace the origin of alveolar stem cells 🧫 in lung repair 🩹 and regeneration with researchers from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Now in
@CellCellPress
!
🔬A recent study out of
@YalePCCSM
elucidates a major role of miR-33 in
#macrophages
in the regulation of
#PulmonaryFibrosis
and uncovers a novel therapeutic 💊 approach to treating this disease.
🍾Congratulations to the team!
1/n Our first
#CurePF
paper for 2023 is OUT! A novel role in Pulmonary Fibrosis for miR-33, a key regulator of macrophage immuno-metabolic response & mitochondrial function, providing evidence that inhibition may be antifibrotic
#miR33PFPaper
In this study, scientists detailed a method for
#cryobanking
🧊 of epithelial cells from either mouse or human
#lung
tissue for preservation of their phenotypic and functional characteristics.
📌
In a new
@PNASNews
study, the
@WeiTaoLab
team & collaborators detail proof-of-principle evidence for the design and use of dual-targeted mRNA
#nanoparticles
in homing to specific cell types to up-regulate target proteins in lung tissues. 🎯
In
@PNASNews
|
Contributing to anti-fibrotic actions: Differential Effects of Nintedanib & Pirfenidone on Lung AEC Function in Ex Vivo Murine and Human Lung Tissue Cultures of
#PulmonaryFibrosis
@LMU_Muenchen
@m_konigshoff
Congratulations to the team at
@MedicineUoN
on this review, providing a detailed account of 👶 postnatal lung development, risks of
#BPD
, and the current and future medicines 💊 to target TGT-b signaling.
@AJPLung
|
Researchers examined genome-wide changes in
#DNAmethylation
🧬 in acquired resistance to the anticancer drug
#ceritinib
and identified cytidine deaminase among the hypomethylated and upregulated genes in drug-resistant cells.
🔗
Review | Dr. Anne‐Karina Perl and colleagues at
@CincyChildrens
summarize the role of alveolar fibroblasts and their activation stage in alveolar septation and regeneration and incorporate them into the context of human lung disease. 🫁
📌 Full Review: