Acinar-Ductal Cell Rearrangement Drives Branching Morphogenesis of the Murine Pancreas in an IGF/PI3K Dependent Manner

Many epithelial organs undergo branching morphogenesis during development, resulting in the construction of complex dendritic networks and the acquisition of specialized tissue structures. Understanding the establishment and maintenance of organizational structure is a core issue in developmental biology, which directly impacts organ physiology and diseases. In adult life, the loss of organizational structure may occur in the early stages and various human cancers. However how these processes are coordinated and…

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PLA2G7-A New Breakthrough in Reversing the Immunosuppressive Microenvironment of Liver Cancer

Recently, a team led by Dong Ling from Zhongshan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University and Zhang Si from the School of Basic Medicine at Fudan University jointly published a new study in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, revealing the presence of a class of highly expressed platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase (PLA2G7) and highly immunosuppressive TAMs in the microenvironment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Inhibiting PLA2G7 can improve the immune microenvironment and…

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Reveal A New Immune Pathway for The Treatment of Bone Metastasis in Breast Cancer

Immunotherapy is a very promising method for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, which can provide new possibilities for treatment. Although checkpoint inhibitors show some hope in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, their therapeutic effect on patients with bone metastases is disappointing. The lack of such efficacy seems to have a certain specificity for the bone environment, which will show the characteristics of avoiding inhibition. Recently, a research report…

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The Special Protective Effects of Breast Milk

Breastfeeding can provide significant health benefits for newborns and infants by providing nutrition, immune protection, and shaping the gut microbiota. Although scientists have long believed that breast milk contains complement components, the physiological correlation of complement components in breast milk is not clear to them. Recently, a research report titled “Complement in breast milk modifies offspring gut microbiota to promote infant health ” was published in the journal Cell. Scientists…

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