Oligodendrocyte-lineage cell exocytosis and L-type prostaglandin D synthase promote oligodendrocyte development and myelination

L Pan, A Trimarco, AJ Zhang, K Fujimori, Y Urade… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
In the developing central nervous system, oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) differentiate
into oligodendrocytes, which form myelin around axons. Oligodendrocytes and myelin are …

[HTML][HTML] Prdm16 and Vcam1 regulate the postnatal disappearance of embryonic radial glia and the ending of cortical neurogenesis

J Li, MI Godoy, AJ Zhang, G Diamante, IS Ahn… - BioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Embryonic neural stem cells (NSCs, ie, radial glia) in the ventricular-subventricular zone (V-SVZ)
generate the majority of neurons and glia in the forebrain. Postnatally, embryonic radial …

Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

…, AJ Sigurdson, MM Doody, BH Alexander, J Zhang… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Breast cancer exhibits familial aggregation, consistent with variation in genetic susceptibility
to the disease. Known susceptibility genes account for less than 25% of the familial risk of …

Impact of pregnancy on vitamin D status: a longitudinal study

JY Zhang, AJ Lucey, R Horgan, LC Kenny… - British Journal of …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Nutritional requirements for vitamin D during pregnancy have been inadequately described,
and there are conflicting data on the impact of gestation on vitamin D status. In the present …

[HTML][HTML] Value of reducing wait times for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell treatment: Evidence from randomized controlled trial data on tisagenlecleucel for diffuse large …

AJ Chen, J Zhang, A Agarwal, DN Lakdawalla - Value in Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives This study aimed to quantify the value of reducing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell
(CAR-T) treatment wait times on patients with refractory and relapsed aggressive blood …

Mutational analysis of the BRCA1‐interacting genes ZNF350/ZBRK1 and BRIP1/BACH1 among BRCA1 and BRCA2‐negative probands from breast‐ovarian …

…, MM Doody, MA Tucker, MH Greene, J Zhang… - Human …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Two potential breast cancer susceptibility genes, encoding the BRCA1‐interacting proteins
ZNF350 (or ZBRK1) and BRIP1 (or BACH1), have been identified in yeast two‐hybrid screens…

Structure-based binding pocket detection and druggability assessment

S Rodríguez, JI Alice, CL Bellera, A Talevi - Drug Target Selection and …, 2022 - Springer
Target-focused (often described as “rational”) drug discovery starts with the identification and
validation of one or more target biomolecules whose modulation will interfere with disease …

[HTML][HTML] LIDeB tools: A Latin American resource of freely available, open-source cheminformatics apps

DNP Gori, LN Alberca, S Rodriguez, JI Alice… - Artificial Intelligence in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cheminformatics is the chemical field that deals with the storage, retrieval, analysis and
manipulation of an increasing volume of available chemical data, and it plays a fundamental role …

Ensemble learning application to discover new trypanothione synthetase inhibitors

JI Alice, CL Bellera, D Benítez, MA Comini… - Molecular Diversity, 2021 - Springer
… Voting was computed as formerly described by Zhang and Muegge [39]. AUC ROCs were
computed with the pROC package [40] and Delong’s method was applied for the statistical …

Synthetic derivatives of the antifungal drug ciclopirox are active against herpes simplex virus 2

…, KA Donald, AG Casals, AD Franson, JY Alice… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
We previously showed that the anti-fungal drug ciclopirox olamine effectively inhibits
replication of herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and HSV-2. Given the rise of HSV strains that are …