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In vitro models of vascular disease have focused primarily on the pathophysiology of smooth muscle cell (SMC) or endothelial cell (EC). Adventitial fibroblasts can contribute to disease progression, but their specific influence is not well understood in different disease contexts. To elucidate fibroblast's impact on vascular pathology, we developed trilayer tissue-engineered blood vessels (TEBVs) with SMCs, ECs, and fibroblasts. We modeled atherosclerosis in the accelerated aging disease,...

CONCLUSION: In this cross-sectional analysis, higher AIP, reflecting atherogenic dyslipidemia, was associated with a modestly higher DBS-derived p-tau217 concentration in older adults. The biological and clinical significance of this association remains to be established in longitudinal and multimodal studies.

Prior work in older adults has developed a brief functional fine motor test, which involves repeated timed trials of an upper-limb task. Performance has been associated with global and domain-specific neuropsychological tests as well as putative markers of Alzheimer's disease when scored using variability in trial time; however, the extent to which task performance depends on motor ability has not been established nor quantified. This retrospective study examined whether mean trial time and...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is amplified by a self-reinforcing metal-Aβ-ROS axis, in which redox-active Cu and Fe bound to Aβ N-terminal histidines catalyze Fenton-like ROS generation and accelerate aggregation. Existing single-target interventions - anti-amyloid antibodies, antioxidants, metal-protein attenuating compounds, aggregation inhibitors, and photooxygenation catalysts - each address only one node of this loop. We used a computational-first framework to evaluate a dual-function...

Age-related impairment of brain solute clearance has been implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet procedures described as deep cervical lymphovenous reconstruction do not necessarily target the same lymphatic structure. This review examines glymphatic exchange, meningeal lymphatic drainage, cervical outflow, human lymphatic imaging, lymphatic surgery, early clinical studies, registered trials, and reported harms. Three interfaces can be distinguished: lymphatic flap-vein, lymph node-vein,...

Scientists at UC San Francisco have developed a way to create cancer-fighting CAR-T cells directly inside the body, potentially avoiding the slow and extremely expensive process of removing, engineering, and reinfusing a patient’s immune cells. Using a two-particle delivery system, the researchers sent CRISPR gene-editing tools and new cancer-targeting DNA specifically into T cells, where the DNA was inserted at a precise location in the genome.