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July 2013 Volume 19, Issue 7 |
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| Podcast Editorials News Book Review Correspondence News and Views Community Corner Between Bedside and Bench Research Highlights Reviews Focus Perspective Brief Communication Articles Letters Technical Report
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Nature Medicine Podcast | Top |
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African antidote We discuss Africa's first drug development hub and a new assay for personalizing cystic fibrosis therapy. Listen Now |
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Editorials | Top |
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A brighter future in the fight against hepatitis p791 doi:10.1038/nm.3269 Public health and research efforts directed at managing and targeting viral hepatitis have borne fruit in recent decades. However, more work is necessary to meet the goals of preventing transmission and treating infection to eliminate the enormous burden of hepatitis worldwide.
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A victory for genes p792 doi:10.1038/nm.3279 The ability to patent human genes has been costly to researchers and patients, and has restricted competition in the biotech marketplace. The recent US Supreme Court decision making isolated human genes unpatentable will bring freedom of choice to the patient, and level the playing field for research and development.
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News | Top |
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New tools automatically match patients with clinical trials p793 Alisa Opar doi:10.1038/nm0713-793
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Companies go toe to toe, as topical treatments for nail fungus bloom pp794 - 795 Cassandra Willyard doi:10.1038/nm0713-794
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Publication checklist proposed to boost rigor of pilot trials pp795 - 796 Elie Dolgin doi:10.1038/nm0713-795
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Transparency battle resurfaces as EU trial revamp wraps up p797 David Holmes doi:10.1038/nm0713-797
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State stem cell agency floats idea of [dollar]70 million 'Alpha' clinics p798 Elie Dolgin doi:10.1038/nm0713-798a
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Tuberculosis trials, already struggling, hit hard by US sequester pp798 - 799 Trevor Quirk doi:10.1038/nm0713-798b
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Gene expression database scales up, providing baseline data p799 Susan Matthews doi:10.1038/nm0713-799
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News in Brief |
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Biomedical briefing pp800 - 801 doi:10.1038/nm0713-800
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Q&A |
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Straight talk with...Doris Meder and Geert Van Minnebruggen p802 doi:10.1038/nm0713-802 Doris Meder and Geert Van Minnebruggen had a dream to team up core facilities across the EU so that institutes could pool resources to buy state-of-the-art machines as soon as the tools became available. To that end, they founded Core for Life (C4L), a pan-European project that formally launched on 14 May. Katharine Sanderson spoke with Meder and Van Minnebruggen about how they hope to democratize access to the very latest technologies for life scientists.
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Made in Africa pp803 - 806 Linda Nordling doi:10.1038/nm0713-803 The resource-poor countries of Africa have traditionally relied on Western nations for their drug supply, but a new drug development center with a promising antimalarial agent could pave the way for a homegrown pharmaceutical pipeline. Linda Nordling investigates how this one facility at the southern tip of the continent promises to embolden an entire African drug industry.
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Three isn't the magic number p807 Michael Houghton doi:10.1038/nm0713-807 Most research prizes in biomedicine, from the Nobels to the Laskers, are restricted to three recipients. But in an age of big science, when much larger teams are generally needed to make important research discoveries, all the people who provide seminal contributions deserve to be awarded.
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Book Review | Top |
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Racial profiling in medicine p808 Aravinda Chakravarti reviews Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age by Jonathan Kahn doi:10.1038/nm.3254
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Correspondence | Top |
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Regarding the mechanism of action of a proposed peptide agonist of the bone morphogenetic protein receptor activin-like kinase 3 pp809 - 810 Malcolm Whitman, Vicki Rosen, Ali H Brivanlou, Jay C Groppe and Walter Sebald et al. doi:10.1038/nm.3080
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Reply to Regarding the mechanism of action of a proposed peptide agonist of the bone morphogenetic protein receptor activin-like kinase 3 pp810 - 811 Hikaru Sugimoto, Valerie S LeBleu, Dattatreyamurty Bosukonda, Peter Keck and Gangadhar Taduri et al. doi:10.1038/nm.3081
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MSCs: science and trials p811 Mark F Pittenger doi:10.1038/nm.3219
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MSCs: science and trials p812 Donald G Phinney, Jacques Galipeau, Mauro Krampera, Ivan Martin and Yufang Shi et al. doi:10.1038/nm.3220
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MSCs: science and trials pp812 - 813 Willem E Fibbe, Francesco Dazzi and Katarina LeBlanc doi:10.1038/nm.3222
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Reply to MSCs: science and trials pp813 - 814 Paolo Bianco doi:10.1038/nm.3255
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Finding ways to improve the use of biobanks pp814 - 815 Pascal Puchois doi:10.1038/nm.3257
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Finding ways to improve the use of biobanks p815 Angelo Paradiso and Mats Hansson doi:10.1038/nm.3256
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News and Views | Top |
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Community Corner | Top |
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A new route to human embryonic stem cells pp820 - 821 doi:10.1038/nm.3266
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Between Bedside and Bench | Top |
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How Cytokine Networks Fuel Inflammation: Toward a cytokine-based disease taxonomy pp822 - 824 Georg Schett, Dirk Elewaut, Iain B. McInnes, Jean-Michel Dayer and Markus F. Neurath doi:10.1038/nm.3260 Discerning which mediators drive pathogenesis in chronic inflammatory diseases can be complex: immune cells can release various pathogenic cytokines, and numerous cytokines may either cause one specific disease or many. Human validation and mechanistic studies will be necessary to identify the key immune cells and cytokines for a given inflammatory disorder and to pinpoint which cytokine might be the appropriate target for tackling each disease. In 'Bedside to Bench', Georg Schett et al. discuss how human trials targeting different cytokines suggest the existence of a hierarchical framework of cytokines that defines groups of chronic inflamatory diseases rather differently from the homogenous molecular disease pattern previously assumed. In 'Bench to Bedside', Vijay Kuchroo and Dominique Baeten peruse the role of interleukin-17A as drug target in several autoimmune diseases to highlight how success in the clinic will need understanding of pathogenic pathways and the immunological and tissue context of each inflammatory disease.
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How Cytokine Networks Fuel Inflammation: Interleukin-17 and a tale of two autoimmune diseases pp824 - 825 Dominique L. P. Baeten and Vijay K. Kuchroo doi:10.1038/nm.3268
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Research Highlights | Top |
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T cells: Bending the rules of restriction | T cells: Reprogramming regulatory T cells | Cancer therapy: Fueling resistance | Alzheimer's disease: Micrological modulation | New from NPG | Autoimmunity: Be more sensitive | Tumor suppressors: A new PTEN translational variant |
Reviews | Top |
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Induced regeneration[mdash]the progress and promise of direct reprogramming for heart repair pp829 - 836 Russell C Addis and Jonathan A Epstein doi:10.1038/nm.3225 There is much interest in the area of cardiac regeneration to replace cardiomyocytes lost in a heart attack. A number of recent studies have shown the feasibility of direct reprogramming, which allows one cell type to be directly converted into another cell type without going through a pluripotent intermediate step. In this Review, the authors review developments in direct reprogramming to cardiac cells in vitro and in vivo and compare the utility of these methods with pluripotent stem cell-mediated approaches.
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Understanding the hepatitis C virus life cycle paves the way for highly effective therapies pp837 - 849 Troels K H Scheel and Charles M Rice doi:10.1038/nm.3248 A new wave of antivirals to fight hepatitis C infection has helped patients achieve a good quality of life, but drug resistance, side effects and a lack of pan-viral genotype coverage still remains a problem. This Review discusses current clinical studies and potential targets of the virus life cycle to tackle these issues and puts forward a paradigm to develop second-generation effective antivirals and drug combinations for achieving the ideal regimen of an all-oral, interferon-free therapeutic cocktail.
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Global control of hepatitis C: where challenge meets opportunity pp850 - 858 David L Thomas doi:10.1038/nm.3184 In this Review, David L. Thomas discusses how recent therapeutic and diagnostic advances could be implemented in public health strategies to prevent viral hepatitis infections and treat existing infected patients. Despite the still increasing incidence and prevalence of hepatitis C infection, available tools may bring viral eradication a step closer toward becoming a reality.
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Focus on Hepatitis |
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Pathogenesis of chronic viral hepatitis: differential roles of T cells and NK cells pp859 - 868 Barbara Rehermann doi:10.1038/nm.3251 During chronic infection caused by hepatitis C and B viruses, effector adaptive immune cells are exhausted and incapable of clearing the virus, but they can still contribute to liver inflammation in this setting. This Review discusses the regulatory role of nonspecific immune natural killer (NK) cells, which, along with other immune regulatory signals, help the host counteract liver disease progression and immunopathology by controlling virus-specific immunity.
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Current progress in development of hepatitis C virus vaccines pp869 - 878 T Jake Liang doi:10.1038/nm.3183 Ongoing investigational studies aim to uncover new strategies to develop an effective vaccine to prevent hepatitis C infection. Advances have moved forward vaccine candidates, but technical and biological barriers posed by the virus still exist. This Review discusses how to better design vaccine trials and evaluate key components of protective immunity to achieve a working preventive vaccine.
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Perspective - Focus on Hepatitis | Top |
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Regulation of hepatic innate immunity by hepatitis C virus pp879 - 888 Stacy M Horner and Michael Gale Jr doi:10.1038/nm.3253 Persistence of hepatitis C virus contributes to chronic infection, which can lead to liver fibrosis and even liver cancer. Different factors, such as host genetics and immunity and viral immune evasion strategies, account for the outcome of the infection and the patient response to antivirals. This Perspective discusses how the interaction of these factors modulates viral immunity and how they might be used to identify the key targets to mount an effective immune response that will clear the virus and improve drug response.
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Brief Communication | Top |
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A largely random AAV integration profile after LPLD gene therapy pp889 - 891 Christine Kaeppel, Stuart G Beattie, Raffaele Fronza, Richard van Logtenstein and Florence Salmon et al. doi:10.1038/nm.3230 An adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector encoding a variant of human lipoprotein lipase was recently approved in Europe as the first gene therapy for the treatment of LPL deficiency. Here Manfred Schmidt and his colleagues report their analysis of AAV integration sites after injection of the gene therapy construct in LPL-deficient patients and in mice.
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Articles | Top |
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MicroRNA-30c reduces hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis in mice by decreasing lipid synthesis and lipoprotein secretion pp892 - 900 James Soh, Jahangir Iqbal, Joyce Queiroz, Carlos Fernandez-Hernando and M Mahmood Hussain doi:10.1038/nm.3200 This study identifies miR-30c as a regulator of both microsomal triglyceride transfer protein, needed for the secretion of APOB-containing lipoproteins such as low-density lipoproteins, and a number of other genes involved in lipid biosynthesis. In mice, miR-30c regulates hepatic lipid biosynthesis and lipoprotein secretion such that hepatic overexpression of miR-30c reduces plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations and decreases atherosclerotic plaque burden.
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BCAT1 promotes cell proliferation through amino acid catabolism in gliomas carrying wild-type IDH1 pp901 - 908 Martje Tonjes, Sebastian Barbus, Yoon Jung Park, Wei Wang and Magdalena Schlotter et al. doi:10.1038/nm.3217 Branched-chain amino acid transaminase 1, the enzyme that initiates the catabolism of branched-chain amino acids, is involved in glioma pathogenesis, making it a potential therapeutic target.
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Inflammasome-derived IL-1[beta] production induces nitric oxide-mediated resistance to Leishmania pp909 - 915 Djalma S Lima-Junior, Diego L Costa, Vanessa Carregaro, Larissa D Cunha and Alexandre L N Silva et al. doi:10.1038/nm.3221 Activation of inflammasomes has been implicated in sensing pathogens. Now Dario Zamboni and colleagues report that the Nlrp3 inflammasome has a key role in restricting replication of Leishmania parasites in macrophages and in mice by triggering interleukin-1A-dependent induction of nitric oxide, a crucial mediator of defense against Leishmania.
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Fgf9 from dermal [gamma][delta] T cells induces hair follicle neogenesis after wounding pp916 - 923 Denise Gay, Ohsang Kwon, Zhikun Zhang, Michelle Spata and Maksim V Plikus et al. doi:10.1038/nm.3181 Humans lack robust regeneration of hair follicles after skin wounding. George Cotsarelis and colleagues now show that [gamma][delta] T cells are not present at high levels in human skin, that in mice they are a key initial source of the protein fibroblast growth factor 9 and that this factor modulates hair follicle regeneration during skin wound healing. These results suggest a possible topical clinical treatment to regrow hair after wounding and perhaps for other conditions of hair loss.
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Letters | Top |
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Direct migration of follicular melanocyte stem cells to the epidermis after wounding or UVB irradiation is dependent on Mc1r signaling pp924 - 929 Wei Chin Chou, Makoto Takeo, Piul Rabbani, Hai Hu and Wendy Lee et al. doi:10.1038/nm.3194 Mayumi Ito and her colleagues show that during skin wounding in mice, melanocyte stem cells in the hair follicle are induced by melanocortin 1 receptor (Mc1r) signaling to migrate towards the epidermis and differentiate into mature pigment-producing cells. This mechanism allows for protection of the healing skin from ultraviolet light-induced damage.
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Association of HLA-DRB1-restricted CD4+ T cell responses with HIV immune control pp930 - 933 Srinika Ranasinghe, Sam Cutler, Isaiah Davis, Richard Lu and Damien Z Soghoian et al. doi:10.1038/nm.3229 CD8+ T cell responses have been associated with control of HIV replication, but the role of CD4+ T cells in protecting against this virus is unclear. In an analysis of HLA class II-restricted CD4+ T cell responses in HIV-infected individuals, Hendrik Streeck and his colleagues now report that certain HLA-DRB1 variants are associated with low viremia and can present a wide breadth of peptides, suggesting that CD4+ T cell responses in infected individuals may help control HIV.
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Acid sphingomyelinase-ceramide system mediates effects of antidepressant drugs pp934 - 938 Erich Gulbins, Monica Palmada, Martin Reichel, Anja Luth and Christoph Bohmer et al. doi:10.1038/nm.3214 Depression is a debilitating condition for which new treatments are sorely needed. Now, Erich Gulbins and his colleagues report that reducing ceramide levels in the brain has antidepressant effects in mouse models of the disease.
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Technical Report | Top |
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A functional CFTR assay using primary cystic fibrosis intestinal organoids pp939 - 945 Johanna F Dekkers, Caroline L Wiegerinck, Hugo R de Jonge, Inez Bronsveld and Hettie M Janssens et al. doi:10.1038/nm.3201 Building on earlier work, Dekkers et al. describe the first application of their intestinal organoid culture technology to the study of human disease, in this case cystic fibrosis. These so called 'mini-guts', which recapitulate the essential in vivo intestinal tissue architecture in vitro, are used to develop a rapid and quantitative assay to measure mutant cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) function, as well as test the efficacy of correctors and potentiators of mutant CFTR.
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