Contents
Vol 7, Issue 278
Contents
Commentary
- Cancer in global health: How do prevention and early detection strategies relate?
Cancer prevention and early-detection strategies are distinct but complementary approaches that are adapted to population- and resource-specific factors and integrated into national cancer control plans can optimize cancer outcomes while strengthening health care delivery systems.
Perspective
- Stem cell hype: Media portrayal of therapy translation
Researchers have an ethical responsibility to portray the state of stem cell therapies accurately in the press.
Research Articles
- Therapeutic exercise attenuates neutrophilic lung injury and skeletal muscle wasting
Exercise-induced modification of neutrophil chemokine signaling attenuates skeletal muscle wasting and limits lung injury in mice and patients with acute respiratory failure.
- Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-β and restores memory in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model
Repeated scanning ultrasound in the absence of a therapeutic agent removes amyloid-β and restores memory in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model.
- Tumor cells, but not endothelial cells, mediate eradication of primary sarcomas by stereotactic body radiation therapy
Tumor cells, rather than endothelial cells, are critical targets that regulate primary sarcoma eradication by radiation therapy.
- Virus-specific T lymphocytes home to the skin during natural dengue infection
Circulating virus-specific T lymphocytes may contribute to immune surveillance against dengue in the skin.
Editors' Choice
- Some things get better with age
Animal studies identify age-related factors that inhibit tumor progression.
- iHeart nano: A sweet cure
Sugar-based nanoparticles prevent foam cell formation and limit atherogenesis.
- The B cell follicle shields HIV
B cell follicles protect HIV from being eliminated by CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
- Lactate trumps blood pressure for trauma triage
Measurement of blood lactate concentrations by paramedics improves the identification of trauma victims who require resuscitation.
