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Microfluidic Chip as a Tool for Effective In Vitro Evaluation of Cyclophosphamide Prodrug Toxicity
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine. 2022. Vol. 173. No. 1. P. 146–150.
Most drugs are metabolized in the liver, which can lead to their activation or inactivation with a change in the parent compound pharmacology, as well as liver damage by active metabolites. Preclinical animal studies of drug safety do not always predict its effect on humans due to species specificity. Thus, for the rapid drug screening, and especially prodrugs, an in vitro system is required that allows predicting xenobiotic cytotoxicity with consideration of their metabolism in liver cells. The use of a microfluidic chip (BioClinicum) made it possible to cultivate a 2D culture of human HaCaT keratinocytes with spheroids of human hepatoma HepaRG cells. After incubation in a specially selected universal serum-free medium containing 3.8 mM cyclophosphamide, pronounced death of HaCaT cells was observed in comparison with culturing in the absence of liver cells.
Korotkova E., Kulikova S., Lvova O. et al., Pediatric Radiology 2026 P. 1–9
Background
Predicted brain age is a widely used neuroimaging biomarker of brain maturation. However, limited normative pediatric datasets in model training raise concerns about systematic biases when applied to children. This study evaluates the hypothesis of predicted brain age overestimation in typically developing pediatric populations.
Objective
To analyze predicted brain age and brain delta in a large, age- ...
Added: October 3, 2026
Ekaterina D. Riumina, Klink G. V., Alekseeva E. et al., PNAS, США 2026 Vol. 123 No. 35 P. 1–20
The role of escape from the cytotoxic T cell (CTL) response in SARS-CoV-2 evolution remains controversial. Here, we study the origin and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants whose mutations reduce presentation by the HLA class I alleles common in human populations. We find that 35% of mutations that are characteristic of the variants of concern, and ...
Added: October 2, 2026
Aly Ismailov, Poptsova M., Plos One 2026 Vol. 21 No. 9 Article e0355902
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Knyazev E., Чеботарева О. Е., М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2026.
This teaching and learning guide provides a concise overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the basic skills required to work in a biological laboratory. It also includes protocols for practical classes conducted as part of the introductory professional training placement for first-year students in the Bachelor’s programme in Cell and Molecular Biotechnology at ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Ryskina H., Knyazev E., Вопросы биологической, медицинской и фармацевтической химии 2026 Т. 29 № 9 С. 84–91
Introduction. The active integration of rapidly developing omics and computer technologies in the 21st century has led to a breakthrough in understanding the principles of the functioning of living systems. One of the dynamically developing integrative areas in biology is biological modeling. The fundamental paradigm has been the methodology that allows for the prediction of ...
Added: September 29, 2026
Gureev M., Advanced Science 2026 P. 1–13
Targeted protein degradation represents a promising therapeutic strategy, yet its broader application is often limited by the scarcity of usable E3 ligases. Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) is a key target for inducing ferroptosis, but achieving sustained and potent inhibition remains challenging with conventional enzymatic inhibitors. Herein, we report the first small‐molecule GPX4 degraders that incorporate ...
Added: September 26, 2026
Diachkova E., Nikulin D., Кубкин Я. В. et al., American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2026 Vol. 212
Accurate classification of a patient with pulmonary hypertension (PH) into one of five groups is fundamental for appropriate disease management strategies. The time from disease onset to correct diagnosis is unacceptably long in many cases. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) develops as a consequence of venous thromboemboli, resulting in a more pronounced hereditary predisposition to ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Xu Y., Ryabov F., Alexandrov I. et al., USA 2026 Vol. 6 No. 8 Article 101324
Центромеры обеспечивают расхождение хромосом, однако организацию их хроматина в пределах повторяющейся альфа-сателлитной ДНК долгое время было трудно изучать. Для решения этой задачи мы создали гаплотип-разрешённые аннотации сателлитной ДНК для полной диплоидной сборки генома человека T2T-HG002. Затем с помощью метода направленного метилирования с секвенированием длинных прочтений (DiMeLo-seq) мы картировали центромерный белок A (CENP-A), модификацию H3K9me3 и ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Hebbar P., Ryabov F., Alexandrov I. et al., Cell 2026 Vol. 189 P. 4891–4908.e12
The common marmoset is a New World monkey widely used to study primate evolution and human disease. We present a telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference assembly for the species, plus three near-T2T haplotypes. These resolve previously inaccessible regions, including the centromeres, sex chromosomes, subterminal satellites, acrocentric chromosomes, and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). We find marmoset centromeres ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Shaitan A., Ke Y., Shutao C. et al., 2026 No. 24 Article 181
Background Therapeutic peptides exert pivotal effects in diverse biological processes, and have attracted significant interest in the field of biomedicine in recent years. However, most existing methods often fail to adequately capture the intricate interactions among amino acid residues and the contextual dependencies within peptide sequences, which hampers the extraction of deep semantic representations and ...
Added: September 18, 2026
Anton Rogachev, Sysoeva O., Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2025 Vol. 19 Article 1658243
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Anton Rogachev, Sysoeva O., Cognitive Systems Research 2024 Vol. 86 Article 101236
Receptive speech is the ability to understand speech addressed to a person. It is a crucial process for a child’s cognitive development. We examine the relationship between receptive speech and neural tracking of natural speech in 52 children aged 3–8 years to infer the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech development. We registered a 32-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Чеботарева О. Е., Пирогов А. А., Antipenko I. et al., Доклады российской академии наук. Науки о жизни 2026 Т. 529 № 1 С. 389–395
Preeclampsia (PE) is a severe obstetric complication caused by chronic placental ischaemia. Genome-wide profiling of microRNA isoforms in two trophoblast hypoxia models (CoCl2 and the oxyquinoline derivative neuradapt, BeWo b30 cells) and clinical PE samples (placental tissue, syncytiotrophoblast vesicles) revealed concordant downregulation of hsa-miR-143-3p isoforms. Under a strict fold-change threshold, the canonical isoform (21 nt) ...
Added: September 16, 2026
Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
Added: September 15, 2026
Bug D. S., Kuzovenkova D. A., Tishkov A. V. et al., Biochemical Genetics 2026
Deciphering the evolutionary history of genes is foundational for biomedical research, enabling the identification of compensatory mutations in disease-associated genes and the selection of evolutionarily relevant model organisms. However, challenges of multi-isoform handling, the presence of incomplete genomes/proteomes initial datasets, and problems of evolutionary history representation are still present. To address these issues, we introduce ...
Added: September 14, 2026
Kang J., Kim H. J., Kim M. S. et al., Nature Medicine 2026 No. 32 P. 527–544
Drug use disorders (DUDs) are emerging global public health challenges. Here we investigated the global and regional estimates of the prevalence and burden of DUDs, including amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine and opioid use disorders, from 1990 to 2023 for 204 countries and territories by using the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023. Overall, trends in global ...
Added: September 9, 2026
Ребрейкина А. Б., Liaukovich K., Современная зарубежная психология 2024 Т. 13 № 2 С. 33–43
Создание методик диагностики на основе анализа движений глаз является особенно актуальным для оценки когнитивных функций у детей, которые не могут дать речевой или моторный ответ в силу своего возраста или из-за нарушений развития. Для таких детей использование объективных методов оценки когнитивных функций на основе айтрекинга может стать полезным диагностическим инструментом, дополняющим традиционные поведенческие опросники и ...
Added: September 8, 2026
Ребрейкина А. Б., Liaukovich K., Современная зарубежная психология 2023 Т. 12 № 4 С. 51–61
Активное развитие метода видеоокулографии, т. е. регистрации движений глаз, создает возможности для создания новых подходов для развития когнитивных функций и обучения. Методики, основанные на видеоокулографии, могут быть полезны не только для детей с серьезными нарушениями моторных функций, но и детей с нарушениями развития когнитивных функций, прежде всего внимания, так как контроль движений глаз тесно связан ...
Added: September 8, 2026
Портнова Г. В., Liaukovich K., Васильева Л. Н. et al., Журнал высшей нервной деятельности им. И.П. Павлова 2022 Т. 72 № 4 С. 504–519
Когнитивная и эмоциональная нагрузка в ходе увеличения сложности задач приводит к активации различных звеньев вегетативной нервной системы и может сопровождаться как увеличением эффективности решения задач, так и способствовать дестабилизации эмоционального состояния и уменьшению продуктивности. Увеличение когнитивной нагрузки при условии высокой мотивации испытуемых является стрессовым фактором и выражается в различной реакции симпатического и парасимпатического звеньев в ...
Added: September 8, 2026
Shaitan A., Ke Y., Hongjun Y. et al., PLoS Computational Biology 2026 Article e1013836
The interaction between peptides and human leukocyte antigen class II (HLA-II)
molecules plays a pivotal role in adaptive immune responses, as HLA-II mediates
the recognition of exogenous antigens and initiates T cell activation through peptide
presentation. Accurate prediction of peptide-HLA-II binding serves as a cornerstone
for deciphering cellular immune responses, and is essential for guiding the optimization
of antibody therapeutics. ...
Added: September 7, 2026
I. A. Khaustov, Yu. A. Safronova, O. E. Chebotareva et al., Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology 2025 Vol. 61 No. 9 P. 1753–1759
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) remains one of the most popular materials for microfluidic chips, but its high gas permeability can lead to the formation of gas bubbles in microchannels, which hampers the reproducibility of experiments in organ-on-a-chip systems. The dependence of the gas permeability of PDMS on the ratio of base to hardener (2.5 : 1, 5 : 1, and ...
Added: December 22, 2025
Хаустов И. А., Safronova U., Чеботарева О. Е. et al., Биотехнология 2024 Т. 40 № 5 С. 62–69
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) remains one of the most most popular materials for microfluidic chips, but its high gas permeability can lead to the formation of gas bubbles in microchannels, which hampers the reproducibility of experiments in organ-on-a-chip systems. The dependence of the gas permeability of PDMS on the ratio of base to curing agent (2.5 : ...
Added: December 12, 2024
Knyazev E., Khristichenko A., Maltseva D. et al., Placenta 2019 Vol. 83 P. e59–e60
Objectives: The study of the transport and toxicity of xenobiotics in women is limited for ethical reasons. Ex vivo placenta models have high variability and low success rates. Animal models in vivo differ from a human in anatomy, genotype, and proteome. The placenta-on-a-chip model is a compromise. We studied the components of the FAC chemotherapy regimen for breast cancer in ...
Added: February 1, 2021
Knyazev E. N., Nikulin S. V., Khristichenko A. Y. et al., Russian Chemical Bulletin 2019 Vol. 68 No. 12 P. 2344–2349
An in vitro placental barrier model based on human choriocarcinoma BeWo b30 cell line was considered as a method of preclinical study of the transport and toxicity of antitumor agents and other organic compounds. Low permeabilities were found for 5-fluorouracil as an example of hydrophilic compound and for doxorubicin as an example of a lipophilic compound with ...
Added: February 1, 2021