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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.
Четверикова М. М., Потемкин А. Н., Stepanova E., Бюллетень экспериментальной биологии и медицины 2026 Т. 182 № 9 С. 242–247
Gemcitabine, a first-line chemotherapeutic agent for bladder cancer (BC), often loses clinical efficacy due
to the development of drug resistance, the underlying mechanisms of which remain poorly understood. In
this work, a highly gemcitabine-resistant RT112/GR cell line was obtained by long-term selection. The MTT
assay revealed a 9312-fold decrease in gemcitabine sensitivity and moderate resistance to cisplatin (2.60-fold,
p ...
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Махачкала: АЛЕФ, 2026.
В сборник вошли материалы XI междисциплинарной конференции «Доброхотовские чтения», посвященной 90-летию кафедры нервных болезней, медицинской генетики и нейрохирургии Дагестанского государственного медицинского университета. ...
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Maltseva D., Tonevitsky A., Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 2026 Vol. 13 P. 1–28
MicroRNA (miRNA) genes are frequently located in close proximity within the genome, forming so-called clusters. These clusters are transcribed as polycistronic units, suggesting coordinated transcriptional regulation of the miRNAs they contain. However, individual mature miRNAs from the same cluster often accumulate at varying levels and exhibit distinct tissue-specific expression patterns, indicating the presence of regulatory ...
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Vasilyev A., Svirin EP, Dubynin I. et al., Cortex 2025 Vol. 189 P. 76–96
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Karina V. Klycheva, Mariia O. Silkina, Dmitry M. Hushpulian et al., Biochemistry. Biokhimiia 2026 Vol. 91 P. 1842–1858
Involvement of the transcription factor Bach1 in various scenarios of cellular regulation is reviewed herein. To date, the most extensively studied role of Bach1 is that of a repressor of the antioxidant genetic program initiated by the Nrf2 factor. This program counteracts oxidative stress, which triggers both ferroptosis and the intrinsic apoptotic pathway. Bach1 functions unrelated ...
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Svirin E., Бердышев Д. А., Шишкин С. Л., Вестник Российского государственного медицинского университета 2026 № 3 С. 42–50
Quasi-movements (QMs), which are movement attempts minimized to the point of movement extinction, evoke EEG patterns similar to those of real movement. QMs can model attempted movement in healthy subjects and are therefore of interest as an alternative to motor imagery (MI) in rehabilitation brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), in which the attempted movement of the paralyzed ...
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Sitdikova K., Tsoy A., Chaprov K. et al., Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology 2026 Article nlag078
Understanding the earliest pathological changes in Alzheimer disease (AD) is critical for improving early intervention strategies. However, the relationship between amyloid plaque characteristics and early behavioral and molecular alterations remains unclear. We used 6-month-old female APPswe/PS1dE9 mice, a model of early amyloid-dominant pathology, to assess cognition and emotionality across a battery of behavioral tests. Amyloid ...
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Effects of Wheat Malt Extract on Molecular and Behavioral Markers in Aged APP/PS1 and Wild-Type Mice
Kassenova A., Svirin E., Sitdikova K. et al., International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2026 Vol. 27 No. 11 Article 4994
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Cespuglio R., Schmitt-Böhrer A., Deykin A. et al., Metabolites 2026 Vol. 16 No. 2 Article 117
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Logvenkov S. A., Известия РАН. Механика жидкости и газа 2026 № 3 С. 59–75
The problem of the evolution of cell volume fraction in a spherical aggregate composed of cells,
extracellular matrix, and fluid is considered. The aggregate is surrounded by extracellular matrix. The
problem formulation employs a multiphase model of a biological continuum, previously developed by the
author, consisting of two actively interacting solid phases and a fluid. The propagation of ...
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Liaukovich K., Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatelnosti Imeni I.P. Pavlova 2026 Vol. 76 No. 5 P. 587–598
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Nersisyan A., Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 2026 Vol. 13 Article 1995001
Antiviral activity is commonly summarized using endpoint measures such as EC50 or EC90, yet these quantities emerge from a dynamic biological system and depend on viral replication kinetics, host-cell properties, experimental design, and the assay used to quantify infection. Infectious-virus titers, viral RNA, infected-cell fractions, viability measurements, and immune readouts capture different components of the ...
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Тукачев Н. В., González-Jiménez M., Ramakrishnan G. et al., Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2021 Vol. 23 No. 23 P. 13250–13260
Low-frequency vibrations play an essential role in biomolecular processes involving DNA such as gene expression, charge transfer, drug intercalation, and DNA–protein recognition. However, understanding the vibrational basis of these mechanisms relies on theoretical models due to the lack of experimental evidence. Here we present the low-frequency vibrational spectra of G-quadruplexes (structures formed by four strands ...
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Батова О. Н., Савинецкая Л. Е., Проявка С. В. et al., Nature Conservation Research. Заповедная наука 2026 Т. 11 № 4 С. 25–39
Spermophilus suslicus is a threatened species listed in Red Data Books at all levels (from regional Red Data
Books to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species), and it currently requires special conservation activity.
Over the past 30–50 years, its range has changed from continuous to mosaic, and its population has declined
everywhere. In 2015, in Russia experimental ...
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Temereva E., Zoologischer Anzeiger 2026 Vol. 325 P. 182–195
Brachiopoda is a group of animals, that is still insufficiently studied at the ultrastructural level, despite the significance of ultrastructure of tissues and organs for analysing the functional morphology, reconstructing the organisation and biology of numerous extinct brachiopods, and establishing relationships among major taxa. In the present study, we provide a revised reconstruction of the ...
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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- ...
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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 ...
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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 : ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Nikulin S., Alekseev B. Y., Sergeeva N. S. et al., Biochimie 2020 Vol. 179 P. 217–227
Epigenetic alterations represent promising therapeutic targets in cancer treatment. Recently it was revealed that small molecules have the potential to act as microRNA silencers. Capacity to bind the discrete stem-looped structure of pre-miR-21 and prevent its maturation opens opportunities to utilize such compounds for the prevention of initiation, progression, and chemoresistance of cancer. Molecular simulations ...
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Samatov T., Senyavina N., Galatenko V. V. et al., Biochip Journal 2016 Vol. 10 No. 3 P. 215–220
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Samatov T., Galatenko V. V., Senyavina N. et al., Biochip Journal 2017 No. 11 P. 262–269
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Sakharov D., Maltseva D., Knyazev E. et al., BMC Systems Biology 2019 Vol. 13 No. 19 P. 3–11
A cancer cell line originating from human epithelial colorectal adenocarcinoma (Caco-2 cells) serves as a high capacity model for a preclinical screening of drugs. Recent need for incorporating barrier tissue into multi-organ chips calls for inclusion of Caco-2 cells into microperfused environment. This article describes a series of systems biology insights obtained from comparing Caco-2 models ...
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