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The pleiotropic actions of adiponectin in improving cell survival and metabolism have motivated the development of small-molecule therapeutic agents for treating diabetes and lipotoxicity. AdipoRon is a synthetic agonist of the adiponectin receptors, yet is limited by its poor solubility and bioavailability. In this work, we expand on the protective effects of AdipoRon in pancreatic β-cells and examine how structural modifications could affect the activity, pharmacokinetics, and bioavailability of this small molecule. We describe a series of AdipoRon analogs containing amphiphilic ethylene glycol (PEG) chains. Among these, AdipoRonPEG5 induced pleiotropic effects in mice under insulinopenic and high-fat diet (HFD) conditions. While both AdipoRon and AdipoRonPEG5 substantially attenuate palmitate-induced lipotoxicity in INS-1 cells, only AdipoRonPEG5 treatment is accompanied by a significant reduction in cytotoxic ceramides. In vivo, AdipoRonPEG5 can substantially reduce pancreatic, hepatic, and serum ceramide species, with a concomitant increase in the corresponding sphingoid bases and improves insulin sensitivity of mice under HFD feeding conditions. Furthermore, hyperglycemia in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced insulinopenic adiponectin-null mice is also attenuated upon AdipoRonPEG5 treatment. Our results suggest that AdipoRonPEG5 is more effective in reducing ceramides and dihydroceramides in the liver of HFD-fed mice than AdipoRon, consistent with its potent activity in activating ceramidase in vitro in INS-1 cells. Additionally, these results indicate that the beneficial effects of AdipoRonPEG5 can be partially attributed to improved pharmacokinetics as compared with AdipoRon, thus suggesting that further derivatization may improve affinity and tissue-specific targeting.Virus-like particles (VLPs) have the potential to be used as display platforms to develop vaccines against infectious and non-infectious agents. However, most VLPs used as vaccine display platforms are derived from viruses that infect humans; unfortunately, most humans already have pre-existing antibodies against these platforms and thus, the immunogenicity of these vaccines may be compromised. VLP platforms derived from viruses that infect bacteria (bacteriophages), especially bacteriophages that infect bacteria, which do not colonize humans are less likely to have pre-existing antibodies against the platforms in the human population. In this study, we assessed whether two putative coat proteins (ORF13 and ORF14) derived from a thermophilic bacteriophage (ΦIN93) can be expressed and purified from a mesophilic bacterium such as E. coli. We also assessed whether expressed coat proteins can assemble to form VLPs. Truncated versions of ORF13 and ORF14 were successfully co-expressed in bacteria; the co-expressed truncated proteins formed oval structures that look like VLPs, but their sizes were less than those of an authentic ΦIN93 virus.This review examines the recent progress in the initial management of pulmonary embolism (PE). Diagnostic strategies allowing the safe decrease of imaging testing have been proposed. New modalities of catheter-based interventions have emerged for hemodynamically unstable PE patients. For normotensive PE patients, direct oral anticoagulant treatment has become the new norm and a large proportion of patients are eligible for home treatment.Freeze-drying is the most widespread method to preserve protein drugs and vaccines in a dry form facilitating their storage and transportation without the laborious and expensive cold chain. Extending this method for the preservation of natural biomaterials and cells in a dry form would provide similar benefits, but most results in the domain are still below expectations. In this review, rather than consider freeze-drying as a traditional black box we "break it" through a detailed process thinking approach. We discuss freeze-drying from process thinking aspects, introduce the chemical, physical, and mechanical environments important in this process, and present advanced biophotonic process analytical technology. In the end, we review the state of the art in the freeze-drying of the biomaterials, extracellular vesicles, and cells. We suggest that the rational design of the experiment and implementation of advanced biophotonic tools are required to successfully preserve the natural biomaterials and cells by freeze-drying. We discuss this change of paradigm with existing literature and elaborate on our perspective based on our new unpublished results.The generation of acylated impurities has represented an important hurdle in the development of long acting injectables for therapeutic peptides using biocompatible polymers with a polyester moiety. We investigated here an in situ forming depot (ISFD) technology that uses polyethylene glycol - polyester copolymers and a solvent exchange mechanism to promote depot formation. This technology has shown promise in formulating small molecules as well as therapeutic proteins. In the present work, using the well-known somatostatin analog octreotide acetate (OctAc) as a model molecule, we evaluated this delivery platform to release therapeutic peptides. Peptide acylation was found to be pronounced in the formulation, while it was very limited once the depot was formed and during the release process. The octreotide acylation pattern was fully characterized by LC-MS/MS. Moreover, it was demonstrated that exchanging the acetate anion with more hydrophobic counterions like pamoate or lauryl sulfate allowed to greatly improve the peptide stability profile, as well as the formulation release performance. Finally, the in vivo evaluation through pharmacokinetics studies in rat of these new octreotide salts in ISFD formulations showed that octreotide was quantifiable up to four weeks post-administration with a high bioavailability and an acceptable initial burst.Thrombus related diseases seriously threaten human's health and life. The drawbacks of thrombolytic drugs, such as poor targeting ability and unexpected bleeding complications limit their clinical application. Thus, targeted delivery and controlled release of drugs at local thrombus sites to achieve efficient thrombolysis is an urgent event to be resolved. Herein, we developed an intelligent system MnO2/uPA@pep-Fuco for precise thrombolysis and thrombus inflammatory microenvironment remodeling. MnO2/uPA@pep-Fuco exhibited an excellent thrombus targeting ability via the high affinity of fucoidan (Fuco) for P-selectin overexpressed by activated platelets. Selumetinib research buy And then pep-Fuco modified onto the surface of mesopore could be removed to release urokinase (uPA) locally under the high level of thrombin microenvironment in thrombus site. Meanwhile, due to the catalase-like activity of MnO2 nanoplatform, MnO2/uPA@pep-Fuco could regulate the inflammatory thrombus microenvironment by eliminating hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), so as to achieve a collaborative thrombolysis therapy.
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