Theranostic Small-Molecule Prodrug Conjugates for Targeted Delivery and Controlled Release of Toll-like Receptor 7 Agonists (open access)

Theranostic Small-Molecule Prodrug Conjugates for Targeted Delivery and Controlled Release of Toll-like Receptor 7 Agonists

This article presents a novel class of chemically identical theranostic small-molecule prodrug conjugates (T-SMPDCs), [¹⁸/¹⁹F]F-TZ(PSMA)-LEGU-TLR7, for PSMA-targeted delivery and controlled release of toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) agonists to elicit de novo immune response for cancer immunotherapy. The proof-of-concept biological evaluation presented demonstrates the potential of T-SMPDCs for cancer immunomodulatory therapies.
Date: June 28, 2022
Creator: Debnath, Sashi; Hao, Guiyang; Guan, Bing; Thapa, Pawan; Hao, Justin; Hammers, Hans et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Single-Step Photochemical Formation of Near-Infrared-Absorbing Gold Nanomosaic within PNIPAm Microgels: Candidates for Photothermal Drug Delivery (open access)

Single-Step Photochemical Formation of Near-Infrared-Absorbing Gold Nanomosaic within PNIPAm Microgels: Candidates for Photothermal Drug Delivery

Article demonstrating the dynamic potential for tailoring the surface plasmon resonance (SPR), size, and shapes of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) starting from an Au(I) precursor, chloro(dimethyl sulfide)gold (I) (Au(Me2S)Cl), in lieu of the conventional Au(III) precursor hydrogen tetrachloroaurate (III) hydrate (HAuCl4). This approach presents a one-step method that permits regulation of an Au(I) precursor to form either visible-absorbing gold nanospheres or near-infrared-window (NIRW)-absorbing anisotropic AuNPs.
Date: May 18, 2020
Creator: Marpu, Sreekar; Kamras, Brian; Nasiri, Nooshin Mirza; Elbjeirami, Oussama; Simmons, Denise Perry; Hu, Zhibing et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Long-Term Effects of Developmental Hypoxia on Cardiac Mitochondrial Function in Snapping Turtles (open access)

The Long-Term Effects of Developmental Hypoxia on Cardiac Mitochondrial Function in Snapping Turtles

This article investigates the long-term effects of developmental hypoxia on mitochondrial function in a species that regularly encounters hypoxia during development. Findings speculate that adjustments might improve mitochondrial hypoxia tolerance, which would be beneficial for turtles during breath-hold diving and overwintering in anoxic environments.
Date: June 28, 2021
Creator: Galli, Gina L. J.; Ruhr, Ilan M.; Crossley, Janna & Crossley, Dane A., II
System: The UNT Digital Library
SUPREME: multiomics data integration using graph convolutional networks (open access)

SUPREME: multiomics data integration using graph convolutional networks

Article states that, to pave the road towards precision medicine in cancer, patients with similar biology ought to be grouped into same cancer subtypes. On breast cancer subtyping, unlike existing tools, SUPREME generates patient embeddings from multiple similarity networks utilizing multiomics features and integrates them with raw features to capture complementary signals.
Date: June 28, 2023
Creator: Kesimoglu, Ziynet Nesibe & Bozdag, Serdar
System: The UNT Digital Library