A recent study has found that extracellular vimentin can bind to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein in vitro, and antibodies against vimentin can decrease ...

Binge drinking is known to increase the risk of developing dementia and/or brain damage. A new study used rodents to test markers of neurodegeneration to determine a threshold for brain damage. The ...

A recent iScience journal study reports that cell-surface vimentin functions as a co-receptor for the entry of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) into host cells to ...

Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2418624122 Scientists have uncovered new details about cellular filaments that play a critical role in wound healing, ...

(Boston)—The entry of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) into human cells is an essential step for virus transmission and development of COVID 19. Although the lung ...

Research shows how cadmium and carbon black can trigger lung macrophages to produce a modified protein, citrullinated vimentin, which leads to lung fibrosis. Researchers also describe mechanistic ...

Changes to the intermediate filament (IF) protein, vimentin, were found to promote tumor growth by increasing cancer stemness in an oestrogen independent manner. Targeting vimentin and/or the long ...

Initiation of targeted therapy based on ctDNA only in metastatic NSCLC. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.

Just as the human body has a skeleton to give it structure and support, a cell has a cytoskeleton to give it shape and stability. Some of the main structures that make up a cell’s cytoskeleton are ...

Prognostic classifier for stage II gastric cancer based by support vector machine. Irinotecan/mitomycin C (IRI/MMC) combination as second-line chemotherapy in patients with metastaic gastric carcinoma ...