The contribution and mechanism of cerebrovascular pathology in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis are still unclear. Here, we show that venular and capillary cerebral endothelial cells (ECs) are selectively vulnerable to necroptosis in AD. We identify reduced cerebromicrovascular expression of murine N-acetyltransferase 1 (mNat1) in two AD…[Read more]

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) results from infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It was first reported in Wuhan, China in patients suffering from severe pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome and has now grown into the first pandemic in over 100 years. Patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop…[Read more]

Screening for oral cancer by direct visual examination is believed to be ineffective because of the difficulty in differentiating a small number of malignancies from the much more prevalent benign oral mucosal lesions (OML) that are found in high-risk individuals. Standardised clinical diagnoses were recorded for all the OMLs identified during…[Read more]