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  1. Mutations in leucine rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) are the most common cause of familial Parkinson’s disease (PD). Mitochondrial and autophagic dysfunction has been described as etiologic factors in different expe...

    Authors: Diana Luz Juárez-Flores, Ingrid González-Casacuberta, Mario Ezquerra, María Bañó, Francesc Carmona-Pontaque, Marc Catalán-García, Mariona Guitart-Mampel, Juan José Rivero, Ester Tobias, Jose Cesar Milisenda, Eduard Tolosa, Maria Jose Marti, Ruben Fernández-Santiago, Francesc Cardellach, Constanza Morén and Glòria Garrabou
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:160
  2. Symptomatic peripheral artery disease (PAD) is an atherosclerotic occlusive disease affecting the lower extremities. The cause of symptomatic PAD is atherosclerosis, vascular dysfunctions, impaired angiogenesi...

    Authors: Line Ea Hemstra, Anders Schlosser, Jes Sanddal Lindholt and Grith L. Sorensen
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:159
  3. A family history of breast cancer has long been thought to indicate the presence of inherited genetic events that predispose to this disease. In North Africa, many specific epidemio-genetic characteristics hav...

    Authors: Yosr Hamdi, Maroua Boujemaa, Mariem Ben Rekaya, Cherif Ben Hamda, Najah Mighri, Houda El Benna, Nesrine Mejri, Soumaya Labidi, Nouha Daoud, Chokri Naouali, Olfa Messaoud, Mariem Chargui, Kais Ghedira, Mohamed Samir Boubaker, Ridha Mrad, Hamouda Boussen…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:158
  4. Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a life-threatening disease in immunosuppressed patients. Voriconazole is commonly used to prevent and treat IPA in the clinic, but the optimal prophylactic antifungal ...

    Authors: Taotao Wang, Tao Zhang, Ti Meng, Ying Li, Lu Chen, Qianting Yang, Haiyan Dong, Jin’e Lei, Limei Chen and Yalin Dong
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:157
  5. Clinical trials have shown combinations of anti–tumor necrosis factor biologicals plus methotrexate (MTX) are more effective treatments for rheumatoid arthritis than biological monotherapies, based, in part, o...

    Authors: Alison O’Mahony, Markus R. John, Hannah Cho, Misato Hashizume and Ernest H. Choy
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:156
  6. Scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI) plays a key role in high density lipoproteins (HDL) metabolism. SR-BI deficiency in mice results in enhanced susceptibility to atherosclerosis with abnormal large, cho...

    Authors: Jia Cao, Yanyong Xu, Feifei Li, Liang Shang, Daping Fan and Hong Yu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:155
  7. Despite great development in genome and proteome high-throughput methods, treatment failure is a critical point in the management of most solid cancers, including breast cancer (BC). Multiple alternative mecha...

    Authors: Claudia Cava, Gloria Bertoli and Isabella Castiglioni
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:154
  8. Mass cytometry, or CyTOF (Cytometry by Time-of-Flight), permits the simultaneous detection of over 40 phenotypic and functional immune markers in individual cells without the issues of spectral overlap seen in...

    Authors: Christine M. D. Lingblom, Sangeeta Kowli, Nithya Swaminathan, Holden T. Maecker and Stacie L. Lambert
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:153
  9. DNA methylation has been evidenced as a potential epigenetic mechanism related to various candidate genes to development of obesity. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the DNA methylation l...

    Authors: Yohanna de Oliveira, Raquel Patrícia Ataíde Lima, Rafaella Cristhine Pordeus Luna, Mussara Gomes Cavalcanti Alves Monteiro, Cássia Surama Oliveira da Silva, Rayner Anderson Ferreira do Nascimento, Keylha Querino de Farias Lima, Ana Hermínia Andrade e Silva, Flávia Emília Leite de Lima Ferreira, Rodrigo Pinheiro de Toledo Vianna, Ronei Marcos de Moraes, Naila Francis Paulo de Oliveira, Aléssio Tony Cavalcanti de Almeida, Alexandre Sérgio Silva, Alcides da Silva Diniz, Maria José de Carvalho Costa…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:152
  10. For nearly four decades, the N400 has been an important brainwave marker of semantic processing. It can be recorded non-invasively from the scalp using electrical and/or magnetic sensors, but largely within th...

    Authors: Sujoy Ghosh Hajra, Careesa C. Liu, Xiaowei Song, Shaun D. Fickling, Teresa P. L. Cheung and Ryan C. N. D’Arcy
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:151
  11. Granulin epithelin precursor (GEP) is reported to function as a growth factor stimulating proliferation and migration, and conferring chemoresistance in many cancer types. However, the expression and functiona...

    Authors: Yi Pan, Siu Tim Cheung, Joanna Hung Man Tong, Ka Yee Tin, Wei Kang, Raymond Wai Ming Lung, Feng Wu, Hui Li, Simon Siu Man Ng, Tony Wing Chung Mak, Ka Fai To and Anthony Wing Hung Chan
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:150
  12. Discoidin domain receptor 1 (DDR1) is a collagen-activated receptor tyrosine kinase extensively implicated in diseases such as cancer, atherosclerosis and fibrosis. Multiple preclinical studies, performed usin...

    Authors: Solange Moll, Yukari Yasui, Ahmed Abed, Takeshi Murata, Hideaki Shimada, Akira Maeda, Naoshi Fukushima, Masakazu Kanamori, Sabine Uhles, Laura Badi, Thomas Cagarelli, Ivan Formentini, Faye Drawnel, Guy Georges, Tobias Bergauer, Rodolfo Gasser…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:148
  13. Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is a highly heterogeneous subtype of breast cancer that lacks the expression of oestrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. Al...

    Authors: Zehuan Li, Yiran Qiu, Weiqi Lu, Ying Jiang and Jin Wang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:147
  14. Diabetic kidney disease is a renal microvascular disease caused by diabetes, known as one of the most serious and lethal complications of diabetes. Early renal hypertrophy is the main pathological feature, whi...

    Authors: Yue Wang, Zong-ji Zheng, Yi-jie Jia, Yan-lin Yang and Yao-ming Xue
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:146
  15. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most common form of inherited retinal dystrophy presenting remarkable genetic heterogeneity. Genetic annotations would help with better clinical assessments and benefit gene th...

    Authors: Xue Chen, Xunlun Sheng, Yani Liu, Zili Li, Xiantao Sun, Chao Jiang, Rui Qi, Shiqin Yuan, Xuhui Wang, Ge Zhou, Yanyan Zhen, Ping Xie, Qinghuai Liu, Biao Yan and Chen Zhao
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:145
  16. Standard therapy for glioblastoma includes surgery, radiotherapy, and temozolomide. This Phase 3 trial evaluates the addition of an autologous tumor lysate-pulsed dendritic cell vaccine (DCVax®-L) to standard the...

    Authors: Linda M. Liau, Keyoumars Ashkan, David D. Tran, Jian L. Campian, John E. Trusheim, Charles S. Cobbs, Jason A. Heth, Michael Salacz, Sarah Taylor, Stacy D. D’Andre, Fabio M. Iwamoto, Edward J. Dropcho, Yaron A. Moshel, Kevin A. Walter, Clement P. Pillainayagam, Robert Aiken…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:142

    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:179

  17. The immunomodulatory effects of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on T cells result in a low incidence of acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) in G-CSF-mobilized allogeneic peripheral blood stem...

    Authors: Li Xuan, Xiuli Wu, Dan Qiu, Li Gao, Hui Liu, Zhiping Fan, Fen Huang, Zhenyi Jin, Jing Sun, Yangqiu Li and Qifa Liu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:144
  18. It has been shown that severe insult to the immune system may trigger prolonged macrophage characteristics associated with excessive release of monocyte colony stimulating factor (M-CSF). However, it is unclea...

    Authors: Krzysztof Laudanski, Mateusz Zawadka, Jacek Polosak, Jaymin Modi, Matthew DiMeglio, Jacob Gutsche, Wilson Y. Szeto and Monika Puzianowska-Kuznicka
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:143
  19. Hairless mice have been widely applied in skin-related researches, while hairless pigs will be an ideal model for skin-related study and other biomedical researches because of the similarity of skin structure ...

    Authors: Yu-Min Liu, Wei Liu, Jun-Shuang Jia, Bang-Zhu Chen, Heng-Wei Chen, Yu Liu, Ya-Nan Bie, Peng Gu, Yan Sun, Dong Xiao and Wei-Wang Gu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:141
  20. Chronic respiratory diseases, whose one of the hallmarks is oxidative stress, are still incurable and need novel therapeutic tools and pharmaceutical agents. The phenolic compounds contained in grape are endow...

    Authors: S. Castellani, A. Trapani, A. Spagnoletta, L. di Toma, T. Magrone, S. Di Gioia, D. Mandracchia, G. Trapani, E. Jirillo and M. Conese
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:140
  21. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have great potential in both basic research and clinical application for the managements of cancer. However, the complicated fabrication processes and expensive materials of the ...

    Authors: Chaogang Yang, Nangang Zhang, Shuyi Wang, Dongdong Shi, Chunxiao Zhang, Kan Liu and Bin Xiong
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:139
  22. The overall 5-year survival rate of lung cancer is about 15% even with therapeutic drugs like tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Ideal models are urgently needed for exploring mechanisms and finding new drugs. Patien...

    Authors: Yanan Jiang, Jimin Zhao, Yi Zhang, Ke Li, Tiepeng Li, Xinhuan Chen, Simin Zhao, Song Zhao, Kangdong Liu and Ziming Dong
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:138
  23. The reconstruction of bone defects is often impaired by radiotherapy since bone quality is compromised by radiation. This study aims to investigate the therapeutic efficacy of the composite cell sheets-bone ma...

    Authors: Huan Liu, Yang Jiao, Wei Zhou, Shizhu Bai, Zhihong Feng, Yan Dong, Qian Liu, Xiaoke Feng and Yimin Zhao
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:137
  24. The biobanks, providers of biospecimens, and the scientists, users of biological material, are both strategic actors in translational medicine but the communication about those two subjects seems to be delicat...

    Authors: Angelo Virgilio Paradiso, Maria Grazia Daidone, Vincenzo Canzonieri and Alfredo Zito
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:136
  25. Increasing studies showed that miR-200 family (miR-200s) clusters are aberrantly expressed in multiple human cancers, and miR-200s clusters function as tumor suppressor genes by affecting cell proliferation, self...

    Authors: Jing-dong Zhou, Liu-chao Zhang, Ting-juan Zhang, Yu Gu, De-hong Wu, Wei Zhang, Ji-chun Ma, Xiang-mei Wen, Hong Guo, Jiang Lin and Jun Qian
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:135
  26. Prostate cancer (PCa) is a fatal malignant tumor among males in the world and the metastasis is a leading cause for PCa death. Biomarkers are therefore urgently needed to detect PCa metastatic signature at the...

    Authors: Yuxin Lin, Feifei Chen, Li Shen, Xiaoyu Tang, Cui Du, Zhandong Sun, Huijie Ding, Jiajia Chen and Bairong Shen
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:134
  27. Cell homing is the mechanism by which an injury releases signaling molecules that cause recruitment, proliferation, migration and differentiation of progenitor cells. Stromal derived factor-1 (SDF-1) and its r...

    Authors: Melissa Kristocheck, Lucinara D. Dias, Carine Ghem, Bruna Eibel, Renato A. K. Kalil and Melissa M. Markoski
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:133
  28. Tumor-promoting inflammation is an emerging hallmark of cancer, which participates in both cancer progression and immune escape. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a typical inflammation-related cancer with an ...

    Authors: Chun Xu, Xian Lu, Wei Liu, Anxian Chen, Gang Meng, Hailin Zhang, Binghua Li, Yonghui Zhang, Junhua Wu and Jiwu Wei
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:132
  29. Actual European pathological classification of early-stage endometrial cancer (EC) may show insufficient accuracy to precisely stratify recurrence risk, leading to potential over or under treatment. Micro-RNAs...

    Authors: Tiphaine de Foucher, Maria Sbeih, Jenifer Uzan, Sofiane Bendifallah, Marine Lefevre, Nathalie Chabbert-Buffet, Selim Aractingi, Catherine Uzan, Issam Abd Alsalam, Rana Mitri, Romain H. Fontaine, Emile Daraï, Bassam Haddad, Céline Méhats, Marcos Ballester, Geoffroy Canlorbe…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:131
  30. Oxidative stress has been linked to heart failure (HF) in humans. Antioxidant-based treatments are often ineffective. Therefore, we hypothesize that some of the HF patients might have a reductive stress (RS) c...

    Authors: Thiagarajan Sairam, Amit N. Patel, Meenu Subrahmanian, Rajendiran Gopalan, Steven M. Pogwizd, Sudha Ramalingam, Ramalingam Sankaran and Namakkal Soorapan Rajasekaran
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:130
  31. Cancer and coagulation activation are tightly related. The extent to which factors related to both these pathologic conditions concur to patient prognosis intensely animates the inherent research areas. The st...

    Authors: Chiara Mandoj, Laura Pizzuti, Domenico Sergi, Isabella Sperduti, Marco Mazzotta, Luigi Di Lauro, Antonella Amodio, Silvia Carpano, Anna Di Benedetto, Claudio Botti, Francesca Ferranti, Anna Antenucci, Maria Gabriella D’Alessandro, Paolo Marchetti, Silverio Tomao, Giuseppe Sanguineti…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:129
  32. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that for one of the authors, Stephanie E. Combs, the middle name was accidentally omitted. They also reported that for two of the authors...

    Authors: Julia Slotta-Huspenina, Enken Drecoll, Marcus Feith, Daniel Habermehl, Stephanie E. Combs, Wilko Weichert, Marcus Bettstetter, Karen Becker and Rupert Langer
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:128

    The original article was published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:109

  33. Recently, accumulating evidences have revealed that microRNA-106 (miR-106) may serve as a non-invasive and cost-effective biomarker in gastric cancer (GC) detection. However, inconsistent results have prevente...

    Authors: Qiliang Peng, Yi Shen, Kaisu Lin, Li Zou, Yuntian Shen and Yaqun Zhu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:127
  34. Stem cell therapy has been applied in the treatment of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). However, its clinical efficiency is still debatable. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to eval...

    Authors: Ran Xue, Qinghua Meng, Jinling Dong, Juan Li, Qinwei Yao, Yueke Zhu and Hongwei Yu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:126
  35. Cathepsin K is an attractive therapeutic target for diseases in which bone resorption is excessive such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis (OA). The current paper characterized the pharmacological profile of t...

    Authors: Erik Lindström, Biljana Rizoska, Ian Henderson, Ylva Terelius, Markus Jerling, Charlotte Edenius and Urszula Grabowska
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:125
  36. A major complication after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (aSCT) is the reactivation of herpesviruses such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein–Barr virus (EBV). Both viruses cause signific...

    Authors: Regina Gary, Michael Aigner, Stephanie Moi, Stefanie Schaffer, Anja Gottmann, Stefanie Maas, Robert Zimmermann, Jürgen Zingsem, Julian Strobel, Andreas Mackensen, Josef Mautner, Andreas Moosmann and Armin Gerbitz
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:124
  37. The role of rabbit synovial fluid-derived mesenchymal stem cells (rbSF-MSCs) in cartilage defect repair remains undefined. This work evaluates the in vivo effects of rbSF-MSCs to repair knee articular cartilag...

    Authors: Zhaofeng Jia, Qisong Liu, Yujie Liang, Xingfu Li, Xiao Xu, Kan Ouyang, Jianyi Xiong, Daping Wang and Li Duan
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:123
  38. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that they omitted to state that parts of Fig. 2 were adapted from Van Acker et al. [2] published by Taylor & Francis Ltd (

    Authors: Yijing Zhao, Chao Niu and Jiuwei Cui
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:122

    The original article was published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:3

  39. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a major global public health issue. HIV-related cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV positive patients. HIV Tat is a regula...

    Authors: Yanan Jiang, Lu Chai, Moyondafoluwa Blessing Fasae and Yunlong Bai
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:121
  40. Vaccines play increasingly important roles in cancer treatment due to their advantages of effective targeting and few side effects. Our laboratory has attempted to construct vaccines by conjugating TLR7 agonis...

    Authors: Xiaodong Wang, Yu Liu, Yuwen Diao, Ningning Gao, Yanyan Wan, Jingjing Zhong, Huali Zheng, Zhulin Wang and Guangyi Jin
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:120
  41. Historically, research and development (R&D) in the pharmaceutical sector has predominantly been an in-house activity. To enable investments for game changing late-stage assets and to enable better and less co...

    Authors: Alexander Schuhmacher, Oliver Gassmann, Nigel McCracken and Markus Hinder
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:119
  42. Intra-tumoral heterogeneity has been recently addressed in different types of cancer, including breast cancer. A concept describing the origin of intra-tumoral heterogeneity is the cancer stem-cell hypothesis,...

    Authors: Pascale Kündig, Charlotte Giesen, Hartland Jackson, Bernd Bodenmiller, Bärbel Papassotirolopus, Sandra Nicole Freiberger, Catharine Aquino, Lennart Opitz and Zsuzsanna Varga
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:118

    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:180

  43. Ischemia–reperfusion (I/R)-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) not only prolongs the length of hospital stay, but also seriously affects the patient’s survival rate. Although our previous investigation has verif...

    Authors: Yu Gu, Fei Huang, Yanling Wang, Chaojin Chen, Shan Wu, Shaoli Zhou, Ziqing Hei and Dongdong Yuan
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:117

    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:212

  44. This study aimed to establish an effective predictive nomogram for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with chronic hepatitis B viral (HBV) infection.

    Authors: Shulin Chen, Yanzhen Lai, Zhengqiang He, Jianpei Li, Xia He, Rui Shen, Qiuying Ding, Hao Chen, Songguo Peng and Wanli Liu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:116
  45. A working group on the Oxford classification of IgA nephropathy (IgAN) recently reported that crescents detected in kidney tissue predicted a worse renal outcome. However, this finding must be validated in ind...

    Authors: Xiaoyan Zhang, Sufang Shi, Yan Ouyang, Meng Yang, Manman Shi, Xiaoxia Pan, Jicheng Lv, Zhaohui Wang, Hong Ren, Pingyan Shen, Weiming Wang, Hong Zhang, Jingyuan Xie and Nan Chen
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:115
  46. CA125 is a prevalently used serum biomarker for detecting ovarian cancer over the last three decades. However, it has a significant deficiency in screening for early-stage cancer. With the purpose of exploring...

    Authors: Zhuowei Gu, Yifeng He, Yue Zhang, Mo Chen, Keqi Song, Yuting Huang, Qing Li and Wen Di
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:114
  47. It has been reported mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are recruited to and become integral parts of the tumor microenvironment. MSCs might have an active role in solid tumor progression, especially cancer metasta...

    Authors: Jing-Huan Li, Wen-Shuai Fan, Mi-Mi Wang, Yan-Hong Wang and Zheng-Gang Ren
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:113
  48. Preclinical and proof-of-concept studies suggest a cardioprotective effect of remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC). However, two major clinical trials (ERICCA and RIPHeart) failed to show cardioprotection by...

    Authors: André Heinen, Friederike Behmenburg, Aykut Aytulun, Maximilian Dierkes, Lea Zerbin, Wolfgang Kaisers, Maximilian Schaefer, Tanja Meyer-Treschan, Susanne Feit, Inge Bauer, Markus W. Hollmann and Ragnar Huhn
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:112
  49. The aim of this study was to characterize the influence of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) on myocardial remodeling in newborns and children.

    Authors: Johannes Petersen, Andrey Kazakov, Michael Böhm, Hans-Joachim Schäfers, Ulrich Laufs and Hashim Abdul-Khaliq
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:111

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