Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive memory loss. Although AD neuropathological hallmarks of extracellular amyloid plaques and intracellular tau tangles, which best correlates of disease progression is the loss of synapses. What causes the loss of synapses have been the focus of some researcher s in the field of AD. Synapses become dysfunctional before the plaques and tangles form. The study is based on the model of early-onset familial AD (eFAD) has supported that synaptic transmission depressed by β-amyloid (Aβ) triggered mechanism. Since eFAD rare, affecting only 1% of patients, research has shifted to the study of the most PBS common late-onset AD (LOAD). intracellular trafficking has emerged as one of the pathways of gene LOAD. Several studies have assessed the impact of gene LOAD trading on synapse dysfunction. Because the endocytic traffic is very important for synaptic function, we review the mechani...
A Coupled Mathematical Model of the Intracellular Replication of Dengue Virus and the Host Cell Immune Response to Infection.
Dengue virus (DV) is a positive-strand viral RNA of the genus flavivirus. It is one of the most prevalent virus mosquitoes, infects 390 million people globally per year. DV infection clinical spectrum ranges from asymptomatic course of severe complications such as dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome (DSS), the latter due to a severe plasma leakage. Given that the outcome of an infection may be determined by the kinetics of viral replication and antiviral host cell immune response (HIR) it is very important to understand the interaction between the two parameters. In this study, we used a mathematical model to characterize and understand the complex interactions between DV intracellular replication and host cell's defense mechanisms. We first measured the viral RNA, viral proteins, and the production of virus particles in Huh7 cells, which indicates the intrinsic antiviral responses are notoriously weak. Based on these measurements, we developed a detailed int...