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ArticleCell proliferation2023

The nano-windmill exerts superior anti-inflammatory effects via reducing choline uptake to inhibit macrophage activation.

Nanxin Liu, Yuke Zhong, Xiaoxiao Pang, Mingzheng Li, Richard D Cannon, Li Mei, Xiaoxiao Cai, Ping Ji

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Article in Cell proliferation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Metabolic Reprogramming of Macrophages Plays a Dual Role in Periodontitis: From Pathogenesis to Therapy.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Nanxin LiuStomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, P. R. China.
Yuke ZhongStomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, P. R. China.
Xiaoxiao PangStomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, P. R. China.
Mingzheng LiStomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, P. R. China.
Richard D CannonDepartment of Oral Sciences, Sir John Walsh Research Institute, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Li MeiStomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, P. R. China.
Xiaoxiao CaiState Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5654-7414
Ping JiStomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, P. R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2608-1035
Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University · CNSichuan University · CNUniversity of Otago · NZ

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 82001058National Natural Science Foundation of China 82071115National Natural Science Foundation of China 82220108019Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing CSTB2022NSCQ-MSX0791Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province 2021YFQ0064
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macrophages' activation plays a central role during the development and progression of inflammation, while the regulation of metabolic reprogramming of macrophages has been recently identified as a novel strategy for anti-inflammatory therapies. Our previous studies have found that tetrahedral framework nucleic acid (tFNA) plays a mild anti-inflammatory effect by inhibiting macrophage activation, but the specific mechanism remains unclear. Here, by metabolomics and RNA sequencing, choline uptake is identified to be significantly repressed by decreased slc44a1 expression in tFNA-treated activated macrophages. Inspired by this result, combined with the excellent delivery capacities of tFNA, siR-slc44a1 is loaded into the tFNA to develop a new tFNA-based small interfering RNA (siRNA) delivery system named 'nano-windmill,' which exhibits a synergetic role by targeting slc44a1, finally blowing up the anti-inflammatory effects of tFNA to inhibit macrophages activation via reducing choline uptake. By confirming its anti-inflammatory effects in chronic (periodontitis) and acute (sepsis) inflammatory disease, the tFNA-based nanomedicine developed for inflammatory diseases may provide broad prospects for tFNA upgrading and various biological applications such as anti-inflammatory.

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CholineNucleic AcidsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsHumansInflammationMacrophage ActivationMacrophagesAnti-Inflammatory AgentsCholineNucleic Acids

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PMID37051938
PMCPMC10542611
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