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Distinct neuronal pathways to alcohol use disorder with and without comorbid social anxiety disorder

This study reveals that alcohol use disorder severity arises through distinct neurocognitive pathways depending on the presence of comorbid social anxiety disorder, with AUD alone linked to reduced ventral attention network activation and AUD with comorbid SAD linked to reduced default mode network activation mediated by coping drinking motives.

Verena Wüllhorst, Malin K. Hildebrandt, Kristina Schwarz, Tanja Endrass2026-06-29
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Hydrostatic Filtration for the Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles from Lacticaseibacillus casei BL23

This study validates Hydrostatic Filtration as a structurally conservative alternative to ultracentrifugation for isolating *Lacticaseibacillus casei* BL23 extracellular vesicles, while revealing that standard ultracentrifugation workflows exclude a distinct population of non-vesicular, 8-nm extracellular particles enriched in cell wall hydrolases.

Cecilia L. D’Antoni, Cecilia Samaniego López, Marcela Moretton, Gregor Fuhrmann, Ana Paula Domínguez Rubio, Oscar E. Pér (…)2026-06-29
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Lineage-specific and context-dependent dynamics of immune checkpoint receptors define activation-associated programs in human γδ T cells

This study demonstrates that immune checkpoint receptor expression in human γδ T cells is driven by activation-associated, lineage-specific, and context-dependent dynamics rather than a uniform exhaustion state, revealing distinct regulatory patterns and functional responses compared to αβ T cells.

Anna Maria Corsale, Marta Di Simone, Juan Pablo Cerapio, Elena Lo Presti, Gabriele Pizzolato, Claudia Avellone, Costanza (…)2026-06-29
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Modulation of maximal motor performance by visual feedback: limited influence of explicit knowledge under contextual constraints

This study demonstrates that while implicit visual feedback manipulation can modulate the upper limits of maximal motor performance, this effect is constrained by the magnitude of the discrepancy and is partially suppressed—but not eliminated—when participants possess explicit knowledge of the manipulation.

Ayane Kusafuka, Daw-An Wu, Kazutoshi Kudo, Kazuhisa Shibata, Katsumi Watanabe, Shinsuke Shimojo2026-06-29
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The Calcium-Calpain-ALIX Axis is the Major Link Between Gasdermin-D Membrane Pores and Terminal Membrane Damage in Pyroptosis

This study identifies a calcium-calpain-ALIX signaling axis as the critical mechanism that converts reversible Gasdermin-D pore formation into irreversible pyroptotic cell death by triggering calcium influx to cleave the membrane repair protein ALIX, thereby disabling the ESCRT machinery and preventing membrane repair.

Gergely Imre, Sylvia Otchere, Himesh Parmar, Kushagra Singh, Lauren Tereshisnki, Natalie Thiex, Adam Hoppe2026-06-29
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Information-Geometric Audits of Macromolecular Ensembles: A Prescriptive Protocol for Latent Dimension Selection

This paper introduces an information-geometric framework that reframes latent dimension selection for macromolecular ensembles as a thermodynamic optimization problem, deriving a three-stage protocol to identify the optimal dimensionality by quantifying compression costs and geometric distortions, thereby outperforming existing statistical heuristics in recovering physically meaningful representations.

Hesam Mozafarynia2026-06-29
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Estimating Dispersal, Survival time and Population size of Wild Aedes aegypti in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania using Self-Mark-Release-Recapture Method

This study utilized a self-mark-release-recapture method in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to determine that wild *Aedes aegypti* mosquitoes exhibit limited dispersal (mean 94.5m) and high survival rates (average 13.5 days), providing critical ecological parameters necessary for optimizing release-based vector control strategies against arboviral diseases.

Frank S.C. Tenywa, Haji Makame, Jason Moore, Osward Dogan, Harubu I. Mapipi, Thomas A. Smith, Nakul Chitnis, Sarah J. Mo (…)2026-06-29