Serum uric acid (SUA) levels are influenced by environmental and genetic factors, such as sex and ABCG2 variants. Their poorlyunderstood links to menstrual status prompted us to conduct this study to evaluate the effects of menstrual status-related ABCG2 function, detectable from the presence of its dysfunctional variants, on SUA levels. Recruited for the present study were 9244 Japanese individuals, comprising 4466 women and...

Improving cognitively healthy survival is important for achieving healthy aging. Therefore, it would be valuable to estimate the future risk of either incident dementia or death in community-dwelling older adults. This study aimed to develop a set of risk prediction models for either incident dementia or death that can be applied according to data availability across diverse clinical settings, using longitudinal data from comm...

Neuropathic pain is a chronic condition caused by damage or dysfunction in the nervous system. While the spleen may influence neuropathic pain, its role has been poorly understood. This study demonstrates that the spleen plays a crucial role in regulating neuropathic pain through the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) - paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) neural circuit in a chronic constriction injury (C...

Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) is an S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM)-dependent cytosolic enzyme, and a growing body of evidence suggest that it plays an essential role in cancer progression. Recently, NNMT has a role in methylation metabolism and tumorigenesis and was associated with a poor prognosis against numerous cancers. In addition, it has been reported that NNMT has been overexpressed in the stroma of advanced hi...

Diet is widely considered essential in dementia, but its association with white matter lesions (WMLs) remains unclear. This cross-sectional study investigated the associations between dietary patterns, dementia, and WMLs in a large, nationwide, multicenter population of older Japanese adults. A total of 8,938 adults (aged ≥ 65; 73 ± 6.3 years old) from the Japan Prospective Studies Collaboration for Aging and Dementia (JPSC-AD...

Iron is essential for bacterial survival; however, the relationship of Pseudomonas species between iron import systems and environmental adaptation remains poorly understood. Multi‐locus sequence and pan‐genome analyses using 320 Pseudomonas genomes classified the species into four groups: P. aeruginosa , P. putida , P. syringae , and P. fluorescens , each exhibiting distinct patterns of iron importer and siderophore synthetic...