Forestation is a pivotal nature‐based strategy for enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration, yet the differential impacts of pure versus mixed‐species plantations on SOC fractions and stability remain poorly quantified at a global scale. To address this knowledge gap, we performed a meta‐analysis of 4052 observations from 102 sites and showed that mixed forestation significantly increases SOC, particulate organic carb...

Tissue fibrosis is a key factor leading to disability and death worldwide; however, thus far, there are no approved treatments for fibrosis. Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β is a major pro-fibrotic cytokine, which is expected to become a target in the treatment of fibrosis; however, since TGF-β has a wide range of biological functions involving a variety of biological processes in the body, a slight change in TGF-β may have...

Clinical advances in the treatment of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) are restricted by the incomplete understanding of the molecular mechanisms contributing to secondary brain injury. Acrolein is a highly active unsaturated aldehyde which has been implicated in many nervous system diseases. Our results indicated a significant increase in the level of acrolein after ICH in mouse brain. In primary neurons, acrolein induced an inc...