anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
BACKGROUND: The immunological mechanisms behind the clinical association between asthma and obesity in adolescence are not fully understood. This study aimed to find new plasma protein biomarkers associated specifically with coincident asthma and obesity in adolescents.
METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study in children and adolescents 10-19 years old (N = 390). Relative plasma concentrations of 113 protein biomarkers related to inflammation and immune response were determined by proximity extension assay (Target 96; Olink, Uppsala, Sweden). Differences in protein concentrations between healthy controls (n = 84), subjects with asthma (n = 138), subjects with obesity (n = 107), and subjects with both asthma and obesity (AO; n = 58) were analyzed by ANCOVA, adjusting for age and sex, and in a separate model adjusting also for the sum of specific IgE antibody concentrations to a mix of food allergens (fx5) and aeroallergens (Phadiatop). Proteins elevated in the AO group but not in the obesity or asthma groups were considered specifically elevated in asthma and obesity.
RESULTS: Five proteins were elevated specifically in the AO group compared to controls (here sorted from largest to smallest effect of asthma and obesity combined): CCL8, IL-33, IL-17C, FGF-23, and CLEC7A. The effects of adjusting also for specific IgE were small but IL-33, IL-17C, and FGF-23 were no longer statistically significant.
CONCLUSION: We identified several new potential plasma biomarkers specifically elevated in coincident asthma and obesity in adolescents. Four of the proteins, CCL8, IL-33, IL-17C, and CLEC7A, have previously been associated with viral mucosal host defense and Th17 cell differentiation.
FIELD: organic chemistry, biotechnology, antibiotics, microbiology, pharmacy. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to derivatives of capuromycin and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the general formula (I):   where R 1  means methyl group; R 2  means methyl group; R 4  means hydroxy-group; X means methylene group; or R 1  means methyl group; R 2  means hydrogen atom; R 4  means hydroxy-group; X means methylene group; or R 1  means methyl group; R 2  means methyl group; R 4  means hydrogen atom; X means methylene group; or R 1  means hydrogen atom; R 2  means hydrogen atom; R 4  means hydroxy-group; X means methylene group; or R 1  means methyl group; R 2  means methyl group; R 4  means hydroxy-group; X means sulfur atom. Invention elates also to pharmaceutical composition based on compounds of the formula (I), method of treatment of patients with infectious diseases, microorganism able to produce above indicated derivatives and method for preparing such derivatives using this microorganism. Invention provides preparing novel compounds exhibiting an antibacterial effect. EFFECT: improved preparing and treatment methods, valuable medicinal properties of compounds. 48 cl, 7 tbl, 56 ex
PURPOSE: A composition containing sauchinone of Saururus chinensis (lour.) Baill. extract is provided to reduce preference for addictive drug to prevent and treat drug addiction and withdrawal symptom. CONSTITUTION: A pharmaceutical composition for preventing and treating drug addiction and withdrawal symptom contains 0.02-50% wt% of sauchinone as an active ingredient, isolated from Saururus chinensis (lour.) Baill. extract. The drug includes philopon, cocaine, amphetamine, morphine, or alcohol. A health food for preventing and treating drug addiction and withdrawal symptom contains sauchinone as an active ingredient. The health food is tablets, capsules, pills, or liquid.
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new 9-substituted minocycline compound.  <P>SOLUTION: This new 9-substituted minocycline compound is e.g. expressed by the formula. The naphthyl thiourea part can be made as various substituents such as phenyl urea, phenyl sulfonic acid amide, etc. These minocycline compounds can be used for treating many tetracycline compound-responding states such as bacterial infectious diseases and neoplasm-forming diseases, and further used for e.g. the application to other than the publicly known general uses of the minocycline and tetracycline compounds, such as the inhibition of tetracycline discharge and modification of gene expression.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
PURPOSE:To produce a dental lining material composed of a solid polymeric substance obtained by dissolving an amorphous low-molecular weight fluorine-containing polymer in an acrylic monomer, increasing the molecular weight thereof or further converting the polymer into an interpenetrating polymer network(IPN) structure, bring the resultant solution into pressure contact with a denture base and polymerize the prepared impression material. CONSTITUTION:An amorphous fluorine-containing polymer (e.g. vinylidene fluoride/ hexafluoropropylene-based polymer) having 20000-80000 weight-average molecular weight is dissolved in an acrylic monomer and polymerized in the presence of light, heat, a polymerization initiator, etc., or further crosslinked to produce a dental lining material composed of a solid polymeric substance. In the process, an adhesive is applied to a mucosal surface of a denture base and the aforementioned lining material, etc., are brought into pressure contact to remove excess parts. The obtained denture base is then inserted into the oral cavity to perform impression. The prepared impression material is taken out, photopolymerized, polymerized at ambient temperature or thermally polymerized to produce the objective denture base. The aforementioned lining material is excellent in water and fouling resistances, chemical stability and durability without irritation or thermogenesis in the oral cavity.
FIELD: medicine, oncology, radiation medicine. SUBSTANCE: invention proposes to use ephazol as a drug at the dose 15-50 mg/kg body mass of experimental animal. At radiation-induced immunodeficiency ephazol is administrated in 15-20 min after irradiation and at cytostatic one - in 24 h after administration of cytostatic agent. Method ensures to arrest the state of the secondary immunodeficiency by stimulation both humoral and cellular link of the immunity. Invention can be used for correction of radiation and cytostatic immunodeficiency. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of correction. 3 cl, 5 tbl, 2 ex
A 2-year dermal carcinogenicity study in mice was conducted with daily topical administration of 3%, 10% and 30% efinaconazole solution. Severe irritation was noted at the treatment site in all dose groups, which was attributed to the vehicle and confounded the interpretation of skin effects by efinaconazole. The high dose group was terminated at week 34 due to severe skin reactions. No drug-related neoplasms were noted at doses up to 10% efinaconazole solution (248 times the MRHD based on AUC comparisons).

Efinaconazole revealed no evidence of mutagenic or clastogenic potential based on the results of two in vitro genotoxicity tests (Ames assay and Chinese hamster lung cell chromosome aberration assay) and one in vivo genotoxicity test (mouse peripheral reticulocyte micronucleus assay).

No effects on fertility were observed in male and female rats that were administered subcutaneous doses up to 25 mg/kg/day efinaconazole (279 times the MRHD based on AUC comparisons) prior to and during early pregnancy. Efinaconazole delayed the estrous cycle in females at 25 mg/kg/day but not at 5 mg/kg/day (56 times MRHD based on AUC comparisons).
BACKGROUND: Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFis) have shown dramatic benefit in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA). Tapering of TNFi medication may be considered in patients with sustained low disease activity because continued use of TNFis at standard doses may increase the risk of side effects including infections and impose an economic burden. However, the optimal TNFi tapering strategy for SpA patients with inactive disease has not been established. In the present study, we investigated whether tapering TNFi doses is associated with similar risk of disease flare to maintaining SpA patients on TNFis at the standard dosage.
METHODS: The MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane databases were systemically searched to retrieve randomized control trials (RCTs) and observational studies published prior to August 2023, that compared disease flare in SpA (including axial SpA [axSpA], psoriatic arthritis [PsA], and SpA with IBD) patients who received standard TNFi doses and those who received a tapered dose of TNFi. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were directly retrieved or calculated, and meta-analyses were performed. Bias was assessed using funnel plots with Begg and Mazumdar rank correlation / Egger's regression method.
RESULTS: Among 2,237 SpA patients in the 12 studies (9 RCTs and 3 observational studies) retrieved, 1,301 received the standard TNFi dose, while 936 SpA patients underwent TNFi tapering. Of these, 216 (16.6%) standard-dose TNFi and 217 (23.2%) TNF-tapering patients experienced disease flares. The pooled OR for disease flare in TNFi-tapering patients was 1.601 (95% CI 1.276 - 2.008) compared with the standard-dose patients. The funnel plot showed no publication bias.
CONCLUSIONS: The strategy of TNFi tapering was associated with a significantly increased risk of disease flare compared to maintaining SpA patients at the standard TNF dose. Further studies are needed to determine which patients can safely undergo tapering of TNFi and to develop safe tapering strategies.
BACKGROUND: General population normative values for the widely used health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measure EORTC QLQ-C30 support the interpretation of trial results and HRQoL of patients in clinical practice. Here, we provide sex-, age- and health condition-specific normative values for the EORTC QLQ-C30 in the French general population.
METHODS: French general population data was collected in an international EORTC project. Online panels with quota samples were used to recruit sex and age groups. Number and type of comorbidities were assessed. Descriptive statistics were used to calculate general population values for each QLQ-C30 scale, separately for sex, age, and presence of one- and more chronic health conditions. A multivariate linear regression model has been developed to allow estimating the effect of sex, age, and the presence for one- and more chronic health conditions on EORTC QLQ-C30 scores. Data was weighted according to United Nation statistics adjusting for the proportion of sex and age groups.
RESULTS: In total, 1001 French respondents were included in our analyses. The weighted mean age was 47.9 years, 514 (51.3%) participants were women, and 497 (52.2%) participants reported at least one health condition. Men reported statistically significant better scores for Emotional Functioning (+9.6 points, p = 0.006) and Fatigue (-7.8 point; p = 0.04); women reported better profiles for Role Functioning (+8.7 points; p = 0.008) and Financial Difficulty (-7.8 points, p = 0.011). According to the regression model, the sex effect was statistically significant in eight scales; the effect of increasing age had a statistically significant effect on seven of the 15 EORTC QLQ-C30 scales. The sex- and age effect varied in its direction across the various scales. The presence of health conditions showed a strong negative effect on all scales.
CONCLUSION: This is the first publication of detailed French normative values for the EORTC QLQ-C30. It aims to support the interpretation of HRQoL profiles in French cancer populations. The strong impact of health conditions on QLQ-C30 scores highlights the importance of considering the impact of comorbidities in cancer patients when interpreting HRQoL data.
The following pathogens: P. falciparum, Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Necator americanus, intestinal protozoa, BG+, BG- colonies and pathogens, SARS-CoV2 are actively detected and treated according to the standard of care every month. About 30 children are randomly assigned to this arm.
The proposed research aims to examine the effect of tobacco on PTSD symptoms and PTSD recovery as well as the effect of PTSD recovery on tobacco use. This study has 3 aims: (1) to evaluate whether tobacco use interferes with recovery from PTSD during empirically based, trauma focused PTSD treatment. (2) To gather preliminary data about whether tobacco use alleviates PTSD symptoms among continued tobacco users vs. recent quitters. (3) To explore the impact of recovery from PTSD treatment on tobacco use quantity and frequency, tobacco withdrawal symptoms, and craving for tobacco. To test these aims, the investigators propose a randomized two group design where 75 participants are assigned to receive either tobacco treatment (Contingency Management plus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) or control treatment (Health Education) before completing Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD. Study outcome variables will be PTSD symptom severity following CPT, PTSD symptom severity during tobacco cessation treatment, and tobacco use and tobacco withdrawal during CPT.
Colonic bacteria clearly play a major role in the pathogenesis of major complications in patients with liver cirrhosis. By producing ammonia and endotoxins they can cause hepatic encephalopathy , and their translocation from the gut to the peritoneal cavity is the major mechanism for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. There are also new studies suggesting a possible connection between bacterial translocation and bleeding from esophageal varices. Some of the therapeutic measures for the treatment and prevention of complications in cirrhotic patients, such as antibiotics and lactulose, are partially directed against gut bacteria.

In recent years there is a growing interest in the effect of probiotic bacteria on gut flora and prevention of infection. They were found to prevent pediatric infectious diarrhea and antibiotic-associated diarrhea- especially those caused by Clostridium difficile.

The probiotic bacteria, among which the most common are the lactose fermenting Lactobacilli, inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria by acidifying the gut lumen, competing for nutrients, and by producing antimicrobial substances. They adhere to the gut mucosa and by that are thought to prevent bacterial translocation from the gut. These effects of probiotics raised the idea that they may have a role in the treatment and prevention of cirrhosis complications. A recent study examined the effect of probiotics on patients with minimal chronic hepatic encephalopathy. Hepatic encephalopathy was reversed in 50% of the patients receiving probiotics. These patients also demonstrated a significant reduction of blood levels of ammonia, bilirubin and ALT, and of pathologic bacteria in stool cultures. This study showed promising results but was carried out on a relatively small population. Furthermore, the effect of probiotics on the prevention of hepatic encephalopathy and other major complications of cirrhosis has not been studied yet. Therefore, more studies are needed to establish the role of probiotics in patients with cirrhosis.
The Medtronic Portable Bypass System (PBS®) with Model 550 Bioconsole and the BioCal® blood temperature control module will be used for machine perfusion of liver grafts. These products are commercially available and used in clinical practice for cardiopulmonary bypass and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The Medtronic system utilizes an atraumatic centrifugal pump that can deliver the flow rates approximating portal venous flow in human livers, and it has modules for online membrane oxygenation, and electronic flow measurement.
Lidocaine Hydrochloride Injection USP 4% (40 mg/mL) only for topical use and retrobulbar injection is a sterile, nonpyrogenic solution containing lidocaine hydrochloride, anhydrous 40 mg/mL in water for injection. May contain sodium hydroxide and/or hydrochloric acid for pH adjustment. pH 6.5 (5.0 to 7.0).

Lidocaine has cardiac antiarrhythmic properties and is a local anesthetic of the amide type.

Lidocaine Hydrochloride, USP is chemically designated 2-(diethylamino)-2′,6′-acetoxylidide monohydrochloride monohydrate, a white powder freely soluble in water. It has the following structural formula:
LACTB is identified as a tumor suppressor in several tumors. However, preliminary study reveals that LACTB is overexpressed in osteosarcoma and indicates poor prognosis. Two missense mutations (rs34317102 and rs2729835) exist simultaneously in 92.31% of osteosarcoma patients and cause M5L and R469K double mutations in LACTB, suggesting the biologic function of LACTB protein may be altered in osteosarcoma. Moreover, LACTBM5L+R469K overexpression can promote malignant progression in different tumors, which suggests that the M5L and R469K mutations confer oncogene-like functions to LACTB. Mechanistically, LACTBM5L+R469K not only reduces the wild type p53 via enhancing PSMB7 catalytic activity, but also protects p53R156P protein from lysosomal degradation, which suggesting LACTBM5L+R469K is a dual-regulator for wt-p53 and mutant p53, and derive oncogene-like functions. More importantly, clavulanate potassium, a bacterial β-lactamase inhibitor, can inhibit osteosarcoma proliferation and sensitize osteosarcoma to cisplatin by binding and blocking LACTBM5L+R469K. These findings revealed that the M5L and R469K double mutations can diminish the tumor suppressive ability of wild type LACTB and provide oncogene-like functions to LACTB. Inhibiting LACTBM5L+R469K can suppress the progression of osteosarcoma harbouring wild-type or mutant p53. Clavulanate potassium is a promising drug by targeting LACTBM5L+R469K-p53 pathway for the treatment of osteosarcoma patients.
Aldadiene and its derivs. of formula (I):- (where R1 is H or K; R2 is OH; and R3 is H or acetylthio; or R1 and R2 are linked so as to form a C-O bond), and the corresp. cpds. having a single bond in the 6,7-posn., are used in the prodn. of medicaments with local fibrinolytic activity for the treatment of organic microcirculation disorders involving deposition of fibrin. (I) and their 6,7-dihydro derivs. are known to have aldosterone-antagonist (diuretic) activity. They have now been found to have outstanding fibrinolytic properties attributable to the release of activators, the substrate of which is fibrin deposited within the organism. They are particularly suitable for the treatment of chronic hepatitis, hepatic cirrhosis and toxic liver damage.
Postoperative delirium (POD) is a common complication in elderly surgical patients, with limited targeted interventions due to incomplete understanding of its pathophysiological mechanisms. Central nervous system (CNS) inflammation, involving glial cell activation, particularly astrocytes, is considered crucial in POD development. Butyrate, a four-carbon fatty acid, has shown protective effects in CNS diseases, but its potential in mitigating POD remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the impact of sodium butyrate on POD in aged mice. Behavioral tests, including open field, Y maze, and food burying tests, demonstrated that sodium butyrate preconditioning ameliorated laparotomy-induced delirium in aged mice. Pre-treatment with sodium butyrate inhibited astrocyte activation in the hippocampus, reduced interleukin-1β (IL-1β), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) expression levels, and protected hippocampal neurons. Furthermore, the study revealed a connection between gut microbiota regulation and central neuroprotective effects mediated by astrocyte activation inhibition. Sodium butyrate improved the intestinal morphological barrier by rebalancing gut microbiota, inhibiting Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria, reducing Allobaculum and Bacteroides abundance, and increasing Oscillospira abundance. This regulation decreased gut permeability, limiting the entry of toxic substances into the bloodstream, thereby reducing inflammation spread and astrocyte overactivation, leading to central anti-inflammatory effects. In conclusion, sodium butyrate may ameliorate POD by inhibiting astrocyte-mediated neuroinflammation through gut microbiota rebalancing.
1. Technical Result Increase in efficiency of treatment of disorders responsive to the activation of melanocortin-4 receptor. 2. Essence A compound of structural formula (1) wherein X, Y, R1, R2, s and r have the values indicated in the description; said compound is agonists melanocortin receptors, in particular selective agonist of melanocortin-4 receptor, which is useful for the treatment, or prevention of diseases and disorders responsive to the activation of melanocortin-4 receptor, such as obesity, diabetes, sexual dysfunction. 3. Field of Application Medicine.
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the prognostic significance of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined and renal significance (MGUS and MGRS) in patients with CKD. The objective of this study was to determine the clinical and kidney outcomes of patients with CKD with either MGUS or MGRS compared with those with CKD without MGUS or MGRS.
METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study from 2013 to 2018. Patients who had both CKD diagnosis and monoclonal testing were identified. Patients were divided into MGRS, MGUS, and no monoclonal gammopathy groups. Cumulative incidence functions and Cox proportional hazards regression were used to model time to event data and to evaluate the association between monoclonal gammopathy status and risk of kidney failure, with death treated as a competing risk.
RESULTS: Among 1535 patients, 59 (4%) had MGRS, 648 (42%) had MGUS, and 828 (54%) had no monoclonal gammopathy. Unadjusted analysis showed that compared with no monoclonal gammopathy patients, patients with MGRS were at higher risk of kidney failure (hazard ratio [HR] [95% confidence interval]: 2.5 [1.5 to 4.2] but not patients with MGUS (HR [95% confidence interval]: 1.3 [0.97 to 1.6]), after taking death into account as a competing risk. However, in the multivariable analysis, after adjusting for age, sex, eGFR, proteinuria, and Charlson Comorbidity Index, the risk of progression to kidney failure (with death as competing risk) in the MGRS group was no longer statistically significant (HR: 0.9 [0.5 to 1.8]). The same was also true for the MGUS group compared with the group with no monoclonal gammopathy (HR: 1.3 [0.95 to 1.6]). When evaluating the association between MGUS/MGRS status and overall survival, MGRS was significantly associated with mortality in fully adjusted models compared with the group with no monoclonal gammopathy, while MGUS was not.
CONCLUSIONS: After adjusting for traditional risk factors, MGUS/MGRS status was not associated with a greater risk of kidney failure, but MGRS was associated with a higher risk of mortality compared with patients with no monoclonal gammopathy.