anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
Social functioning is a key aspect of daily life and is important to patients living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and their caregivers. Many patients with CKD experience debilitating symptoms and treatment burden that can diminish their social functioning and thereby overall social health, which is the aspect of a person's well-being relating to their interactions and connections with others. In patients with CKD, symptoms (e.g., fatigue and pain), burden of ongoing treatments (including kidney replacement therapies), and medication side effects can impair social functioning. Having to manage responsibilities of self-management, which can include time-consuming and invasive treatments such as dialysis, can severely limit social functioning in patients with CKD. This can lead to poor social connections at many levels, including with family, friends, peers, and colleagues, and can hinder the development of new relationships. Patients with CKD with poorer social functioning have been reported to have worse quality of life and impaired mental health. Many patients with CKD rely on an informal caregiver-usually a family member or friend-to assist with management of their disease. This can place strain on the caregiver, further limiting opportunities for social connections for both the patient and caregiver. Although social functioning is critical for the overall well-being of patients with CKD, it remains underaddressed clinically, and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess social functioning are limited. The objective of this article is to define social functioning, discuss the impacts of social functioning in patients with CKD and their caregivers, outline PROMs that have included assessment of social functioning, and discuss considerations in developing an appropriate PROM to measure social functioning in patients with CKD. This may help to inform the evaluation of interventions and care regarding social functioning within the CKD population.
The gut microbiota is essential for providing colonization resistance against pathogens. Dietary sugars markedly shift the composition of the intestinal microbiota and alter host susceptibility to enteric infections. Here, we demonstrate the effect of L-arabinose on bacterial infection by using a mouse infection model with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Tm). In the presence of microbiota, L-arabinose induces a dramatic expansion of Enterobacteriaceae, thereby decreasing the microbiota diversity and causing more severe systemic infection. However, L-arabinose supplementation does not alter the disease progression of Salmonella infection in a microbiota-depleted mouse model. More importantly, short-term supplementation of L-arabinose fails to exert anti-diabetic effects in Salmonella-infected hyperglycemia mice and still promotes infection. Overall, our work reveals that a high intake of dietary L-arabinose supports a bloom of Enterobacteriaceae in Salmonella-infected gut, further accelerating the process of systemic infection.IMPORTANCEL-arabinose is a promising natural sweetener and food additive for the regulation of hyperglycemia. Since diabetic subjects are more susceptible to infections, the safety of dietary L-arabinose in diabetic patients experiencing infection remains a concern. Our findings reveal that L-arabinose exacerbates Salmonella infection outcome by inducing gut microbiota dysbiosis in mice. High dietary intake of L-arabinose may be deleterious for diabetic individuals undergoing infection.
Golimumab is a type of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor. TNF is a naturally occurring substance in the body, and this substance may cause long-term inflammation. Golimumab may help fight disease by blocking the activity of TNF in the body and reducing inflammation and pain. Each patient who is allowed to join the study will be put into a group randomly, like flipping a coin. Patients may get either golimumab or placebo (which looks like the drug being studied but has no active ingredients, for example a sugar pill). The chance that the patient will get golimumab is 1 to 1, so 50% chance to receive golimumab and 50% change to receive placebo. Patients who do not have an improvement in total back pain and morning stiffness at the Week 16 visit compared to when the patients entered the study, and are in Group 1 (placebo group), will receive golimumab 50 mg every 4 weeks starting at Week 16. If the patient is in Group 2 (golimumab 50 mg), they will continue to receive golimumab every 4 weeks starting at Week 16. If the patient is in Group 1 and still receiving placebo injections, because there was improvement in total back pain at Week 16, they will receive golimumab 50 mg every 4 weeks starting from Week 24. If the patient is in Group 2 (golimumab 50 mg) or are already receiving golimumab injections at week 24, they will continue to receive golimumab every 4 weeks. Safety will be monitored throughout the study, including drawing blood and looking at laboratory tests, vital signs (eg, blood pressure), and the frequency and type of adverse events (side effects). The patient will be in the study approximately 56 weeks. Patients will receive placebo or active compound (golimumab 50 mg subcutaneous injections) every four weeks until Week 48.
The invention relates to the chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry, wherein bactericidal, virucidal, parasiticidal and fungicidal properties of ozonized oils and vegetable fats are taken into account. The emulsified acid or vegetable fat is reacted with ozone in a bubble reactor covered by a jacket in order to control the reaction temperature. The ozone reacts with the double bonds present in the acid or vegetal acid, resulting in the formation of distinct peroxidic species responsible for the biological action of said products. The acids or vegetable fats ozonized in these conditions can be used to satisfactory and novel effect in the treatment of diseases in various specialized areas of medicine such as ophtalmology, stomachology, dermatology, gastroenterology, gynecology, parasitology inter alia. The invention also relates to the cosmetic use of ozonized oils and vegetable fats, taking into account the oxygenating and skin-revitalizing properties thereof. The results of toxicological studies previously carried out show that the products obtained according to said process are not subject to any counter indications or adverse reactions.
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare, genetically heterogeneous disease characterized by progressive upper and lower respiratory tract infections and inflammation caused by impaired mucociliary clearance (MCC). While longitudinal studies of children and adolescents with PCD have informed the early natural history of lung disease, there remains a knowledge gap in disease characteristics and progression in adults. There are no prospective published data evaluating the natural history of airway morbidity and mortality in adults, and little is known about the optimal clinical measures and biomarkers to evaluate disease progression. Cohort studies are needed to understand clinical measures and biomarkers across the lifespan of people with PCD, distinguish disease subtypes, and define endpoint variability. Natural history studies are critical for designing future clinical trials. New therapies have lagged in part due to lack of clear clinical biomarkers for adults.

The overarching goal is to characterize clinical measures and biomarkers of airway disease in adults with PCD. In addition, a subset of these clinical measures and biomarkers will be collected in a group of healthy volunteers (HV) to establish normative values.
Oxygen saturation (SpO2) target range 90--94%. The study intervention will begin in the hospital and will continue at home until 6 months corrected age (CA). Overnight continuous oximetry will be transmitted wirelessly to the study team. In hospital, inspired oxygen will be adjusted as needed to maintain target SpO2. Monitoring will continue after discharge, and oxygen flow will be titrated monthly according to a standardized algorithm.
PURPOSE: A pharmaceutical composition with improved solubility of refractory tricyclic compound is provided to have a nano particle able to solubilize a highly concentrated and less soluble derivative of tricyclic without solubilizing agent, keep highly improved solubility for an injection after adding water and have high stability in long term preservation. CONSTITUTION: A pharmaceutical composition with improved solubility derivative of refractory tricyclic compound comprises phospholipid, cholesterol, the lipid mixture of ionic lipid and nano particles made of a refractory tricyclic compound expressed as structural formula 1. The phospholipid is hydrogenated soy phospatidylcholine(HSPC). The ionic lipid is dipalmitoyl phosphatidic acid(DPPA). In the lipid mixture, phospholipid to cholesterol to ionic lipid ratio part by weight is 0-100:0-20:0-10. In the lipid mixture phospholipid to cholesterol to ionic lipid ratio par by weight is 0-20:0-7:1-3. In the lipid mixture, phospholipid to cholesterol to ionic lipid ratio part by weight is 7:3:1. The lipid mixture to the derivative of tricyclic ratio part by weight is 1-20:1. The lipid mixture to the derivative of tricyclic ratio part by weight is 3:1. A pharmaceutical composition comprises no agent for solubilizing. Oral medication is manufactured, adding pharmaceutically acceptable additive to a pharmaceutical composition with improved solubility derivative of tricyclic.
Despite the need for effective treatments against chronic respiratory infections (often caused by pathogenic biofilms), only a few new antimicrobials have been introduced to the market in recent decades. Although different factors impede the successful advancement of antimicrobial candidates from the bench to the clinic, a major driver is the use of poorly predictive model systems in preclinical research. To bridge this translational gap, significant efforts have been made to develop physiologically relevant models capable of recapitulating the key aspects of the airway microenvironment that are known to influence infection dynamics and antimicrobial activity in vivo In this review, we provide an overview of state-of-the-art cell culture platforms and ex vivo models that have been used to model chronic (biofilm-associated) airway infections, including air-liquid interfaces, three-dimensional cultures obtained with rotating-wall vessel bioreactors, lung-on-a-chips and ex vivo pig lungs. Our focus is on highlighting the advantages of these infection models over standard (abiotic) biofilm methods by describing studies that have benefited from these platforms to investigate chronic bacterial infections and explore novel antibiofilm strategies. Furthermore, we discuss the challenges that still need to be overcome to ensure the widespread application of in vivo-like infection models in antimicrobial drug development, suggesting possible directions for future research. Bearing in mind that no single model is able to faithfully capture the full complexity of the (infected) airways, we emphasise the importance of informed model selection in order to generate clinically relevant experimental data.
Risk assessments that focus on anthropogenic chemicals in environmental media-whether considering human health or ecological effects-often rely on toxicity data from experimentally studied species to estimate safe exposures for species that lack similar data. Current default extrapolation approaches used in both human health risk assessments and ecological risk assessments (ERAs) account for differences in body weight between the test organisms and the species of interest, but the two default approaches differ in important ways. Human health risk assessments currently employ a default based on body weight raised to the three-quarters power. Ecological risk assessments for wildlife (i.e., mammals and birds) are typically based directly on body weight, as measured in the test organism and receptor species. This review describes differences in the experimental data underlying these default practices and discusses the many factors that affect interspecies variability in chemical exposures. The interplay of these different factors can lead to substantial departures from default expectations. Alternative methodologies for conducting more accurate interspecies extrapolations in ERAs for wildlife are discussed, including tissue-based toxicity reference values, physiologically based toxicokinetic and/or toxicodynamic modeling, chemical read-across, and a system of categorical defaults based on route of exposure and toxic mode of action. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2024;20:749-764. © 2023 SETAC.
In peri-operative CHT arm CHT will be administered within 1 week (+3 days) after randomization, surgery will be performed after re-staging and 3+1 weeks after completion of the third cycle of CHT (approximately 13+1 weeks after randomization). Then CHT will be re-administered 5+1 weeks after surgery.
BACKGROUND: Pediculolysis is bone hypertrophy and pseudoarthrosis caused by pedicle fracture and has often been combined with contralateral spondylolysis in previous reports. Multilevel pediculolysis with spondylolysis is extremely rare, and we report a case who underwent surgery. Cases of multisegment pediculolysis were reviewed to inspire the diagnosis and treatment of similar pathological phenomena.
CASE PRESENTATION: A 55-year-old man suffering from low back pain and sciatica was admitted to hospital after failing conservative treatment. The imaging studies revealed bilateral pediculolysis at L3 and L4 and right spondylolysis at L5. When L2-5 internal fixation and fusion surgery were performed, the symptoms improved immediately after surgery. At the 2-year postoperative follow-up, proximal junctional failure appeared and progressively worsened.
CONCLUSIONS: Multilevel pediculolysis often requires surgical intervention, and segment instability is an important consideration in the development of surgical fusion strategies. The etiology of pediculolysis is still complex and unknown, and the spondylolysis protocol can be used as a reference for treatment. Surgeons should be cautious in surgical planning to minimize the likelihood of postoperative instrumentation failure.
Non-smoking youth aged 12-17 years old. As the investigators monitor the cohort, it is possible that some of the cohort will become smokers.
Patients receive pevonedistat IV over 1 hour on days 1, 3, and 5 and decitabine IV over 1 hour on days 1-5 and 8-12. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 24 courses in the absence of disease progression or unexpected toxicity.
It is found that blood clotting-factor products previously subjected to monoclonal purification or solvent-detergent treatment or both may be further subjected to a sequence of heating steps without excessive loss of usable product to reduce the infectivity of a virus (such as hepatitis- or AIDS-causing virus), if present. The heating is performed while the concentrate is lyophilized (freeze dried). The heating steps in the sequence are for two or more different times, and at two or more different temperatures. After the heating sequence, the concentrate is reconstituted for use. This sequential method contemplates greater inactivation of different viral forms, or reduction of the heating required, or both. Reduction of heating requirements may appear as reduced overall heating time, or reduced aggregate power consumption, or both. Advantages include heightened quality-control assurance level.
Neomycin occasionally causes skin sensitization. 

Ototoxicity (see WARNINGS section) and nephrotoxicity have also been reported. 

Adverse reactions have occurred with topical use of antibiotic combinations. Exact incidence figures are not available since no denominator of treated patients is available. The reaction occurring most often is allergic sensitization. In one clinical study, using a 20% neomycin patch, neomycin-induced allergic skin reactions occurred in two of 2,175 (0.09%) individuals in the general population. In another study the incidence was found to be approximately 1%.

The following local adverse events have been reported with topical corticosteroids, especially under occlusive dressings: burning, itching, irritation, dryness, folliculitis, hypertrichosis, acneiform eruptions, hypopigmentation, perioral dermatitis, allergic contact dermatitis, maceration of the skin, secondary infection, skin atrophy, striae, and miliaria. 

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Additional participants in Part 1, treated at or close to the expected the maximum tolerated dose (MTD)/RP2D, will be evaluated for metabolic and biomarker profiling. Participants may be enrolled into this cohort(s) even after MTD/RP2D has been identified and Part 2 has been initiated.
Deciphering the spectrum and founder disease-causing variants (DCVs) in specific populations can shape and facilitate the diagnostic process of Lynch Syndrome (LS). The aim of this report was to comprehensively update on the genetic landscape of LS in the ethnically diverse Israeli-Jewish population. The cohort included 1080 carriers from 588 families; some from underrepresented, understudied Israeli ethnic groups recruited from 8 genetic institutes and high-risk clinics throughout the country. Variant classification was performed according to the American College of Medical Genetics criteria. A total of 157 DCVs were identified, 12 are reported here for the first time, and 9 reclassified. MSH2 DCVs were identified in 286 families (49%). Most DCVs (125/157, 80%) were noted in one or two families only. Sixteen DCVs, each detected in ≥ 5 families, and accounted for LS in 378/588 (64%) families. Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (CMMRD) was diagnosed in 7 families. Twenty-five carriers (2.3%) had an additional DCV or risk alleles in another cancer susceptibility gene. In conclusion, MMR gene variant distribution in Israel is diverse. MSH2 is most commonly mutated due to founder DCVs. Though the 16 prevalent LS-associated DCVs were frequently detected in our cohort, none of them is frequently reported in the general population. These data should facilitate variant interpretation, spouse and cascade testing.
The invention relates to the technical field of agilawood processing, and particularly relates to application of an agilawood extract. The agilawood extract can be applied to antibacterial/bacteriostatic liquid, skin care products and washing products. The antibacterial/bacteriostatic liquid is composed of 80-90 wt% of agilawood extract and hydrogen-rich water, and the balance is hydrogen-rich water. The weight percentage of the agilawood extract in the emulsion, the day cream, the night cream and the essence is 4-12%, and the weight percentage of the seaweed extract is 7-15%. The weight percentage of the agilawood extract in the shower gel or the perfumed soap is 8-23%. The weight percentage of the agilawood extract in the gynecological cleaning solution or the male cleaning solution is 30-45%. The agilawood extract can be applied to antibacterial liquid, the antibacterial liquid is not chemically added, and experiments prove that more than 99.99% of escherichia coli, staphylococcus aureus and candida albicans can be killed within 2min, so that the antibacterial effect is obvious.
Our research hypothesis：1. Medically assisted Acupuncture in schizophrenia can improve negative symptoms；2. Drug assisted Acupuncture Therapy has better cognitive function in schizophrenic patients than single drug；3. Schizophrene with acupuncture have fewer and lighter adverse reactions。This study was carried out only in Shanghai Mental Health Center. It was a parallel randomized study.Schizophrene with negative symptoms were treated with atypical antipsychotic drug amisulpride, but still remained negative symptoms. Using the mature Chinese medicine therapy acupuncture auxiliary treatment, using the more reliable clinical evaluation method (the grader blind method: The raters were not sure which patients were the study group or the control group), compared with the single drug treatment, To observe the changes of negative symptoms and cognitive function, and the incidence of adverse reactions of acupuncture therapy, to explore the "new" auxiliary means for the treatment of negative symptoms, to guide clinical individualization and accurate medical treatment.
Background: CO2-gas insufflation is used for continuous de-airing during open heart surgery. The study aim was to evaluate if an additional separate venous reservoir eliminates CO2-insufflation induced hypercapnea and keeps sweep gas flow of the oxygenator constant.

Methods: A separate small reservoir are used during CPB in addition to a standard large venous reservoir. The small reservoir receive drained wound blood and CO2-gas continuously via a suction drain (1 L/min) and handheld suction devices from the open surgical wound. CO2-gas is insufflated via a gas-diffuser in the open surgical wound at 10 L/min. During cross-clamping, gas and blood are either continuously drained to the standard large venous reservoir or not, every 5 minutes after steady state of PaCO2 is observed, after adjustment of sweep gas flow as necessary. Mean values for each setup (2-4 times) for each patient will be analyzed with Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
Obesity-mediated hypertension is a worldwide problem. Recent research has indicated that chronic inflammation is associated with the pathogenesis of obese hypertension. Activated immune cells infiltrate target organs, such as arteries, kidneys, and brain, causing end-organ damage and hypertension. Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) regulates the inflammatory cell activity mediating the production of inflammatory cytokines and may play a role in the crosstalk between inflammation and hypertension. In this study, we investigated the roles of HDAC6 in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced kidney inflammation and hypertension. Nine-week-old male C57BL/6 mice were fed either a normal diet (ND) or HFD for 15 weeks. HFD-induced hypertension with increased HDAC6 activities in the kidney and bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM). When HFD group reached the hypertensive phase, each group of mice was intraperitoneally injected with vehicle or selective HDAC6 inhibitor Tubacin (1 mg/kg/day) for 14 days. Tubacin treatment lowered blood pressure (BP) of HFD-fed mice to the normal level with successful inhibition of HDAC6 activity. Immunohistochemical staining of F4/80, which is known as a macrophage marker, revealed that HFD promoted macrophage infiltration into the kidney. Consequently, pro-inflammatory factors TNFα and IL-6 gene expressions in the kidney were increased by HFD. Tubacin canceled HFD-induced macrophage infiltration and inflammation in the kidney. HDAC6 gene silencing and Tubacin treatment in Raw 264.7 cells also blocked the chemoattractant-stimulated cell migration in vitro. The results reveal the novel role of HDAC6 in BMDM migration, kidney inflammation, and high BP induced by HFD providing HDAC6 inhibitors as a therapeutic option for obesity-mediated hypertension.