anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
A material which is provided for use in direct contact with the skin of a user and which contains a percentage in silver that is finely dispersed in said material. The material is provided with a content in another metal that is finely dispersed in the material in addition to the silver content. The metals of the group including aluminum, magnesium, zinc, bronze, titanium and platinum are suitable either individually or in combination and in amounts between 0.1 and 1% by weight. The use of the metal particles is also suitable to conceal discolorations in a pigmented or dyed synthetic material when the material is used in air or on the skin. The metal particles do not impair the properties of the material. The material can be used to produce skin patches of any kind, especially for use in orthopedics.
In Part 1, eligible subjects will be enrolled into one of 2 groups based on their renal function. All subjects will receive a single 1-hour infusion of isavuconazole and will remain confined for 4 days. Subjects with normal renal function will return to the clinic for several outpatient visits over 15 days after dosing. Subjects with renal disease will complete the same outpatient visits which correspond to scheduled dialysis dates and then be readmitted to the clinic on study Day 15 to receive a second 1-hour infusion of isavuconazole followed by their normal dialysis procedure and then remain confined for 4 days. ECGs, vital signs, blood draws will be obtained throughout the study for safety and to assess the amount of study drug in the body as well as study drug removed in subjects undergoing dialysis.

In Part 2, eligible subjects will be enrolled into one of 4 groups based on their renal function. All subjects will receive a single 1-hour infusion of isavuconazole and remain confined for 4 days. Subjects will return to the clinic for several outpatient visits over 15 days after dosing. ECGs, vital signs, blood draws will be obtained throughout the study for safety and to assess the amount of study drug in the body.
Pediatric rheumatological diseases present with diverse manifestations affecting various tissues and organs. Though most childhood illnesses with immune dysregulation affect multiple organs or systems simultaneously or gradually, few inflammatory conditions affect certain organs as distinguished primary targets. Pediatric inflammatory diseases of the eye, bowel, and bone represent significant disorders with heterogeneous entities with varying pathophysiological basis like chronic inflammation, vasculitis, autoimmunity, and autoinflammation. Associations or complications of these diseases may remain obscure if their extensions are not explored specifically. Pediatric uveitis, non-uveitic inflammatory diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, and autoinflammatory bone diseases are the important constituents of this cluster. The author concisely discusses these disorders in this review from pediatric rheumatological perspective. If untreated, these diseases may be organ-threatening. Outcomes are vastly different in undiagnosed patients and in timely diagnosed and treated patients. Lack of awareness and missed exploration of associated illnesses and complications may result in a missed diagnosis or inadequate symptomatic treatment. A multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment is desirable in these heterogeneous entities. Pediatricians must be aware of the immunological origin of organ-centered symptoms and signs. A proper understanding of molecular details of etiopathogenesis and significant advances in therapy have reduced the morbidity, disability, and mortality of such disorders.
BACKGROUND: Biological aging is a complex process influenced by various factors, including reproductive status and castration. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of castration on biological aging in dogs.
METHOD: Fifteen male crossbred dogs were randomly divided into a sham-operation control group (n = 5) and a castrated group (n = 10). Blood samples were collected at weeks 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, and 18 post-surgery. Malondialdehyde (MDA as indicator of Lipid peroxidation), C-reactive protein (as an indicator of inflammation), telomere length, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number, and the expression of age-related (P16, P21, TBX2) and telomerase-related (TERT) genes were assessed in blood samples.
RESULTS: Plasma MDA levels were higher in the control group at weeks 16 and 18, while CRP levels were higher only at week 18. Telomere length and mtDNA copy number were lower in the control group at week 18. Gene expression analysis showed that P16 was lower in the control group at weeks 8 and 12, P21 and TERT were lower at weeks 16 and 18, and TBX2 was lower at weeks 16 and 18. The TBX2/P16 ratio was lower in the control group at weeks 16 and 18 but higher at week 12, while the TBX2/P21 ratio did not differ between groups.
CONCLUSION: Castration appears to have a protective effect against biological aging in dogs, as evidenced by lower lipid peroxidation, inflammation, and age-related changes in telomere length, mtDNA copy number, and gene expression.
Angioedema: Angioedema, including laryngeal edema may occur at any time during treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, including lisinopril and hydrochlorothiazide. Patients should be so advised and told to report immediately any signs or symptoms suggesting angioedema (swelling of face, extremities, eyes, lips, tongue, difficulty in swallowing or breathing) and to take no more drug until they have consulted with the prescribing physician. 

Symptomatic Hypotension: Patients should be cautioned to report lightheadedness especially during the first few days of therapy. If actual syncope occurs, the patients should be told to discontinue the drug until they have consulted with the prescribing physician. 

All patients should be cautioned that excessive perspiration and dehydration may lead to an excessive fall in blood pressure because of reduction in fluid volume. Other causes of volume depletion such as vomiting or diarrhea may also lead to a fall in blood pressure; patients should be advised to consult with their physician.

Hyperkalemia: Patients should be told not to use salt substitutes containing potassium without consulting their physician. 

Leukopenia/Neutropenia: Patients should be told to report promptly any indication of infection (e.g., sore throat, fever) which may be a sign of leukopenia/neutropenia. 

Pregnancy   
Female patients of childbearing age should be told about the consequences of exposure to lisinopril and hydrochlorothiazide during pregnancy. Discuss treatment options with women planning to become pregnant. Patients should be asked to report pregnancies to their physicians as soon as possible. 

NOTE: As with many other drugs, certain advice to patients being treated with lisinopril and hydrochlorothiazide is warranted. This information is intended to aid in the safe and effective use of this medication. It is not a disclosure of all possible adverse or intended effects.
Subjects aged between and including 8 and 12 weeks of age at the time of first vaccination received 3 doses of GSK2202083A vaccine, co-administered with Prevenar 13® at 2, 4 and 12 months of age. The GSK2202083A and Prevenar 13® vaccines were administered intramuscularly into the right and left sides of the thigh, respectively. An optional 2-dose vaccination with Rotarix™ was offered to the study participants at 2 and 4 months of age.
While calpain's role in myofibrillar protein degradation is well-established, its impact on post-mortem apoptosis remains fully elucidated. This study aimed to examine how calpain influences the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway in post-mortem muscle cells and assess its potential impact on chicken tenderness. The findings indicate that the calpain inhibitor treatment could decelerate the rate of lysosome destruction in post-mortem chicken, which is a crucial factor in delaying the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway. Subsequently, this inhibition enhanced the mitochondrial membrane's stability and suppressed the apoptosis-inducing factor Cyt c release into the sarcoplasm. The Western blot results in a greater myofibrillar protein degradation degree in the caspase inhibitor samples compared to the calpain inhibitor samples. Interestingly, the two groups had no significant difference in shear force. Based on these reasons, a novel perspective was introduced in this paper: Calpain could affect the change in meat tenderness by regulating mitochondrial apoptosis in the post-mortem period.
The "Erigo" by Hocoma is a combination of tilt table with a robotic stepper device allowing for cyclic leg loading. Erigo now also includes Functional Electrical Stimulation to optimize active neuromuscular stimulation. It allows for protected gradual verticalization and mobilization based on patient tolerance and progress. It has been shown to improve orthostatic tolerance, cerebral blood flow and muscle strength.

Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial will compare two groups. The patients that meet inclusion criteria will be randomized into either the treatment group or a control group. General ICU mobility guidelines consist of scaled activity related to the patients' stability. The control group will get the general ICU mobility treatments and the treatment group will have one mobility treatment replaced with the Erigo treatment.
Participants will receive Treatment B (test 1) in period 1, then Treatment C (test 2) in period 2 followed by Treatment A (reference 1) in period 3 on Day 1. There will be a washout period of at least 14 days between study drug intake in subsequent treatment periods.
PURPOSE:To obtain the titled matter having a constant hardness, suitable for continuous chewing, by blending cotton with a gum base, etc. CONSTITUTION:1-5pts.wt. cotton, preferably sanitary cotton of Pharmacopoeia of Japan, is immersed in water and taken out to remove excess water. The cotton is blended with 20-60pts.wt. gum base and kneaded until one does not feel unplesant to the taste by the fibers of cotton. The blend is mixed with a proper amount of sugar, glucose, spice and a softening agent and formed to a chewing gum shape, to give a chewing gum like chewing matter. Since it contains cotton, it has a constant hardness and is suitable for chewing for a long time. The matter is useful for deodorizing the mouth nad preventing pyorrhea alveolaris.
Patients received 500 ml crystalloid for fluid challenge within 20 minutes, then a PLR test was performed to predict fluid responsiveness. If the patient was fluid responsive, more 500 ml crystalloids were given until fluid nonresponsive. If the MAP still not achieved the target value, NE was increased to achieve the target one. The target MAP was maintain MAP within 10% of the reference value.
INTRODUCTION: Numerous studies comment on quality of life outcomes comparing complete and partial fundoplication with or without a bougie. Society guidelines are moving toward recommending partial fundoplication over complete fundoplication due to improved side effect profile with similar outcomes. Retrospective studies and randomized trials have elucidated that use of a bougie during Nissen fundoplication does impact long-term dysphagia. To date there are no retrospective or prospective data that guide practice for partial fundoplications.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this project is to investigate the clinical implications of using a bougie for Toupet fundoplication with regard to short-term and long-term dysphagia and need for further therapeutic interventions.
METHODS: A retrospective review of a prospectively maintained gastroesophageal database was performed. Demographic, pre-operative quality of life outcomes data, perioperative, and post-operative quality of life outcomes data of 373 patients from 2011 to 2022 undergoing Toupet fundoplication without bougie or with a traditional Savary 56Fr or 58Fr bougie were reviewed. The two groups were compared using student's t-test to identify statically significant differences between the groups.
RESULTS: Between 2011 and 2022, 373 patients underwent Toupet fundoplication (276 with traditional bougie, 97 without). Median follow-up in the bougie group was 19 months, versus 9 months in the non bougie group. There was no difference between early (3 weeks) and late dysphagia scores (6 months). In the bougie group there were two mucosal perforations due to the bougie. There were no statistically significant differences in GERD-HRQL, gas bloat, and dysphagia scores between groups at one year.
CONCLUSION: There is no difference observed in early or late dysphagia scores, GERD-HRQL, gas bloat or need for dilation in patients undergoing Toupet fundoplication with or without a traditional bougie. It is reasonable to discontinue the use of a traditional bougie during Toupet fundoplication, especially due to risk of esophageal perforation.
Human muscle tissues involve striated and smooth muscles. Each muscle tissue possesses its own special function. Differences of physiology functions among the muscle tissues are mainly determined by their various initiation and signal transmission systems, defined as the pre-muscle molecular motor mechanism, or initiating and regulating mechanism. The current medications, drugs, and therapies for diseases and symptoms related abnormal increased muscle tone or excessive muscle contraction are aimed just at the pre-muscle molecular motor mechanisms, whereas without directly intending to effect on the muscle molecular motor mechanism i.e. the contractile apparatus mechanism at all, which, however, is in common for all kinds of muscle tissues. The muscle molecular motor mechanism mainly involves recycling of actin-myosin filament cross-bridge formation and sliding movement. In the process, bio-energy provided by ATP hydrolysis is necessarily required. Therefore, abnormal increased muscle tone or excessive contraction of muscle tissues under diseased conditions may be modified by inhibition of the muscle molecular motor with the actin-myosin ATPase inhibitor, which blocks hydrolysis of ATP, then reduces release of bio-energy for the muscle contraction.  
     Our studies in vitro and in vivo have demonstrated that BDM, an ATPase inhibitor, thereby, its analogues, derivatives, and other chemicals possessing similar effect on ATPase may be used as bio-energy muscle relaxants (general muscle relaxants).
Implementation of this approach by community-based gastroenterologists has failed to reach the required quality benchmarks and studies evaluating optical biopsy have not shown diagnostic test performance results that meet standards set by society guidelines in order to promote its widespread clinical adoption. Optical polyp diagnosis and the current resect and discard approach are too complex for clinical adoption. Thus, clinical implementation of this valuable concept has not been achieved to date and its cost-saving potential has not been realized. In order to effectively operationalize a resect and discard strategy, one must find a different way to distinguish neoplastic from non-neoplastic polyps. There exist differences in the proportion of polyps found to be adenomatous in the left and right colon. One recent study reported that 30% of left-sided polyps and 76% of right-sided polyps were found to be adenomas on histology. Since polyps located in the proximal colon are more likely to be adenomas and polyps in the recto-sigmoid colon are more likely hyperplastic we hypothesized that a model based on polyp location might be able to replace optical biopsy and histopathology. Such an approach would be very simple to adopt by every clinician and would allow for easy adoption into clinical practice.
Total 30 normal healthy adult subjects will be enrolled in the study. Subjects will be administered either the Test (5 ml of oral suspension containing 200 mg of ibuprofen) or the Reference Product (10ml of oral suspension containing 200 mg of ibuprofen) with 200 mL of water in each period as per the randomization schedule. Subjects will fast for at least 10 hours prior to administration of the study drugs and for four (4) hours after administration of the study drugs during each study period. Standardized meals will be provided in each study period. Water will not be accessible to the subjects 1 hour to administration of the study drugs and 2 hours after administration of the study drugs in each period. A total of 20 blood samples will be withdrawn for pharmacokinetic profiling during each study period. The plasma concentrations of R- and S-enantiomers of ibuprofen will be measured by a validated LC-MS/MS analytical method. ANOVA will be performed on log transformed pharmacokinetic parameters Cmax, AUC0-t and 90% confidence interval will be constructed for the ratio of geometric least square mean of the Test and Reference products, obtained from the log-transformed data. Bioequivalence will be concluded if the ratio estimate as well as its 90% confidence interval of S-enantiomers of ibuprofen, both falls within the acceptable range of 80.00% to 125.00% for Cmax, AUC0-t.
The infection of young winter barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) root system in winter by barley yellow mosaic virus (BaYMV) can lead to high yield losses. Resistance breeding is critical for managing this virus, but there are only a few reports on resistance genes that describe how the genes control BaYMV propagation and the systemic movement from the roots to the leaves. Here we report a real-time quantitative PCR analysis of the virus in barley roots and leaves carrying BaYMV resistance genes (rym1 to rym15 and an unknown gene) to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying the barley response to BaYMV. The resistance mechanism directly targets the virus. Moreover, the resistance genes/cultivars were classified into the following three groups according to their BaYMV titer: (i) immune (BaYMV was undetectable in the roots or leaves), (ii) partially immune (BaYMV was detected in the roots but not in the leaves), and (iii) susceptible (BaYMV was detected in the roots and leaves). Our results clarified the functions of the resistance genes in barley roots and leaves following a BaYMV infection. We anticipate our analysis to be a starting point for more understanding of the correspondence between resistance genes of Triticeae and the soil-borne viruses.
This arm involves a combination of systematic computerized cognitive training plus 150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise. All participants will also receive individual case management and supportive psychotherapy as well as Individual Placement and Support.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected participants who received ABT-493 and/or ABT-530 in prior Phase 2 or 3 clinical studies with these agents for the treatment of chronic HCV and were not retreated prior to entering this study. No AbbVie study drug was administered in this study.
The present disclosure generally relates to compositions and methods for treating polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and/or endometriosis. The composition may contain an active ingredient for treatment of PCOS and/or endometriosis, e.g., melatonin, a melatonin receptor agonist, and/or salts thereof. In some embodiments, a composition such as a gel may be applied to the vagina of a subject that is relatively viscous, for example, with a viscosity at room temperature of at least 1.5 million cP. Compositions having such relatively high viscosities may be useful, for example, to prevent the composition from readily exiting the vagina or degrading too quickly. In some embodiments, a drug delivery device containing the active agent may be inserted in the vagina. In some embodiments, the drug delivery device is an intravaginal ring.
Cachexia affects approximately 50-80 % of advanced cancer patients, particularly those with gastric cancer (GC). Therefore, early detection of cachexia is essential to prevent its progression. Targeting the gut microbiota may be a promising approach for preventing and treating cachexia in patients with GC. Chemotherapy significantly reduced gut microbiota diversity in GC patients. Specifically, the abundance of bacterial genera such as Bacteroides, Streptococcus, and Prevotella was increased in the gut of patients postchemotherapy, which was closely associated with the development of cachexia. Serum metabolic analysis revealed a strong link between specific microbes and metabolite in patients with chemotherapy-induced GC cachexia. We further constructed a random forest model based on the top 6 genera in terms of abundance for the prediction of chemotherapy-related GC cachexia development; this model had an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 93.5 % [95 % confidence interval (CI), 86.6 %-100 %], with a specificity and accuracy above 75 %. Additionally, we identified Enterotoxin Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) as a key factor in chemotherapy-induced GC cachexia. In an in vivo GC model, the colonization of ETBF in the intestines of mice significantly accelerated the muscle and adipose tissue consumption induced by chemotherapy, resulting in cachexia symptoms. Furthermore, ETBF damaged the intestinal mucosal barrier by disrupting cell connections and attracting M1 macrophages, which advances GC cachexia. In conclusion, our findings indicate that gut microbiota imbalance is crucial in GC cachexia development, suggesting potential biomarkers for early diagnosis. Clinical trial registration: http://www.chictr.org.cn, Identification No: ChiCTR2200064547.
IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common type of glomerulonephritis that frequently progresses to kidney failure. However, the molecular pathogenesis underlying IgAN remains largely unknown. Here, we investigated the role of galectin-3 (Gal-3), a galactoside-binding protein in IgAN pathogenesis, and showed that Gal-3 expression by the kidney was significantly enhanced in patients with IgAN. In both TEPC-15 hybridoma-derived IgA-induced, passive, and spontaneous "grouped" ddY IgAN models, Gal-3 expression was clearly increased with disease severity in the glomeruli, peri-glomerular regions, and some kidney tubules. Gal-3 knockout (KO) in the passive IgAN model had significantly improved proteinuria, kidney function and reduced severity of kidney pathology, including neutrophil infiltration and decreased differentiation of Th17 cells from kidney-draining lymph nodes, despite increased percentages of regulatory T cells. Gal-3 KO also inhibited the NLRP3 inflammasome, yet it enhanced autophagy and improved kidney inflammation and fibrosis. Moreover, administration of 6-de-O-sulfated, N-acetylated low-molecular-weight heparin, a competitive Gal-3 binding inhibitor, restored kidney function and improved kidney lesions in passive IgAN mice. Thus, our results suggest that Gal-3 is critically involved in IgAN pathogenesis by activating the NLRP3 inflammasome and promoting Th17 cell differentiation. Hence, targeting Gal-3 action may represent a new therapeutic strategy for treatment of this kidney disease.