anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
FIELD: virology, vaccines. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to preparing live attenuated vaccine based on varicella-zoster and shingles extracellular virus. Method involves culturing monolayer cultures in medium enriched with lipid additions that ensures to increase the yield of viral plaque-forming units and viral antigen. Using standard flasks for culturing cell density achieves 500 000 cells/cm 2 . and use of an optimal conditions during culturing ensures to increase viral vaccine producing. Invention can be used in biotechnology and immunology. EFFECT: improved method of vaccine preparing. 12 cl, 5 dwg, 6 tbl, 20 ex
The protocol is open only to the subjects who completed Clementia Study PVO-1A-202. Eligible subjects will receive a weight-based equivalent dose of palovarotene 10 mg once daily for 14 days, followed by 5 mg once daily for 28 days. Should treatment be extended beyond 6 weeks, a weight-based equivalent dose of 5 mg will be administered in 2-week increments.
The invention relates a solid preparation free of surfactant, and a preparation method thereof, and provides an HE3235 solid preparation. The solid preparation comprises HE2325, a water-soluble dispersion carrier and a sucrose compound. The HE2325 solid preparation contains no surfactant, and has excellent dissolubility and bioavailability, thereby greatly increasing security and compliance of the solid preparation. The solid preparation provided by the invention is simple to prepare, and raw materials are easily available. Therefore, the solid preparation provided by the invention has significant advantages in commercial production. HE2325 is shown in the description.
Previous studies have demonstrated that >38% of patients with immune-mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in remission with activity >50% had an open ADAMTS13 (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin type 1 motif, member 13) conformation. We assessed ADAMTS13 conformation in remission (ADAMTS13 activity >60%), focusing on peak ADAMTS13 activity levels and longitudinal assessment in 420 samples across 157 patients. Fewer cases had an open conformation at peak ADAMTS13 activity than unselected remission samples with ADAMTS13 activity >60% (23% vs 43%). Patients with a closed ADAMTS13 conformation at peak ADAMTS13 activity had an eightfold lower relapse rate in the subsequent year (9% vs 46%) and a fivefold lower relapse rate within 2 years (23% vs 62%) compared with cases with an open conformation. Patients with an open conformation at peak ADAMTS13 activity required preemptive anti-CD20 treatment earlier than those with a closed conformation (median, 10 vs 25 months). Longitudinally, an open conformation was evident at, and often preceded relapse. When the conformation was already open before relapse, an increase in the conformation index at relapse was seen despite the undetectable anti-ADAMTS13 immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody. In cases with detectable anti-ADAMTS13 IgG antibody, these became undetectable before achieving a closed conformation, highlighting the relapse risk even with undetectable anti-ADAMTS13 IgG antibody and the clinical utility of open/closed during monitoring. To our knowledge, this is the first study to show an association between relapse risk and ADAMTS13 conformation when activity levels are at a peak. The open conformation identifies antibody-mediated subclinical disease that is not detectable by the current ADAMTS13 testing.
535,383. Vitamins. NATIONAL OIL PRODUCTS CO. Oct. 6, 1939, No.. 27339. Convention date, Nov. 30, 1938. [Class 2 (iii)] A vitamin A concentrate is obtained by treating the unsaponifiable fraction of a marine oil with a de-aerated mixture of an adsorbent for the vitamin and an organic solvent and then eluting the adsorbate. Suitable adsorbents are the oxides and hydroxides of calcium, barium, strontium, magnesium and aluminium and activated clays such as bentonite and tonsil and suitable solvents are non-polar solvents such as benzene, cyclohexane, toluene, chlorbenzene, heptane, hexane, petroleum ether and ethylene dichloride. The de-aeration is effected by stirring and if desired heating, the layer of solvent vapour preventing access of oxygen. The solvent may be only sufficient to wet the adsorbent, the vitamin material dissolved in more solvent being then added, or the whole of the solvent may be mixed with the adsorbent and, de-aerated, the vitamin material being then added. The eluting agent is preferably a mixture of non- polar and polar solvents in a ratio greater than 5 : 1. Suitable polar solvents are methanol, ethanol, propanol, acetone and dioxane. Examples describe the treatment of the unsaponifiable fractions of the liver oils of swordfish, pollack and dogfish, but ling and jewfish are also mentioned.
The intervention consists of a) four $15 financial incentive coupons each month; b) twice-monthly group-based nutrition education at the Center for SEA; c) motivational interviewing (months 1, 3, 5); and d) weekly dietary norms text messages sent to adults and twice-monthly dietary norms infographics presented at nutrition education sessions for children. The research assistants will disburse one months' worth of the financial incentive coupon at the nutrition education sessions (or home mailings for absent participants). Families will attend 11 fortnightly, group-based nutrition education sessions lasting one hour. Southeast Asian community health workers will lead the sessions. Research assistants trained in motivational interviewing will call the adults. The calls will last 15-20 minutes. Adults will receive a series of weekly, interactive descriptive dietary norms text messages. Children will see descriptive dietary norms infographics at children's nutrition education sessions.
BACKGROUND: Sarcopenic obesity (SO) is defined as a decrease in lean body mass and an increase in body fat mass (BFM) due to aging. Detecting SO in elderly women is important from the perspective of extending healthy life expectancy. While various indices of SO are currently used, there is no global consensus regarding diagnostic criteria for SO. This study aimed to examine the relationship between obesity indices (waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI), and body fat percentage (BFP)) and sarcopenia indices (total body muscle mass (TBM), appendicular lean mass (ALM), skeletal mass index (SMI)), and physical function (gait speed (GS), handgrip strength (HGS)).
METHODS: Subjects were 170 community-dwelling healthy elderly women aged 65-79 years (mean: 72.7 ± 5.78 years) who underwent measurements for WC, BMI, and BFP. A WC of ≥ 90cm was defined as the obese group, BMI was determined as weight (kg) divided by height squared (m2) and a cutoff of ≥ 25 kg/m2 was used to define the obesity group. BFM was measured using the bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) method and BFP was calculated from body weight and a cutoff of ≥ 30% was used to define the obesity group. TBM and ALM (kg) were measured using the BIA method, ALM (kg) was corrected for height (m2) to obtain SMI (kg/m2). Physical function was assessed by GS and HGS, which were measured by the 5-m walk test and a digital grip strength meter, respectively.
RESULTS: When obesity was assessed using BMI, WC and BFP, obese individuals had higher TBM, ALM and SMI, and lower GS among the sarcopenia indicators. HGS did not differ significantly between the non-obese and obese groups.
CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest HGS is thought to reflect muscle strength without being affected by obesity indices, suggesting that it may be useful in detecting possible sarcopenia in obese individuals.
The intervention will be delivered in English or Spanish by a trained CHW and consists of three home-based visits with tailored print materials, text-messages delivered 2x/week, followed by monthly tailored print materials and phone calls during the last three months of the intervention. For in-home visits, the CHW will deliver a Motivational Interviewing session based on scripts developed in the R34. For phone calls, parents will receive a 30-minute Motivational Interviewing phone call to check in on goals and barriers and reinforce earlier concepts. For text messages, parents will be sent two times/week messages related to objectives targeted during that month's visit, such as parents setting good examples and giving children autonomy in eating. For print materials, parents will receive printed materials, highlighting nutrition and parental feeding guidance.
Two regimens of ICP-022 (High and low dose QD) are designed for study Part I to determine RP2D. The RP2D determined will be used in Part II to further evaluate the preliminary efficacy of ICP-022 in Chinese subjects with R/R CLL/SLL.
Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium containing instructions for processing image data. One system includes at least one processor configured to generate a graphical user interface (“GUI”). Through the GUI, the at least one processor receives a matching condition and a morphing action from a user. The morphing action includes an action to perform on a data attribute associated with image data when the image data satisfies the matching condition. Based on the received matching condition and morphing action, the at least one processor creates executable code. The at least one processor also receives image data including an image data attribute and executes the executable code to determine if the received image data satisfies the matching condition. If the image data satisfies the matching condition, the at least one processor automatically performs the morphing action on the received image data attribute.
Cimetidine is rapidly absorbed after oral administration and peak levels occur in 45 to 90 minutes. The half-life of cimetidine is approximately 2 hours. Blood concentrations remain above that required to provide 80% inhibition of basal gastric acid secretion for 4 to 5 hours following a dose of 300 mg.

Following parenteral administration, most of the drug is excreted as the parent compound in the urine, the principle route of excretion of cimetidine. After oral administration, the drug is extensively metabolized in which the sulfoxide is the major metabolite. Following a single oral dose, 48% of the drug is recovered from the urine after 24 hours as the parent compound.
Patients receive neoadjuvant lenvatinib (20 mg PO daily) for 12 weeks and pembrolizumab (200 mg IV every 3 weeks for four doses) prior to surgical resection of locally advanced RCC with IVC tumor thrombus. Following surgery, patients will receive adjuvant pembrolizumab (200 mg IV every 3 weeks for up to thirteen doses).
The invention relates to the technical field of chemical industry, in particular to a preparation method and application of micromolecule compound with HIV resisting activity. CyPA is able to combine with the Gag polymer protein in HIV-1. Silence or inhibit the activity of CypA with RNAi technology and disturb the replication of virus. The micromolecule compound in the invention refers to a CyPA inhibitor that has the effect of resisting HIV-1 virus. Besides, as the micromolecule compound is designed while aiming at cellular target, the invention is not easy to develop drug resistance, thus meeting the demands of lifetime medication for AIDS patients. Therefore, the micromolecule compound in the invention, which can be developed as a new type anti-AIDS drug, provides a new means for treating and curing AIDS.
PURPOSE: A health care document inquiry/providing system and method thereof based on a mobile terminal are provided to increase the convenience of a medical document by supplying medical documents of a medical institution which is downloaded to a mobile terminal without additional document. CONSTITUTION: A customer terminal(100) connects a medical institution server(300) and performs personal authentication through an embedded mobile certificate. The customer terminal performs the inquiry of a medical document in the medical institute server. The medical institute server performs digital signature according to the request of the customer terminal. The medical institute server encodes the medical document by using a mobile communication company public key. A medical document inquiry unit of the customer terminal inquires the health care document in the medical institution server.
Little is known about the characteristics of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) associated with recurrent urinary tract infections (RUTIs). The present study aimed to analyze the phenotypic antimicrobial resistance of recurrent UPEC isolates attributable to either relapse or reinfection. A total of 140 E. coli strains were isolated from 70 outpatients with RUTIs. All isolates were analyzed by random amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction to evaluate genetic similarity between the first and second isolates. We found that 64.2% (45/70) of outpatients had a relapse with the primary infecting E. coli strain and 35.7% (25/70) had reinfection with a new E. coli strain. Compared with reinfecting strains, relapse UPEC isolates exhibited much higher antimicrobial resistance; 89% of these isolates were multidrug-resistant and 46.6% were extended-spectrum β-lactamase producers. Our study provides evidence that RUTIs are mainly driven by the persistence of the original strain in the host (relapses) despite appropriate antibiotic treatments, and only RUTIs attributed to relapses seem to favor multidrug resistance in UPEC isolates.
Controlled Adjunctive Clinical Studies in Adults With Epilepsy: Table 8 lists treatment-emergent adverse reactions that occurred in at least 2% of adult patients with epilepsy treated with lamotrigine in placebo-controlled trials and were numerically more common in the patients treated with lamotrigine. In these studies, either lamotrigine or placebo was added to the patient's current AED therapy. Adverse reactions were usually mild to moderate in intensity.

In a randomized, parallel study comparing placebo and 300 and 500 mg/day of lamotrigine, some of the more common drug-related adverse reactions were dose-related (see Table 9).

The overall adverse reaction profile for lamotrigine was similar between females and males, and was independent of age. Because the largest non-Caucasian racial subgroup was only 6% of patients exposed to lamotrigine in placebo-controlled trials, there are insufficient data to support a statement regarding the distribution of adverse reaction reports by race. Generally, females receiving either lamotrigine as adjunctive therapy or placebo were more likely to report adverse reactions than males. The only adverse reaction for which the reports on lamotrigine were greater than 10% more frequent in females than males (without a corresponding difference by gender on placebo) was dizziness (difference = 16.5%). There was little difference between females and males in the rates of discontinuation of lamotrigine for individual adverse reactions.
Gait disorders in neurological diseases are frequently associated with spasticity. Intramuscular injection of Botulinum Toxin Type A (BTX-A) can be used to treat spasticity. Providing optimal treatment with the highest possible benefit-risk ratio is a crucial consideration. This paper presents a novel approach for predicting knee and ankle kinematics after BTX-A treatment based on pre-treatment kinematics and treatment information. The proposed method is based on a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) deep learning architecture. Our study's objective is to investigate this approach's effectiveness in accurately predicting the kinematics of each phase of the gait cycle separately after BTX-A treatment. Two deep learning models are designed to incorporate categorical medical treatment data corresponding to the injected muscles: (1) within the hidden layers of the Bi-LSTM network, (2) through a gating mechanism. Since several muscles can be injected during the same session, the proposed architectures aim to model the interactions between the different treatment combinations. In this study, we conduct a comparative analysis of our prediction results with the current state of the art. The best results are obtained with the incorporation of the gating mechanism. The average prediction root mean squared error is 2.99° (R2 = 0.85) and 2.21° (R2 = 0.84) for the knee and the ankle kinematics, respectively. Our findings indicate that our approach outperforms the existing methods, yielding a significantly improved prediction accuracy.
BACKGROUND: Sodium and water retention is a mainstay of the pathophysiology leading to ascites formation in patients with advanced cirrhosis. Refractory ascites denotes the most severe ascites status with limited treatment options and a poor prognosis. We investigated the efficacy and safety of the natriuretic peptide ularitide in patients with refractory cirrhotic ascites.
METHODS: We conducted a randomized placebo-controlled trial investigating ularitide to manage refractory ascites. Until trial termination after interim analyses, we randomized 17 participants in a 2:1 ratio between ularitide (n=11) and placebo (n=6). While hospitalized, the participants received treatment for up to 48 hours. The primary efficacy endpoint was a change in renal water excretion, and secondary end points included changes in renal sodium excretion rate and body weight. The starting dose was 30 ng/kg/min, though later reduced to 20 for safety reasons.
RESULTS: In contrast to the study hypothesis, the mean urine production decreased after 24 hours of ularitide treatment compared with the baseline level (22.8 vs. 47.5 mL/h, p=0.04) and decreased more in participants randomized to ularitide than placebo (24.7 vs. -6.2 mL/h, p=0.05). Ularitide did not increase the renal sodium excretion rate or reduce the weight gain. The incidence rate ratio of adverse reactions in ularitide versus placebo was 8.5 (95% CI: 2-35, p=0.003). Participants treated with ularitide developed serious blood pressure reductions, impacting their renal responsiveness.
CONCLUSIONS: Ularitide in doses of 20-30 ng/kg/min did not benefit urine production and renal sodium excretion rate in patients with refractory ascites. The participants randomized to ularitide overall developed more adverse reactions than placebo. EudraCT no. 2019-002268-28.
The current study aims to characterize brain morphology of pain as reported by small fiber neuropathy (SFN) patients with or without a gain-of-function variant involving the SCN9A gene and compare these with findings in healthy controls without pain. The Neuropathic Pain Scale was used in patients with idiopathic SFN (N = 20) and SCN9A-associated SFN (N = 12) to capture pain phenotype. T1-weighted, structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data were collected in patients and healthy controls (N = 21) to 1) compare cortical thickness and subcortical volumes and 2) quantify the association between severity, quality, and duration of pain with morphological properties. SCN9A-associated SFN patients showed significant (P < .017, Bonferroni corrected) higher cortical thickness in sensorimotor regions, compared to idiopathic SFN patients, while lower cortical thickness was found in more functionally diverse regions (eg, posterior cingulate cortex). SFN patient groups combined demonstrated a significant (Spearman's ρ = .44-.55, P = .005-.049) correlation among itch sensations (Neuropathic Pain Scale-7) and thickness of the left precentral gyrus, and midcingulate cortices. Significant associations were found between thalamic volumes and duration of pain (left: ρ = -.37, P = .043; right: ρ = -.40, P = .025). No associations were found between morphological properties and other pain qualities. In conclusion, in SCN9A-associated SFN, profound morphological alterations anchored within the pain matrix are present. The association between itch sensations of pain and sensorimotor and midcingulate structures provides a novel basis for further examining neurobiological underpinnings of itch in SFN. PERSPECTIVE: Cortical thickness and subcortical volume alterations in SFN patients were found in pain hubs, more profound in SCN9A-associated neuropathy, and correlated with itch and durations of pain. These findings contribute to our understanding of the pathophysiological pathways underlying chronic neuropathic pain and symptoms of itch in SFN.
A system and method for automated collection and analysis of regularly retrieved patient information for remote patient care is described. A set of collected measures (50) retrieved on a substantially regular basis is periodically received from a medical device (12,202,203,204) having a sensor for monitoring at least one physiological measure (71-78,207,210) or quality of life measure (208,211) of an individual patient (11,201). The collected measures set includes individual measures which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device. The collected measures set is stored into a patient care record (205) for the individual patient within a database (17) organized to store one or more patient care records which each include a plurality (206,209) of the collected measures sets. One or more of the collected measures sets (206) in the patient care record for the individual patient is analyzed relative to one or more other collected measures sets (209) stored in the database to determine a patient status indicator (54). <IMAGE>
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) can generate severe complications, such as Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD) or Diabetic Nephropathy (DN), with it emerging as the leading cause of terminal (end-stage) renal disease all over the world. For T1DM, the clinical evaluation of DKD uses markers like the Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) and the Urinary Albumin Excretion (UAE). However, early diagnosis of DKD is still a challenge. For this reason, investigating molecular markers, such as microRNAs (miRNAs), offers a promising perspective to an early diagnosis, highlighting the stability and the ability to reflect incipient molecular manifestations. Thus, here we investigated four miRNAs (hsa-let-7i-5p, hsa-miR-143-3p, hsa-miR-501-3p, and hsa-miR-100-5p) regarding nephropathy in patients with T1DM, considering the albuminuria (micro and macro) as a standard to evaluate the groups. As a result, we found a reduced expression of miR-100-5p in patients with MIC, indicating a protective role in nephropathy. Beyond that, expression levels between the groups (Non vs. UAE) were not significant when comparing the miRNAs miR-501-3p and miR-143-3p. Finally, miR-143-3p and miR-100-5p were linked to some target genes such as AKT1, MMP13, and IGF1R, that are connected to signal pathways and cellular metabolism.