anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
The purpose of this study is to evaluate a bundled intervention of psychotropic drugs and daily contact with a nurse for people with mental health disorders in a prayer camp and secondly to assess whether the attitudes of the prayer camp staff toward mental health disorders and conventional medicines remain the same after the intervention.

In the proposed study, residents of the sanatorium at the Mount Horeb Prayer Center located in Mamfe, Ghana will be screened for psychiatric disorders by a psychiatrist. Those who are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder requiring treatment (schizophrenia, or mood disorder) and who meet the other inclusion criteria (see below) will be randomly assigned to receive a daily dose of the appropriate psychotropic drug (according to standard procedures of care) as well as regular prayer camp treatment (intervention group) or to receive only regular prayer camp treatment (control group). After randomization, the patients in the intervention group will receive the bundled treatment for 6 weeks, while control group patients will receive regular prayer camp treatment, e.g. encouragement to pray. Psychiatrists blinded to group assignments will assess outcomes over a 6 - 8 week period. Following this, patients will be referred for continued care with health care facilities as close to their homes as possible on discharge and if they so desire. At the start of the intervention, pastors and attendants at the prayer camp will be qualitatively assessed through a semi-structured interview concerning their attributions of mental illness causation. They will be assessed -0, -6 weeks after and again -12 weeks after intervention. The investigators hypothesize that patients who receive the bundled intervention will have improved mental health outcomes and functioning and that prayer camp staff will develop more positive attitudes toward conventional medicine and will begin to conceptualize mental health disorders as treatable illnesses, rather than only as a spiritual disorder. The results will provide empirical evidence for or against an integrated model of community based care which encompasses the medical and spiritual. This is the first intervention study in Sub-Saharan Africa to promote the use of psychotropic drugs in a traditional or spiritual healing setting. Its findings may inform the implementation of national policies governing collaboration between primary health care and faith healing centers, expanding access to and improving the quality of mental health care services.
Patients in the control group will receive standard, dispensing services they currently receive from pharmacists. Control group pharmacists will continue to provide these services in accordance with the standards of practice adopted by the Ontario College of Pharmacists. They will not provide either of the 3 intervention components outlined above. Should a control group patient request additional information and/or services, the pharmacist will comply and provide these as deemed necessary for the particular patient. This could include the full range of educational and drug therapy optimization services outlined for the intervention group. If this occurs then the pharmacists will document all services provided in order for the research team to account for this in the analysis.
Growth hormone-releasing hormone-deficient (GHRH-KO) mice have previously been characterized by lower body weight, disproportionately high body fat accumulation, preferential metabolism of lipids compared to carbohydrates, improved insulin sensitivity, and an extended lifespan. That these mice are long-lived and insulin-sensitive conflicts with the notion that adipose tissue accumulation drives the health detriments associated with obesity (i.e., diabetes), and indicates that GH signaling may be necessary for the development of adverse effects linked to obesity. This prompts investigation into the ultimate effect of diet-induced obesity on the lifespan of these long-lived mice. To this end, we initiated high-fat feeding in mid and late-life in GHRH-KO and wild-type (WT) mice. We carried out extensive lifespan analysis coupled with glucose/insulin tolerance testing and indirect calorimetry to gauge the metabolic effect of high-fat dietary stress through adulthood on these mice. We show that under high-fat diet (HFD) conditions, GHRH-KO mice display extended lifespans relative to WT controls. We also show that GHRH-KO mice are more insulin-sensitive and display less dramatic changes in their metabolism relative to WT mice, with GHRH-KO mice fed HFD displaying respiratory exchange ratios and glucose oxidation rates comparable to control-diet fed GHRH-KO mice, while WT mice fed HFD showed significant reductions in these parameters. Our results indicate that GH deficiency protects against the adverse effects of diet-induced obesity in later life.
A single-center, prospective observational cohort study evaluating potential biochemical, clinical, and/or genetic biomarkers in neonates admitted with a diagnosis of PPHN that may predict iNO response. Thus, it is important to collect data prior to the initiation of iNO to be able to identify biomarkers that can predict response. For patients who meet the screening criteria and when consent is not attainable prior to initiation of the potential life-saving iNO therapy, then samples will be obtained with deferred written informed parental consent obtained within the first 4 hours after enrollment. These patients will have one sample of blood, urine, and tracheal aspirate (if available) collected. If the patient meets the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the patient will be recruited for study participation. To ensure no delay in care or in the initiation of the only FDA-approved vasodilator for this population, iNO, a deferred written informed parental consent is requested to allow for the collection of blood, urine, tracheal aspirate specimens (if available) prior to the initiation of iNO. Only one sample of blood and tracheal aspirate specimens will be collected prior to the deferred consent. Samples are often collected during the routine collections that are obtain from patients who are critically ill such as in our study participants, therefore, no additional discomfort will be expected from this study. Urine collection will be from cotton ball collection that would normally be discarded and is noninvasive. All data and biospecimens obtained from eligible infants whose parent(s) decline consent or do not qualify for the study will be discarded.
INTRODUCTION: The 2015 American Thyroid Association guidelines recommend lymph node mapping US in patients with definitive cytological evidence of thyroid cancer. Suspicious lymph node features on imaging including enlarged size (>1 cm in any dimension), architectural distortion, loss of fatty hilum, and microcalcifications often prompt evaluation with fine needle aspiration. There is no universally agreed upon model for determining which ultrasound characteristics most strongly correlate with metastatic disease.
METHODS: A retrospective review of patients with confirmed papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) undergoing lymph node mapping ultrasound from 2013 to 2019 was performed. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value were calculated for each individual ultrasound characteristic as well as for characteristic combinations.
RESULTS: Data from 119 lymph nodes were included. Malignant lymph nodes were more likely to be enlarged (71% versus 61%, P < 0.001) and to have each individual suspicious feature. Loss of fatty hilum had the highest sensitivity (89%) but was not specific (19%) for metastatic disease. Architectural distortion was found to have the highest specificity (87%). A combination of the four features was found to have higher specificity (97%) and PPV (88%) than any individual feature or combination of two/three features.
CONCLUSIONS: A combination of four sonographic features correlates with metastatic PTC to lymph nodes and has the highest specificity and PPV for malignancy. A risk stratification model based on these features may lead to better classification of ultrasound findings in PTC patients with concern for nodal metastases.
The invention provides a polypeptide carrier for delivering nucleic acid drugs, the amino acid composition of which is shown in SEQ ID NO. 1; or the amino acid composition is shown in SEQ ID NO. 2; or the amino acid constitution of the polypeptide is shown as SEQ ID NO. 3. The invention also provides the application of the polypeptide carrier, a corresponding nucleic acid medicament for treating tumors and a preparation method thereof. The nucleic acid delivery vector designed by the invention can improve the efficiency of delivering the medicament to the tumor part and improve the targeting property to the tumor, in addition, the medicament can be efficiently released after being delivered to the tumor part, the effect of treating the tumor part is ensured, and the toxic and side effects of the medicament on normal tissues caused by weak targeting property can be reduced.
PURPOSE: To measure the tangential retinal displacement and vision before and after macular pucker surgery and study if pars plana vitrectomy with epiretinal membrane peeling allows the reconstitution of previous anatomy or else it results in a different configuration.
METHODS: Retrospective series of patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy for epiretinal membrane, with >6-month follow-up before and after surgery, complete with best-corrected visual acuity, optical coherence tomography, M-Charts, and infrared retinography. Tangential retinal displacement between earliest visit (T E ), time of surgery (T 0 ), and latest available visit (T L ) of the examined retina, concentric circles at 0.5, 1.5, and 4.5 mm radii, and the central horizontal and vertical meridians were measured. Tangential displacement was calculated as the optical flow of consecutive infrared photographs.
RESULTS: The study comprised 32 patients: 15 men and 17 women. Average preoperative and postoperative follow-up were 23.4 ± 27.9 months and 19.2 ± 11.8 months, respectively. Best-corrected visual acuity reduced before surgery (0.69 ± 0.16 Snellen to 0.46 ± 0.17; P < 0.001) and increased after (0.866 ± 0.16 Snellen; P < 0.001). Horizontal and vertical metamorphopsia increased between before surgery but only horizontal metamorphopsia significantly reduced after. Average tangential displacement before surgery was 35.6 ± 29.9 µ m versus 56.6 ± 41.3 µ m after ( P = 0.023). Preoperative and postoperative displacement within the fovea was less than over the entire area ( P < 0.001).
CONCLUSION: Retinal tangential displacement between diagnosis and surgery (T E - T 0 ) is less than the displacement occurring after surgery (T 0 - T L ). Postoperative displacement does not represent the restoration of the anatomy existing before the disease ensued but rather the resulting equilibrium of newly deployed forces.
BACKGROUND: The objective of the present study is to analyze the epidemiological, clinical and functional characteristics of patients admitted to the University Hospital of Navarra due to SARS-CoV-2 infection, as well as the predictors of mortality, during the first wave of the pandemic caused by this virus.
METHODOLOGY: An observational, retrospective study was performed, including all hospitalized patients older than 75 years. Information has been obtained on multiple variables, among which it is worth mentioning previous geriatric syndromes or those that have appeared during hospitalization, or past medical history considered relevant in SARS-CoV-2 infection. A descriptive analysis of the data, comparisons according to various factors of interest and multivariate analysis to analyze factors associated with mortality were carried out.
RESULTS: Data have been obtained from a total of 426 patients with a mean age of 83.2 years (52.6% men). 34.7% died in hospital and 4.5% within 1 month after hospital discharge. The factors related to mortality were: worse baseline functional status, chronic kidney disease, and fever or dyspnea as forms of presentation. The most frequent typical symptoms were: fever, dyspnea, cough, asthenia and hyporexia. Up to 42.1% presented delirium as a symptom of atypical onset. We observed a functional deterioration that was not recover after a month of follow-up (baseline Barthel index 81.12; 70.08 at discharge; 75.55 after a month).
CONCLUSIONS: SARS-CoV-2 infection has caused high mortality rates in older adults. In this age group, the atypical presentation of this disease and functional deterioration during hospitalization are frequent. In the present study, a worse previous functional status has been identified as a predictor of mortality. More studies are needed to evaluate the impact that the disease and hospitalization have on the older patient, with the aim of implementing preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic measures that are necessary to avoid functional deterioration and adverse health events related to it.
The invention discloses a digestion and detoxification pill and a preparing method of the digestion and detoxification pill. The digestion and detoxification pill and the preparing method of the digestion and detoxification pill aims at solving the technical problems of digestion, detoxification, defecation and weight-losing. The digestion and detoxification pill is composed of hawthorn, Chinese yam, medicated leaven, dried tangerines, grist, goldthread, honeysuckle, isatis roots, rheum officinale, ginseng, liquorice, bear gall powder, musk powder, borneols, pseudo-ginseng powder, salvia miltiorrhiza powder and crosslinked polyethylene ketopyrrolidine. The preparing method of the digestion and detoxification pill includes the following steps of water stewing, supernatant liquid fetching while standing, concentrating, blending, drying and laminating. Compared with the prior art, the hawthorn, the medicated leaven and the grist of the digestion and detoxification pill have the function of assisting digestion, the ginseng reinforces Yuan Qi, the Chinese yam tonifies the spleen, the pseudo-ginseng and the salvia miltiorrhiza can invigorate the circulation of blood, the honeysuckle and the isatis roots can clearing away heat and toxic materials, and the musk and the borneols can unplug the orifices. The digestion and detoxification pill has the healthcare functions of digestion, extinguishing deficiency fire, detoxifying, reducing weight and unplugging orifices, can serve as health care medicine and is convenient to use and healthy.
Doxorubicin (DOX)-induced cardiotoxicity seriously limits its clinical applicability, and no therapeutic interventions are available. Ferroptosis, an iron-dependent regulated cell death characterised by lipid peroxidation, plays a pivotal role in DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methylation is the most frequent type of RNA modification and involved in DOX-induced ferroptosis, however, its underlying mechanism remains unclear. P21 was recently found to inhibit ferroptosis by interacting with Nrf2 and is regulated in a P53-dependent or independent manner, such as through m6A modification. In the present study, we investigated the mechanism underlying m6A modification in DOX-induced ferroptosis by focusing on P21. Our results show that fat mass and obesity-associated protein (FTO) down-regulation was associated with DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. FTO over-expression significantly improved cardiac function and cell viability in DOX-treated mouse hearts and H9C2 cells. FTO over-expression significantly inhibited DOX-induced ferroptosis, and the Fer-1 inhibition of ferroptosis significantly reduced DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. P21 was significantly upregulated by FTO and activated Nrf2, playing a crucial role in the anti-ferroptotic effect. FTO upregulated P21/Nrf2 in a P53-dependent manner by mediating the demethylation of P53 or in a P53-independent manner by mediating P21/Nrf2 directly. Human antigen R (HuR) is crucial for FTO-mediated regulation of ferroptosis and P53-P21/Nrf2. Notably, we also found that P21 inhibition in turn inhibited HuR and P53 expression, while HuR inhibition further inhibited FTO expression. RNA immunoprecipitation assay showed that HuR binds to the transcripts of FTO and itself. Collectively, FTO inhibited DOX-induced ferroptosis via P21/Nrf2 activation by mediating the m6A demethylation of P53 or P21/Nrf2 in a HuR-dependent manner and constituted a positive feedback loop with HuR and P53-P21. Our findings provide novel insight into key functional mechanisms associated with DOX-induced cardiotoxicity and elucidate a possible therapeutic approach.
Preparation of Technetium Tc 99m Mebrofenin is done by the following aseptic procedure:

  1. Waterproof gloves should be worn during the preparation procedure.
  2. Place reaction vial in an appropriate lead shield.
  3. Swab the rubber closure of the reaction vial with a germicide.
  4. Inject 1 to 5 mL sterile additive free sodium pertechnetate Tc 99m injection containing up to 3700 MBq (100 mCi) Tc 99m into the reaction vial. Be sure to maintain a nitrogen atmosphere in the vial by not introducing air during reconstitution.  
NOTE: If sodium pertechnetate Tc 99m injection must be diluted for use with Choletec (Kit for the preparation of Technetium Tc 99m Mebrofenin), only preservative free Sodium Chloride Injection USP should be used.
  5. Secure the lead shield cover. Swirl the vial gently to mix contents and let stand for 15 minutes.
  6. Record the date and time of preparation on pressure-sensitive label.
  7. Affix pressure-sensitive label to shield.
  8. Examine vial contents. If the solution is not clear and free of particulate matter and discoloration on visual inspection, it should not be used.
  9. Measure the radioactivity by a suitable calibration system and record on the shield label prior to patient administration.
  10. Withdraw material with a sterile lead shielded syringe for use within 18 hours of preparation.
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) represents the leading cause of cardiovascular death worldwide, and it is thus pivotal to develop effective approaches for the timely detection of AMI markers, especially possessing the characteristics of antibody-free, signal amplification, and manipulation convenience. We herein construct a MoS2 nanosheet-powered CRISPR/Cas12a sensing strategy for sensitive determination of miR-499, a superior AMI biomarker to protein markers. The presence of miR-499 at a trace level is able to induce a significantly enhanced fluorescence signal in a DNA-based molecular engineering platform, which consists of CRISPR/Cas12a enzymatic reactions and MoS2 nanosheet-controllable signal reporting components. The MoS2 nanosheets were characterized by using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM). The detection feasibility was verified by using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) analysis and fluorescence measurements. The detection limit is determined as 381.78 pM with the linear range from 0.1 ⅹ 10-9 to 13.33 ⅹ 10-9 M in a fast manner (about 30 min). Furthermore, miRNA detection in real human serum is also conducted with desirable recovery rates (89.5 %-97.6 %), which may find potential application for the clinic diagnosis. We describe herein the first example of MoS2 nanosheet-based signal amplified fluorescence sensor for effective detection of AMI-related miRNA.
Certain embodiments provide a cell separation composition. The cell separation composition can be mixed with a blood tissue sample to separate therapeutic cells from undesired cells in the sample. In some cases, the therapeutic cells include leukocytes. In certain cases, the therapeutic cells include lymphocytes, such as T-cells and B-cells, which can be used in immunotherapies. In other cases, the therapeutic cells include hematopoietic stem cells, which can be used to restore a hematopoietic system. In other cases, the therapeutic cells include dendritic cells, which can be used in cellular vaccinations. In yet other cases, the therapeutic cells include platelets, which can be used as a source of growth factors. In further cases, the therapeutic cells include endothelial progenitor cells, which can be used in vascular therapies. Still further, the therapeutic cells can include mesenchymal and multi-lineage stem cells for orthopedic, immune regulation and other regenerative therapies.
Intestinal stromal cells (SCs), which synthesize the extracellular matrix that gives the mucosa its structure, are newly appreciated to play a role in mucosal inflammation. Here, we show that human intestinal vimentin+CD90+smooth muscle actin- SCs synthesize retinoic acid (RA) at levels equivalent to intestinal epithelial cells, a function in the human intestine previously attributed exclusively to epithelial cells. Crohn's disease SCs (Crohn's SCs), however, synthesized markedly less RA than SCs from healthy intestine (normal SCs). We also show that microbe-stimulated Crohn's SCs, which are more inflammatory than stimulated normal SCs, induced less RA-regulated differentiation of mucosal dendritic cells (DCs) (circulating pre-DCs and monocyte-derived DCs), leading to the generation of more potent inflammatory interferon-γhi/interleukin-17hi T cells than normal SCs. Explaining these results, Crohn's SCs expressed more DHRS3, a retinaldehyde reductase that inhibits retinol conversion to retinal and, thus, synthesized less RA than normal SCs. These findings uncover a microbe-SC-DC crosstalk in which luminal microbes induce Crohn's disease SCs to initiate and perpetuate inflammation through impaired synthesis of RA.
All participants will receive routine prenatal care from an identified medical provider, which they have initiated on their own. They will be able to engage in any services recommended by their primary medical provider or that they voluntarily initiate. For ethical reasons, they are not prohibited from engaging in any type of therapeutic, complementary, or medication treatment (after enrollment). The TAU group will be offered a delayed treatment option, after the 6 month follow-up. This will be a 2 hour mindfulness psychoeducation session, offered between 6 and 9 months postpartum. Several core mindfulness concepts included in the full MBCT curriculum will be taught and participants will complete several brief mindfulness activities.
The proposed intervention was a six-week acceptance-based diabetes education programme (ACT-DE) programme comprising Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and diabetes education (DE). it included one diabetes education session (1st session), three ACT sessions (2nd to 4th), and a booster session in the 6th week conducted by the researcher. Each session lasted about 120 minutes in groups of 6 participants. The sessions were delivered face-to-face.
NEW MATERIAL:The compound of formula I (R is group of formula II, formula III, etc.) and its hydrochloride. EXAMPLE:Butanedioic acid mono[1-{(2-allylphenoxy)methyl}-{2-(1-methylethyl) amino}ethyl] ester hydrochloride. USE:A compound effective in improving the bioavailability of alprenolol useful as a beta-blocker. It is absorbed through digestive tracts by oral administration, transferred to blood without being affected by 1st passage through the liver and converted into alprenolol. PREPARATION:The compound of formula I can be produced either by bonding alprenolol with succinic anhydride, glutaric anhydride or maleic anhydride through ester bond or by bonding alprenolol with glutaric anhydride through ester bond and reacting the product with an ethyl halide.
Subject randomly allocated to the control arm will receive 1040mg a day of activated charcoal softgels for 30 consecutive days. The total daily dosage is divided in 4 doses taken 6 hourly (each softgel contains 260mg). This supplement is manufactured by \[Arkopharma Pharmaceutical Laboratories\] and is available commercially.