anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
In heart failure, abnormal activation of cardiac sympathetic system has been shown to be of pathophysiological significance. However, the left ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony has a detrimental effect on LV systolic and diastolic functions in heart failure patients. The effects of LV dyssynchrony on cardiac sympathetic activity are not yet fully understood. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a common cause of severe chronic heart failure. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a disease modifying device-driven treatment that can reduce morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure. However, this type of treatment does not lead to the expected results in 25% to 30% of patients despite the successful implantation of a CRT device. In addition, CRT is associated with high cost and potential morbidity. Therefore, the search for new highly informative criteria for selecting patients for this type of treatment remains a relevant task of modern medicine. It is expected that the results obtained will complement and expand current state of knowledge regarding the relationships between cardiac remodeling processes and the state of cardiac sympathetic activity. In addition, obtained data will allow to predict LV remodeling dynamics after the correction of contractile dysfunction of the heart.
Patients will be randomized to receive an intraoperative transverse abdominis peritoneal (TAP) block with liposomal bupivacaine (LB). The solution used to perform the TAP block with LB will comprise of 20mL of liposomal bupivacaine solution, 30mL of 0.25% bupivacaine, and 100mL of normal saline.
In forensic medical investigations, physical injuries are documented with photographs accompanied by written reports. Automatic segmentation and classification of wounds on these photographs could provide forensic pathologists with a tool to improve the assessment of injuries and accelerate the reporting process. In this pilot study, we trained and compared several preexisting deep learning architectures for image segmentation and wound classification on forensically relevant photographs in our database. The best scores were a mean pixel accuracy of 69.4% and a mean intersection over union (IoU) of 48.6% when evaluating the trained models on our test set. The models had difficulty distinguishing the background from wounded areas. As an example, image pixels showing subcutaneous hematomas or skin abrasions were assigned to the background class in 31% of cases. Stab wounds, on the other hand, were reliably classified with a pixel accuracy of 93%. These results can be partially attributed to undefined wound boundaries for some types of injuries, such as subcutaneous hematoma. However, despite the large class imbalance, we demonstrate that the best trained models could reliably distinguish among seven of the most common wounds encountered in forensic medical investigations.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of favipiravir administered to diabetic and non-diabetic COVID-19 patients on the QT/QTc interval.
STUDY DESIGN: Analytical study. Place and Duration of the Study: Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Health, State Hospital, Corlu, Tekirdag, Turkiye, from March to September 2021.
METHODOLOGY: Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis was performed on all participants (n=180) divided into four groups. Group 1 included only healthy volunteers. Group 2 included only cases diagnosed with T2DM. Group 3 included only severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov-2) cases. Group 4 included cases diagnosed with both SARS and T2DM. Favipiravir was administered only to the cases in Group 3 and Group 4. In the cases that were administered favipiravir, the QT/QTc interval was calculated and recorded at different time intervals on the first and fifth days of the therapy. The difference between groups was determined by Tukeye's test after ANOVA. Pearson's correlation test was used to determine whether there was a linear relationship between two numericals. The alpha significance value was determined to be <0.05 in all statistical analyses.
RESULTS: When all groups were compared, it was seen that both QT and QTc values ​​increased in Groups 3 and 4, which were administered favipiravir (p <0.05). Favipiravir may cause an increased risk of ventricular and atrial arrhythmias.
CONCLUSION: Favipiravir may cause QT interval prolongation, particularly in SARS-Cov-2 patients diagnosed with T2DM.
KEY WORDS: COVID-19, Drug-induced long QT syndrome, Intra-infarct haemorrhage; Favipiravir, Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Pre-clinical disability is an early warning system in the disablement process as it is characterized by selecting to perform everyday tasks less often and compensating for those tasks still being performed. This phase serves as an ideal target for preventative strategies because treatments can be designed for individuals on the verge of disability thus interrupting the occurrence of outright disability. One such strategy that optimizes the transfer of adaptations to real-life situations is task-specific exercise (TSE). This type of intervention holds promise to determine how pre-clinically disabled older adults might interrupt the disablement process and instead begin an enablement process and thus lead us to better interventions to treat and prevent disability from occurring. However, because of the complexity of the disablement process, it has been extremely challenging to objectively identify outcomes that represent changes in selection, optimization, and compensation of tasks (the SOC domains). The objective of the current application is first, to ask what are the short and long-term responses of TSE in the pre-clinically disabled older adults (aged 60+ years). Thirdly, we will shed exciting new light on whether TSE alters neuromechanical and psychological factors. We want to know this, in part, from a mechanistic perspective to gain insight into the processes by which TSE improves disablement outcomes. Also, this will help us to better understand how to enhance the TSE intervention to treat pre-clinically disabled patients. Thus, we offer two hypotheses: Hypothesis #1: TSE increases selection and optimization of everyday tasks, while reducing compensation to achieve task performance. Hypothesis #2. TSE mediates changes in SOC domains through both neuromechanical (decrease variability of movement and increase muscle work capacity) and psychological (increased confidence to perform tasks and increased executive function) properties. These data are expected to guide us in designing a randomized controlled trial that will test whether TSE in the pre-clinically disabled can reduce future incidence of outright disability.
FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutics. ^ SUBSTANCE: present invention refers to a compound of formula I and to its pharmaceutically acceptable salts. In formula I , R1 means hydrogen or ; is specified from phenyl, and a 5-member heteroaromatic ring containing 1 to 2 heteroatoms specified inhe group consisting of sulphur and nitrogen; X is specified from lower alkylene, cyclisated lower alkylene containing 3 to 6 carbon atoms, and hydroxy(lower alkylene); R5 and R6 are independently specified in the group including hydrogen, lower alkyl, halogen and lower alkoxygroup; R3 is specified from hydrogen and -NH-R7; R4 is specified from hydrogen and -O(CH2CH2O)y-R10; R7 means lower alkyl; R10 means lower alkyl; n means an integer within 0 to 1; and y is equal to 0; provided when n is equal to 0, and R1 means hydrogen, then R3/R4 both cannot mean hydrogen. The invention also concerns a pharmaceutical composition containing a therapeutically effective amount of the compound under the invention. ^ EFFECT: preparation of the new compounds which show CDK1 kinase inhibiting activity and can be effective in cancer treatment, particularly breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer treatment. ^ 45 cl, 21 ex
A pyrrolopyridazine compound having the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof:                    
     wherein, R 1  is a C 2 -C 6  alkenyl group, a halogeno C 2 -C 6  alkenyl group, a C 3 -C 7  cycloalkyl group which may be optionally substituted or a C 3 -C 7  cycloalkyl- C 1 -C 6  alkyl group which may be optionally substituted. R 2  is a C 1 -C 6  alkyl group. R 3  is a hydroxymethyl group, a C 2 -C 6  aliphatic acyloxymethyl group, a C 6 -C 10  arylcarbonyloxymethyl group which may be optionally substituted, a C 1 -C 6  alkoxycarbonyloxymethyl group, a formyl group, a carboxyl group, a C 1 -C 6  alkoxycarbonyl group or a C 6 -C 10  aryloxycarbonyl group which may be optionally substituted. R 4  is a C 6 -C 10  aryl group which may be optionally substituted. A is an imino group, an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom. These compounds exhibit excellent gastric acid secretory inhibition activity and gastric mucous membrane protection activity etc. They are useful for prevention or treatment of ulcerative diseases and for  Helicobacter pylori  infections.
BACKGROUND: Increased autocorrelation (AR) of system-specific measures has been suggested as a predictor for critical transitions in complex systems. Increased AR of mood scores has been reported to anticipate depressive episodes in major depressive disorder, while other studies found AR increases to be associated with depressive episodes themselves. Data on AR in patients with bipolar disorders (BD) is limited and inconclusive.
METHODS: Patients with BD reported their current mood via daily e-diaries for 12 months. Current affective status (euthymic, prodromal, depressed, (hypo)manic) was assessed in 26 bi-weekly expert interviews. Exploratory analyses tested whether self-reported current mood and AR of the same item could differentiate between prodromal phases or affective episodes and euthymia.
RESULTS: A total of 29 depressive and 20 (hypo)manic episodes were observed in 29 participants with BD. Self-reported current mood was significantly decreased during the two weeks prior to a depressive episode (early prodromal, late prodromal), but not changed prior to manic episodes. The AR was neither a significant predictor for the early or late prodromal phase of depression nor for the early prodromal phase of (hypo)mania. Decreased AR was found in the late prodromal phase of (hypo)mania. Increased AR was mainly found during depressive episodes.
CONCLUSIONS: AR changes might not be better at predicting depressive episodes than simple self-report measures on current mood in patients with BD. Increased AR was mostly found during depressive episodes. Potentially, changes in AR might anticipate (hypo)manic episodes.
This study is linked to DMID protocol 04-063 and 04-076, "A Randomized, Double Blinded, Placebo-ontrolled, Phase I/II, Dose-Ranging Study of the Safety, Reactogenicity, and Immunogenicity of Intramuscular Inactivated Influenza A/H5N1 Vaccine in Healthy Adults (04-063)" and also "in Healthy Elderly Adults" (04-076). All adult subjects enrolled in the main vaccine trials at Vanderbilt (04-076), Maryland (04-063), and Rochester (04-063) will be eligible for enrollment in the cell-mediated immune response sub-study. A maximum of 232 healthy ambulatory male and female subjects; 180 subjects 18 to 64 years old and 64 subjects aged 65 years and older, in the United States, could be enrolled. The primary objectives are: to establish a reproducible, functional cell-mediated immune response assay to evaluate the magnitude and functional capacity of T cells responding to monovalent subvirion H5 influenza vaccine and to evaluate the percent of subjects demonstrating a CD4+ and/or CD8+ response approximately 14 days after the first vaccination and 14 days and 6 months after the second vaccination (04-063), and 14 days after the first and second vaccination and 14 days and 6 months after the third vaccination (04-076). The secondary objectives are: to evaluate dose-related and age-related humoral immunogenicity compared to the cellular immune responses approximately 14 days after the first vaccination and 14 days and 6 months after the second vaccination (04-063), and 14 days after the first and second vaccination and 14 days and 6 months after the third vaccination (04-076) and to establish CMI assays that can be applied to future avian vaccine immunogenicity evaluation, such as the Chiron H9N2 avian influenza vaccine, future H7 vaccines, or vaccines with other avian HA molecules. The study outcome measure, immunogenicity will be based on H5 strain-specific cell-mediated immunity measured 14 days after the first, second, and third (04-076 only) dose, and month 6 after the last dose of vaccine.
The patients with advanced HIV disease that receive HIV care at the standard of care clinics will receive the usual routine HIV care as per the Uganda national guidelines. That is CD4 testing with flowcytometry or other CD4 testing modalities available, screening for TB and cryptococcal meningitis using Alere LAM and crAg LFA respectively and pre-emptive treatment with isoniazid and rifapentine for 3-6 month. Treatment of all asymptomatic crAG positives with fluconazole as per guidelines.
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide novel bi- and tri-cyclic nucleoside and nucleotide analogues, and oligonucleotides comprising such the components.  <P>SOLUTION: The nucleotide analogues, and termed Locked Nucleoside Analogues (LNA) are able to provide valuable improvement to oligonucleotides with respect to affinity and specificity towards complementary RNA and DNA oligomers. The novel types of LNA-modified oligonucleotides, as well as the LNAs as such, are useful in a wide range of diagnostic applications as well as therapeutic applications. Among these can be mentioned antisense applications, PCR applications, strand displacement oligomers, as substrates for nucleic acid polymerases, as nucleotide based drugs, etc. The present invention also relates to such applications.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patients should be advised of the signs and symptoms of both MAC and tuberculosis, and should be instructed to consult their physicians if they develop new complaints consistent with either of these diseases. In addition, since rifabutin may rarely be associated with myositis and uveitis, patients should be advised to notify their physicians if they develop signs or symptoms suggesting either of these disorders.

Urine, feces, saliva, sputum, perspiration, tears, and skin may be colored brown-orange with rifabutin and some of its metabolites. Soft contact lenses may be permanently stained. Patients to be treated with rifabutin should be made aware of these possibilities.

Diarrhea is a common problem caused by antibacterials which usually ends when the antibacterial is discontinued. Sometimes, after starting treatment with antibacterials, patients can develop watery and bloody stools (with or without stomach cramps and fever) even as late as two or more months after having taken the last dose of the antibacterial. If this occurs, patients should contact their physician as soon as possible.
All facilities will receive a refresher training on Zimbabwe's 2018 Guidelines. At POC facilities, at the first antenatal visit (ANC1), all women enrolled in the intervention cohort will have a blood sample collected for VL which will be tested onsite using an existing POC device. If a woman is virally unsuppressed (VL ≥1000 cpm), she will be given adherence counseling and, if necessary, a treatment regimen switch/infant prophylaxis per national guidelines.
Glimepiride + Metformin (using the participant's current dose(s), or dose recommended by the study clinician). Glimepiride will initially be administered as 1mg once daily, up to a maximum dose of 4mg once daily.
Participants previously treated with sub-retinal injection of BIIB112 in the antecedent study 274RP101 (NCT03116113) will be enrolled. This is a follow-up study, investigational product was administered in the previous study.
PURPOSE: To make the enamel of a tooth permeated with ion and to significantly improve treatment effects by using ionized toothpaste which can be appropriately used for a small-sized electronic device. CONSTITUTION: A series of very trace elements are contained in special bristles (cathode 1) of a toothbrush made of complex tungsten and boron fiber material covered with a nylon layer. The special bristles are firmly fixed on the head 4 of the toothbrush with a binder 3, and attached to a cathode lead line 6 inside the handle 8 of the toothbrush by an electroconductive binder 2. A leaf spring 10 welded to a welding spot 9 at the other end of the lead line is in contact with the negative electrode of a battery 12. When the toothbrush is used, saliva or babbles of the ionized toothpaste fill the gap between the cathode 1 and the anode 5, so that the switch of the series circuit will be on and the return route will be formed. Using this device, dental diseases such as dental caries progressing to the dentin can be effectively treated.
Psychologic stress significantly impacts colorectal cancer, and chronic stress is known to decrease treatment efficacy and survival rates in patients with colorectal cancer. Previous studies have linked psychologic stress to changes in the gut microbiota, and the role of the microbiota in colorectal cancer progression is well characterized. Despite this, the mechanistic link between chronic stress and colorectal cancer remains unclear. In this issue of Cancer Research, Cao and colleagues reveal that chronic stress exacerbates colorectal cancer progression by reducing the presence of Lactobacillus johnsonii (L. johnsonii) and its metabolite protocatechuic acid (PCA). The authors demonstrate an increase in β-catenin expression as the major mechanism by which chronic stress potentiates cancer stemness and pathogenesis. Administration of L. johnsonii or PCA to stressed mice decreased β-catenin activity and colorectal cancer progression. This study defines a precise mechanism underlying chronic stress and colorectal cancer progression, emphasizing the relevance of psychologic well-being in colorectal cancer outcome. In addition, the study demonstrates the potential efficacy of L. johnsonii or PCA supplementation as promising therapeutics for colorectal cancer treatment. See related article by Cao et al., p. 771.
Participants randomly assigned to the exercise condition will complete an 18 session aerobic exercise manipulation supervised by an American College of Sports Medicine-certified personal trainer (3 exercise sessions per week for 6 weeks). Immediately before and after participating in this intervention arm, participants will undergo laboratory evoked thermal pain response testing with placebo-controlled morphine and naloxone administration to assess mechanisms of exercise-related changes.
First group: 68 patients receiving a combination of intermediate-dose cytarabine and an anthracycline. One patient with acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) also received all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA).
INTRODUCTION: Emerging infectious diseases such as SARS-CoV-2 can cause pandemics and create a critical risk for humans. In a previous pilot study, we reported that the immunological responses induced by cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) could decrease the incidence and severity of COVID-19. In this large-scale case-control study, we assessed the possible relationship between mortality and morbidity of COVID-19 in healed CL persons suffering scars compared to cases without CL history.
METHODS: This controlled cross-sectional study was conducted between July 2020 and December 2022 in the endemic and high-burden areas of CL in southeastern Iran. In the study, 1400 previous CL cases with scars and 1,521,329 subjects who had no previous CL were analyzed. We used R 4.0.2 to analyze the data. Firth's bias reduction approach corresponding to the penalization of likelihood logistic regression by Jeffreys was also employed to influence the variables in the dataset. Also, a Bayesian ordinal logistic regression model was performed to explore the COVID-19 severity in both case and referent groups.
RESULTS: The occurrence and severity rate of COVID-19 in CL scar cases are significantly less than in the non-CL control group, while in the CL scar subjects, patients with critical conditions and mortality were not observed. The morbidity (OR = 0.11, CI 0.06-0.20 and P < 0.001) and severity of COVID-19 in previous cases with CL scars were significantly diminished than that in the control group (credible interval - 2.57, - 1.62).
CONCLUSIONS: The results represented a durable negative relationship between cured CL and COVID-19 incidence and severity. Additional studies seem necessary and should be designed to further validate the true impact and underlying mechanistic action of CL on COVID-19.
Diltiazem inhibits the influx of calcium (Ca 2+) ions during membrane depolarization of cardiac and vascular smooth muscle. The therapeutic benefits of diltiazem in supraventricular tachycardias are related to its ability to slow AV nodal conduction time and prolong AV nodal refractoriness. Diltiazem exhibits frequency (use) dependent effects on AV nodal conduction such that it may selectively reduce the heart rate during tachycardias involving the AV node with little or no effect on normal AV nodal conduction at normal heart rates.

Diltiazem slows the ventricular rate in patients with a rapid ventricular response during atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter. Diltiazem converts paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) to normal sinus rhythm by interrupting the reentry circuit in AV nodal reentrant tachycardias and reciprocating tachycardias, e.g., Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW).

Diltiazem prolongs the sinus cycle length. It has no effect on the sinus node recovery time or on the sinoatrial conduction time in patients without SA nodal dysfunction. Diltiazem has no significant electrophysiologic effects on tissues in the heart that are fast sodium channel dependent, e.g., His-Purkinje tissue, atrial and ventricular muscle, and extranodal accessory pathways.

Like other calcium channel antagonists, because of its effect on vascular smooth muscle, diltiazem decreases total peripheral resistance resulting in a decrease in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
Avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder characterised by limited consumption or the avoidance of certain foods, leading to the persistent failure to meet the individual's nutritional and/or energy needs. The disordered eating is not explained by the lack of available food or cultural beliefs. ARFID is often associated with a heightened sensitivity to the sensory features of different types of food and may be more prevalent among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for this reason. Sight loss from malnutrition is one of the most devastating and life-changing complications of ARFID, but difficult to diagnose in young children and those with ASD who have more difficulty with communicating their visual problems to carers and clinicians, leading to delayed treatment and greater probability of irreversible vision loss. In this article, we highlight the importance of diet and nutrition to vision and the diagnostic and therapeutic challenges that clinicians and families may face in looking after children with ARFID who are at risk of sight loss. We recommend a scaled multidisciplinary approach to the early identification, investigation, referral and management of children at risk of nutritional blindness from ARFID.