anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
A method of producing a thy A-strain of vibrio cholerae comprising the step of site-directed mutagenesis in the V. cholerae chromosome at the locus of the thy A gene SEQ ID NO: 1 of FIG. 1, is described. Particularly, a .DELTA. thy A strain of of Vibrio cholerae lacking the functionality of the thy A is disclosed. This strain may comprise one or several episomal autonomously replicating DNA elements, such as plasmids, having an optionally foreign, e.g. E. coli, functional thy A gene that enables the strain to grow in the absence of thymine in the growth medium, and optionally having a structural gene encoding a homologous or heterologous protein. Further, proteins encoded by a structural thy A gene and the 5'-flanking region are described as SEQ ID NO:  4 of FIG. 4 and SEQ ID NO: 5 of FIG. 5, respectively.  Additionally, a vaccine comprising a Vibrio cholerae L. thy A strain of the invention or a thy A-strain of Vibrio cholerae produced by the method of the invention is disclosed.
Patients with longstanding IBD have increased risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) compared to the general population. The association between duration of the disease and development of CRC is the rationale for endoscopic surveillance. Colonoscopic surveillance of ulcerative colitis patients has been shown to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer and allow detection at an earlier stage, but even with meticulous examination, some precancerous lesions or cancers are missed. The newly developed LCI system (FUJIFILM Co.) creates clear and bright endoscopic images by using short-wavelength narrow-band laser light combined with white laser light on the basis of BLI technology. LCI makes red areas appear redder and white areas appear whiter. Thus, it is easier to recognize a slight difference in color of the mucosa. This is a study to determine if using Linked color imaging (LCI) of the colon, rather than the usual white light on the colon, will improve the detection of more dysplasia lesions in ulcerative colitis.
Placebo group will take 15 grams of maltodextrin per day for 6 months. Maltodextrin is a sugar adsorbed in the small bowel with no effect on the colonic intestinal microbiota. During the first two weeks the patient is advised to take 7.5 g of the product at breakfast only. Starting in week 3 until the end of the treatment the participant will take 7.5 g at breakfast and 7.5 g at dinner for a total of 6 months, or until you experience a flare.
Patients received 100 mg of oral clomiphene citrate for five days starting on day 3 of the menstrual cycle, followed by daily injection of 150 IU of hMG and when more than two dominant follicles reached a diameter of 17 mm 5,000 IU of hCG was injected intramuscularly. Group C received IUI without ESI and after 24 to 36 hours, IUI was performed.
This will be a randomized placebo-controlled trial. The total study time will be two years of which 3 months are actual trial and follow-up time. Every individual will have 3 measuring points at set intervals. At every measuring point (days 1, 45 and 90), these subjects will undergo 6 different non-invasive measuring techniques. These are the mean visual acuity test using the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) chart, contrast sensitivity using the Pelli-Robson chart, Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope (SLO), Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Heterochromatic Flicker Photometry (HFP) and the Reflectometer. A questionnaire will be taken at the beginning of the trail. The invasive part of the study involves blood sampling at all three times, measuring the serum concentration of lutein, zeaxanthin, omega-3 and lipoprotein using the HPLC analysis.
This study aims to investigate the role of claudin-5 (Cldn5) in cardiac structural integrity. Proteomic analysis was performed to screen the protein profiles in enlarged left atrium from atrial fibrillation (AF) patients. Cldn5 shRNA adeno-associated virus (AAV) or siRNA was injected into the mouse left ventricle or added into HL1 cells respectively to knockdown Cldn5 in cardiomyocytes to observe whether the change of Cldn5 influences cardiac morphology and function, and affects those protein expressions stem from the proteomic analysis. Mitochondrial density and membrane potential were also measured by Mitotracker staining and JC-1 staining under the confocal microscope in HL1 cells. Cldn5 was reduced in cardiomyocytes from the left atrial appendage of AF patients compared to non-AF donors. Proteomic analysis showed 83 proteins were less abundant and 102 proteins were more abundant in AF patients. KEGG pathway analysis showed less abundant CACNA2D2, CACNB2, MYL2 and MAP6 were highly associated with dilated cardiomyopathy. Cldn5 shRNA AAV injection caused severe cardiac atrophy, dilation and myocardial dysfunction in mice. The decreases in mitochondrial numbers and mitochondrial membrane potentials in HL1 cells were observed after Cldn5 knockdown. We demonstrated for the first time the mechanism of Cldn5 downregulation-induced myocyte atrophy and myocardial dysfunction might be associated with the downregulation of CACNA2D2, CACNB2, MYL2 and MAP6, and mitochondrial dysfunction in cardiomyocytes.
Patients receive AMG 479 at a dose of 18 mg/kg administered IV on day 1 (± 3 days) of every 3-week cycle. Treatment should continue until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or withdrawal of consent.
1382881 Dental filling materials ESPE FABRIK PHARMAZEUTISCHER PRPARATE GmbH 14 Jan 1972 [15 Jan 1971] 1783/72 Heading C3P A dental filling material comprises a silicate cement powder in admixture with an aqueous solution of one or more polymers containing more than 50% on a molar basis of units of one or more unsaturated α,#-dicarboxylic acids. A pack may contain a dry silicate cement powder and one or more polymers in dry, solid form, the pack forming the dental filling materials when mixed with water. A multi-component pack may contain a silicate cement powder, one or more polymers and water, at least one of these being separate. In the examples the materials comprise silicate cement powder, polymaleic acid solution and polyitaconic acid solution. Copolymers of maleic acid and itaconic acid and copolymers of unsaturated α,#-dicarboxylic acids with unsaturated monocarboxylic acids may also be used. The polymers may also contain up to 10 mol per cent of monomers free of carboxyl groups.
PURPOSE:To obtain a safe antimicrobial agent for food and cosmetic containing an alkylglucosylamine as an active ingredient and having large effects. CONSTITUTION:The aimed antimicrobial agent containing a compound expressed by the formula (R is >=8C alkyl) as an active ingredient. Glucose in the compound expressed by the formula is a monosaccharide widely existing in nature and D type thereof has antimicrobial activity stronger than that of L type and glucose is reacted with an alkylamine in methanol to readily provide the compound expressed by the formula. The above-mentioned antimicrobial agent exhibits effects by directly adding the agent to food, cosmetic, etc., and added amount thereof is preferably 30-1000ppm based on the food, cosmetic, etc. The above-mentioned antimicrobial agent can be jointly used with other natural antimicrobial agent (e.g. alcohol, organic acid or spice) or synthetic antimicrobial agent (e.g. paraoxybenzoic acid).
INTRUDUCTON: The most accurate method for detecting the pathogen of orthopedic implant-associated infections (OIAIs) is sonication fluid (SF). However, the frequency and duration of ultrasound significantly influence the number and activity of microorganisms. Currently, there is no consensus on the selection of these two parameters. Through this study, the choice of these two parameters is clarified.
METHODS: We established five ultrasonic groups (40kHz/10min, 40kHz/5min, 40 kHz/1min, 20kHz/5min, and 10kHz/5min) based on previous literature. OIAIs models were then developed and applied to ultrasound group treatment. Subsequently, we evaluated the efficiency of bacteria removal by conducting SEM and crystal violet staining. The number of live bacteria in the SF was determined using plate colony count and live/dead bacteria staining.
RESULTS: The results of crystal violet staining revealed that both the 40kHz/5min group and the 40kHz/10min group exhibited a significantly higher bacterial clearance rate compared to the other groups. However, there was no significant difference between the two groups. Additionally, the results of plate colony count and fluorescence staining of live and dead bacteria indicated that the number of live bacteria in the 40kHz/5min SF group was significantly higher than in the other groups.
CONCLUSION: 40kHz/5min ultrasound is the most beneficial for the detection of pathogenic bacteria on the surface of orthopedic implants.
Treatment-seeking insomnia sufferers most often present in primary care where their first and usually only treatment is a prescription hypnotic medication. More than 65% of individuals prescribed hypnotics use them for more than a year, and more than 30% remain on them for more than five years. Such agents may be useful for acute insomnia and certain cases with chronic sleep difficulties, but prolonged hypnotic use can lead to dependency and increased morbidity (e.g., falls, cognitive/driving impairments). Reducing or discontinuing hypnotics after prolonged use is a challenging task for both prescribing physicians and the patients who use them. Although evidenced-based physician-supervised medication tapering (SMT) protocols have shown efficacy, such interventions have yet to be disseminated widely in primary care. Most primary care providers (PCPs) are willing to refer their insomnia patients to alternative evidence-based non-drug treatments such as cognitive behavioral insomnia therapy (CBTI), but such treatment is often difficult to access outside of specialty sleep centers. Given this gap between research and clinical practice, there is a pressing need to develop and validate cost-effective interventions to facilitate the management of insomnia and hypnotic tapering in primary care. This study has been carefully designed to address these issues. Investigators will conduct a large randomized trial (RCT) to compare the combined digital CBT (dCBTI)/SMT intervention, to the SMT intervention delivered alone for producing hypnotic discontinuation and insomnia symptom improvement. A sample of 430 hypnotic-reliant patients drawn from 8-10 primary care clinics within a practice-based research network affiliated with the University of Colorado Medical School in Aurora, Colorado will serve as study participants. The main objective of the project is to compare the performance of dCBTI+SMT with SMT used alone for achieving hypnotic reduction/discontinuation and insomnia symptom improvement. In addition, investigators will incorporate an Effectiveness-Implementation assessment into the RCT to identify patient- provider- and system-level factors that may impact adoption, implementation and maintenance of the types of interventions tested. Findings from the effectiveness/implementation should help design future trials of implementation strategies identified herein to promote dissemination of dCBTI and SMT interventions into primary care should these treatments prove effective in the current trial. Investigators also will gather exploratory data to determine who responds best to dCBTI/SMT. This study will provide new and useful information about the feasibility, clinical utility, and patient-, provider-, and system-level acceptability of these interventions to manage insomnia and reduce/eliminate hypnotic use in primary care. This project should serve as a necessary first step toward the eventual dissemination of accessible, cost-effective strategies to manage a significant public health problem and improve the quality of life of millions of chronic users of controlled-substance sleep aids.
The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (TREM-1) is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily, and its expression is upregulated on phagocytic cells in the presence of bacteria or fungi (1). Several experiments by Bouchon and colleagues showed that TREM-1 mediates the acute inflammatory response to microbial products. Human tissues infected with bacteria are infiltrated with neutrophils and macrophages that express high levels of TREM-1. Conversely, TREM-1 is only weakly expressed in samples from patients with noninfectious inflammatory disorders. In addition, TREM-1 is shed from the membrane of activated phagocytes and can be found in a soluble form in body fluids. The presence of a soluble form of TREM-1 in samples of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from mechanically ventilated patients has been shown to be a good indicator of infectious pneumonia. During sepsis, a progressive decline of plasma sTREM-1 concentration indicates a favorable clinical evolution during the recovery phase of sepsis. In addition, baseline sTREM-1 level may prove useful in predicting outcome of septic patients. We will collect the dialysate of peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients and analyze the time serials change.
A total of 75, non diabetic adults, scheduled for bariatric surgery at Mayo Clinic Rochester, will be enrolled. Of these, 25 will be scheduled for Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass surgery (RYGB), while the remainder (50) will be scheduled for Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG). The study team will play no role in assignment of the surgical procedure. Following surgery, at month 3, subjects undergoing SG will be randomized to either Saxenda or placebo, subcutaneously once daily. Subjects randomized to Saxenda or placebo will take for the duration of the study (33 months). Follow up study visits for all subjects will be timed to coincide with the standard clinical follow up visits at months 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 30 and 36.
PURPOSE: A method of controlling an image diagnosis apparatus and a mobile terminal for the same, and a method of operating the image diagnosis apparatus and an image diagnosis apparatus for the same are provided to render an image diagnosis apparatus capable of separating an input unit and an output unit by using Wi-Fi direct (WFD) or ultra wideband (UWB) communication technology and being remotely controlled through a mobile terminal. CONSTITUTION: A communication unit receives identification information of an image diagnosis apparatus from the image diagnosis apparatus via a Wi-Fi direct (WFD) network or an ultra wideband (UWB) network and transmits an input control command to the image diagnosis apparatus via the WFD or UWB network. A display unit displays a virtual key pad corresponding to the received identification information of the image diagnosis apparatus. A user input unit receives a control command from the outside through the virtual key pad. A control unit controls the communication unit, the display unit, and the user input unit. [Reference numerals] (100) Mobile terminal; (110) Communication unit; (111) WFD module; (112) UWB module; (113) Mobile communication module; (115) Wireless internet module; (117) Position information module; (120) Display unit; (130) User input unit; (140) Memory; (150) Control unit
PURPOSE: In cases of acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) volume estimation is of prognostic and therapeutic value following minimally invasive surgery (MIS). The ABC/2 method is widely used, but suffers from inaccuracies and is time consuming. Supervised machine learning using convolutional neural networks (CNN), trained on large datasets, is suitable for segmentation tasks in medical imaging. Our objective was to develop a CNN based machine learning model for the segmentation of ICH and of the drain and volumetry of ICH following MIS of acute supratentorial ICH on a relatively small dataset.
METHODS: Ninety two scans were assigned to training (n = 29 scans), validation (n = 4 scans) and testing (n = 59 scans) datasets. The mean age (SD) was 70 (± 13.56) years. Male patients were 36. A hierarchical, patch-based CNN for segmentation of ICH and drain was trained. Volume of ICH was calculated from the segmentation mask.
RESULTS: The best performing model achieved a Dice similarity coefficient of 0.86 and 0.91 for the ICH and drain respectively. Automated ICH volumetry yielded high agreement with ground truth (Intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.94 [95% CI: 0.91, 0.97]). Average difference in the ICH volume was 1.33 mL.
CONCLUSION: Using a relatively small dataset, originating from different CT-scanners and with heterogeneous voxel dimensions, we applied a patch-based CNN framework and successfully developed a machine learning model, which accurately segments the intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and the drains. This provides automated and accurate volumetry of the bleeding in acute ICH treated with minimally invasive surgery.
Participants meet individually for 30 - 60 minutes with an occupational therapist for 13 consecutive weeks at a gastroenterology office. Outcome data is collected at baseline (visit 1) and at the end of the study (visit 13), Participants work on two modules per week in-between visits. During visits the participants' weight is recorded, module contents and worksheet information is reviewed and recorded, and suggestions are made as indicated in the clinician guide.
Therapists randomized to this condition will complete a brief self-report measure, the Therapy Process Observational Coding System for Child Psychotherapy Strategies Scale-Self Report version (TPOCS-SR) for each of the recorded clinical encounters with enrolled youth. The TPOCS-SR will be a self-report version of the Therapy Process Observational Coding System for Child Psychotherapy-Strategies Scale (TPOCS-S) and will be created in collaboration with the instrument developer (McLeod). In this condition, the investigators will (a) provide an operational definition for each item on the TPOCS-SR (e.g., cognitive education: teaches client the cognitive model (e.g., thoughts influence behavior)/identifies how the cognitive model applies to a specific aspects of the client's life), and (b) provide therapists with a 30-minute training session that includes sample vignettes of particular behaviors and information about how those vignettes should be rated.
NEW MATERIAL:Aliphatic acid-aspartic acid ester of glycerine of formula I R= C7-17 hydrocarbon group). EXAMPLE:Lauric acid-aspartic acid ester of glyerine. USE:Amphoteric surfactant, having low toxicity, no irritant to the skin, and extremely high safety rate compared with the known surfactants, e.g. alkyldimethylpentane, alkylimidazoline derivatives, etc. Useful for medicated soap, detergent for kitchen, etc. PROCESS:Glycerin aliphatic acid ester of formula II and N-protected aspartic acid or its anhydride are subjected to condensation to give glycerin aliphatic acid-N-protected aspartic acid ester and the protecting group of the ester is removed by an ordinary method, of a glycerin aliphatic acid ester of formula II and a mneral acid salt of aspartic acid anhydride are condensed in the presence of a base, to give the objective compound of formula I.
The dosage of dobutamine infusion is at the discretion of the treating physician but is typically continued until 48 hours after randomization. All other medication will be managed according to the needs of the patient at the discretion of the treating physician.
The hypothalamus is the region of the brain that integrates the neuroendocrine system and whole-body metabolism. Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been reported to exhibit pathological changes in the hypothalamus, such as neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) and amyloid plaques (APs). However, few studies have investigated whether hypothalamic AD pathology is associated with clinical factors. We investigated the association between AD-related pathological changes in the hypothalamus and clinical pictures using autopsied brain samples obtained from deceased residents of a Japanese community. A total of 85 autopsied brain samples were semi-quantitatively analyzed for AD pathology, including NFTs and APs. Our histopathological studies showed that several hypothalamic nuclei, such as the tuberomammillary nucleus (TBM) and lateral hypothalamic area (LHA), are vulnerable to AD pathologies. NFTs are observed in various neuropathological states, including normal cognitive cases, whereas APs are predominantly observed in AD. Regarding the association between hypothalamic AD pathologies and clinical factors, the degree of APs in the TBM and LHA was associated with a lower body mass index while alive, after adjusting for sex and age at death. However, we found no significant association between hypothalamic AD pathology and the prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, or dyslipidemia. Our study showed that a lower BMI, which is a poor prognostic factor of AD, might be associated with hypothalamic AP pathology and highlighted new insights regarding the disruption of the brain-whole body axis in AD.
Participants receive up to two interventions. Participants receive I2 initially and then a second time if not screened after 6 months.
Infants 9 months of age, part of the safety cohort, randomized to receive 3 doses of the iNTS-GMMA Dose B vaccine at Day 1, Day 85 and Day 169. These infants also receive an EPI vaccination with Measles and Rubella Vaccine (MR-VAC) and Yellow Fever (YF) vaccine at 28 days after the first study intervention administration occurring at Day 1, at the local EPI vaccination centers, and not part of the current clinical trial.
This invention discloses methods for preparing compositions of cyclodextrin polymers for carrying drugs and other active agents. Methods are also disclosed for preparing cyclodextrin polymer carriers that release drugs under controlled conditions. The invention also discloses methods for preparing compositions of cyclodextrin polymer carriers that are coupled to biorecognition molecules for targeting the delivery of drugs to their site of action. The advantages of the water soluble (or colloidal) cyclodextrin polymer carrier are: (1) Drugs can be used that are designed for efficacy without conjugation requirements. (2) It will allow the use of drugs designed solely for efficacy without regard for solubility. (3) Unmodified drugs can be delivered as macromolecules and released within the cell. (4) Drugs can be targeted by coupling the carrier to biorecognition molecules. (5) Synthesis methods are independent of the drug to facilitate multiple drug therapies.
The control group will include volunteers over 45 years old with no history of cardio-vascular or neuro-vascular disease. The last will be certified by a pre inclusion protocol containing a medical consultation, a Holter ECG and a trans-thoracic echocardiography. The age of 45 was chosen to get comparable age group and set the analyses free of the age-related effect on the cardiac hemodynamic. The intervention consists of an ECG, holter ECG, Trans thoracic echocardiography ETT, Blood sample and 4D Flow MRI.