anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
Unique foamable vehicles or carriers comprising at least one wax, waxy substance, counterpart or derivative, a stabilizer, water, and a propellant are provided. In some embodiments, the wax is a liquid wax. In some embodiments, the wax includes a solid wax and a liquid wax. The compositions are substantially free of crystals. The components are selected to provide a composition that is substantially resistant to aging and to phase separation, and/or can substantially solubilize and or stabilize active ingredients. Pharmaceutical and cosmetic compositions with potentially enhanced skin delivery and their uses are also provided.
The non-adherent dressing is the same as the Tegaderm Matrix dressing, with potassium chloride, rubidium chloride, calcium chloride, zinc chloride, potassium citrate and citric acid removed. This dressing is a Class I medical device (21 CFR Sec. 878.4020 Occlusive wound dressing) that is exempt from premarket notification procedures.
Ischemic stroke is characterized by high incidence, high recurrence rate, high mortality rate and high disability rate. During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, standardized treatment of acute ischemic stroke has been demonstrated to reduce mortality in acute phase. With the rapid economic development and dramatic changes in lifestyle in China, the prevalence of stroke has been increasing significantly and has become a serious public health threat. The global stroke report released by the New England Journal of Medicine in 2018 showed that China has the highest incidence of stroke and burden of stroke related diseases. The national cause of death survey also indicated that stroke is the highest cause of death among urban residents and the second highest among rural residents in China. About 3/4 of stroke patients suffered variable degrees of disability, and the recurrence rate within 1 year after stroke is up to 17.7%, which is much higher than that in the developed countries. Moreover, post-stroke disability brings a heavy burden of economy and human care to the society and family. Stroke prevention is consequently of great importance. Findings from previous studies have repeatedly verified the effectiveness of standard stroke secondary prevention strategies. However, there is a disconnect between stroke prevention and treatment guidelines, and clinical practice, leading to an insufficient application of standard stroke secondary prevention. An improvement of the adherence to secondary ischemic stroke prevention in China has already been demonstrated by the implementation of a guideline-based, structured care program, which has been promoted to more than 150 hospitals and effectively improved stroke prevention and treatment in China. To improve the application of secondary prevention system in primary hospitals, and further reduce the recurrence and disability rate of stroke, and socioeconomic burden in China, the investigators aim to popularize the standard stroke secondary prevention through artificial intelligence technology, thus to establish an economically efficient information management platform for stroke secondary prevention.
Patients undergo 3-dimensional CRT or IMRT QD, 5 days a week for 10-30 days. Treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Unlike for persons after stroke, there is no high-quality evidence of the effectiveness of robot-assisted upper-limb exercise in persons after cervical spinal cord injury. For this reason, we are aiming to conduct a randomised trial. The trial will involve two groups of adult patients admitted to inpatient rehabilitation. One group will receive standard occupational therapy, tailored to the patient's needs and abilities, five times per week for 90 minutes. In addition to the standard occupational therapy, the other group will receive ten 30-minute session of robot-assisted exercise: five sessions of exercise for fingers and hand using a specialised device, and five sessions of gross-motor exercise using an exoskeleton. Three outcome measures will be used to comprehensively assess the patients at the beginning and at the end of the intervention, i.e., upon admission and discharge: the Graded Redefined Assessment of Strength, Sensibility and Prehension (GRASSP; general and Myelopathy version), the Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM), and the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM). The progress in those measures will be compared between the two groups.
Gastric carcinoma (GC) is a high heterogeneity and malignant tumor with a poor prognosis. The current implementation of immunotherapy in GC is limited due to the insufficient exploration of immune-related mutations and speculated early mutation events. Therefore, we performed whole-exome sequencing on 40 patients with GC to explore their genetic characteristics, shedding light on the order of genetic events, somatic mutations impacting the immune microenvironment, and potential biomarkers for immunotherapy. Regarding genetic events, TP53 disruptions were identified as frequent and early events in GC progression, often occurring alongside other gene mutations. The mutations occurring in GANS, SMAD4, and POLE were early independent events. Patients harboring CSMD3, FAT4, FLG, KMT2C, LRP1B, MUC5B, MUC16, PLEC, RNF43, SYNE1, TP53, TTN, XIRP2, and ZFHX4 mutations tended to have decreased B cells, T cells, macrophage, neutrophil, and dendritic cells infiltration, except for the ARID1A gene mutations. We also found patients with microsatellite instability-high tumors had higher homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) scores. HRD showed a positive correlation with tumor mutational burden, which might serve as indirect evidence supporting the potential of HRD as a biomarker for GC. These findings highlighted GC's high heterogeneity and complexity and provided valuable insights into the somatic mutations that affect early genetic progression and immune microenvironment.
Cerebral hemorrhage represents a severe neurological disorder with significant implications for patient health. Numerous factors play a crucial role in determining the prognosis of this condition. In recent years, research has highlighted the polymorphism of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene as being closely associated with cerebrovascular diseases and the recovery of neurological functions. This study aims to explore the influence of APOE gene polymorphism on cerebral oxygen saturation, cerebral electrical activity, and the clinical prognosis of patients experiencing cerebral hemorrhage. The goal is to identify potential new biomarkers that could enhance the management and treatment of individuals who have suffered from this type of bleed in the brain.To investigate this relationship, the study analyzed the ε2, ε3, and ε4 alleles of the APOE gene through gene sequencing techniques. Measurements of cerebral oxygen saturation and electrical brain activity were conducted using specialized equipment including brain oxygen monitors and electroencephalography (EEG) devices. Additionally, detailed clinical data were gathered, encompassing neurological function assessments and the duration of recovery for each patient.A comparative analysis was performed to assess the cerebral oxygen saturation levels, EEG characteristics, and overall prognosis associated with the different APOE genotypes. The findings indicated that patients carrying the APOE ε4 allele exhibited significantly impaired cerebral oxygen metabolism and diminished electrical activity in the initial stages of intracerebral hemorrhage. This impairment potentially results in a worse prognostic outlook when compared to individuals who are non-carriers of the APOE ε4 allele. Furthermore, the relationship between the pulsatility index (PR) and regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rScO2) was found to be negatively correlated. Specifically, patients with intracerebral hemorrhage who exhibited elevated PR levels alongside reduced rScO2 demonstrated poorer clinical outcomes.
Among the challenges that complicate optimal health care delivery in rural settings is lack of communication between care providers and patients. Communication of abnormal laboratory results represents a particular challenge. Laboratory and other test results are often not reported until repeat visits weeks to months later. In the case of treatment failure, severe treatment complications, or evidence of opportunistic infection, such reporting delays likely result in adverse outcomes and potentially compromise future treatment options. The investigators propose to evaluate a novel strategy of communication using SMS text messaging to facilitate patient return to an HIV clinic in Uganda after critical laboratory results.

The investigators will consent and enroll participants at the time of laboratory testing for cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) count, viral loads, acid fast bacteria smears of sputum, among others. Those with abnormal results will be randomized to various messaging formats and receive text messages requesting a prompt return to clinic. For outcomes, the investigators will measure successful receipt and comprehension of messages, as well as proportion returning within 14 days of the abnormal laboratory test.
Male aged 18-40 years. Non-smokers. No known familiar disposition to vascular/heart diseases. No intake of prescription medicine.
Lawsone, a naturally occurring compound found in henna, has been used in traditional medicine for centuries due to its diverse biological activities. In recent years, its nanoparticle-based structure has gained attention in cancer and infectious disease research. This review explores the therapeutic potential of lawsone and its nanoparticles in the context of cancer and infectious diseases. Lawsone exhibits promising anticancer properties by inducing apoptosis and inhibiting cell proliferation, while its nanoparticle formulations enhance targeted delivery and efficacy. Moreover, lawsone demonstrates significant antimicrobial effects against various pathogens. The unique physicochemical properties of lawsone nanoparticles enable efficient cellular uptake and targeted delivery. Potential applications in combination therapy and personalized medicine open new avenues for cancer and infectious disease treatment. While clinical trials are needed to validate their safety and efficacy, lawsone-based nanoparticles offer hope in addressing unmet medical needs and revolutionizing therapeutic approaches.
Participants receive a standard 12-week course of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Relapse Prevention (CBT-RP; Carroll, 1998). The treatment protocol will be implemented over 12 weeks, with two 1-hour sessions per week for the first two weeks and one 1-hour session per week thereafter (i.e., a total of 14 sessions).
Children in the cartoon group will be asked which cartoon they want to watch from the cartoon pool and will be shown the cartoon they want. The cartoon duration is approximately 5 minutes.
In this study we tested whether depression is associated with impaired semantic inhibition, resulting in symptoms of rumination and anhedonia. For this purpose and using the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) college students with depressive states (DEP) and matched controls (CTL) performed a Hayling's task, while EEG and pupillometry measures were recorded. Participants were asked to complete sentential contexts with either a highly associated word (initiation) or a non-related word (inhibition), in response to randomly presented trial-by-trial cues. The DEP group, compared to the CTL group, showed lower performance, and reduced frontal negativity (N450) in inhibition trials. Source analyses revealed greater activation for inhibition trials than for initiation trials in bilateral orbitofrontal cortex for the CTL group, but the difference was reduced and more left lateralized for the DEP group. In addition, the DEP group showed more pupil size reactivity to inhibition trials than the CTL group, indicating higher cognitive effort during semantic inhibition. Finally, self-reported rumination and anhedonia correlated with N450 in inhibition trials, and rumination correlated with pupil dilation. Overall, this research contributes to understanding the neural underpinnings of impaired semantic inhibition in individuals with depression, with potential clinical applications.
The intervention group will continue to receive trastuzumab, pertuzumab, or trastuzumab-emtansine (T-DM1) in the setting of asymptomatic decline in LVEF up to an LVEF of 40% as outlined in the criteria listed in Table 3. For reasons of practicality, in the intervention group, the first dose of trastuzumab, pertuzumab, or trastuzumab-emtansine (T-DM1) after randomization can be administered up to 3 weeks late. This will allow time for the participant to be reviewed by a cardiologist and to receive ACE-I/angiotensin receptor blocker and/or beta-blocker, and for dose titration.
Following surgery for Gross total resection and Gliadel(R) wafers implanted , the patient will receive six weeks of standard fractionated radiation therapy plus daily temozolomide (Temodar(R)) chemotherapy for six weeks. This is followed by a one month break before taking temodar for additional 12 monthly cycles.
Iron therapy in nephropathic patients can allow optimizing treatment with EPO identifying the minimum effective dose capable of improving the patient's quality of life. The most recent studies on iron metabolism and on the interference of iron deficiency syndrome on the performance of some organs, in particular the myocardium, suggest the need to intervene very early, especially in patients with cardiomyopathy and systolic deficit. Setting up an iron therapy in nephropathic patients requires a correct diagnosis. That is particularly difficult in comorbid and inflamed patients because of the poor diagnostic reliability of the main biomarkers (ferritin and transferrin saturation). We need to spread the use of biomarkers that are not influenced by the inflammatory state, not expensive and easily accessible: reticulocyte hemoglobin could meet these requirements. The Pivotal study has delineated the optimal iron treatment in incident hemodialysis patients, treated with EPO not inflamed with classical biomarkers. It is yet to be determined, however, whether the Pivotal results are reproducible in more comorbid patients, also considering new and different therapeutic scenarios that the use of hypoxia-inducible factor-prolyl hydroxyl inhibitors may determine.
BACKGROUND: Postimmunotherapy (IO) treatment options for stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain limited. Docetaxel alone or in combination with ramucirumab remains a standard of care, but response rates and survival benefit are suboptimal. Cullin-RING ligases (CRL) catalyze degradation of tumor suppressor proteins and are overactivated in NSCLC. Neddylation, which is catalyzed by the NEDD8 activating enzyme (NAE), is required for the activation of CRLs. Pevonedistat, a first-in-class small molecule NAE inhibitor, exerted antitumor activity when combined with docetaxel in preclinical studies.
METHODS: We conducted a phase II, single-arm, investigator-initiated study evaluating the efficacy of pevonedistat plus docetaxel in patients with relapsed/refractory stage IV NSCLC. Patients received docetaxel 75 mg/m2 on day 1 and pevonedistat 25 mg/m2 on days 1, 3 and 5 of a 21-day cycle. The primary endpoint was objective response rate (ORR).
RESULTS: From March 5, 2018 to January 26, 2021, we enrolled 31 patients. The ORR was 22% (1 CR, 5 PR), median PFS was 4.1 months, and median OS was 13.2 months. The incidence of Grade ≥3 adverse events (AE) was 53% in patients (n = 30) who received at least 1 dose of both drugs, with the most frequent being neutropenia and AST/ALT elevation. One patient was taken off study for a Grade 4 transaminase elevation. There were no Grade 5 toxicities.
CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that the combination of docetaxel and pevonedistat is safe and exerts activity in patients with relapsed NSCLC. These encouraging results suggest that the neddylation pathway is an antitumor pathway that should be further studied.
Patients receive interleukin-12 (IL-12) IV on days 1 and 4 for 6 weeks. Beginning on day 4 of the third week, patients receive interleukin-2 (IL-2) subcutaneously 1 hour before and 20 hours after each dose of IL-12. On subsequent courses, IL-2 and IL-12 are administered on days 1 and 4 of each week. Treatment continues for 6 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with disease response may continue treatment until complete response or disease progression.
Participants allocated to the usual care (i.e., no physical therapy) group will receive the usual care provided by their obstetricians or gynecologists based on clinical judgment, in addition to the lifestyle advice leaflet provided by the research team. The lifestyle advice leaflet will be given to the participants immediately after the baseline assessment, and the usual care group will have no planned contact with the project staff until 8 weeks after the baseline assessment.
This invention provides a method for the systemic in vivo delivery of oligonucleotides. The invention utilizes the presence of one or plurality of HES linked to an oligonucleotide to deliver a nucleic acid sequence of interest into the cytoplasm of cells and tissues of live organisms. The delivery vehicle is nontoxic to cells and organisms. Since delivery is sequence-independent and crosses membranes in a receptor-independent manner, the delivered oligonucleotide can target complementary sequences in the cytoplasm as well as in the nucleus of live cells. Sequences of bacterial or viral origin can also be targeted. The method can be used for delivery of genes coding for expression of specific proteins, antisense oligonucleotides, siRNAs, shRNAs, Dicer substrates, miRNAs, anti-miRNAs or any nucleic acid sequence in a living organism. The latter include mammals, plants, and microorganisms such as bacteria, protozoa, and viruses.
High grade undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (includes the older designation malignant fibrous histiocytoma \[MFH\]) and other non-GIST connective tissue tumors; may include carcinosarcomas.Sunitinib 37.5 mg daily continuously; one cycle is 28 days. Restaging: after every 2 cycles until after 6 cycles, when restaging will be decreased to once every 3 cycles.
An inhalation device for delivering medication to a user may include a mouthpiece, a dosing chamber, and a flow channel connecting the mouthpiece to the dosing chamber. The dosing chamber may be configured to deliver the medication to the user via the mouthpiece. The inhalation device may include an electronically driven vibratory element, a sensor system configured to generate a pressure signal indicative of air flow through the flow channel, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive the pressure signal from the sensor system (e.g., a micro-electrical mechanical (MEMS) pressure sensor). The controller may be configured to perform an inhalation detection procedure to determine a plurality of successful inhalations. For example, the controller may be configured to generate a trigger signal to control timing of operation of the electronically driven vibratory element to release medication into the dosing chamber based on the plurality of successful inhalations.
The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine composition for preventing oral inflammation and an oral care product containing the same. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is a mixture of three or four of lophatherum gracile, platycodon grandiflorum, liquorice and mint; the traditional Chinese medicine composition is obtained by extracting medicinal plants, wherein the additive amount of the lophatherum gracile extract, platycodon grandiflorum extract and liquorice extract is respectively 0.01-10.0%, and the additive amount of the mint is 0.1-8.0%; and the traditional Chinese medicine composition is applied to the oral care product. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is suitable for people suffering from inflammation and toothache, red eye and swollen throat and sore of lips and tongue. Through a combination technology, the traditional Chinese medicine composition has the functions of clearing heat, decreasing internal heat, and relieving swelling and pain. By applying the traditional Chinese medicine composition to the oral care product, the product has the functions of alleviating redness and swelling of the gum, bleeding, oral ulcer, gingivitis, swelling and pain in throat and the like. The oral care product is natural and safe, is remarkable in curative effect, and is suitable for being used during oral discomfort as well as daily oral care.
Mitochondrial-nuclear communication plays a vital role in maintaining cellular homeostasis. MOTS-c, a short peptide derived from the 12S rRNA of mitochondrial DNA, has been suggested as a retrograde mitochondrial signal. Although recent clinical studies have suggested a possible link between MOTS-c and human cancer, the role of MOTS-c in tumorigenesis has yet to be investigated. Here, MOTS-c levels are found to be reduced in both serum and tumor tissues from ovarian cancer (OC) patients, which are associated with poor patients' prognosis. Exogenous MOTS-c inhibits the proliferation, migration and invasion of OC cells, and induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. Mechanistically, MOTS-c interacts with LARS1 and promotes its ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. In addition, USP7 was identified as a deubiquitinase of LARS1, and MOTS-c can attenuates USP7-mediated LARS1 deubiquitination by competing with USP7 for binding to LARS1. Besides, LARS1 was found to be increased and play an important oncogenic function in OC. More importantly, MOTS-c displays a marked anti-tumor effect on OC growth without systemic toxicity in vivo. In conclusion, this study reveals a crucial role of MOTS-c in OC and provides a possibility for MOTS-c as a therapeutic target for the treatment of this manlignacy.
The aging process induces alterations in the body, resulting in changes in both health-related fitness and specific anthropometric measures. These changes often pose health risks for older adults. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether there is an association between anthropometric indices and muscular, motor, and cardiorespiratory components of health-related fitness in active European older adults. This study included 2687 European older adults, comprising 1999 women and 688 men, with an average age of 70.05 ± 5.5 years. The assessment included health-related fitness using the Senior Fitness Test and anthropometric indices, such as the body adiposity index, body mass index, conicity index, waist-to-hip ratio, and waist-to-height ratio, among others. The results indicated that gender significantly influences the values of physical performance and anthropometric parameters, making them incomparable. The degree of correlation between anthropometric indices and muscular, motor, and cardiorespiratory components of fitness depends on each anthropometric index analysed. The anthropometric index most correlated with physical fitness performance parameters is the waist-to-height ratio (WHR), followed by the body mass index (BMI). Cardiorespiratory endurance and balance are the two physical parameters most correlated with anthropometric indices.