anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
The Ambu aura-i LMA size will be chosen and inserted using the recommended single-handed rotational technique. Subsequently, a manometer was used to inflate the cuff to 60 cm H2O.
The application relates to an application of rutin and F2/PLD shaft in preparing psoriasis medicines. The application utilizes biological information analysis and in-vitro and in-vivo experiment verification to explore the curative effect and action mechanism of rutin for preventing and treating psoriasis. Studies show that external rutin intervenes in an Imiquimod (IMQ) induced psoriasis-like mouse model, so that inflammatory response can be obviously reduced, and network pharmacological analysis shows that F2/PLD is a potential core target for rutin to treat psoriasis. High expression of F2 in psoriasis activates the PLD pathway to promote inflammatory development. The expression of PLD1 and F2 at the skin lesions of the mice model of psoriasis induced by IMQ is increased, and rutin is regulated downwards after the dry process, which shows that rutin can improve inflammatory infiltration, weaken excessive proliferation of cells and improve the skin lesions of psoriasis by regulating the F2/PLD signal path downwards. Rutin is expected to be a clinical medicine for safely and effectively treating psoriasis and preventing and treating the recurrence of psoriasis, and the targeting F2/PLD axis can be used as a novel prevention and treatment method for a novel strategy for preventing and treating psoriasis.
PURPOSE: HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) may increase rates of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM) through risk compensation (eg, an increase in condomless sex or number of partners); however, longitudinal studies exploring the time-dependent nature of PrEP uptake and bacterial STIs are limited. We used marginal structural models to estimate the effect of PrEP uptake on STI incidence.
METHODS: We analyzed data from the iCruise study, an online longitudinal study of 535 Ontarian GBM from July 2017 to April 2018, to estimate the effects of PrEP uptake on incidence of self-reported bacterial STIs (chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis) collected with 12 weekly diaries. The incidence rate was calculated as the number of infections per 100 person-months, with evaluation of the STIs overall and individually. We used marginal structural models to account for time-varying confounding and quantitative bias analysis to evaluate the sensitivity of estimates to nondifferential outcome misclassification.
RESULTS: Participating GBM were followed up for a total of 1,623.5 person-months. Overall, 70 participants (13.1%) took PrEP during the study period. Relative to no uptake, PrEP uptake was associated with an increased incidence rate of gonorrhea (incidence rate ratio = 4.00; 95% CI, 1.67-9.58), but not of chlamydia or syphilis, and not of any bacterial STI overall. Accounting for misclassification, the median incidence rate ratio for gonorrhea was 2.36 (95% simulation interval, 1.08-5.06).
CONCLUSIONS: We observed an increased incidence rate of gonorrhea associated with PrEP uptake among Ontarian GBM that was robust to misclassification. Although our findings support current guidelines for integrating gonorrhea screening with PrEP services, additional research should consider the long-term impact of PrEP among this population.Annals Early Access article.
Alcohol intake provokes severe organ injuries including alcoholic cardiomyopathy with hallmarks of cardiac remodeling and contractile defects. This study examined the toxicity of facilitated ethanol metabolism in alcoholism-evoked changes in myocardial morphology and contractile function, insulin signaling and various cell death domains using cardiac-selective overexpression of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH). WT and ADH mice were offered an alcohol liquid diet for 12 weeks prior to assessment of cardiac geometry, function, ER stress, apoptosis and ferroptosis. Alcohol intake provoked pronounced glucose intolerance, cardiac remodeling and contractile anomalies with apoptosis, ER stress, and ferroptosis, the effects were accentuated by ADH with the exception of global glucose intolerance. Hearts from alcohol ingesting mice displayed dampened insulin-stimulated phosphorylation of insulin receptor (tyr1146) and IRS-1 (tyrosine) along with elevated IRS-1 serine phosphorylation, the effect was augmented by ADH. Alcohol challenge dampened phosphorylation of Akt and GSK-3β, and increased phosphorylation of c-Jun and JNK, the effects were accentuated by ADH. Alcohol challenge promoted ER stress, FK506 binding protein 5 (FKBP5), YAP, apoptosis and ferroptosis, the effects were exaggerated by ADH. Using a short-term ethanol challenge model (3 g/kg, i.p., twice in three days), we found that inhibition of FKBP5-YAP signaling or facilitated ethanol detoxification by Alda-1 alleviated ethanol cardiotoxicity. In vitro study revealed that the ethanol metabolite acetaldehyde evoked cardiac contractile anomalies, lipid peroxidation, and apoptosis, the effects of which were mitigated by Alda-1, inhibition of ER stress, FKBP5 and YAP. These data suggest that facilitated ethanol metabolism via ADH exacerbates alcohol-evoked myocardial remodeling, functional defects, and insulin insensitivity possibly through a FKBP5-YAP-associated regulation of ER stress and ferroptosis.
The present invention encompasses IL-1a binding proteins. Specifically, the invention relates to antibodies that are chimeric, CDR grafted and humanized antibodies. Antibodies of the invention have high affinity for IL-1a and neutralize IL-1a activity. An antibody of the invention can be a full-length antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof. Method of making and method of using the antibodies of the invention are also provided. The antibodies, or antibody portions, of the invention are useful for detecting IL-1a and for inhibiting IL-1a activity, e.g., in a human subject suffering from a disorder in which IL-1a activity is detrimental.
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image display method and device capable of shortening the time required for displaying images, without degrading the resolution of a remark part.  <P>SOLUTION: An operation part 19 is operated and a medical image is selected. A data set 37 of an original image data 38, a compressed image data 39, a partial image data 40 and an arrangement data 41 which relates to the selected medical image is read out of an image server 14 and is transferred to a client terminal 15 via a communications network 12. The original image data 38, compressed image data 39 and partial image data 40, which are transferred to the client terminal 15, are displayed on a monitor 16 in a prescribed order. First, the compressed image 50 is displayed based on the compressed image data 39. Then, the partial image 51 is displayed so as to overlap the compressed image 50, based on the partial data 40 and arrangement data 41. Furthermore, the original image 52 is displayed based on the original image data 38.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves carrying on treatment in three stages. Compresses with hydrophilic inlays applied to lesion areas on the body are administered at the first stage. The inlays are impregnated with mineral water having ingredients in known proportion. Sauna treatment at 70-90 C in two visits is administered at the second stage Shower bath and warm drinks are to be taken before and after sauna visits. Iodinobromine mineral water baths are administered at the third treatment stage. EFFECT: prolonged remission period. 3 cl
The invention provides a polydopamine polyethyleneimine modifier. The invention also provides an anti-esophageal cancer drug containing the same. The invention also provides a preparation method and application thereof in resisting esophageal cancer. The polydopamine polyethyleneimine modifier can be prepared by the following steps: the polyethyleneimine is grafted onto the polydopamine by a michael addition and schiff base reaction. The preparation method is simple and easy to operate, does not need expensive and complicated equipment, and has low process cost and obvious effect. The polydopamine polyethyleneimine modifier can promote apoptosis or necrosis of esophageal cancer cells, has good effect of resisting esophageal cancer, can obviously make up the defects of limited drug-loading amount, insufficient anti-cancer function of a drug-loading coating and the like of a drug-loading esophageal cancer stent, and endows the stent with continuous anti-cancer curative effect.
OBJECTIVES: We assessed preoperative factors predicting the poor therapeutic efficacy of holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) patients.
METHODS: The present study included 159 patients who underwent HoLEP between August 2015 and June 2021 at our institution. Overall therapeutic efficacy was divided into good and poor therapeutic efficacies according to changes in the international prostate symptom score (IPSS), IPSS quality of life (IPSS-QOL), and the maximum urinary flow rate. Patients were divided into good and poor therapeutic efficacy groups based on findings obtained 3 months after HoLEP, and comparative assessments were performed between the two groups.
RESULTS: The therapeutic efficacy of HoLEP was poor in 53 (33.3%) out of 159 patients. Intravesical prostatic protrusion (IPP), IPSS, IPSS-QOL, post-void residual volume (PVR), and the presence of overactive bladder (OAB) were significantly higher in the poor therapeutic efficacy group than in the good therapeutic efficacy group. A multivariable analysis of several factors identified the preoperative presence of OAB and short IPP as independent risk factors for the poor therapeutic efficacy of HoLEP. When treatment efficacy was divided according to risk factors, poor therapeutic efficacy was observed in only 14% of patients with prolonged IPP and the absence of OAB.
CONCLUSIONS: The therapeutic efficacy of HoLEP may be poor in patients with OAB and short IPP, resulting in the significant deterioration of lower urinary tract symptoms. Accordingly, it is important to consider the presence or absence of OAB and IPP measurements when selecting indications for HoLEP.
Preeclampsia remains one of leading causes of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Despite intensive research, the cause of preeclampsia has not been established. One of the theories is exaggeration of systemic inflammatory that might induce reactive oxygen species (ROS). It has been proposed that pregnancy will progress uneventfully if adequate antioxidant exists to buffer ROS. The ROS can induce endothelial dysfunction which leads to clinical symptoms of hypertension and proteinuria in preeclampsia. Several large randomized clinical trials of antioxidant supplementation have concluded that there were no benefits of antioxidants supplementation for prevention of preeclampsia. However, there is limited information about benefits of antioxidants in women with low antioxidant status at early gestation that deprived of the antioxidant most. Our aim, therefore, in this study was to assess whether early supplementation with milk enriched with vitamin and mineral, such as Cu, Zn, Mn, Fe, carotene, vitamin B6, B12, C, E, selenium, and calcium lowers the risk of preeclampsia in women with low antioxidant status at early gestation.
The overall aim of the project is to improve the physiotherapeutic guidelines to enhance the quality of rehabilitation for patients with surgically repaired anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. ACL injury is a severe knee injury that often prevents young individuals from continuing sports activities at their desired level. It can eventually lead to knee osteoarthritis within 10-15 years after the initial injury. Despite existing research on preventive training for young athletes in high-risk sports such as soccer, handball, and floorball, this injury remains common. ACL injury in young female athletes engaged in contact sports is 2-5 times more prevalent compared to young males. Regarding rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction, literature often indicates inadequacies where full muscle strength or jumping ability has not been regained. Despite this, patients often return to sports activities, which may increase the risk of re-injury. Guidelines for structuring rehabilitation, its content, and evaluation need improvement accordingly.
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to broaden our understanding of a potential interaction between B1R and TLR4, considering earlier studies suggesting that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) may trigger B1R stimulation.
METHODS: We assessed the impact of DBK and LPS on the membrane potential of thoracic aortas from C57BL/6, B1R, or TLR4 knockout mice. Additionally, we examined the staining patterns of these receptors in the thoracic aortas of C57BL/6 and in endothelial cells (HBMEC).
RESULTS: DBK does not affect the resting membrane potential of aortic rings in C57BL/6 mice, but it hyperpolarizes preparations in B1KO and TLR4KO mice. The hyperpolarization mechanism in B1KO mice involves B2R, and the TLR4KO response is independent of cytoplasmic calcium influx but relies on potassium channels. Conversely, LPS hyperpolarizes thoracic aorta rings in both C57BL/6 and B1KO mice, with the response unaffected by a B1R antagonist. Interestingly, the absence of B1R alters the LPS response to potassium channels. These activities are independent of nitric oxide synthase (NOS). While exposure to DBK and LPS does not alter B1R and TLR4 mRNA expression, treatment with these agonists increases B1R staining in endothelial cells of thoracic aortic rings and modifies the staining pattern of B1R and TLR4 in endothelial cells. Proximity ligation assay suggests a interaction between the receptors.
CONCLUSION: Our findings provide additional support for a putative connection between B1R and TLR4 signaling. Given the involvement of these receptors and their agonists in inflammation, it suggests that drugs and therapies targeting their effects could be promising therapeutic avenues worth exploring.
The use of uronic acids (esp. D-glucuronic acid or D-glucuronic acid gamma-lactone) as the active substance in the prodn. of geriatric medicaments is new. Uronic acids improve cerebral efficiency, and also improve the efficiency of other organs or organ systems. This can give rise to alleviation of paint (e.g. the pain of arthrosis deformans), gastric, biliary, hepatic and intestinal disorders, skin changes and impaired potency. Medicaments contg. uronic acids can be used for the prophylaxis and curative treatment of various aging disorders and geriatric illnesses. The effects are: restoration or increase of cerebral efficiency; improvement of condition affected by stress or age, mental parameters such as concentration, memory and motivation, reflexes, organic functions (urination, defecation, appetite, muscular coordination), sexual potency, and sense of smell; and increasing of depressed blood pressure.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Data regarding the status of the vertical margin of sessile serrated lesions (SSLs) resected using cold snare polypectomy (CSP) are lacking, and whether a histopathologically positive vertical margin is related to recurrence remains unclear. Therefore, this preliminary study aimed to clarify the rates of positive or unassessable vertical and horizontal margins and the rate of muscularis mucosae resection in SSLs treated using CSP compared with those treated with EMR.
METHODS: Histologic outcomes of patients treated with CSP or EMR for SSLs were evaluated in this single-center observational study. The primary outcome was the incidence of histopathologically positive vertical margins in CSP and EMR. Furthermore, the comparisons were adjusted for confounding factors using propensity score matching.
RESULTS: Overall, 82 patients with SSLs were included in the CSP and EMR groups after matching. The incidence of positive histologic vertical margins in the CSP and EMR groups were 67.1% and 2.4%, respectively (P < .001). Regarding the evaluation of the presence of muscularis mucosae, 29.3% and 98.8% of patients in the CSP and EMR groups, respectively, had a complete muscularis mucosae resection (P < .001).
CONCLUSIONS: A rigorous histopathologic evaluation revealed that for SSLs, CSP more frequently leads to positive vertical margins than EMR. (Clinical trial registration number: UMIN 000051569.).
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease affecting roughly 8% of US children, and is characterized by intermittent symptoms of breathlessness/dyspnea, chest tightness, wheeze, and cough. Although asthma is currently the most common chronic disease in childhood, there are no cures and the underlying etiologies of the various asthma phenotypes still remain unclear. More than half of the 7-8 million pediatric asthma patients in the US have one or more exacerbations each year. A sizable component of asthma's impact on children stems from the recurrent mild-moderate symptoms that cause impaired quality-of-life, activity limitation and exercise avoidance. Uncontrolled asthma frequently disrupts quality of life and is the #1 reason that children miss school and avoid physical activity. Among children with asthma, obesity is a major risk factor for disruptive asthma symptoms. Asthma is conventionally thought to stem from inflammation in the lower airways. However, despite the widespread availability of anti-inflammatory inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) drugs, uncontrolled asthma remains extremely common and appears to be less effective in obese patients.

Pediatric obesity is a risk factor for both new-onset asthma and asthma that has more frequent and refractory symptoms. We found that pediatric obesity increases the risk for spirometry-confirmed asthma by nearly 30%. The mechanistic link between obesity and uncontrolled asthma remains unknown. In general, asthmatic children who are obese experience a reduced response to daily preventative ICS. Pediatric obesity has repeatedly been associated with more frequent and severe asthma symptoms, greater airflow obstruction, need for more frequent albuterol use, and more frequent and severe exacerbations. A consistent finding across most studies of children with both obesity and asthma has been an obesity-related increase in the frequency of chronic asthma symptoms (specifically dyspnea) and asthma-related activity limitation. We found that the greater asthma symptoms seen in obese versus non-obese children were primarily attributable to excess symptoms of dyspnea. Obese adolescents with asthma most commonly report that dyspnea is their most problematic asthma symptom. We hypothesize that the increased asthma symptom reporting in obese asthma, stems not from airway inflammation but rather obesity-related impaired breathing mechanics (i.e. chest restriction). Because of the reduced response to conventional asthma drugs and the resulting excess symptoms, there is a critical need for new treatment approaches for obese children with asthma that is guided by improved mechanistic understanding of this difficult phenotype.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted, more than ever, the acute need for scale up of oxygen therapy. WHO has provided an inventory tool to quantify facility-level provision of infrastructure to deliver oxygen therapy. However, data on the use of oxygen therapy at the patient-level remains lacking. This observational cohort study will enroll patients in LMICs with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 on oxygen or deemed to require oxygen therapy based on objective criteria. Demographics and risk factor information will be collected from participants. Participants will be followed for 7 days or until outcome (hospital discharge or death). Facility level metrics on oxygen availability will also be collected at the beginning of site enrolment.
Mercaptopurine tablets can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. An increased incidence of miscarriage has been reported in women who received mercaptopurine in the first trimester of pregnancy. Adverse embryo-fetal findings, including miscarriage and stillbirth, have been reported in women who received mercaptopurine after the first trimester of pregnancy. Advise pregnant women of the potential risk to a fetus. Advise females of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during treatment with mercaptopurine tablets and for 6 months after the last dose. Advise males with female partners of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during treatment with mercaptopurine tablets and for 3 months after the last dose [see Use in Specific Populations (8.1, 8.3)].
Bone marrow stroma contains multipotential mesenchymal progenitor cells which can differentiate into osteoblastic cells; we refer to these cells as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and bone morphogenetic protein-2(BMP-2) have been implicated in the osteogenic regulatory process by virtue of their mitogenic and differentiation activities, respectively. This study examines and compares the effects of bFGF and BMP-2 on dexamethasone (Dex)-dependent in vitro osteogenic differentiation of rat marrow-derived MSCS. A 6-day exposure to bFGF markedly stimulated cell growth and induced osteoblastic differentiation as shown by osteocalcin MRNA expression (day 14), bone nodule formation (day 18), and calcium deposition (day 18). These results indicate that bFGF enhances both mitogenic activity and osteogenic development of Dex-treated marrow MSCS. In contrast, BMP-2 did not induce an osteogenesis as strongly as bFGF. Thus, exposure to BMP-2 slightly increased bone nodule number and calcium content compared with the control. Exposure of MSCs to both BMP-2 and bFGF induced expression of osteocalcin MRNA and mineralizing bone-like nodules as early as day 11, and resulted in enhancement of bone formation more markedly than either factor alone. Consistent with these results, porous calcium phosphate ceramic cubes implanted in vitro, which were loaded with MSCs pre-exposed to both bFGF and BMP-2, showed higher histologic score for bone formation than those with MSCs pre-exposed to either bFGF or BMP-2. These data indicate that combined treatment with bFGF or BMP-2 synergistically enhances the osteogenic potency of bFGF in rat marrow MSC culture.
Patients who are poor surgical candidates could potentially benefit from non-surgical alternatives such as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). SBRT is an ideal approach to minimize radiation exposure to the normal liver while maximizing the dose to the tumor. Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is the combined use of intra-arterial chemotherapy and particulate arterial embolization. This technique is typically used to make unresectable liver lesions amenable to resection, for palliation in cases of extra-hepatic spread or recurrence, or for symptomatic relief. The combination of intraarterial chemotherapy with vessel embolization makes logical sense since primary and secondary liver tumors derive up to 95% of their blood supply from the hepatic artery, while the normal liver gains the majority of its blood supply from the portal system. Thus, using transarterial chemoembolization it is possible to achieve high intratumor drug concentrations followed by local ischemia, allowing uninvolved liver to be spared. This study is to determine that these standard of care therapies combined to improve the quality of life for the patient population.