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Author : Hermann Daugherty | Published On : 18 May 2025
Overexpression of HDAC5 mitigated the calcium deposition induced by miR-134-5p. Our results suggest that a Pi-induced increase of miR-134-5p may cause vascular calcification through repression of HDAC5.DRB1*0897 differs from DRB1*08030201 by one nucleotide substitution at position 485 in exon 3.Sepsis induces pulmonary P2X
receptor (P2X
R) expression and P2X
R-knockout reduced lung inflammation in mice. The present study investigated the expression of circular RNA (circRNA) and mRNA in sepsis-induced acute lung injury (ALI) treated with a P2X
R antagonist.
Sepsis was induced by tracheal administration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and the mice were then divided into two groups without [sepsis+dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)] or with P2X
R antagonist treatment (sepsis+P2X
A). Sham mice were administrated sterile normal saline. Serum levels of interleukin (IL)-1β and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, pathological changes, cell apoptosis and P2X
R expression in lung were assessed, followed by RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and bioinformatics analyses. A quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was used to validate circRNAs and mRNAs.
Compared to the sham group, LPS-induced sepsis produced obvious pathological changes in lung tissue, as well as increased apoptotic lung pression of circRNA (circ_0001679, circ_0001212) and mRNA (Pln, Cdh2 and Nprl3).
Combination immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy has become the mainstay in cancer treatment, and the various antitumor effects of ICIs are being observed. Synchronous multiple primary lung cancers (SMPLCs), which simultaneously involve tumors of different histologies, are often encountered in clinical settings. click here In standard lung cancer treatment, an anticancer drug, usually a platinum-based drug, is administered, and this first treatment provides some antitumor effect. Thus, the initial administration of platinum-based anticancer agent may mask the detection of SMPLCs. The following case represents different antitumor effects on two different primary lung lesions during treatment with ICIs.
A 72-year-old man was referred to our hospital for an abnormal chest shadow, and computed tomography showed masses in the left lower and right upper lungs. Transbronchial lung biopsy from the left lung tumor revealed an adenocarcinoma. Following the administration of pembrolizumab (200 mg/body over 3 weeks) as monotherapy, the tumor in the left lung rapidly reduced in size. However, the tumor in the right upper lung continued to grow. Finally, his disease was diagnosed as SMPLCs of adenocarcinoma and small cell lung cancer.
Bilateral lung lesions considered to be intrapulmonary metastases have completely different responses to ICI treatment. It is necessary to consider a diagnosis of SMPLCs if lesions with different responses to antitumor therapy are observed.
Bilateral lung lesions considered to be intrapulmonary metastases have completely different responses to ICI treatment. It is necessary to consider a diagnosis of SMPLCs if lesions with different responses to antitumor therapy are observed.Numerical simulation of blood flows in patient-specific arteries can be useful for the understanding of vascular diseases, as well as for surgery planning. In this paper, we simulate blood flows in the full cerebral artery of stroke patients. To accurately resolve the flow in this rather complex geometry with stenosis is challenging and it is also important to obtain the results in a short amount of computing time so that the simulation can be used in pre- and/or post-surgery planning. For this purpose, we introduce a highly scalable, parallel non-nested two-level domain decomposition method for the three-dimensional unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with an impedance outlet boundary condition. The problem is discretized with a stabilized finite element method on unstructured meshes in space and a fully implicit method in time, and the large nonlinear systems are solved by a preconditioned parallel Newton-Krylov method with a two-level Schwarz method. The key component of the method is a non-nested coarse problem solved using a subset of processor cores and its solution is interpolated to the fine space using radial basis functions. To validate and verify the proposed algorithm and its highly parallel implementation, we consider a case with available clinical data and show that the computed result matches with the measured data. Further numerical experiments indicate that the proposed method works well for realistic geometry and parameters of a full size cerebral artery of an adult stroke patient on a supercomputers with thousands of processor cores.Genetic eye diseases are phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous, affecting 1 in 1,000 people worldwide. This prevalence can increase in populations where endogamy is a social preference, such as in Arab populations. A retrospective consecutive cohort of 91 patients from 74 unrelated families affected with non-syndromic and syndromic inherited eye disease presenting to the ocular genetics service at Moorfields Eye Hospitals United Arab Emirates (UAE) between 2017 and 2019, underwent clinically accredited genetic testing using targeted gene panels. The mean ± SD age of probands was 27.4 ± 16.2 years, and 45% were female (41/91). The UAE has a diverse and dynamic population, and the main ethnicity of families in this cohort was 74% Arab (n = 55), 8% Indian (n = 6) and 7% Pakistani (n = 5). Fifty-six families (90.3%) were genetically solved, with 69 disease-causing variants in 40 genes. Fourteen novel variants were detected with large deletions in CDHR1 and TTLL5, a multiexon (1-8) duplication in TEAD1 and 11 single nucleotides variants in 9 further genes. ABCA4-retinopathy was the most frequent cause accounting for 21% of cases, with the confirmed UAE founder mutation c.5882G>A p.(Gly1961Glu)/c.2570T>C p.(Leu857Pro) in 25%. High diagnostic yield for UAE patients can guide prognosis, family decision-making, access to clinical trials and approved treatments.Néstor-Guillermo progeria syndrome (NGPS; OMIM 614008) is characterized by early onset and slow progression of symptoms including poor growth, lipoatrophy, pseudosenile facial appearance, and normal cognitive development. In contrast to other progeria syndromes, NGPS is associated with a longer lifespan and higher risk for developing severe skeletal abnormalities. It is an autosomal recessive condition caused by biallelic pathogenic variants in BANF1. There are two previously reported patients with NGPS, both Spanish with molecular diagnoses made in adulthood and having the same homozygous pathogenic variant c.34G > A; p.Ala12Thr. Presented here is a 2 year, 8 month old girl with short stature, poor weight gain, sparse hair, and dysmorphic facial features reminiscent of premature aging. Whole exome sequencing identified the same c.34G > A homozygous pathogenic variant in BANF1 as reported in the previous patients. This is the first reported case of a child and is supporting evidence for this recurrent loss of function variant.
