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HDL Function Versus Small Dense LDL: Cardiovascular Benefits and Implications

Claudiu Stoicescu, Cristina Văcărescu, Dragoș Cozma · 2025 · Journal of Clinical Medicine

High-density lipoprotein (HDL) and small dense low-density lipoprotein (sdLDL) represent two critical yet contrasting components in lipid metabolism and cardiovascular risk modulation. While HDL has traditionally been viewed as cardioprotective due to its role in reverse cholesterol transport and anti-inflammatory effects, emerging evidence emphasizes that HDL functionality-rather than concentration alone-is pivotal in atheroprotection. Conversely, sdLDL particles are increasingly recognized as highly atherogenic due to their enhanced arterial penetration, oxidative susceptibility, and prolong

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Maximizing the Utility of Alzheimer's Disease Trial Data: Sharing of Baseline A4 and LEARN Data

Gustavo Jimenez‐Maggiora, Arndt‐Peter Schulz, Michael Donohue et al. · 2024 · The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease

BACKGROUND: The Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (A4) and Longitudinal Evaluation of Amyloid Risk and Neurodegeneration (LEARN) studies were conducted between 2014 and 2023, with enrollment completed in 2017 and final study results reported in 2023. The study screening process involved the collection of initial clinical, cognitive, neuroimaging, and genetic measures to determine eligibility. Once randomized, enrolled participants were assessed every four weeks over a 4.5-year follow-up period during which longitudinal clinical, cognitive, and neuroimaging measures wer

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Cetuximab Reduces the Accumulation of Radiolabeled Bevacizumab in Cancer Xenografts without Decreasing VEGF Expression

Sandra Heskamp, Otto C. Boerman, Janneke D.M. Molkenboer‐Kuenen et al. · 2014 · Molecular Pharmaceutics

Bevacizumab and cetuximab are approved for the treatment of cancer. However, in advanced colorectal cancer, addition of cetuximab to chemotherapy with bevacizumab did not improve survival. The reason for the lack of activity remains…

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Oxygen level alters energy metabolism in bovine preimplantation embryos

Nina Boskovic, Marilin Ivask, Gamze Yazgeldi Gunaydin et al. · 2025 · Scientific Reports

Abstract Mammalian preimplantation embryo development is a complex sequence of events. This period of development is sensitive to oxygen (O 2 ) levels that can affect various cellular processes. We compared the influence of O 2 tension by culturing embryos either in normoxic (20% O 2 ) or physiological hypoxic (6% O 2 ) conditions, or sequential low O 2 concentration starting with 6% O 2 until 16-cell stage and then switching to ultrahypoxic conditions (2% O 2 ). Due to ethical concerns, we used bovine as an animal model with a good similarity of embryogenesis to human. We found that the cleav

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Influence of B cell-lineage targeted CAR-T cell therapy on humoral immunity and vaccine-induced antibody response

Stosh Ozog, Elizabeth M. Krantz, Karyn Tindbaek et al. · 2026 · Nature Communications

Abstract Humoral immune-related adverse events, including hypogammaglobulinemia and B cell depletion, pose long-term infection risks after chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy (CARTx) for hematologic malignancies. This prospective…

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Anti-inflammatory agents for the management of COPD - Quo Vadis?

Agamemnon Bakakos, Zoi Sotiropoulou, Nektarios Anagnostopoulos et al. · 2025 · Respiratory Medicine

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality around the globe. Its main characteristics are persistent respiratory symptoms and progressive airflow limitation, both of which are driven by chronic inflammation. Despite the use of maximum bronchodilation and in selected patients inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), current therapies neither halt disease progression nor prevent exacerbations and loss of lung function. Recent research has focused on developing novel anti-inflammatory agents targeting specific pathways implicated in COPD pathogenesis, ai

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Central Sensitization and Nociplastic Pain: Shared Mechanisms in Fibromyalgia, Osteoarthritis, and Inflammatory Arthritis

Fedir Hladkykh, Tetiana Liadova, Mariia Matvieienko et al. · 2026 · Journal of Pain Research

Introduction: Central sensitization explains the mismatch between structural damage or inflammation and pain intensity in chronic musculoskeletal diseases. It defines the phenotype of fibromyalgia and contributes to persistent pain in…

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Efeito de um novo produto fermentado de soja, enriquecido com isoflavonas e cálcio, sobre o tecido ósseo de ratas

Raquel Bedani, Elizeu Antônio Rossi, José Salvador Lepera et al. · 2026 · Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición

The objective was to evaluate the effect of soy fermented product intake on the corporal weight and bone tissue of ovariectomized mature rats. This product was fermented with Enterococcus faecium and Lactobacillus jugurti and enriched with…

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Ganciclovir Therapy for CMV Viremia in a Patient on VV ECMO With COVID-19 After Treatment With Tocilizumab

Leah Amundson, Brandon Boelts, Vivek Kataria et al. · 2021 · Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice

To the Editor: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in a widespread pandemic in which various therapeutics have been studied. Targeted therapies focus on either the viral or the inflammatory phase to ultimately reduce disease…

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Ratcheting down the virulence of SARS‐CoV‐2 in the COVID‐19 pandemic

Adam Brufsky, Michael T. Lotze · 2020 · Journal of Medical Virology

Muller's ratchet1 predicts that when mutation rates are high and a significant proportion of mutations are deleterious, a kind of irreversible ratchet mechanism will gradually decrease the mean fitness of small populations of asexual organisms.2 In cell culture, serial passage of genetically bottlenecked vesicular stomatitis virus, which grew quite rapidly on HeLa cells, severely reduced in fitness and virulence within 20 passages in a novel BHK host cell.2 Genetic bottlenecks are likely important in intraspecies viral transmission.3 RNA-based viruses are particularly prone to repeated bottlen

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Epidemiology of childhood acute kidney injury in England using e-alerts

Lucy Plumb, Anna Casula, Manish D. Sinha et al. · 2023 · Clinical Kidney Journal

ABSTRACT Background Few studies describe the epidemiology of childhood acute kidney injury (AKI) nationally. Laboratories in England are required to issue electronic (e-)alerts for AKI based on serum creatinine changes. This study…

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On the Rapid Calculation of Binding Affinities for Antigen and Antibody Design and Affinity Maturation Simulations

Simone Conti, Edmond Y. Lau, Victor Ovchinnikov · 2022 · Antibodies

The accurate and efficient calculation of protein-protein binding affinities is an essential component in antibody and antigen design and optimization, and in computer modeling of antibody affinity maturation. Such calculations remain challenging despite advances in computer hardware and algorithms, primarily because proteins are flexible molecules, and thus, require explicit or implicit incorporation of multiple conformational states into the computational procedure. The astronomical size of the amino acid sequence space further compounds the challenge by requiring predictions to be computed

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Impact of Coronary Lesion Stability on the Benefit of Emergent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention After Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Louis Pechmajou, Éloi Marijon, Olivier Varenne et al. · 2020 · Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions

Background: Conflicting data exist regarding the benefit of urgent coronary angiogram and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after sudden cardiac arrest, particularly in the absence of ST-segment elevation. We hypothesized that the…

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Chemoradiation ± Atezolizumab in Limited-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer: Results of NRG Oncology/Alliance LU005

Kristin A. Higgins, Chen Hu, Helen J. Ross et al. · 2026 · Journal of Clinical Oncology

PURPOSE NRG Oncology/Alliance LU005 (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03811002 ) tested the addition of atezolizumab to concurrent chemoradiation (CRT) in this open-label, phase III international trial. METHODS Patients with limited-stage…

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The Price of Explainability in Machine Learning Models for 100-Day Readmission Prediction in Heart Failure: Retrospective, Comparative, Machine Learning Study

Amira Soliman, Björn Agvall, Kobra Etminani et al. · 2023 · Journal of Medical Internet Research

BACKGROUND: Sensitive and interpretable machine learning (ML) models can provide valuable assistance to clinicians in managing patients with heart failure (HF) at discharge by identifying individual factors associated with a high risk of readmission. In this cohort study, we delve into the factors driving the potential utility of classification models as decision support tools for predicting readmissions in patients with HF. OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of this study is to assess the trade-off between using deep learning (DL) and traditional ML models to identify the risk of 100-day readmi

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Significant effects of lymph and blood vascular invasion on the prognosis of early‐stage cervical squamous cell carcinoma

Yanna Zhang, Ming Yan, Jiehua He et al. · 2010 · Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research

AIM: In the past 10 years, therapeutic advances have led to improved short-term efficacy for cervical carcinoma; however, the 5-year survival rate was not significantly enhanced. To investigate the effects of blood vessel invasion (BVI)…

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In vivo serotonin 1A receptor hippocampal binding potential in depression and reported childhood adversity

Elizabeth Bartlett, Ashley Yttredahl, Maura Boldrini et al. · 2023 · European Psychiatry

Abstract Background Reported childhood adversity (CA) is associated with development of depression in adulthood and predicts a more severe course of illness. Although elevated serotonin 1A receptor (5-HT 1A R) binding potential, especially…

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Replication of SARS-CoV-2 in cell lines used in public health surveillance programmes with special emphasis on biosafety

Shailesh D. Pawar, Sadhana S. Kode, Sachin S. Keng et al. · 2022 · The Indian Journal of Medical Research

Background & objectives Polio, measles, rubella, influenza and rotavirus surveillance programmes are of great public health importance globally. Virus isolation using cell culture is an integral part of such programmes. Possibility of…

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Replication of genetic associations of chemotherapy-related cardiotoxicity in the adjuvant NSABP B-31 clinical trial

Pooja Advani, Kathryn J. Ruddy, Joerg Herrmann et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Oncology

Background The cardiotoxic effects of doxorubicin, trastuzumab, and other anticancer agents are well known, but molecular genetic testing is lacking for the early identification of patients at risk for therapy-related cardiac toxicity. Methods Using the Agena Bioscience MassARRAY system, we genotyped TRPC6 rs77679196, BRINP1 rs62568637, LDB2 rs55756123, RAB22A rs707557, intergenic rs4305714, LINC01060 rs7698718, and CBR3 rs1056892 (V244M) (previously associated with either doxorubicin or trastuzumab-related cardiotoxicity in the NCCTG N9831 trial of anthracycline-based chemotherapy ± trastuzum

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Development of a tailored intervention targeting sedentary behavior and physical activity in people with stroke and diabetes: A qualitative study using a co-creation framework

Stefan Sjørslev Bodilsen, Mette Aadahl, Troels Wienecke et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences

Purpose: Type 2 diabetes and sedentary behavior pose serious health risks in stroke survivors. Using a co-creation framework, this study aimed to develop an intervention in collaboration with stroke survivors with type 2 diabetes, relatives, and cross-sectoral health care professionals to reduce sedentary behavior and increase physical activity. Materials and methods: = 10) to develop the intervention. A content analysis was used to analyze data. Results: The developed "Everyday Life is Rehabilitation" (ELiR) intervention consisted of a tailored 12-week home-based behavior change intervention

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Lack of benefit from hospitalization in patients with syncope: A propensity analysis

Padma Kaul, Dat T. Tran, Roopinder K. Sandhu et al. · 2020 · Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Patients with syncope are frequently admitted to the hospital, but whether this improves outcome is unknown. We tested whether hospitalization reduced mortality in patients who presented to emergency departments (EDs) with…

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Feasibility study of mobile phone photography as a possible outcome measure of systemic sclerosis-related digital lesions

Adrian K. Davison, Graham Dinsdale, Paul New et al. · 2022 · Rheumatology Advances in Practice

Objective: Clinical trials assessing systemic sclerosis (SSc)-related digital ulcers have been hampered by a lack of reliable outcome measures of healing. Our objective was to assess the feasibility of patients collecting high-quality mobile phone images of their digital lesions as a first step in developing a smartphone-based outcome measure. Methods: Patients with SSc-related digital (finger) lesions photographed one or more lesions each day for 30 days using their smartphone and uploaded the images to a secure Dropbox folder. Image quality was assessed using six criteria: blurriness, shadow

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Hepatic artery infusion of FOLFOX chemotherapy plus camrelizumab combined with sorafenib for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma in Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage C (Double-IA-001): a phase II trial

Lujun Shen, Fei Cao, Ying Liu et al. · 2025 · BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND: Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) with a combination of oxaliplatin, fluorouracil, and leucovorin (FOLFOX) has shown excellent local control for patients with Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage C…

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Milademetan in Advanced Solid Tumors with MDM2 Amplification and Wild-type TP53: Preclinical and Phase II Clinical Trial Results

Ecaterina E. Dumbrava, Thomas E. Stinchcombe, Mrinal M. Gounder et al. · 2025 · Clinical Cancer Research

PURPOSE: Mouse double minute 2 (MDM2) is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that degrades the tumor suppressor p53. In cancers, MDM2 amplification (MDM2amp) leads to overexpression of MDM2, inducing p53 degradation and a p53-null phenotype even in the…

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Prediction of Radiation-Induced Hypothyroidism Using Radiomic Data Analysis Does Not Show Superiority over Standard Normal Tissue Complication Models

Urszula Smyczyńska, Szymon Grabia, Zuzanna Nowicka et al. · 2021 · Cancers

State-of-art normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) models do not take into account more complex individual anatomical variations, which can be objectively quantitated and compared in radiomic analysis. The goal of this project was development of radiomic NTCP model for radiation-induced hypothyroidism (RIHT) using imaging biomarkers (radiomics). We gathered CT images and clinical data from 98 patients, who underwent intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for head and neck cancers with a planned total dose of 70.0 Gy (33–35 fractions). During the 28-month (median) follow-up 27 pat

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