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Beneath the surface: Amino acid variation underlying two decades of dengue virus antigenic dynamics in Bangkok, Thailand

Angkana T. Huang, Henrik Salje, Ana Coello Escoto et al. · 2022 · PLoS Pathogens

Neutralizing antibodies are important correlates of protection against dengue. Yet, determinants of variation in neutralization across strains within the four dengue virus serotypes (DENV1-4) is imperfectly understood. Studies focus on structural DENV proteins, especially the envelope (E), the primary target of anti-DENV antibodies. Although changes in immune recognition (antigenicity) are often attributed to variation in epitope residues, viral processes influencing conformation and epitope accessibility also affect neutralizability, suggesting possible modulating roles of nonstructural prote

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Temporal validation of machine learning models for pre-eclampsia prediction using routinely collected maternal characteristics: A validation study

Sofonyas Abebaw Tiruneh, Daniel L. Rolnik, Helena Teede et al. · 2025 · Computers in Biology and Medicine

BACKGROUND: Pre-eclampsia (PE) contributes to more than one-fourth of all maternal deaths and half a million newborn deaths worldwide every year. Early screening and interventions can reduce PE incidence and related complications. We aim to 1) temporally validate three existing models (two machine learning (ML) and one logistic regression) developed in the same region and 2) compare the performances of the validated ML models with the logistic regression model in PE prediction. This work addresses a gap in the literature by undertaking a comprehensive evaluation of existing risk prediction mod

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No Clinically Significant Difference Between Adult and Pediatric IKDC Subjective Knee Evaluation Scores in Adults

Nicole Stegmeier, Sameer R. Oak, Colin O’Rourke et al. · 2017 · Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Background: Two versions of the International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) Subjective Knee Evaluation form currently exist: the original version (1999) and a recently modified pediatric-specific version (2011). Comparison of the…

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Effects of the Cessation of Mass Screening for Neuroblastoma at 6 Months of Age: A Population-Based Study in Osaka, Japan

Akiko Ioka, Masami Inoue, Akihiro Yoneda et al. · 2015 · Journal of Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: In 2004, the Japanese government halted the 6-month mass screening program for neuroblastoma. We investigated whether its cessation had led to an increase not only in mortality due to this disease but also in the incidence of advanced-stage disease among older children. METHODS: Study subjects were neuroblastoma patients retrieved from the population-based Osaka Cancer Registry. Trends of incidence and mortality from neuroblastoma were analyzed by calendar year and birth cohort. Prognostic factors, including stage and v-myc avian myelocytomatosis viral oncogene neuroblastoma derive

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Optimal medical care and coronary flow capacity-guided myocardial revascularization vs usual care for chronic coronary artery disease: the CENTURY trial

K. Lance Gould, Nils P. Johnson, Amanda E. Roby et al. · 2025 · European Heart Journal

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The randomized CENTURY trial tested the hypothesis that a comprehensive strategy integrating intense lifestyle modification and aggressive medical management to goals with revascularization reserved for severely reduced coronary flow capacity (CFC) by positron emission tomography (PET) would reduce risk factors, subsequent revascularization, death and myocardial infarction (MI) compared with standard of care in chronic stable coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS: Participants were randomly assigned to standard or comprehensive care groups. Rest-stress PET quantified CFC

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Anti-IFNαR Mabs for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus

Bethan Goulden, David Isenberg · 2020 · Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy

INTRODUCTION: The type 1 interferon pathway is known to play a role in the immunopathology of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). As a result, biologic agents targeting this pathway have been developed and are currently being investigated…

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Efficacy and safety of transcranial direct current stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a randomized, triple-blinded, sham-controlled, crossover trial

Rachel Silvany Quadros Guimarães, Igor D. Bandeira, Bianca Lima Barretto et al. · 2024 · Frontiers in Psychiatry

Introduction: Although pharmacological treatment for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has demonstrated efficacy, several individuals persist in experiencing social and academic impairment. Additionally, the occurrence of significant side effects may render the use of psychotropic medications untenable. However, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, shows promising results in treating ADHD. Objectives: To investigate the efficacy and safety of tDCS on the performance of children and adolescents with ADHD in neuropsychological

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CEOP/IVE/GDP alternating regimen compared with CEOP as the first-line therapy for newly diagnosed patients with peripheral T cell lymphoma: results from a phase 2, multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial

Ming-Ci Cai, Shu Cheng, Xin Wang et al. · 2020 · Genome Medicine

Abstract Background Cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisolone (CHOP)/CHOP-like chemotherapy is widely used in peripheral T cell lymphoma (PTCL). Here we conducted a phase 2, multicenter, randomized, controlled trial, comparing the efficacy and safety of CEOP/IVE/GDP alternating regimen with CEOP in newly diagnosed PTCL. Methods PTCL patients, except for anaplastic large cell lymphoma-anaplastic lymphoma kinase positive, were 1:1 randomly assigned to receive CEOP/IVE/GDP (CEOP, cyclophosphamide 750 mg/m 2 , epirubicin 70 mg/m 2 , vincristine 1.4 mg/m 2 [maximum 2 mg] on day 1

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Evaluation of Pelvic Circular Compression Devices in Severely Injured Trauma Patients with Pelvic Fractures

Josephine Berger-Groch, Johannes M. Rueger, Patrick Czorlich et al. · 2021 · Prehospital Emergency Care

Background: The role of pelvic circumferential compression devices (PCCD) is to temporarily stabilize the pelvic ring, reduce its volume and to tamponade bleeding. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of PCCDs on mortality…

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A pilot trial of vaccination with Carcinoembryonic antigen and Her2/neu peptides in advanced colorectal cancer

Kevin Lynch, Gabriella C. Squeo, William J. Kane et al. · 2021 · International Journal of Cancer

Abstract Checkpoint‐blockade therapy (CBT) is approved for select colorectal cancer (CRC) patents, but additional immunotherapeutic options are needed. We hypothesized that vaccination with carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and Her2/neu…

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Evaluation of the anti‐tumour activity of Coriolus versicolor polysaccharopeptide (I'm‐Yunity) alone or in combination with doxorubicin for canine splenic hemangiosarcoma

Allison Gedney, Pascale C. Salah, Jennifer A. Mahoney et al. · 2022 · Veterinary and Comparative Oncology

Canine splenic hemangiosarcoma (HSA) is an aggressive tumour of vascular endothelium that carries a grave prognosis following standard of care treatment with surgery and doxorubicin. A previous pilot study revealed potential anti-tumour…

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Circulating PD-L1 levels change during bevacizumab-based treatment in recurrent glioma

Maximilian J. Mair, Aysegül Ilhan‐Mutlu, Sahra Pajenda et al. · 2021 · Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy

PURPOSE: In primary brain tumors, the efficacy of immune-modulating therapies is still under investigation as inflammatory responses are restricted by tight immunoregulatory mechanisms in the central nervous system. Here, we measured soluble PD-L1 (sPD-L1) in the plasma of patients with recurrent glioblastoma (GBM) and recurrent WHO grade II-III glioma treated with bevacizumab-based salvage therapy. METHODS: Thirty patients with recurrent GBM and 10 patients with recurrent WHO grade II-III glioma were treated with bevacizumab-based salvage therapy at the Medical University of Vienna. Prior to

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Update on Clinical Trials for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis.

Rohit Nathani, Meena B. Bansal · 2023 · PubMed

Tremendous effort has been put forth over the past 2 decades in understanding the pathophysiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NAFLD/NASH). Although multiple potential targets for drug development…

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Adjuvant chemotherapy could not bring survival benefit to HR-positive, HER2-negative, pT1b-c/N0–1/M0 invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast: a propensity score matching study based on SEER database

Guangfu Hu, Guangxia Hu, Chengjiao Zhang et al. · 2020 · BMC Cancer

BACKGROUND: The benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is still unclear. The objective of the current study was to elucidate the effectiveness of adjuvant chemotherapy in hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, pT1b-c/N0-1/M0 ILC. METHODS: Based on Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER) database, we identified original 12,334 HR-positive, HER2-negative, pT1b-c/N0-1/M0 ILC patients, who were then divided into adjuvant chemotherapy group and control group. End-points were overall survival (OS) and breast

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Clinicopathological features and outcome for neuroendocrine neoplasms of gastroesophageal junction: A population‐based study

Panpan Zhang, Wei Wang, Ming Lu et al. · 2018 · Cancer Medicine

BACKGROUND: Gastroesophageal Junction neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEJ-NENs) are rare and heterogeneous tumors. We aim to analyze the clinicopathlogical features and prognostic factors of GEJ-NENs and to compare the outcome of GEJ-NENs with other gastric NENs. METHODS: A total of 297 GEJ-NENs patients were enrolled from 10 Chinese hospitals and 3152 gastric NENs patients, including 274 GEJ-NENs, were retrieved from Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. RESULTS: The clinical characteristics of GEJ-NENs among different races were different. All Chinese patients had GEJ-NENs o

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Identification of biomarkers of response to abatacept in patients with SLE using deconvolution of whole blood transcriptomic data from a phase IIb clinical trial

Somnath Bandyopadhyay, Seán Connolly, Omar Jabado et al. · 2017 · Lupus Science & Medicine

OBJECTIVE: To characterise patients with active SLE based on pretreatment gene expression-defined peripheral immune cell patterns and identify clusters enriched for potential responders to abatacept treatment. METHODS: This post hoc…

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Did a quality improvement intervention improve quality of maternal health care? Implementation evaluation from a cluster-randomized controlled study

Elysia Larson, Godfrey M Mbaruku, Jessica Cohen et al. · 2019 · International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Abstract Objective To test the success of a maternal healthcare quality improvement intervention in actually improving quality. Design Cluster-randomized controlled study with implementation evaluation; we randomized 12 primary care…

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Human-derived Treg and MSC combination therapy may augment immunosuppressive potency in vitro, but did not improve blood brain barrier integrity in an experimental rat traumatic brain injury model

Henry W. Caplan, Karthik S. Prabhakara, Naama E. Toledano Furman et al. · 2021 · PLOS ONE

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes both physical disruption of the blood brain barrier (BBB) and altered immune responses that can lead to significant secondary brain injury and chronic inflammation within the central nervous system…

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Evolutionary assembly of crown reptile anatomy clarified by late Paleozoic relatives of Neodiapsida

Xavier A. Jenkins, Roger Benson, David P. Ford et al. · 2025 · Peer Community Journal

Living reptiles include more than 20,000 species with disparate ecologies. Direct anatomical evidence from Neodiapsida, which includes the reptile crown-group and its closest extinct relatives, shows that this diversity originates from a single common ancestor that lived over 255 million years ago in the Paleozoic. However, the evolutionary assembly of crown reptile traits is poorly understood due to the lack of anatomically close relatives of Neodiapsida. We present a substantially revised phylogenetic hypothesis, informed by new anatomical data from high-resolution synchrotron tomography of

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Increasing women’s empowerment: Evaluating two interventions in Uganda

Kate Ambler, Kelly Jones, Michael O’Sullivan · 2025 · Journal of Development Economics

We conduct a randomized controlled trial to test a novel intervention for increasing women’s empowerment in Uganda. The intervention includes a within-household transfer of a productive asset, which has a lower cost than an external…

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An International Study of Factors Affecting Variability of Dosimetry Calculations, Part 4: Impact of Fitting Functions in Estimated Absorbed Doses

Sara Kurkowska, Julia Brosch-Lenz, Yuni K. Dewaraja et al. · 2025 · Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Individualized radiopharmaceutical therapies guided by patient-specific absorbed dose (AD) assessments using nuclear medicine imaging have the potential to improve both efficacy and safety. Understanding sources of variability in AD calculations is critical for standardization. The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Dosimetry Task Force launched the 177Lu Dosimetry Challenge to evaluate variability across steps within the dosimetry workflow. This work aimed to assess the variability in ADs due to different fitting and integration methods. Methods: Anonymized datasets from 2 pati

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