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One nucleotide substitution in codon 152 of HLA-A*33030101 results in a novel allele HLA-A*33200. This article is protected by copyright. read more All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Recent Genome Wide Association Studies have identified a number of HLA alleles that are associated with either increased or decreased risk in Follicular Lymphoma. We report a case-control pilot study that aims to validate these studies in a WA population of Follicular Lymphoma patients compared to a control population derived from the Busselton Healthy Ageing Study. We have corroborated the findings of others in demonstrating a significant association of the HLA-DQB1*0501 risk allele in Follicular Lymphoma cases. We do not report any significant changes associated with the protective alleles that have been previously described. These data are discussed with respect to possible mechanisms for HLA associations in Follicular Lymphoma pathogenesis. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. link2 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.(20S, 21S)-7-Cyclohexyl-21-fluorocamptothecin 6 was discovered by a fluorine drug design strategy with potent antitumor activity and increased metabolic stability. In continuous efforts to find novel antitumor agents derived from natural product camptothecin, 20-carbamates of active compound 6 have been designed and synthesized. Among them, compound 10g with diethyl group shows greater antiproliferative activity than the other 20-carbamate derivatives. The following biological activity assays indicates that compound 10g is a valuable lead compound with excellent Topo I inhibitory activity and solution stability. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.The objectives of this study were to assess abortion risk (AR) and the number of piglets that died during suckling periods per litter (DP) in farms infected with porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in relation to herd immunization procedures. Data were obtained from 91 farms in Japan that had PED infection during 2013 to 2014. The 91 PED-positive farms were asked the number of abortions that occurred and DP for 3 months (1 month before PED outbreak (previous month), 1 month after PED outbreak (the month of PED), and from 1 month after PED outbreak to 2 months after PED outbreak (following month)). AR in each month was calculated as the number of abortions divided by sow inventory. Both AR and DP in the month of PED were higher than those in the previous and following months (p less then .05). Farms that performed a herd immunization procedure had higher AR and DP in the month of PED than those that did not perform the procedure (p less then .05). In summary, PED occurrence increased AR and DP. © 2020 Japanese Society of Animal Science.The interaction between CD47 and signal-regulatory protein alpha (SIRPα) inhibits phagocytosis, thus affecting the clinical outcomes of neoplastic diseases. Although CD47 upregulation is associated with poor prognosis in several malignancies, the effect of SIRPα expression and its co-expression with CD47 remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the clinicopathological effect of CD47 and SIRPα expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Immunostaining of 120 biopsy samples showed that CD47 is primarily expressed in tumor cells, whereas SIRPα is expressed in non-neoplastic stromal cells, mostly macrophages. CD47high cases showed higher MYC protein expression and lower MYC translocation. SIRPαhigh cases presented significantly shorter overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) than SIRPαlow cases in the ABC subtype of DLBCL (P = 0.04 and P = 0.02, respectively). Both CD47high and SIRPαhigh presented significantly shorter OS and PFS than other cases among all DLBCL patients (P = 0.01 and P = 0.004, respectively), and the ABC type (P = 0.04 and P = 0.008, respectively) but not the GCB type. Both CD47high and SIRPαhigh yielded a constant independent prognostic value for OS and PFS in multivariate analysis (HR, 2.93; 95% CI, 1.20-7.43; P = 0.02, and HR, 2.87; 95% CI, 1.42-5.85; P = 0.003, respectively). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to report that combinatorial CD47 and SIRPα expression is a potential independent prognostic factor for DLBCL. link3 Evaluation of CD47 and SIRPα expression may be useful before administration of CD47 blockade therapy. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.We surveyed US transplant centers to assess practices regarding the evaluation and selection of living kidney donors based on metabolic, cardiovascular and substance use risk factors. Our companion manuscript describes renal aspects of the evaluation. Response rate was 31%. Compared with 2005, programs have become more accepting of hypertensive candidates 65% in 2017 versus 41% in 2005 consider candidates with hypertension well controlled with one medication. One notable exception is black hypertensive candidates, who are frequently excluded regardless of severity. The most common BMI cut-off remains 35 kg/m2 , and fewer programs now consider candidates with BMI >40 kg/m2 . A 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test of ≥ 140 mg/dL remains the most common criterion for exclusion of prediabetic candidates. A quarter to a third of programs exclude based on isolated cardiac abnormalities, such as mild aortic stenosis; a similar proportion consider these candidates only if older than 50 years. Cigarette or marijuana smoking are infrequently criteria for exclusion, although 45% and 37% programs, respectively, require cessation 4 weeks prior to surgery. In addition to providing an overview of current practices in living kidney donor evaluation, our study highlights the importance of research evaluating outcomes with various comorbidities to guide practice. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is a neurovisceral lipid-storage disease. Although NPC patients show lipid storage in anterior horn cells of the spinal cord, little information is available regarding the electron microscopic analyses of the morphologies of intra-endosomal lipid like-materials in the anterior horn cells of NPC patients. In this study, we elucidated the intra-endosomal ultrastructures in spinal anterior horn cells in an NPC patient, as well as in mutant BALB/c NPC1-/- mice with a retroposon insertion in the NPC1 gene. These morphologies were classified into four types vesicle, multiple concentric sphere (MCS), membrane, and rose flower. The percentages of the composition in the NPC patient and NPC1-/- mice were vesicle (55.5% and 14.9%), MCS (15.7% and 3.4%), membrane (23.6% and 57.1%), and rose flower (5.2% and 24.6%), respectively. Formation of the intra-endosomal structures could proceed as follows (i) a vesicle or MCS buds off the endosome into the lumen; (ii) when a vesicle breaks down, a membrane is formed; and (iii) after an MCS breaks down, a rose flower structure is formed. Our new finding in this study is that ultrastructural morphology is the same between the NPC patient and NPC1-/- mice, although there are differences in the composition. © 2020 Japanese Society of Pathology and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.LESSONS LEARNED Patient compliance with the oral dosage treatment was good, with no need for hospitalization. Patients with tracheal and esophageal fistulas can take crushed apatinib by nutrient tube, with the same bioavailability and efficacy. Apatinib may be an effective and safe second- or further-line treatment for advanced esophageal cancer. BACKGROUND Apatinib is an inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR2), which is thought to play a role in esophageal cancer progression. Our goal was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of apatinib in patients with unresectable esophageal cancer and to examine whether VEGFR2 expression influenced the clinical response. METHODS This single-arm, open-label, investigator-initiated phase II study enrolled patients with advanced squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) or adenocarcinoma of the esophagus or esophagogastric junction who were admitted to Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital between August 2017 and January 2019. Apatinib monot-related AEs, most commonly hypertension (26.7%), diarrhea (20.0%), and hand-foot-skin reaction (10.0%). No patients had grade ≥ 4 treatment-related AEs. CONCLUSION Apatinib was effective as second- or further-line treatment for advanced esophageal cancer. © AlphaMed Press; the data published online to support this summary are the property of the authors.Understanding the mechanisms of T cell homeostatic expansion is crucial for clinical applications of lymphoablative therapies. We previously established that T cell recovery in mouse heart allograft recipients treated with anti-thymocyte globulin (mATG) critically depends on B cells and is mediated by B cell-derived soluble factors. B cell production of IL-1β and IL-6 is markedly up-regulated after heart allotransplantation and lymphoablation. Neutralizing IL-1β or IL-6 with mAb or the use of recipients lacking mature IL-1β, IL-6, IL-1R, MyD88, or IL-6R impair CD4+ and CD8+ T cell recovery and significantly enhance the graft-prolonging efficacy of lymphoablation. Adoptive co-transfer experiments demonstrate a direct effect of IL-6 but not IL-1β on T lymphocytes. Furthermore, B cells incapable of IL-1β or IL-6 production have diminished capacity to mediate T cell reconstitution and initiate heart allograft rejection upon adoptive transfer into mATG treated B cell deficient recipients. These findings reveal the essential role of B cell-derived IL-1β and IL-6 during homeostatic T cell expansion in a clinically relevant model of lymphoablation. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.BACKGROUND This study analysed the effectiveness of plasma rich in growth factors (PRGF) in reducing the oxidative stress induced by blue light exposition on retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. METHODS Blood from six healthy donors was collected to obtain the PRGF. Retinal pigment epithelium (ARPE-19) cells were exposed to blue light. Then, cells were incubated with PRGF or with control for 24 and 48 hours maintaining exposure to blue light. The cytoprotective effect of PRGF on ARPE cells was evaluated by measuring the cell viability, the reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and the expression of different proteins such as heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1), catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD-1), apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF), pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). RESULTS The cell viability increased significantly at 24 and 48 hours after PRGF treatment compared to the control group. ROS synthesis was significantly reduced in PRGF-treated cells with respect to control. Furthermore, the levels of HO-1, SOD-1 and AIF were significantly reduced after PRGF treatment at both times of treatment. However, CAT levels were only significantly reduced after PRGF treatment at 48 hours. The high expression of VEGF by RPE cells exposed to blue light was only counterbalanced in the PRGF group by increasing the expression of PEDF in comparison to the control group. CONCLUSION The present results show that PRGF treatment reduces the cytotoxic effects induced in RPE cells exposed to an oxidative stress environment. Furthermore, PRGF treatment preserves the mitochondrial activity and cell viability of RPE cells subjected to an oxidative stress. © 2020 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists.
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