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The lenvatinib (LEN) plus everolimus (EVE) combination demonstrated improved progression-free survival over everolimus alone in a phase 2 trial (Study-205).

To compare quality-adjusted time without symptoms of disease progression or toxicity (Q-TWiST) between LEN + EVE and EVE alone among patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) following one prior antiangiogenic therapy.

This was a post hoc analysis of Study-205.

Survival time was partitioned into three mutually exclusive health states time with grade 3/4 toxicity (TOX); time before disease progression and without grade 3/4 toxicity (TWiST); and time after disease progression (REL). The mean time in each state was weighted by utility measures and summed to calculate Q-TWiST. Nonparametric bootstrapping generated 95% confidence intervals (CIs). In the base case, utility for TWiST, TOX, and REL was assigned as 1.0, 0.5, and 0.5, respectively. YUM70 concentration Sensitivity analyses applied alternative utility values for REL, TOX, and TWiST. A relative gain in Q-pared to everolimus alone.
Patients with advanced kidney cancer who had received other previous treatments experienced a clearly clinically important improvement in quality survival time when treated with lenvatinib plus everolimus compared to everolimus alone.This protocol describes the application of the "omnigenic" model of the genetic architecture of complex traits to identify novel "core" genes influencing a disease-associated phenotype. Core genes are hypothesized to directly regulate disease and may serve as therapeutic targets. This protocol leverages GWAS data, a co-expression network, and publicly available data, including the GTEx database and the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium Database, to identify modules enriched for genes with "core-like" characteristics. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Sabik et al. (2020).Dynamic changes in histone modifications mediated by Polycomb group proteins can be indicative of the transition of gene repression mode during development. Here, we present methods for the isolation of mouse neocortical neural progenitor-stem cells (NPCs) and their culture, followed by chromatin immunoprecipitation quantitative PCR (ChIP-qPCR) techniques to examine changes in histone H2A ubiquitination patterns at various developmental stages. This protocol can be applied for both in vitro NPCs and NPCs directly isolated from mouse neocortices. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to (Tsuboi et al., 2018).This protocol describes a method to assess adipocyte numbers within a specific depot based on their inducible genomic label. By extracting DNA from a complete adipose tissue depot stemming from two transgenic mouse lines (Adipoq-CreERT2 x ROSA26-tdRFP and Ucp1-CreERT2 x ROSA26-tdRFP), the number of adipocytes can be determined based on the quantification of the recombined LoxPRed sites. This highly sensitive system allows for the quantification of white, brown, and brite/beige adipocytes in a spatially unbiased and size-independent manner. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Moser et al. (2021).The architecturally stereotypical structure of cerebellum is ideal for investigating the generation of neuronal diversity, but in vitro models for assessing early cerebellar progenitor differentiation were lacking. Here, we report a detailed protocol for long-term in vitro generation of Pax6+ granule cells and Calbindin+ Purkinje cells from common Sox2+ embryonic cerebellar progenitors. We describe the procedure for dissecting mouse cerebellar anlage, cell seeding, and tamoxifen-induced labeling of progenitor cells, followed by time-lapse video recording of clonal expansion and neuronal differentiation. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Zhang et al. (2021).Hippocampal place cells and entorhinal grid cells exhibit distinct spike patterns in different environments called "remapping," and we have recently shown that remapping of place cells becomes disrupted in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Here, we describe our protocol for investigating remapping of place cells and grid cells using a custom-made electrophysiology device, with detailed descriptions and problem-solving tips for the construction and implantation of the recording device. We also provide steps for behavioral training, recording, and data analysis. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Jun et al. (2020).Muscle stem cells (MuSCs) are a rare stem cell population that provides myofibers with a remarkable capacity to regenerate after tissue injury. Here, we have adapted the Cleavage Under Target and Tagmentation technology to the mapping of the chromatin landscape and transcription factor binding in 50,000 activated MuSCs isolated from injured mouse hindlimb muscles. We have applied this same approach to human CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. This protocol could be adapted to any rare stem cell population. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Robinson et al. (2021).Metabolic homeostasis is critical for cell pluripotency and differentiation in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). It has been reported that metabolic changes specifically regulate cellular signaling during hESC differentiation. This protocol describes procedures for both cell culture and detection of intracellular and extracellular metabolites in hESCs by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. link2 Metabolites in glycolysis, citric acid cycle, pentose phosphate pathway, and other metabolic processes can be detected using this approach. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Song et al., (2019), Yang et al., (2019), Meng et al., (2018), and Chen et al., (2011b).Here, we detail our optimized protocol for the identification of drug targets in Leishmania donovani using thermal proteome profiling. This approach is based on the principle that binding of a drug to its protein target can significantly alter the thermal stability of that protein. By monitoring changes in the thermal stability of proteins within drug-treated and untreated cell lysates, using mass spectrometry combined with tandem mass tag labeling, putative targets of the drug can be identified in an unbiased manner. For further details on the use and application of this protocol, please refer to Paradela et al. (2021).Fluorescence-based sensors are powerful molecular tools for studying the spatiotemporal regulation of cell signaling, which is often organized into discrete microdomains. Here, we present a protocol for using fluorescent sensors targeted to endogenous proteins (FluoSTEPs), a new class of fluorescent sensors in which the functional probe is exclusively reconstituted at an endogenously expressed protein of interest associated with a specific microdomain. FluoSTEPs allow microdomain-specific signaling activities to be measured with high selectivity without perturbing the native stoichiometry of signaling components. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Zhang et al. (2020) and Tenner et al. (2021).For a cytopathic virus such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the neutralization capacity of serum from convalescent or vaccinated persons or of therapeutic antibodies can be tested on adherent cell cultures. Here, a simple and tissue culture infectious dose-derived protocol for assessment of neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 is described. Compared with the often applied plaque-forming unit assay, the working load is lower, and fewer manipulations of the infected cultures are required. Hence, the method is safer for the personnel.Experimental work on highly pathogenic viruses such as Ebola virus (EBOV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 requires high-level biosafety facilities. Here, we provide a detailed step-by-step protocol which details the production and application of replication-incompetent murine leukemia virus-based pseudotyped particles to monitor and quantify the viral entry efficiency in human cell lines under biosafety level-2 conditions. We describe the use of viral particles encoding luciferase gene and the quantification of transduction efficiency by measuring luciferase activity. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Imre et al. (2021).Marilyn Silva. Retired from a career in toxicology and risk assessment. Increased childhood and adult obesity are associated with chlorpyrifos (CPF), an organophosphate pesticide. Cannabis (Δ9Tetrahydrocannabinol Δ9THC) use has increased globally with legalization. CPF applications on cannabis crops lacks federally regulated tolerances and may pose health risks through exposure during development and in adulthood. Both CPF and Δ9THC affect the endocannabinoid system (eCBS), a regulator of appetite, energy balance, and gut microbiota, which, if disrupted, increases risk for obesity and related diseases. CPF inhibits eCB metabolism and Δ9THC is a partial agonist/antagonist at the cannabinoid receptor (CB1R). Effects of each on obesogenic parameters were examined via literature search. link3 Male rodents with CPF exposure showed increased body weights, dysbiosis, inflammation and oxidative stress, potentially associated with increased eCBs acting through the gut-microbiota-adipose-brain regulatory loop. Δ9THC generally decreased body weights via partial agonism at the CB1R, lowering levels of eCBs. Dysbiosis and/or oxidative stress associated inflammation occurred with CPF, but these parameters were not tested with Δ9THC. Database deficiencies included limited endpoints to compare between chemicals/age-groups, inter-study variables (dose ranges, dosing vehicle, rodent strain, treatment duration, etc.). CPF and Δ9THC were not tested together, but human co-chemical effects would depend on exposure ratio, subject age, exposure duration, and health status, among others. An overriding concern is that both chemicals are well-documented developmental neurotoxins in addition to their low dose effects on energy balance. A co-exposure risk assessment is warranted with increased use and lack of federal CPF regulation on cannabis.Cell-based in vitro models coupled with high-throughput transcriptomics (HTTr) are increasingly utilized as alternative methods to animal-based toxicity testing. Here, using a panel of 14 chemicals with different risks of human drug-induced liver injury (DILI) and two dosing concentrations, we evaluated an HTTr platform comprised of collagen sandwich primary rat hepatocyte culture and the TempO-Seq surrogate S1500+ (ST) assay. First, the HTTr platform was found to exhibit high reproducibility between technical and biological replicates (r greater than 0.85). Connectivity mapping analysis further demonstrated a high level of inter-platform reproducibility between TempO-Seq data and Affymetrix GeneChip data from the Open TG-GATES project. Second, the TempO-Seq ST assay was shown to be a robust surrogate to the whole transcriptome (WT) assay in capturing chemical-induced changes in gene expression, as evident from correlation analysis, PCA and unsupervised hierarchical clustering. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) using the Hallmark gene set collection also demonstrated consistency in enrichment scores between ST and WT assays.
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