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Olfactory threshold scores and the retronasal score were negatively correlated with γ and λ, and the retronasal score was positively correlated with FA values in certain WM tracts, i.e. middle cerebellar peduncle, right inferior cerebellar peduncle, left inferior cerebellar peduncle, right cerebral peduncle, left cerebral peduncle, left cingulum (cingulate gyrus), right cingulum (hippocampus), superior fronto-occipital fasciculus, and, left tapetum. Patients with anosmia demonstrated relevant WM network dysfunction though their structural integrity remained intact. Their retronasal olfaction deficits revealed to be more strongly associated with WM alterations compared with orthonasal olfactory scores.PURPOSE OF REVIEW Peripheral T cell lymphomas (PTCLs) are a heterogeneous group of non-Hodgkin lymphomas with inferior prognosis compared with their B cell counterparts characterized by frequent relapses, resulting in a median 5-year survival of approximately 30%. Their diverse clinicopathologic features challenge existing treatment paradigms that treat all patients uniformly. Here we review recent advances in the treatment of these diseases. RECENT FINDINGS While current treatment still relies largely on combination chemotherapy, the introduction of more effective novel and targeted therapies has improved outcomes in certain subtypes. Increasing understanding of the underlying biology of PTCL has prompted further subclassification by genetic and molecular subgroups. Overall, the most significant advances in PTCL management have resulted from improved understanding and classification of the biology of PTCL. Ongoing development of subtype-specific targeted therapies will be essential to improve long-term outcomes of patients with these diseases.Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common cancer of high mortality, mainly due to the difficulty in diagnosis during its clinical stage. Here we aim to find the gene biomarkers, which are of important significance for diagnosis and treatment. In this work, 3682 differentially expressed genes on HCC were firstly differentiated based on the Cancer Genome Atlas database (TCGA). Co-expression modules of these differentially expressed genes were then constructed based on the weighted correlation network algorithm. The correlation coefficient between the co-expression module and clinical data from the Broad GDAC Firehose was thereafter derived. Finally, the interactive network of genes was then constructed. Then, the hub genes were used to implement enrichment analysis and pathway analysis in the Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) database. Results revealed that the abnormally expressed genes in the module played an important role in the biological process including cell division, sister chromatid cohesion, DNA repair, and G1/S transition of mitotic cell cycle. Meanwhile, these genes also enriched in a few crucial pathways related to Cell cycle, Oocyte meiosis, and p53 signaling. Via investigating the closeness centrality of the interactive network, eight gene biomarkers including the CKAP2, TPX2, CDCA8, KIFC1, MELK, SGO1, RACGAP1, and KIAA1524 gene were discovered, whose functions had been indeed revealed to be correlated with HCC. This study, therefore, suggests that the abnormal expression of those eight genes may be taken as gene biomarkers of HCC.In drug development, late stage toxicity issues of a compound are the main cause of failure in clinical trials. In silico methods are therefore of high importance to guide the early design process to reduce time, costs and animal testing. Technical advances and the ever growing amount of available toxicity data enabled machine learning, especially neural networks, to impact the field of predictive toxicology. In this study, cytotoxicity prediction, one of the earliest handles in drug discovery, is investigated using a deep learning approach trained on a highly consistent in-house data set of over 34,000 compounds with a share of less than 5% of cytotoxic molecules. The model reached a balanced accuracy of over 70%, similar to previously reported studies using Random Forest. Albeit yielding good results, neural networks are often described as a black box lacking deeper mechanistic understanding of the underlying model. To overcome this absence of interpretability, a Deep Taylor Decomposition method is investigated to identify substructures that may be responsible for the cytotoxic effects, the so-called toxicophores. BRD-6929 nmr Furthermore, this study introduces cytotoxicity maps which provide a visual structural interpretation of the relevance of these substructures. Using this approach could be helpful in drug development to predict the potential toxicity of a compound as well as to generate new insights into the toxic mechanism. Moreover, it could also help to de-risk and optimize compounds.BACKGROUND Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is a form of abnormal coronary artery lumen dilatation associated with epicardial flow disturbances and microvascular dysfunction. QRS complex fragmentation (fQRS) in surface ECG is caused by abnormal depolarization due to myocardial ischemia and scarring. It has been proved in different studies to be positively correlated with adverse cardiac events. This study aimed to assess the role of fQRS as a non-invasive predictor of CAE and its anatomical distribution. A total of 100 patients referred for elective coronary angiography were included and divided into 2 groups 50 patients with isolated CAE (group A) and 50 patients with angiographically normal coronaries (group B, control group). Both groups were compared regarding clinical, echocardiographic, and ECG characteristics. RESULTS Univariate analysis showed a significant correlation between male sex, smoking, diabetes mellitus, increased systolic blood pressure, fQRS, echocardiographic evidence of diastolic dysfunction, and CAE (P values of 0.005, 0.002, 0.016, 0.027, 0.0001, and 0.04, respectively). Multivariate regression analysis showed that fQRS is the most important independent predictor for the presence of CAE (P less then 0.00001) with sensitivity 94%, specificity 88%, PPV 88.7%, and NPV 93.6%. We also found a significant correlation between fQRS distribution in surface ECG and anatomical distribution of CAE [increased territories with multivessel affection (P = 0.00001), anterior leads with LAD affection (P = 0.00001), lateral and inferior leads with LCX affection (P = 0.003 and 0.04, respectively), inferior leads with RCA affection (P = 0.00001)]. CONCLUSION fQRS in surface ECG can potentially be used as an effective non-invasive method to predict isolated CAE and its anatomical distribution.
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