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Tumor necrosis factor-
(TNF-
) is a proinflammatory factor involved in the pathogenesis of immunoglobulin A vasculitis (IgAV). The association between serum TNF-
and disease severity in adult patients with IgAV nephritis (IgAV-N) has been inadequately evaluated.
Serum TNF-
was measured by chemiluminescence immunoassay in 53 renal biopsy-proved IgAV-N patients, 53 healthy controls, and 53 IgA nephropathy (IgAN) patients. The correlations of clinicopathologic parameters of IgAV-N patients with serum TNF-
were analyzed.
In this cross-sectional study, the median age of IgAV-N patients was 29 (25-37) years, and 67.9% were female. Serum TNF-
was significantly higher in the IgAV-N group than in the healthy group [7.4 (5.7-9.4) pg/mL
5.9 (5.0, 7.1) pg/mL,
= 0.001], but comparable with sex, age, and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) grade-matched IgAN patients. Serum creatinine (
= 0.006) and serum cystatin C (
= 0.001) were positively correlated with serum TNF-
level, while albumin (
= 0.014) and eGFR (
= 0.021) were negatively correlated with serum TNF-
level. Multivariate linear regression analysis revealed that eGFR (
= 0.007) was an independent clinical predictor of serum TNF-
. Patients with higher pathological classification grade also had higher serum TNF-
.
Serum TNF-
is associated with renal function and the pathological classification of adult patients with IgAV-N. TNF-
is a potential biomarker for the assessment of IgAV-N severity.
Serum TNF-α is associated with renal function and the pathological classification of adult patients with IgAV-N. TNF-α is a potential biomarker for the assessment of IgAV-N severity.
The predictive value of soluble Klotho (sKlotho) for adverse outcomes in patients on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) is controversial. In this study, we aimed to clarify the potential association of sKlotho levels with adverse outcomes in this patient population.
A total of 211 patients on MHD were identified and stratified according to the median sKlotho level. Patients were followed up for adverse outcomes including cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and all-cause mortality.
During the 36-month follow-up, 75 patients [51 CV events (including 16 CV deaths) and 40 deaths] experienced adverse outcomes. After stratification according to median sKlotho level, patients with a lower sKlotho level had a greater risk of CV events (38.2% vs. 19.5%,
= 0.006), all-cause mortality (28.4% vs. 11.6%,
= 0.003), and combined adverse outcomes (51.0% vs. 24.2%,
< 0.001). Similar observations were made from analyses using Kaplan-Meier survival curves. Cox regression analysis showed that a low sKlotho level was strongly correlated with CV morbidity [1.942 (1.030-3.661),
= 0.040)], all-cause mortality [2.073 (1.023-4.203),
= 0.043], and combined adverse outcomes [1.818 (1.092-3.026),
= 0.021] in fully adjusted models.
The sKlotho level was an independent predictive factor of adverse outcomes including CV morbidity and mortality in patients on MHD.
The sKlotho level was an independent predictive factor of adverse outcomes including CV morbidity and mortality in patients on MHD.
To estimate the relationship between obesity (defined by both BMI and SAD) and various levels of depressive symptoms in women in the United States.
This is a cross-sectional design. All data were collected from NHANES 2011-2012 and 2013-2014. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) was the primary variable used to index depressive symptoms. SAD was assessed using an abdominal caliper. We stratified participates into three groups according to SAD (trisection) T1 low (11.8-18.4 cm), T2 middle (18.5-22.8 cm), and T3 high (22.9-40.1 cm). Caspase pathway Other data were collected following the NHANES protocols. We aimed to investigate the effects of obesity on the depression in the NHANES populations.
A total of 4477 women were enrolled in the final study population. Participants with a high SAD had the highest risk of clinical depression symptoms (OR = 1.2, 95% CI 1.1-1.4), which was, in particular, the case for moderate-severe depression (OR = 1.4, 95% CI 1.1-1.7) and severe depression (OR = 1.4, 95% CI 1.0-1.9). We also found a significant relationship between SAD and BMI (
= 0.836). We did, however, not find a significant relationship between BMI and severe depression.
SAD had a better correlation with clinical depression symptoms than BMI, especially regarding severe depression symptoms.
SAD had a better correlation with clinical depression symptoms than BMI, especially regarding severe depression symptoms.Do chronic fluoxetine treatments reduced footshock-induced posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, including fear and comorbid depression, in the situational reminder phase? Moreover, are the subareas of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), including the cingulate cortex 1 (Cg1), prelimbic cortex (PrL), infralimbic cortex (IL), and basolateral amygdala (BLA), involved in the fluoxetine amelioration of PTSD symptoms? These two crucial issues were addressed in the present study. All mice were injected with chronic fluoxetine or normal saline treatments for the adaptation (14 days), footshock fear conditioning (1 day), and situational reminder (3 days) phases. After adaptation, the mice were subjected to footshock (2 mA, 10 seconds) or nonfootshock and stayed 2 min in a footshock box for 2 min for fear conditioning. Later, they were placed in the footshock box for 2 min in the situational reminder phase. In the final session of the situational reminder phase, a forced swimming test (FST) and immunohistochemical staining were conducted. The results indicated that footshock induced fear and comorbid depression. Meanwhile, chronic fluoxetine treatments reduced fear and depression behaviors. The Cg1, PrL, IL, and BLA were seemingly to increase c-Fos expression after footshock-induced PTSD symptoms in the situational reminder phase. The fluoxetine treatments reduced only the BLA's c-Fos expression. The findings suggest that BLA contributes to the fluoxetine amelioration of PTSD symptoms; however, the mPFC, including the Cg1, PrL, and IL, did not mediate PTSD symptoms' amelioration stemming from fluoxetine. The present data might help us to further understand the neural mechanism of fluoxetine treatments in PTSD symptoms.
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