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The association of absent right superior vena cava and persistent left superior vena cava draining into unroofed coronary sinus with common atrium and the atrioventricular septal defect is an extremely rare form of the congenital cardiac disorder with only one case reported so far, hence, can be missed preoperatively if not carefully looked for. Failure to detect absent right superior vena cava beforehand may otherwise pose difficulties in carrying out invasive surgical or medical interventions.Background Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common form of skin carcinoma. Objective To investigate the function of key miRNA and explore the potential molecular mechanisms involved in BCC. Methods Microarray dataset GSE34535 (including seven BCC samples and seven control samples) was downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus database. Differentially expressed miRNAs (DE-miRNAs) were identified. We enrolled 20 patients with BCC and 20 healthy individuals as a control group, to compare the miR-18a expression in their tissue samples, also the expression of miR-18a in A431 and HaCaT cells was detected. Following this, we up-regulated and down-regulated miR-18a expression in A431 cells to examine the cell proliferation, migration and apoptosis. To further investigate the relative mechanism, the LC3, Beclin 1, Akt and mTOR were examined by Quantitative real-time PCR and Western blot. For further verification, we examined the expression of LC3 in BCC patients and control group. Results Nineteen common DE-miRNAs (thirteen up-regulated and six down-regulated) by BCC and control were identified. miR-18a were about 3-fold higher in BCC tissues and A431 cells compared with the control group. In vitro, down-regulation of miR-18a was shown to inhibit cell proliferation and activate autophagy via Akt/mTOR signaling pathway, while up-regulation of miR-18a promoted cell proliferation of these cells. Compared with the control group, the LC3 was decreased in BCC tissue samples. Conclusions Our data support an oncogenic role of miR-18a through a novel Akt/mTOR/Beclin 1/LC3 axis and suggest that the antitumor effects of miR-18a inhibitor may make it suitable for BCC therapy.Background Approaches to improve keloid scars include intralesional corticosteroid injections and fractional lasers exclusively. The combinative use of ablative fractional laser therapy and occluded topical corticosteroid as a drug delivery method enhances therapeutic outcome of two efficient scar therapy modules into one simple synergistic module. Aim To compare the therapeutic effect of combining two modalities of scar treatment, the first is fractional ablative laser treatment and the other is occluded topical corticosteroid to the standard use of intralesional steroid injection. Methods Keloids from thirty suffering patients were split faced into two identical parts; one part received an intralesional corticosteroid injection while the other part was treated first with fractional ablative 2940 nm Er YAG laser followed by occluded topical application of steroid cream. Four treatment sessions were performed with 4-week interval between sessions. Every session was assessed photographically and using the Vancouver Scar Scale (VSS). Results The mean keloid VSS before treatment was 6.9 ± 1.9. After treatment, the mean keloid VSS of the injection side became 2.63 ± 2.09, and mean keloid VSS of the laser-treated side became 2.07 ± 2.02. Each of the treated halves showed a statistically significant improvement in their VSS. However, no statistically significant differences were observed for either of the treated halves over the other one. Conclusion Although intralesional steroids injection is the standard procedure for treatment of keloid scars, the use of ablative fractional laser-assisted delivery of topical steroid can offer a safer and a better aesthetic treatment option.The Covid 19 outbreak has resulted in a reduction in cancer referrals. AZD5363 The Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland reports a reduction of 72% in pigmented lesion referrals since the pandemic began. This is concerning and likely reflects the fact that people are ignoring symptoms and delaying seeking medical advice due to fears related to Covid 19.In this study, we use some modified semiempirical quantum mechanics (SQM) methods for improving the molecular docking process. To this end, the three popular SQM Hamiltonians, PM6, PM6-D3H4X, and PM7 are employed for geometry optimization of some binding modes of ligands docked into the human cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) by two widely used docking tools, AutoDock and AutoDock Vina. The results were analyzed with two different evaluation metrics the symmetry-corrected heavy-atom RMSD and the fraction of recovered ligand-protein contacts. It is shown that the evaluation of the fraction of recovered contacts is more useful to measure the similarity between two structures when interacting with a protein. It was also found that AutoDock is more successful than AutoDock Vina in producing the correct ligand poses (RMSD≤2.0 Å) and ranking of the poses. It is also demonstrated that the ligand optimization at the SQM level improves the docking results and the SQM structures have a significantly better fit to the observed crystal structures. Finally, the SQM optimizations reduce the number of close contacts in the docking poses and successfully remove most of the clash or bad contacts between ligand and protein.Attractive interactions between carbonyl groups have been studied extensively, primarily due to their prevalence in protein structure. However, prior investigations have pointed to conflicting origins; earlier investigations identified dominant electrostatic dipolar interactions, while others have implicated lone pair n→π* orbital delocalisation. Here we reconcile these observations. A combined experimental and computational approach confirmed the dominance of electrostatic interactions in a new series of synthetic molecular balances, while also highlighting the distance-dependent observation of inductive polarisation manifested via n→π* orbital delocalisation. Computational fiSAPT energy decomposition and natural bonding orbital analyses correlated with experimental data to reveal the contexts in which short-range inductive polarisation augment electrostatic dipolar interactions. Thus, we provide a framework for reconciling the context-dependency of the dominance of electrostatic interactions and the occurence of n→π* orbital delocalisation in C=O···C=O interactions.
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