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As one symptom can aggravate another, comorbidities in patients with serious mental illness all need to be treated, a task that requires close liaison among medical specialties.
We aim to evaluate the prognostic significance of tumor volume in esophageal cancer.

Patients who underwent curative resection due to esophageal cancer between the years 2015 and 2019 were included in the study. The Tumor Depth Parameter (TDP) was defined as mucosa and submucosa =1, muscularis propria =2, adventitia =3, and invasion into adjacent organs=4. The Tumor Volume Index (TVI) was defined as the major axis X the minor axis X TDP. Two groups were formed based on TVI Group 1 (low TVI) and Group 2 (high TVI). In the groups; patients were compared in terms of demographic and clinical features, intraoperative and postoperative outcomes, characteristics of the tumor and average survival.

The patients were divided into two groups based on the cut-off value of 4,000. Group 1 (low TVI) consisted of 16 patients and Group 2 (high TVI) consisted of 28 patients. Male sex ratio was higher in Group 2 (50% vs 85%, p0.011) Tumor diameter was observed to be larger in Group 2 (3.06 vs 5.54, p0.000). Adenocarcinoma histologic type was more common in Group 2 (25% vs 64.3%, p0.012). Incidence of respiratory complications was higher in Group 2 (0% vs 35.7%, p0.024),Survival time (months) was shorter in Group 2 (36 vs 11, p0.005). TVI's being over 4000 (HR)(95%-Confidence Interval ((Cl) 0.057 (0.011-0.311),p0.001) was an independent risk factor to determine the rate of survival.

TVI can be used as a prognostic factor in patients with esophageal cancer who underwent surgical therapy. TVI is closely associated with tumor histology and postoperative outcomes.

Esophageal cancer, Prognosis, Postoperative complication, Surgical manangment, Survey, Tumor volume.
Esophageal cancer, Prognosis, Postoperative complication, Surgical manangment, Survey, Tumor volume.Carbon dots (CDs) are emerging as an ideal multifunctional materials due to their ease of preparation and excellent properties in medical imaging technology, environmental monitoring, chemical analysis and other fields. N-doped CDs modified with the epithelial cell adhesion molecule antibody (anti-EpCAM-NCDs) were synthesized in an ingenious and high-output approach. Due to the fluorescence enhancement effect of the introduced N atoms, the obtained anti-EpCAM-NCDs exhibited a strong green emission with an absolute quantum yield of up to 32.5%. MEK inhibitor Anti-EpCAM-NCDs have immunofluorescent properties and an active targeting function. The fluorescence effect and fluorescence quenching of anti-EpCAM-NCDs are used to image cells and detect Al3+, respectively. Experimental results show that this probe exhibited a wide linear response to Al3+ over a concentration range of 0-100 μM with a detection limit and quantification limit of 3 nM and 6 nM, respectively. Significantly, anti-EpCAM-NCDs, which have negligible cytotoxicity, excellent biocompatibility and high photostability, could be used for the intracellular imaging of HepG2 cells and the detection of Al3+ in environmental and biological samples. As an efficient multifunctional material, anti-EpCAM-NCDs hold great promise for a number of applications in biological systems.
To investigate the protective effect of arctiin with anti-inflammatory bioactivity against triptolide-induced nephrotoxicity in rats and explore the underlying mechanism.

Forty SD rats were divided into 4 groups for gastric lavage of normal saline, arctiin (500 mg/kg), triptolide (500 μg/kg), or both arctiin (500 mg/kg) and triptolide (500 μg/kg). Blood samples were collected for analysis of biochemical renal parameters, and the renal tissues were harvested for determining the kidney index and for pathological evaluation with HE staining. In the
experiment, HK-2 cells were treated with arctiin and triptolide either alone or in combination, and the cell viability was determined with MTT assay; the cell morphological changes was observed using laser confocal microscopy, cell apoptosis was detected using flow cytometry, and the expressions of inflammation-related protein expression were detected by Western blotting.

In SD rats, arctiin significantly antagonized triptolide-induced elevation of BUN, Scr and kidney index (
< 0.05) and obviously improved renal tissue damages induced by triptolide including cell swelling, vacuolization and spotty necrosis. Arctiin significantly inhibited triptolide-induced cytotoxicity in HK-2 cells and increased the cell viability at 24 h (
< 0.05). Arctiin also attenuated triptolide-induced cell morphological changes, decreased cell apoptosis rate (
< 0.05) and reversed the expressions of IκBα and nuclear p65 (
< 0.05).

Arctiin can protect the kidney from triptolide-induced damages in rats possibly through the anti-inflammatory pathway.
Arctiin can protect the kidney from triptolide-induced damages in rats possibly through the anti-inflammatory pathway.
Haplotype amplification on germline variants is suggested to imply potential selective advantages and clonal expansion susceptibility and has become an important signature for seeking cancer susceptibility gene.Here we propose an improved association method that fully considers the haplotype amplification status.

The haplotype amplification status was estimated by the variant allelic frequencies.We adopted a permutation test on variant allelic frequencies to divide the candidate variants into multiple groups.A likelihood clustering method was then applied to establish the neighborhood system of the hidden Markov random field framework.A filtering pipeline was introduced into the proposed method to further refine the candidate variants, including a Wilson's interval filter and a false discovery rate controller.The final candidate set along with the haplotype amplification status was collapsed into the weighted virtual sites for association tests.

Through simulated tests on a series of datasets, we compared the type Ⅰ error rates of different minor allele frequencies, which stably fell within 2%, suggesting good robustness of the algorithm.In addition, we compared another 5 published association approaches for Type-Ⅰ and Type-Ⅱ error rates with the proposed method, which resulted in the error rates all within 2%, demonstrating significant advantages and a good statistical ability of the proposed method.

The proposed method can accurately identify tumor susceptibility variants in haplotype amplification area with good robustness and stability.
The proposed method can accurately identify tumor susceptibility variants in haplotype amplification area with good robustness and stability.
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