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Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection is of public health importance due to its high prevalence and infectivity. A positive test for HBV has psychological, emotional, and socio-economic implications that may affect the quality of life of the clients. The media is a major source of information and awareness creation on many health related issues including HBV. This study explored how media messaging on HBV influenced coping among persons infected with HBV. Twelve in-depth interviews were conducted among clients who reported at the STI clinic for routine care at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana. Descriptive content analysis involving deductive and inductive approaches were applied. The findings show that radio was the main source of HBV related information. Misinformation on the transmission, chronicity and prognoses of HBV infection was mostly conveyed by traditional medicine practitioners on the media. These resulted in adverse emotional, social, and physical reactions such as fear and panic, isolation and loneliness, sleeplessness and unsafe health seeking behaviours. However, access to scientific information from health professionals resulted in empowerment and positive coping. More need to be done to regulate the content of HBV-related messages aired so as to avoid misinformation and its consequent negative impact on coping.Lentinan can lead to apoptosis of tumor cells and improve immune function. However, limited research focused on the immunogenic death regulation mechanism of lentinan on mouse H22 cells. The study aimed to explore the effect of Lentinan on the expression of immunogenic death-related proteins in mice H22 cells. MTT method was used to detect and evaluate the effect of 200-1000 μg/mL lentinan on the survival rate of H22 cells after 24 h, 48 h, and 72 h, respectively. Flow cytometry was employed to collect the apoptotic rate of lentinan at different concentrations (200-800μg/mL) on H22 cells for 48 h, and obtain the apoptotic rate of 600 μg/mL lentinan at different times (12-72 h). The effect of Lentinan on the expression of H22 Immunogenic Cell Death proteins was analyzed by ELISA and HPLC-MS afterward. Results suggest that lentinan cytotoxic and pro-apoptotic have a concentration-dependent manner with the H22 cells. Moreover, the rate of apoptosis increased significantly (P  less then  0.05) in 24 h. Lentinan can induce the expression of Calreticulin(CRT), High mobility protein 1(HMGB1), ATP and Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) .Therefore, the antitumor effect of lentinan may be related to the regulation of immunogenic death-related protein expression, which was beneficial to the future development of liver cancer vaccines.Obesity is associated with low-grade chronic inflammation, and metabolic dysregulation. Evidence shows that chronic inflammation inhibits protective immunity mediated by CD4+ T cells. Additionally, obesity-induced inflammation affects prostate cancer progression. However, the effect of obesity on CD4+ T-cell- response to prostate cancer is not well understood. To investigate whether obesity induces changes in CD4+ T cell cytokine profile, cytokine expression was measured in splenic CD4+ T-cells from 10-week-old male C57Bl/6 mice exposed to conditioned media (CM) from macrophages grown in sera from obese subjects. Additionally, expression levels of key regulators of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) were measure in prostate cancer epithelial cells exposed to conditioned media from obesity-modified T-cells. Cell migration and invasion was measured in prostate cancer epithelial cells exposed to CM from obesity-modified CD4+ T-cells. Obesity suppressed the expression of IFNγ and IL-2 in CD4+ T-cells but up-regulated the expression of IL-6. Prostate epithelial cancer cells exposed to conditioned media from obesity-modified T cell increased the expression of EMT markers and showed a higher invasive and migratory capacity.According to outcomes from clinical studies, an intricate relationship occurs between the beneficial microbiota, gut homeostasis, and the host's health status. Numerous studies have confirmed the health-promoting effects of probiotics, particularly in gastrointestinal diseases. On the other hand, the safety issues regarding the consumption of some probiotics are still a matter of debate, thus to overcome the problems related to the application of live probiotic cells in terms of clinical, technological, and economic aspects, microbial-derived biomolecules (postbiotics) were introducing as a potential alternative agent. Presently scientific literature confirms that the postbiotic components can be used as promising tools for both prevention and treatment strategies in gastrointestinal disorders with less undesirable side-effects, particularly in infants and children. Future head-to-head trials are required to distinguish appropriate strains of parent cells, optimal dosages of postbiotics, and assessment of the cost-effectiveness of postbiotics compared to alternative drugs. This review provides an overview of the concept and safety issues regarding postbiotics, with emphasis on their biological role in the treatment of some important gastrointestinal disorders.Four new resorcinol derivatives, namely (-)/(+)-xylarinig A (1), as well as xylarinigs B (2) and C (3), were isolated from the ethyl acetate extracts of the solid fermentation of Xylaria nigripes. Their structures were established by comprehensive spectroscopic analysis combined with electronic circular dichroism (ECD) calculations. Compound 1 is an optical mixture, and was resoluted into optical pure enatiomers (+)-1 and (-)-1 by chiral HPLC. The neuroprotective effects of 1-3 against the damage of PC12 cells induced by oxygen and glucose deprivation (OGD) were evaluated.This mixed methods study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a fully automated, interactive smartphone-delivered intervention for smoking cessation among people living with HIV in Cambodia. Salinosporamide A We used the explanatory sequential design, with a pilot two-group single-blind randomized controlled trial (N = 50) followed by in-depth interviews with all trial participants. In the trial, participants were randomized to Standard Care (SC) or Automated Messaging (AM) group. SC comprised brief advice to quit and self-help materials. AM consisted of the SC components plus a fully automated smartphone-based treatment program that involved interactive and tailored proactive messaging for 2 months. Results showed that the AM approach was highly feasible and efficacious. Feasibility was supported by high rates of treatment engagement (e.g., 81% of delivered messages and assessments were read or completed) and high retention (96%) through the 2-month follow-up. Biochemically verified point prevalence abstinence at follow-up was 40% for the AM group and 8% for the SC group (relative risk 5.
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