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We observed significant correlation of dimensions of the quality of life with distress, post-traumatic stress, and optimism. Interventions for improving the quality of life of patients with colorectal cancer should be individualized based on the specific diagnosis and the presence/absence of colostomy/ileostomy.CD38 is a transmembrane glycoprotein that is widely expressed in a variety of human tissues and cells, especially those in the immune system. CD38 protein was previously considered as a cell activation marker, and today monoclonal antibodies targeting CD38 have witnessed great achievements in multiple myeloma and promoted researchers to conduct research on other tumors. In this review, we provide a wide-ranging review of the biology and function of the human molecule outside the field of myeloma. We focus mainly on current research findings to summarize and update the findings gathered from diverse areas of study. Based on these findings, we attempt to extend the role of CD38 in the context of therapy of solid tumors and expand the role of the molecule from a simple marker to an immunomodulator.Latinx is the largest minority population group in the United States and disproportionately affected by health disparities. Efforts to address such health disparities require a concerted, multipronged approach that should involve training the next generation of Latinx health professionals to become part of a culturally competent workforce. This article describes a formative assessment of a faculty mentored undergraduate research program at the University Massachusetts-Boston, called "Avancemos! Advancing Research Skills and Professional Career Opportunities in Health Sciences for Latinx Undergraduate Students" designed to provide mentorship, research training, and professional career development skills for undergraduate Latinx students. We employed a mixed-method approach in the formative assessment of the program. Our results showed that over the course of four academic semesters the program served a majority female, first-generation, immigrant low-income Latinx undergraduate students. Our qualitative assessment of students' perceived benefits of participation in the program suggests positive effects on a number of areas including the acquisition of concrete and marketable research skills, enhanced understanding and application of knowledge gained in other courses, increased network, enhanced sense of belonging to the academic community, increased professional self-confidence, and enhanced preparedness and plans to pursue graduate studies. Furthermore, our findings suggest that participation in community-engaged research activities offered opportunities for students to realize the role research plays in reducing health disparities. Faculty-mentored undergraduate research programs such as the Avancemos! offer essential opportunities to build partnerships between academia and underserved Latinx communities to address health disparities, while contributing to the development of culturally competent health professions workforce.Background The purpose of the Texas!Grow!Eat!Go! (TGEG) study was to assess individual and combined effects of school-based gardening and physical activity (PA) interventions on children's eating and PA behaviors and obesity status. Methods Using a 2 × 2 design, 28 low-income schools in Texas were randomized to 1 of 4 conditions (1) School Garden intervention (Learn!Grow!Eat!Go! [LGEG]), (2) PA intervention (Walk Across Texas [WAT!]), (3) both Garden and PA intervention (Combined), or (4) neither Garden nor PA intervention (Control). Participants included 1326 third grade students and parents (42% Hispanic; 78% free/reduced lunch). Student and parent data were collected at the beginning and end of the school year. Two different sets of analyses measuring pre-post changes in outcomes within and across conditions were estimated by factorial ANOVAs using mixed models adjusted for demographics. Results Main effect analyses indicate that relative to children at schools that did not receive LGEG, children at schools that received LGEG, either individually or in combination with WAT!, showed significant increases in Nutrition knowledge, Vegetable preference, and Vegetable tasted (p  less then  0.001 in all cases). Within-group analyses show that compared to Comparison, children in the WAT! group significantly increased in the amount of time parents and children were active together (p = 0.038). In addition, children in LGEG and WAT! schools significantly decreased BMI percentile (p = 0.042, p = 0.039, respectively), relative to children in Comparison schools. Conclusions Both the garden and PA interventions independently produced significant changes related to healthy lifestyle behaviors. However, combining the two interventions did not show greater impact than the single interventions, underscoring the need for more research to determine how to better implement comprehensive interventions at schools.Background Many families with young children practice nutrition, parenting, and lifestyle behaviors that set their children on trajectories for unhealthful weight gain. Potential adverse health effects of excessive body fat can result in the secretion of proinflammatory molecules and increased risk of inflammation and metabolic diseases. A pediatric obesity risk assessment tool named Healthy Kids (HK), demonstrated validity in a longitudinal study with child's measured BMI and 36-hour diet, screen, sleep, and activity logs. Our objective was to provide additional evidence of validity with low-income families with literacy issues using an inflammation index composed of four proinflammatory biomarkers. Methods Parent/child pairs (n = 104) from Head Start and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provided HK, blood samples, and measured heights/weights. Select child inflammatory markers were discretized into two groups of HK scores. Data were analyzed with a mixed model adjusted for children's age and BMI. Results A significant HK-time interaction effect was shown for the child inflammation index with two data collection points 1 year apart (pdid = 0.039). This index increased over 12 months in children with less healthful behaviors (p = 0.007), but not in children with more healthful profiles (p = 0.58). Conclusions Children with less healthful HK scores had an elevated inflammation index indicating a low-grade chronic systemic inflammatory state. Taken together with our previously published findings, the HK tool has potential as a rapid and easy-to-administer assessment of the family environment and the child's obesity risk. HK can be useful for federal nutrition programs for evaluation, risk assessment, goal setting, and/or program planning in clinical and community environments.In this study, a social media analysis is conducted to examine the public discourse about the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic on Twitter. In particular, this study aims to examine (a) how the number of tweets varies as a function of the timeline of the pandemic and associated measures and (b) how the content of these tweets, including displayed emotions, changes. Therefore, 373,908 tweets and retweets from Belgium were collected from February 25, 2020 to the March 30. Time series analysis, network bigrams, topic models, and emotional lexica were deployed for analysis. The results showed that significant events related to the virus correlated with an immediate increase in the number of tweets addressing them. Furthermore, the Belgian Twitter discourse was characterized by positively connoted words, which also refer to European solidarity. These findings do not only stress the relevance of Twitter as a medium for public discourse during lockdowns, but also seem to indicate that the Belgian public supports policy measures that respect solidarity in Europe.Background MicroRNA (miRNA) has been verified as the significant factor to participate in the progression of colon cancer (CC). In this study, the authors are committed to investigate the mechanism and function of miR-548a-3p in CC. Methods Bioinformatics analysis was used to analyze the mRNA expression profile and miRNA expression profile from GEO data series. The expression of miRNA and mRNA was analyzed by real-time quantification polymerase chain reaction in 43 pairs of CC clinical tissue samples and CC cells. The western blot assay was used to detect the TPX2 protein. Then, SW480 and HCT116 cells were stably transfected with miR-548a-3p mimic, miR-548a-3p inhibitor, TPX2 overexpression, and TPX2 siRNA constructs to study the effects of miR-548a-3p and TPX2. Cellular functional experiments included cell counting kit-8 assay, BrdU incorporation assay, and wound healing assay. In addition, luciferase reporter assay was applied to detect the regulatory association between miR-548a-3p and TPX2. Results TPX2 and miR-548a-3p were identified as the interested mRNA and miRNA by microarray analysis. In CC tissues and cell lines, miR-548a-3p with low expression and TPX2 with high expression were observed. What's more, exogenous overexpressed miR-548a-3p impaired the cell viability, cell proliferation, and cell migration, while TPX2 overexpression enhanced the malignancy phenotypes. However, the promotion effect of TPX2 on CC cells was impaired by miR-548a-3p. Conclusion This study revealed that miR-548a-3p attenuated the development of CC by targeting TPX2.Breast cancer is projected to be the most common cancer in women in 2020 in the USA. Despite high remission rates treatment side effects remain an issue, hence the interest in novel approaches such as immunotherapies which aim to utilize patients' immune systems to target cancer cells. This review summarizes the basics of breast cancer including staging and treatment options, followed by a discussion on immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint blockade. After this, examples of the role of omics-type data and computational biology/bioinformatics in breast cancer are explored. Ultimately, there are several promising areas to investigate such as the prediction of neoantigens and the use of multi-omics data to direct research, with noted appropriate in clinical trial design in terms of end points.Fluctuations in diastolic pressure modulate muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) through the arterial baroreflex. A higher sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity (sBRS) to pressure falls compared with rises has been reported; however, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. We assessed whether beat-to-beat falling and rising diastolic pressures operate on two distinct baroreflex response curves. Twenty-two men (32 ± 8 yr) underwent sequential bolus injections of nitroprusside and phenylephrine (modified Oxford test) with continuous recording of heart rate, blood pressure, and MSNA. The weighted negative linear regression slope between falling or rising diastolic pressure and MSNA burst incidence quantified sBRSfall and sBRSrise, respectively. The diastolic pressure evoking a MSNA burst incidence of 50 (T50) was calculated. sBRSfall was greater than sBRSrise (-6.24 ± 2.80 vs. -4.34 ± 2.16 bursts·100 heartbeats-1·mmHg-1, P = 0.01) and had a narrower operating range (14 ± 8 vs. 20 ± 10 mmHg, P = 0.01) that was shifted rightward (T50, 75 ± 9 and 70 ± 11 mmHg, P less then 0.
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