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Aim Current guidelines suggest the use of epinephrine in patients with cardiac arrest (CA). However, evidence for increased survival in good neurological condition is lacking. In experimental settings, epinephrine-induced impairment of microvascular flow was shown. The aim of our study was to analyse the association between epinephrine treatment and intestinal injury in patients after CA. Methods We have included 52 patients with return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) after CA admitted to our medical intensive care unit (ICU). Blood was taken on admission and levels of circulating intestinal fatty acid binding protein (iFABP) were analysed. Results Patients were 64 (49.8-73.8) years old and predominantly male (76.9%). After six months, 50% of patients died and 38.5% of patients had a cerebral performance category (CPC)-score of 1-2. iFABP levels were lower in survivors (234 IQR 90-399pg/mL) as compared to non-survivors (283, IQR 86-11500pg/mL; p1500pg/mL, which was associated with dramatically increased mortality (HR4.87, 95%CI 1.95-12.1; p less then 0.001). iFABP levels predicted mortality independent from time to ROSC and the disease severity score SAPS II. In contrast to mortality, iFABP plasma levels were not associated with neurological outcome. Conclusions In this small, single centre study, cumulative dose of epinephrine used in cardiac arrest patients was associated with an increase in biomarker indicative of intestinal injury and 6-month mortality.The TGF-beta superfamily is widely involved in cell events such as cell division and differentiation, while bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) belong to one of the subgroups. Their functions in crustacean spermatogenesis are still unknown. In this study, we first identified the bone morphogenetic protein 2 (bmp2) from Eriocheir sinensis (E. sinensis) testis. The es-BMP2 shows high expression in E. sinensis testis. We found that es-BMP2 is expressed in spermatids. The successfully knockdown of es-BMP2 through in vivo RNAi are used for functional analysis. Compared with the control group, the proportion of abnormal nuclear cup morphology in mature spermatozoa increased significantly after es-bmp2 RNAi, suggesting that es-BMP2 plays an important role in mature sperm morphogenesis. Immunofluorescence results confirm this finding. In order to study the specific mechanism of es-BMP2 involved in spermiogenesis, we tested kinesin-14 KIFC1, which functions in the nucleus formation of spermatozoa in E. sinensis. The results showed that knockdown of es-BMP2 caused a significant decrease of es-KIFC1 expression. We further performed es-bmp2 knockdown in vitro in primary cultured testis cells. es-KIFC1 expression was significantly reduced after es-bmp2 RNAi. The above results indicate that es-BMP2 participates in maintaining the spermiogenesis of E. sinensis by regulating es-KIFC1 expression.Plant immune regulation is a defensive strategy of plants for protection against pathogen invasion, and Chitosan-N (CTS-N) can induce plant autoimmunity regulation mechanisms. CTS-N was found to induce an immunomodulatory response in papaya against Papaya leaf-distortion mosaic virus (PLDMV). To date, the gene expression profile of CTS-N-induced papaya immunomodulatory response has not been reported. Here, the transcriptional map of papaya leaf genes were subjected to three treatments, viz., non-viral inoculation without CTS-N treatment (CK), virus inoculation without CTS-N treatment (CG), and virus inoculation of 1g/L treatment (B). These were studied by pot culture experiment. Comparison of the B group with the CK group revealed 732 upregulated and 510 downregulated genes. Comparison of the CG group with the CK group revealed 909 upregulated and 1024 downregulated genes. To determine gene function, gene ontology (GO) analysis was performed, where 480 biological process genes, 256 molecular function genes, and 343 cell composition genes were differentially expressed. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) results revealed that the top three pathways were phenylpropane biosynthesis, starch and sucrose metabolism, and plant hormone signal transduction. Real-time Quantitative PCR (qPCR) results were consistent with the transcriptome results, with a correlation coefficient of 0.87. The results of the transcriptional group showed that genes associated with plant resistance were induced by CTS-N-treatment in papaya. The chitinase gene was related to the plant disease process. Related genes in plant hormone signal transduction pathways are associated with plant resistance, and six differentially expressed genes were correlated with enhanced immune resistance in papaya.Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) is highly expressed in the cells of mineralized tissue and plays a critical function in the formation of hard tissue. The existing status of this critical enzyme should be reviewed periodically. ALP increases inorganic phosphate local rates and facilitates mineralization as well as reduces the extracellular pyrophosphate concentration, an inhibitor of mineral formation. Mineralization is the production, inside matrix vesicles, of hydroxyapatite crystals that bud from the outermembrane of hypertrophic osteoblasts and chondrocytes. The expansion of hydroxyapatite formsinto the extracellular matrix and its accumulation between collagen fibrils is observed. Among various isoforms, the tissue-nonspecific isozyme of ALP (TNAP) is strongly expressed in bone, liver and kidney and plays a key function in the calcification of bones. TNAP hydrolyzes pyrophosphate and supplies inorganic phosphate to enhance mineralization. The biochemical substrates of TNAP are believed to be inorganic pyrophosphate and pyridoxal phosphate. These substrates concentrate in TNAP deficient condition which results in hypophosphatasia. The increased level of ALP expression and development in this environment would undoubtedly provide new and essential information about the fundamental molecular mechanisms of bone formation, offer therapeutic possibilities for the management of bone-related diseases.Background KCHN2 encodes the KV11.1 potassium channel responsible for IKr, a major repolarization current during the cardiomyocyte action potential. Variants in KCNH2 that lead to decreased IKr have been associated with Type 2 Long QT syndrome (LQT2). The mechanism of LQT2 is most often induced loss of KV11.1 trafficking to the cell surface. Accurately discriminating between variants with normal and abnormal trafficking would aid in understanding the deleterious nature of these variants; however, the volume of reported nonsynonymous KCNH2 variants precludes the use of conventional methods for functional study. SRI-011381 Objective We report a high-throughput, multiplexed screening method for KCNH2 genetic variants capable of measuring the cell surface abundance of hundreds of missense variants in the resulting KV11.1 channel. Methods We developed a method to quantitate KV11.1 variant trafficking on a pilot region of 11 residues in the S5 helix. Results We generated trafficking scores for 220/231 missense variants in the pilot region. For 5/5 variants, high-throughput trafficking scores validated when tested in single variant flow cytometry and confocal microscopy experiments. We further explored these results with planar patch electrophysiology and found that loss-of-trafficking variants indeed do not produce IKr. Conversely, but expectedly, some variants that traffic normally were still functionally compromised. Conclusions Here, we described a new method for detecting KV11.1 trafficking-deficient variants in a multiplexed assay. This new method accurately generated trafficking data for variants in KV11.1 and is extendable both to all residues in Kv11.1 and to other cell surface proteins.The mechanism underlying hypoxia-driven chromatin remodeling is a long-lasting question. For the last two decades, this question has been resolved in part. It is now widely agreed that hypoxia dynamically changes the methylation status of histones to control gene expression. Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) plays a central role in cellular responses to hypoxia through transcriptional activation of numerous genes. At least in part, the hypoxic regulation of histone methylation is attributed to the HIF-mediated expression of histone modifying enzymes. Protein hydroxylation and histone demethylation have emerged as the oxygen sensing processes because they are catalyzed by a family of 2-oxoglutarate (2OG)-dependent dioxygenases whose activities depend upon the ambient oxygen level. Recently, it has been extensively investigated that the 2OG dioxygenases oxygen-dependently regulate histone methylation. Nowadays, the hypoxic change in the histone methylation status is regarded as an important event to drive malignant behaviors of cancer cells. In this review, we introduced and summarized the cellular processes that govern hypoxia-driven regulation of histone methylation in the context of cancer biology. We also discussed the emerging roles of histone methyltransferases and demethylases in epigenetic response to hypoxia.Tumors can be classified as cold or hot according to the degree of immune cell infiltration into tumor tissues; cold tumors are insensitive to either chemotherapy or immunotherapy and are associated with poor prognosis. Recent studies have shown that STAT3 signaling molecules hinder the conversion of cold to hot tumors by regulating immunosuppressive molecule secretion and immunosuppressive cell functions. This review aims to present the most recent studies on how STAT3 regulates cold tumor formation and discuss its research status in cancer therapy. We also present insight for designing new therapeutic strategies to "heat" tumors and provide a reference for tumor immunotherapy.Background Acral melanoma (AM) is an epidemiologically and molecularly distinct entity that is underrepresented in clinical trials on immunotherapy in melanoma. We aimed to analyze the real-world efficacy of anti-PD-1 antibodies in advanced AM. Patients and methods We retrospectively evaluated unresectable stage III or stage IV AM patients treated with an anti-PD-1 antibody in any line at 21 Japanese institutions between 2014 and 2018. The clinicobiologic characteristics, objective response rate (ORR, Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors), survival estimated using Kaplan-Meier analysis, and toxicity (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events 4.0.) were analyzed to estimate the efficacy of the anti-PD-1 antibodies. Results In total, 193 patients (nail apparatus, 70; palm and sole, 123) were included in the study. Anti-PD-1 antibody was used as first-line therapy in 143 patients (74.1%). Baseline lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) was within normal level in 102 patients (52.8%). The ORR of all patients was 16.6% (complete response, 3.1%; partial response, 13.5%), and the median overall survival (OS) was 18.1 months. Normal LDH levels showed a significantly stronger association with better OS than abnormal levels (median OS 24.9 vs 10.7 months; P less then 0.001). Although baseline characteristics were similar between the nail apparatus and the palm and sole groups, ORR was significantly lower in the nail apparatus group (6/70 patients [8.6%] vs 26/123 patients [21.1%]; P=0.026). Moreover, the median OS in this group was significantly poorer (12.8 vs 22.3 months; P=0.03). Conclusions Anti-PD-1 antibodies have limited efficacy in AM patients. Notably, patients with nail apparatus melanoma had poorer response and survival, making nail apparatus melanoma a strong candidate for further research on the efficacy of novel combination therapies with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
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