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Graphical abstract We engineered biodegradable DNA-loaded brain-penetrating nanoparticles (DNA-BPN) possessing small particle diameters ( less then  70 nm) and non-adhesive surface coatings to facilitate their spread through brain tumor extracellular matrix (ECM). These DNA-BPN provide widespread gene transfer in models recapitulating the ECM barrier, including three-dimensional multicellular tumor spheroids and mice with orthotopically established brain tumor.Recent research has been successful in demonstrating the importance of the addition of platelets to the field of cell-mediated therapeutics, by making use of different platelet forms to design modalities able to positively impact a wide range of diseases. A key obstacle hindering the success of conventional therapeutic interventions is their inability to produce targeted treatment, resulting in a number of systemic side effects and a longer duration for the onset of action to occur. An additional challenge facing current popular therapeutic interventions is biocompatibility of the system, resulting in the decline of patient compliance to treatment. In an attempt to address these challenges, the past few decades have been witness to the discovery and innovation of precision therapy, in order to achieve targeted treatment for an array of conditions, thereby superseding alternative mechanisms of treatment. Platelet-mediated therapeutics, as well as employing platelets as drug delivery vehicles, are key components in advancing precision therapy within research and in clinical settings. This novel approach is designed with the objective that the platelets retain their original structure and functions within the body, thereby mitigating biocompatibility challenges. In this article, we review the current significant impact that the addition of platelet-inspired systems has made on the field of therapeutics; explore certain limitations of each system, together with ideas on how to overcome them; and discuss the clinical implications and future potential of platelet-inspired therapeutics. Graphical abstract.Small heat shock proteins are ubiquitously expressed chaperones, yet mutations in some of them cause tissue-specific diseases. Here, we will discuss how small heat shock proteins give rise to neurodegenerative disorders themselves while we will also highlight how these proteins can fulfil protective functions in neurodegenerative disorders caused by protein aggregation. The first half of this paper will be focused on how mutations in HSPB1, HSPB3, and HSPB8 are linked to inherited peripheral neuropathies like Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease and distal hereditary motor neuropathy (dHMN). The second part of the paper will discuss how small heat shock proteins are linked to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease.This study investigated the obstacles in detecting enteric viruses from berry fruits, which are on the one hand often associated with outbreaks of viral enteric disease, and on the other hand recognized as a challenging food matrix for molecular detection of enteric viruses. According to the ISO 15216 protocol, for soft fruit samples, virus extraction is by elution with agitation followed by precipitation with polyethylene glycol/NaCl. As a result, first, the phenolic content in the berry eluate was found to be weakly correlated with the detection of coliphage MS2 spiked in the berry samples. Second and more importantly, it was observed that the gel-like pellets formed after precipitation could entrap considerable portions of viruses from being further purified and recovered for detection, suggesting that the low virus detection sensitivity from berries is largely due to the pectin content with complicated chemical structures in the berry fruits. Future research is needed to solve this problem in a targeted way.INTRODUCTION Diabetes is a major public health problem that is strongly influenced by lifestyle-related factors, with previous epidemiologic studies finding an inverse relationship between physical activity and the prevalence of diabetes. We aimed to quantify the prevalence of diabetes and determine whether a dose-response relationship is present between physical activity levels and diabetes. METHODS Population characteristics were compared between diabetic and nondiabetic subjects. Multiple logistic regression models were used to assess the association between different levels of physical activity and diabetes. Restricted cubic spline analysis was used to examine the dose-response relationship between physical activity and diabetes prevalence. RESULTS Compared with those in the lowest physical activity quartile, participants in the highest quartile had a 42% lower prevalence of diabetes (odds ratio = 0.58, 95% confidence interval = 0.44-0.75, p  less then  0.001). A nonlinear dose-response relationship was observed (p nonlinearity  less then  0.05), with increased physical activity associated with a decreased prevalence of diabetes, with steeper reductions in the prevalence of diabetes at low activity levels than at high activity levels. These results were robust in both subgroup and sensitivity analyses. RBPJ Inhibitor-1 concentration CONCLUSIONS Higher levels of physical activity are associated with a lower prevalence of diabetes. The data indicated the presence of a nonlinear dose-response relationship in all of the included subjects, with steeper reductions in the prevalence of diabetes at low activity levels than at high activity levels. Increasing physical activity is therefore potentially a useful intervention for reducing the prevalence of diabetes.This review addresses the question of the cardiovascular (CV) safety of sulfonylureas (SUs) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) when directly tested against comparator agents in CV outcome trials. Presented at a recent symposium entitled "SUs in the treatment of T2DM a fresh look and new insights" held on Wednesday September 18, 2019 during the 55th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Barcelona Spain, this review discusses the initial evidence that sparked concerns over the CV safety of SUs as well as more recent findings from large studies of SUs (i.e. ADVANCE, TOSCA.IT and CAROLINA trials), highlighting the differences in CV and hypoglycaemia risks among the various SUs. Finally, the impact of glycaemic control on CV outcomes is also discussed, where the data suggest that the recent positive CV outcomes with some antihyperglycaemic agents may have been driven in part by improved glycaemic control.
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