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Hence, primary cilia may play a fundamental role in urothelial bladder cancer progression and suppose a potential therapeutic target.Obesity is a growing worldwide epidemic with significant economic burden that carries with it impacts on every physiologic system including the cardiovascular system. DRB18 cell line Specifically, the risk of heart failure has been shown to increase dramatically in obese individuals. The purpose of this review is to provide background on the individual burdens of heart failure and obesity, followed by exploring proposed physiologic mechanisms that interconnect these conditions, and furthermore introduce treatment strategies for weight loss focusing on bariatric surgery. Review of the existing literature on patients with obesity and heart failure who have undergone bariatric surgery is presented, compared, and contrasted.We report the pregnancy and live birth achieved after in vitro maturation (IVM) of oocytes and PGT-A in a 23-year-old patient suffering from ovarian gonadotropin resistance. A woman with resistant ovary syndrome (ROS) had secondary amenorrhea, high FSH levels (25.34 mIU/mL) and LH (29.6 mIU/mL), low estradiol levels (15.2 pg/mL), and high serum AMH levels (38.0 ng/mL), associated with an increased antral follicle count (AFC) of 45. Without gonadotropin priming and HCG trigger, ultrasound-guided transvaginal oocyte retrieval was performed. Aspiration of antral-stage follicles allowed the retrieval of 15 immature oocytes. After oocyte collection, immature oocytes were cultured in the IVM medium. Following IVM, six of them reached metaphase II stage. Resultant matured oocytes were fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Embryos obtained were cultured to the blastocyst stage. On day 5, three embryos reached blastocyst stage. Trophectoderm biopsy and PGT-A were performed on two better quality embryos on day 5 after fertilization. Two biopsied embryos were reported to be euploid. PGT-A was performed utilizing next-generation sequencing (NGSMPS). One embryo was transferred in an artificial thaw cycle and resulted in a viable intrauterine pregnancy and live birth. Our experience indicates that there is no requirement for gonadotropin stimulation and use of b-hCG trigger prior to IVM in patients with ROS. The results suggest that oocytes obtained with IVM in patients with ROS are capable of meiotic and mitotic division, fertilization, and generation of euploid embryos. IVM appears to be a valuable approach in patients with ROS, allowing them to have genetically connected offspring.
The current review aims to summarize the data available concerning the applicability of fertility preservation techniques to genetic conditions at risk of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI).

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About 10% of cases of POI is related to genetic diseases. The most frequent conditions associated with POI are Turner syndrome and fragile X pre-mutation; mutation of BRCA 1-2 genes and several other mutations and genetic syndromes have recently been highlighted, although they rarely occur. If a diagnosis is issued before POI onset, counseling on currently available fertility preservation techniques is advisable. In case of spontaneous menarche (this can occur variably depending on the mutation) established techniques like embryo or oocyte cryopreservation can be proposed, even if, in some cases, their effectiveness may be reduced by ovarian alterations connected to the mutation. Ovarian tissue cryopreservation has recently been defined as an establese techniques. No specific recommendations concerning fertility preservation for each genetic pathology are available, and clinicians should first counsel the patient and her relatives about known risks and benefits of the available techniques, both those established and those considered as experimental.
Fertility preservation techniques represent a crucial opportunity for patients with genetic risk of POI. Early diagnosis increases the chances to apply these techniques. No specific recommendations concerning fertility preservation for each genetic pathology are available, and clinicians should first counsel the patient and her relatives about known risks and benefits of the available techniques, both those established and those considered as experimental.Sepsis is an organ dysfunction caused by an uncontrolled inflammatory response from the host to an infection. Sepsis is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in intensive care units (ICU) worldwide. One of the first organs to suffer from injuries resulting from sepsis is the brain. The central nervous system (CNS) is particularly vulnerable to damage, mediated by inflammatory and oxidative processes, which can cause the sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE), being reported in up to 70% of septic patients. This review aims to bring a summary of the main pathophysiological changes and dysfunctions in SAE, and the main focuses of current experimental studies for new treatments and therapies. The pathophysiology of SAE is complex and multifactorial, combining intertwined processes, and is promoted by countless alterations and dysfunctions resulting from sepsis, such as inflammation, neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, reduced brain metabolism, and injuries to the integrity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The treatment is limited once its cause is not completely understood. The patient's sedation is far to provide an adequate treatment to this complex condition. Studies and experimental advances are important for a better understanding of its pathophysiology and for the development of new treatments, medicines, and therapies for the treatment of SAE and to reduce its effects during and after sepsis.Sepsis is an organ dysfunction caused by a host's unregulated response to infection, causing long-term brain dysfunction with microglial activation, the release of inflammatory components, and mitochondrial changes. Neuroinflammation can increase the expression of the 18-kD translocator protein (TSPO) in the mitochondria, leading to the activation of the microglia and the release of inflammatory components. The antagonist PK-11195 can modulate TSPO and reduce microglial activation and cognitive damage presented in an animal model of sepsis. The aim of this was to evaluate the effects of PK-11195 on long-term brain inflammation and cognitive impairment in an animal model of sepsis. Wistar rats, 60 days old, were submitted to cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) surgery, divided into groups control/saline, control/PK-11195, sepsis/saline, and sepsis/PK-11195. Immediately after surgery, the antagonist PK-11195 was administered at a dose of 3 mg/kg. Ten days after CLP surgery, the animals were submitted to behavioral tests and determination of brain inflammatory parameters. The sepsis/saline group presented cognitive damage. However, there was damage prevention in animals that received PK-11195. Besides, the sepsis increased the levels of cytokines and M1 microglia markers and caused oxidative damage. However, PK-11195 had the potential to decrease inflammation. These events show that the modulation of neuroinflammation during sepsis by PK-11195, possibly related to changes in TSPO, improves mitochondrial function in the animals' brains. In conclusion, the antagonist PK-11195 attenuated brain inflammation and prevented cognitive impairment in animals subjected to sepsis.Endophytic fungi isolated from desert plants are among the less known organisms with potentially valuable applications. The bioactivities of an endophytic fungus isolated from Aloe vera, a plant found in central regions of Asir desert, Saudi Arabia. Based on primary phytochemical screening, an efficient isolate was selected and identified according to the sequence analysis of the internal spacer regions ITS1, ITS4 and the 5.8S region as Preussia africana belonging to the family Sporormiaceae. The crude extract of this fungus was evaluated for its bioactivities. Under static conditions, the crude extract at a concentration of 500 μg/mL had a strong 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) scavenging rate of 87%, whereas a higher concentration (100 μg/mL) had an astounding wound healing effect (42.6% at 48 h) when compared to positive control. Moreover, the crude extract with a concentration of 50 μg/mL was active against almost all cancer cell lines such as HeLa (cervical cancer), Hep G2 (liver cancer), MCF-7 (breast cancer), A549 (lung cancer), LN-229 (glioblastoma), A-431 (skin cancer), and kidney cell line (HEK 293T). The results suggest that the endophytic fungus P. africana from A. vera has wide therapeutic applications against severe disease conditions.In this paper, we described generation and performances of feedforward neural network models that could be used for a day ahead predictions of the daily maximum 1-h ozone concentration (1hO3) and 8-h average ozone concentration (8hO3) at one traffic and one background station in the urban area of Novi Sad, Serbia. The six meteorological variables for the day preceding the forecast and forecast day, ozone concentrations in the day preceding the forecast, the number of the day of the year, and the number of the weekday for which ozone prediction was performed were utilized as inputs. The three-layer perceptron neural network models with the best performance were chosen by testing with different numbers of neurons in the hidden layer and different activation functions. The mean bias error, mean absolute error, root mean squared error, correlation coefficient, and index of agreement or Willmott's Index for the validation data for 1hO3 forecasting were 0.005 μg m-3, 12.149 μg m-3, 15.926 μg m-3, 0.988, and 0.950, respectively, for the traffic station (Dnevnik), and - 0.565 μg m-3, 10.101 μg m-3, 12.962 μg m-3, 0.911, and 0.953, respectively, for the background station (Liman). For 8hO3 forecasting, statistical indicators were - 1.126 μg m-3, 10.614 μg m-3, 12.962 μg m-3, 0.910, and 0.948 respectively for the station Dnevnik and - 0.001 μg m-3, 8.574 μg m-3, 10.741 μg m-3, 0.936, and 0.966, respectively, for the station Liman. According to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, there is no significant difference between measured and predicted data. Models showed a good performance in forecasting days with the high values over a certain threshold.This article provides a biographic and scientific profile of prof. Hrayr Terzian (Addis Abeba 1925-Verona 1988). In 1966, Terzian was appointed professor of the clinic of nervous and mental diseases in Cagliari, and in 1970 moved to Verona, where until his death he led the Neurology Clinic serving as the first rector of the local university. As a close friend of the psychiatrist Franco Basaglia (1924-1980), Terzian contributed to the reform of the Italian mental health system. His interests and scientific contributions were extremely broad. He was the first to describe the electroencephalographic changes induced by the antipsychotic chlorpromazine and, together with Henri Gastaut (1915-1995) and his wife Yvette, to describe the rolandic arched ("mu") rhythm. He contributed to elucidate the inhibitory mechanisms of the cerebellum on the antigravity postural tone and provided the first description of Klüver-Bucy syndrome in humans. Always attentive to the social and political aspects of medical practice, prof. Terzian achieved outstanding results both in experimental neurophysiology and in clinical neurology.
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