Publications by authors named "A C Mathias"

Seralutinib, an inhaled, small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor in clinical development for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), was evaluated for its potential as a perpetrator or victim of a metabolic and transporter-based drug-drug interactions in 2 phase 1 studies. In study 1, 24 participants received a cocktail of probe substrates: caffeine (CYP1A2), montelukast (CYP2C8), flurbiprofen (CYP2C9), midazolam (CYP3A), and pravastatin (OATP1B1/1B3), plus digoxin (P-gp) with or without seralutinib. In study 2, 19 participants received seralutinib with/without itraconazole, a strong CYP3A inhibitor, or fosaprepitant, a weak CYP3A inhibitor.

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Background: The Prolapse and Incontinence Knowledge Quiz (PIKQ) was developed to assess women's knowledge of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and urinary incontinence (UI).

Objective: To perform the translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and measurement properties of the PIKQ for Brazilian women with UI (PIKQ-Br).

Methods: The measurement properties were tested for validity (content and face, structural, and hypotheses testing) and reliability (internal consistency, test-retest, and measurement error) in 130 women with UI from Recife, Brazil.

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Objective: To investigate the longitudinal dynamics of serum glial fibrillary acidic protein (sGFAP) and serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) levels in people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) under B-cell depleting therapy (BCDT) and their capacity to prognosticate future progression independent of relapse activity (PIRA) events.

Methods: A total of 362 pwMS (1,480 samples) starting BCDT in the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Cohort were included. sGFAP levels in 2,861 control persons (4,943 samples) provided normative data to calculate adjusted Z scores.

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D-penicillamine (PA) is the primary chelator of choice to treat Wilson disease (WD). There are limitations in obtaining comprehensive data on PA metabolites in biological specimens by conventional approaches. Hence, the aim of the present was to identify the major hepatic PA metabolites and draw clear conclusions of the drug's xenobiotic in WD.

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Article Synopsis
  • Up to 46% of patients with suspected autoimmune limbic encephalitis don’t test positive for known central nervous system antibodies, prompting the development of a new cell-based assay (CBA) for detecting novel neural antibodies using human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs).
  • The study involved testing serum and cerebrospinal fluid from 99 patients with inflammatory and non-inflammatory neurological diseases to identify IgG binding to hiPSC-derived neurons and astrocytes using advanced fluorescence techniques.
  • The CBA successfully detected neural-specific antibodies in 19 out of 99 patients, with a higher prevalence in those with inflammatory neurological diseases compared to non-inflammatory cases, underscoring its potential in identifying previously unknown autoantibodies.
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