Pulse transmission time and amplitude of digital pulse wave determined by fingertip plethysmography as a surrogate marker of brachial artery flowmediated dilatation.

Objective: To assess the changes in blood vessel stiffness and digital pulse wave amplitude because of flowmediated dilatation, and to explore how these two variables change when endothelial dysfunction is experimentally induced.

Methods: The experimental study was conducted at the departments of physiology at the College of Medicine, Mustansiriyah University, and the College of Medicine, Al-Iraqia University, Baghdad, Iraq, from October 14, 2021, to May 31, 2022, and comprised healthy young males who were subjected to the flow-mediated dilatation technique on the left brachial artery. Pulse transit time and the amplitude of the digital pulse wave were measured during reactive hyperaemia for 2.

Investigating the correlation of the second derivative of digital pulse wave (DPW) with QT variability index in women.

Objective: To determine the correlation between the second derivative of digital pulse wave and the QT variability index.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2021 to May 2022 at the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Mustansiriyah, Baghdad, Iraq, and comprised healthy women. Samples were raised by simple random technique.

THE OUTCOME OF PULSELESS PINK HAND FOLLOWING CLOSED SUPRACONDYLAR FRACTURE HUMERUS IN PEDIATRICS.

Management of children with supracondylar humeral fractures with pulseless pink hands is still controversial, whether to choose operative or conservative treatment. Proponents of conventional treatment mentioned that most patients can restore the motor and sensory function of the hand shortly after the injury without the need to restore distal pulse by surgery. Opponents of this treatment strategy claim that many patients will develop limb shortening a few years after the injury leading to functional and psychological problems.

Immunohistochemistry technique for effect of gold nanoparticles, laser, and photodynamic therapy on FoxP1 level in infected mice with mammary adenocarcinoma.

The current study was performed to investigate the treatment of tumors with gold nanoparticles, laser, and photodynamic therapy (PDT) by using an immunohistochemistry method and to investigate the expression of FOXP1 in infected mice with mammary adenocarcinoma whether it can be used as an indicator to estimate the recovery of tissues from cancer disease. Twenty-five albino female mice were used in this research; they were divided into five groups, four groups were infected with mammary adenocarcinoma, and then three of them were treated with gold nanoparticles, laser, and PDT, respectively, while the fourth group was left without any treatment and represents the positive control, and the fifth group (normal mice) represents the negative control. Tissue sections were taken from different groups of mice in order to estimate FOXP1 expression in infected mice by using an immunohistochemistry assay.

Green nanotechnology of MGF-AuNPs for immunomodulatory intervention in prostate cancer therapy.

Men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) face poor prognosis and increased risk of treatment-incurred adverse effects resulting in one of the highest mortalities among patient population globally. Immune cells act as double-edged sword depending on the tumor microenvironment, which leads to increased infiltration of pro-tumor (M2) macrophages. Development of new immunomodulatory therapeutic agents capable of targeting the tumor microenvironment, and hence orchestrating the transformation of pro-tumor M2 macrophages to anti-tumor M1, would substantially improve treatment outcomes of CRPC patients.

Efficiency of molecular detection of Toxoplasma gondii contrasting to serological method.

Toxoplasmosis infection of the mother during pregnancy is linked to transplacental transmission to the fetus. Toxoplasma gondii infection is difficult to diagnose and necessitates a comprehensive examination that includes laboratory and clinical testing. This study used RT-PCR using B1 gene based on paired blood samples and clinical data, for the detection of Toxoplasma infections in miscarriage women, this technique was compared to enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

Estimation of tumor and local tissue dose in gold nanoparticles radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

Aim: The objective of this research was to estimate the dose distribution delivered by radioactive gold nanoparticles (AuNPs or AuNPs) to the tumor inside the human prostate as well as to normal tissues surrounding the tumor using the Monte-Carlo N-Particle code (MCNP-6.1.1 code).

In Vitro Influence of Low-Power Diode Laser Irradiation Time on Human Red Blood Cells.

Objective: The present study investigates whether the exposure to low-power diode laser induces denaturation in red blood cell (RBC) membrane protein composition, and determines the irradiation time for when denaturation of membrane protein process begins.

Background: A low-energy laser has been used extensively in medical applications. Several studies indicated significant positive effects of laser therapy on biological systems.

Mangiferin functionalized radioactive gold nanoparticles (MGF-AuNPs) in prostate tumor therapy: green nanotechnology for production, in vivo tumor retention and evaluation of therapeutic efficacy.

We report here an innovative feature of green nanotechnology-focused work showing that mangiferin-a glucose functionalized xanthonoid, found in abundance in mango peels-serves dual roles of chemical reduction and in situ encapsulation, to produce gold nanoparticles with optimum in vivo stability and tumor specific characteristics. The interaction of mangiferin with a Au-198 gold precursor affords MGF-AuNPs as the beta emissions of Au-198 provide unique advantages for tumor therapy while gamma rays are used for the quantitative estimation of gold within the tumors and various organs. The laminin receptor specificity of mangiferin affords specific accumulation of therapeutic payloads of this new therapeutic agent within prostate tumors (PC-3) of human prostate tumor origin induced in mice which overexpress this receptor subtype.

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase genetic polymorphisms and toxicity to 5-FU-based chemoradiation in rectal cancer.

Background: There is a large degree of variation in tumour response and host toxicities associated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation for rectal cancer patients. We performed a complimentary pharmacogenetic study to investigate germline polymorphisms of genes involved in 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and irinotecan pathways and their potential association with clinical outcomes and toxicities from neoadjuvant chemoradiation in patients with rectal cancer treated in a prospective genotype-directed study.

Methods: The germline DNA of 131 patients was genotyped for 10 variants in TYMS, MTHFR, DPYD, UGT1A1, ABCC1 and SLCO1B1 genes.