Publications by authors named "Antonela-Anca Nicolau"

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  • - Preterm births, defined as pregnancies ending before 37 weeks, remain the leading cause of death in children under 5, with a study analyzing 140 cases from 2018-2022 to understand risk factors and preventions.
  • - The research found that extremely low birth weight and very low birth weight significantly contribute to mortality rates, with mothers over 30 being more likely to develop pregnancy-induced hypertension.
  • - Common health issues among premature infants included cerebral and pulmonary hemorrhages, with anthropometric measurements being predictive of malformations, suggesting that understanding these factors can improve prevention strategies for neonatal complications.
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Tumor heterogeneity results in aggressive cancer phenotypes with acquired resistance. However, combining chemical treatment with adjuvant therapies that cause cellular structure and function perturbations may diminish the ability of cancer cells to resist at chemical treatment and lead to a less aggressive cancer phenotype. Applied treatments on prostate hyperplasia primary cell cultures exerted their antitumor activities through mechanisms including cell cycle blockage, oxidative stress, and cell death induction by flow cytometry methods.

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Our study highlights the apoptosis, cell cycle, DNA ploidy, and autophagy molecular mechanisms network to identify prostate pathogenesis and its prognostic role. Caspase 3/7 expressions, cell cycle, adhesion glycoproteins, autophagy, nuclear shrinkage, and oxidative stress by flow-cytometry analysis are used to study the BPH microenvironment's heterogeneity. A high late apoptosis expression by caspases 3/7 activity represents an unfavorable prognostic biomarker, a dependent predictor factor for cell adhesion, growth inhibition by arrest in the G2/M phase, and oxidative stress processes network.

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This review brings together the current knowledge regarding the risk factors and the clinical, radiologic, and histological features of both post-COVID-19 pulmonary fibrosis (PCPF) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), describing the similarities and the disparities between these two diseases, using numerous databases to identify relevant articles published in English through October 2022. This review would help clinicians, pathologists, and researchers make an accurate diagnosis, which can help identify the group of patients selected for anti-fibrotic therapies and future therapeutic perspectives.

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Background And Aims: High-grade gastrointestinal neuroendocrine neoplasms (GI-NENs) are divided into well-differentiated G3 neuroendocrine tumors (NETs G3) and neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs), having identical cut-offs of proliferation, but different biomolecular origins. This translates in distinct treatment choices. Our aim was to establish if p53/Rb1 immunohistochemical status in GI-NENs with Ki67 index >20% can predict the histopathological diagnosis.

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(1) Background: Because melanoma is an aggressive tumor with an unfavorable prognosis, we aimed to characterize the PD-L1 expression in melanomas in association with T cell infiltrates because PD-1/PD-L1 blockade represents the target in treating melanoma strategy. (2) Methods: The immunohistochemical manual quantitative methods of PD-L1, CD4, and CD8 TILs were performed in melanoma tumor microenvironment cells. (3) Results: Most of the PD-L1 positive, expressing tumors, have a moderate score of CD4+ TILs and CD8+TILs (5-50% of tumor area) in tumoral melanoma environment cells.

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Background: COVID-19 is a systemic disease with multiorgan damage, which requires a better understanding and deepening of histopathogenesis in order to improve treatment. Autopsy remains a gold standard to establish certain diagnoses and to integrate the morphological spectrum of lung lesions, explaining the cause of death, into a clinical context.

Methods And Results: The study included 57 autopsies performed during 2020-2021 associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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Teratomas can occur in the umbilical cord, and may or may not be associated with other congenital abnormalities. This 35-year-old primigravida gave birth 37-38 weeks to a 3290-g normal female. The umbilical cord, at 10 cm from the abdominal insertion, had an 8 cm mature teratoma.

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The molecular basis of the evaluation of children suspected of having disorders of surfactant proteins is still under discussion. In this study, we aimed to describe the morphological characteristics and to evaluate the immunohistochemical expression of surfactant proteins (surfactant protein A [SPA], surfactant protein B, and pro-surfactant protein C) in the preterm twins that deceased due to unexplained respiratory distress syndrome (n = 12). Results showed statistically significant positive correlations between surfactant protein B expressions and pulmonary hemorrhage (ρ = 0.

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  • * The study analyzed the tumor microenvironment and biological mechanisms using immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry, finding lower proliferative activity in malignant cells compared to benign samples, along with high rates of aneuploidy in PCa and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) cases.
  • * Key findings included increased cell proliferation markers (like CD34 and CD61), higher CD42b+ cell populations linked to metastasis in PCa, and marked differences in CD34 expression between malignant and control tissues
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: Romania faces one of the highest cervical cancer burdens in Europe though it is a preventable cancer through population screening by cytology and human papillomavirus (HPV) detection. Also, it has one of the highest incidences of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. HPV and HIV coinfection are frequently encountered.

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Breast cancer (BC) is the second most frequent type of cancer for both sexes combined, after lung cancer. Triple-negative BC (TNBC) molecular subtype is characterized by lack of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) immunoexpression or amplification and represent 10-20% of all BC cases. The issue of the present study was to analyze the associations between programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) immunoexpression and distribution of stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (stTILs) combined with clinico-morphological features of patients with TNBC.

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A large number of publications recognize that there are melanocytic lesions with microscopic features similar to melanoma, related to their location. Those locations are represented by the ear, the milk lines (axillary, breast, periumbilical and inguinal regions), palms, soles, and flexural regions. Starting from Rongioletti F et al.

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