A Real-World Evaluation of Frontline Treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Azacitidine Plus Venetoclax.

Background: The combination of venetoclax + azacitidine (VenAza) has become the standard frontline treatment for older unfit AML patients.

Methods: We analyzed outcomes using VenAza for previously untreated unfit AML patients at a single center between 2020-2024.

Results: The overall response rate (ORR) was 69/105 (66%), was highest for patients with NPM1 (78%) and IDH1/2 (82%) mutations and lowest with TP53 mutations (40%).

Analysis of a mouse germ cell tumor model establishes pluripotency-associated miRNAs as conserved serum biomarkers for germ cell cancer detection.

Malignant testicular germ cells tumors (TGCTs) are the most common solid cancers in young men. Current TGCT diagnostics include conventional serum protein markers, but these lack the sensitivity and specificity to serve as accurate markers across all TGCT subtypes. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding regulatory RNAs and informative biomarkers for several diseases.

Voltage-gated sodium channels in excitable cells as drug targets.

Excitable cells - including neurons, muscle cells and cardiac myocytes - are unique in expressing high densities of voltage-gated sodium (Na) channels. This molecular adaptation enables these cells to produce action potentials, and is essential to their function. With the advent of the molecular revolution, the concept of 'the' sodium channel has been supplanted by understanding that excitable cells in mammals can express any of nine different forms of sodium channels (Na1.

Case report: Potential physiological sources of the late response in epidural spinal recordings induced by spinal cord stimulation during intraoperative neuromonitoring.

Objective: This study aims to investigate the sources of later response in epidural spinal recordings (ESRs) obtained from implanted leads during spinal cord stimulation, a topic has not been widely studied in previous research.

Methods: Two patients with lower back and lower extremity pain underwent SCS implantation with intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM). The timing of extracted peaks in ESRs and intramuscular electromyography (EMG) recordings were analyzed and compared to a Monte Carlo simulation for synchronization analysis.