Publications by authors named "D F Fennell"

There are no current stratified medicine options for STK11-deficient NSCLC. STK11 loss mediates mTORC activation, GLUT1 up-regulation and increased glycolysis. This metabolic reprogramming might represent a therapeutic vulnerability targetable with mTORC1/2 inhibition.

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Summary: Heterozygous insulin receptor (INSR) mutations cause type A insulin resistance (IR), associated with a phenotype of IR; hyperandrogenism, oligomenorrhoea and acanthosis nigricans in the absence of obesity or lipoatrophy. The phenotype is variable, ranging from neonatal hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia to fasting or post-prandial hypoglycaemia in adults to diabetes. We report a 29-year-old woman presenting at 13 weeks gestation in her second pregnancy.

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Zoos worldwide use codes of conduct to regulate visitor behavior. Despite their global popularity, the ethical management of zoo visitors remains an underexplored area of research. This study analyzes 899 statements from 27 Chinese zoos and 22 zoos in predominantly English-speaking countries, uncovering significant cross-cultural similarities in the structure and content of these codes.

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Introduction: Altered body composition is associated with adverse survival in multiple cancers. We determined the prevalence, prognostic significance and clinicopathological correlates of sarcopenia and adipopenia in Pleural Mesothelioma (PM) patients receiving chemotherapy.

Methods: We performed a multi-centre retrospective cohort study.

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Remediation-focused predictive tools for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDF) rely on transformation models to evaluate the reduction in total contaminant load and toxic equivalency (TEQ). In this study, a comprehensive model predicting the profiles of PCDD/F congeners and the associated TEQs was developed. The model employs first-order kinetics to describe the transformation of 256 reactions for 75 PCDD congeners and 421 reactions for 135 PCDF congeners.

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