Neutrophilic granulocyte percentage is associated with anxiety in Chinese hospitalized heart failure patients.

Background: In patients with heart failure, anxiety disorder is common and associated with adverse prognosis. This study intended to find more confounding factors of Chinese heart failure patients.

Methods: We enrolled 284 hospitalized heart failure patients, whose New York Heart Association (NYHA) classed as II-IV and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤ 45%.

Morin exerts protective effects on encephalopathy and sepsis-associated cognitive functions in a murine sepsis model.

Sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE) often leads to cognitive impairments in the rest life of septic survivors. The potential pathological changes of SAE are complicated and have not been fully understood. Morin, a flavone compound exhibiting neuroprotective activity and anti-inflammation effect, was employed to treat with CLP-induced septic mice in our study.

Effect of recurrent severe hypoglycemia on cognitive performance in adult patients with diabetes: A meta-analysis.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the existence and extent of cognitive impairment in adult diabetes mellitus (DM) patients with episodes of recurrent severe hypoglycemia, by using meta-analysis to synthesize data across studies. PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane library search engines were used to identify studies on cognitive performance in DM patients with recurrent severe hypoglycemia. Random-effects meta-analysis was performed on seven eligible studies using an inverse-variance method.

TPPU protects tau from HO-induced hyperphosphorylation in HEK293/tau cells by regulating PI3K/AKT/GSK-3β pathway.

Neurofibrillary pathology of abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies. Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β) signaling pathway is pivotal for tau phosphorylation. Inhibition of soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) metabolism has been shown to effectively increase the accumulation of epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), which are cytochrome P450 metabolites of arachidonic acid and have been demonstrated to have neuroprotective effects.

Elevated Homocysteine Level Related to Poor Outcome After Thrombolysis in Acute Ischemic Stroke.

BACKGROUND Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is a well-known risk factor for ischemic stroke. However, whether HHcy can influence the treatment outcome of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients has yet to be fully determined. In this study, we investigated the relationship between serum homocysteine (Hcy) level and prognosis in AIS patients who received tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) treatment.

[Comparative genomic hybridization: the profile of chromosomal imbalances in rhabdomyosarcoma].

Objective: To characterize the profile of chromosomal imbalances of rhabdomyosarcoma(RMS).

Methods: Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) was used to investigate genomic imbalances in 25 cases of primary RMS including 10 cases of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARM), 12 cases of embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS), 3 cases of polymorphic rhabdomyosarcoma (PRMS) and 2 RMS cell lines (A240 originated from ARMS and RD from PRMS), with correlation to histological type, pathologic grading, clinical staging, gender and age, respectively.

Results: All twenty-five rhabdomyosarcomas showed evidence of increased or decreased DNA sequence copy numbers involving one or more regions of the genome.