Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignancies in the world. The N7-methylguanosine (m7G) modification is related to the biological processes and regulation of various diseases. This study investigated the role and predictive value of m7G-related long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in HCC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeveral studies have found that antifibrosis treatment for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can cause a variety of side effects. No network meta-analysis (NMA) analyzes the adverse events of antifibrotic drugs for NAFLD. This NMA aimed to systematically compare the drug-related side effects when using different pharmacological agents for the treatment of liver fibrosis in NAFLD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of machine learning (ML) in predicting lymph node metastasis (LNM) in patients with gastric cancer (GC) and to identify predictors applicable to the models.
Methods: PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library were searched from inception to March 16, 2022. The pooled c-index and accuracy were used to assess the diagnostic accuracy.
Objective: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) type IVA (MPS IVA) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease caused by deficiency of N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase (GALNS) needed to degrade glycosaminoglycanes (GAGs), accumulation of GAGs in the tissue resulting in disorder of function. So far, the small number of articles about clinical study of Chinese MPS IVA were published and only one paper about gene mutation analysis was published. This study aimed to investigate the mutation spectrum and characteristic of GALNS gene in Chinese patients with MPS IVA who were diagnosed in our hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This paper aims to report GLB1 activities and mutation analysis of three patients from the mainland of China, one with Morquio B disease and two with GM1 gangliosidosis.
Methods: GLB1 activity and GLB1 gene mutation were analyzed in the three patients who were clinically suspected of having Morquio B disease or GM1 gangliosidosis. Novel mutations were analyzed by aligning GLB1 homologs, 100 control chromosomes, and the PolyPhen-2 tool.
Objective: To report the results of clinical characteristics, enzyme activity determination and mutation analysis of GLB1 gene in a Chinese patient with mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) type IVB (Morquio B disease).
Method: A 14-year-old Chinese boy with MPS type IVB was firstly diagnosed by blood leucocytes galactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase (GALNS) and β-galactosidase (GLB1) determination, who was characterized by short stature, multiplex skeletal abnormalities, difficulty in walking. PCR-sequencing analysis was applied to detect the mutations in GLB1 of the patient.