Prehospital medical care is a major challenge for both civilian and military situations as resources are limited, yet critical triage and treatment decisions must be rapidly made. Prehospital medicine is further complicated during mass casualty situations or remote applications that require more extensive medical treatments to be monitored. It is anticipated on the future battlefield where air superiority will be contested that prolonged field care will extend to as much 72 h in a prehospital environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHematological changes during pregnancy encompass a wide range of alterations in blood composition and function, including variations in hemoglobin levels, red blood cell count, and coagulation factors. These changes can be physiological or pathological and may significantly impact maternal and fetal health outcomes. This narrative review examines the relationship between various hematological changes and disorders during pregnancy and their effects on maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Myristoylation is a type of protein acylation by which the fatty acid myristate is added to the N-terminus of target proteins, a process mediated by N-myristoyltransferases (NMT). Myristoylation is emerging as a promising cancer therapeutic target; however, the molecular determinants of sensitivity to NMT inhibition or the mechanism by which it induces cancer cell death are not completely understood. We report that NMTs are a novel therapeutic target in lung carcinoma cells with LKB1 and/or KEAP1 mutations in a KRAS-mutant background.
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December 2022
The architecture of the Golgi apparatus in mammalian cells changes dynamically in response to internal and external cues and may be permanently altered in disease states. Here, we present a method to quantify changes in Golgi morphology using immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy followed by CellProfiler software analysis. This method will assist researchers in evaluating alterations in the Golgi complex morphology of cultured cells under a variety of different experimental conditions.
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