Background: This latest systematic review and meta-analysis aim to examine the efficacy of acellular dermal matrix (ADM) in pediatric burns.
Methods: Relevant articles were retrieved from Pubmed, Embase, Cochrane, Web of science, China National Knowledge Infrastructureris, VIP Database for Chinese Technical Periodicals and Wanfang database. The primary outcome was the healing time, and secondary outcomes were the skin graft survival rate, reoperation, complications, numbers of dressing change, incidence of scarring, scar areas and scar scores.
: TFEB activation is associated with prolonged survival in LUAD patients, suggesting potential benefits of TFEB agonists in LUAD treatment. In this study, we identify ginkgetin (GK), derived from , as a natural TFEB agonist, which has demonstrated promising anticancer effects in our previous research. TFEB activation has been shown to promote GPX4 degradation, inducing ferroptosis; however, the specific E3 ligases, deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs), and types of polyubiquitination chains involved remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To explore the true needs of patients awaiting kidney transplantation in China through the language used by them. We addressed the literature gap concerning this critical aspect of patient care and counselling.
Methods: We interviewed 32 individuals-22 who were on the waiting list for a kidney transplant and 10 were kidney transplant recipients.
Conformational flexibility allows macrocyclic peptides like cyclosporine A (CycA) to cross membranes, yet drug design leveraging this property has largely failed. A key challenge is linking specific conformers to function, as different conformers govern permeability versus target binding. We reveal a mechanism that enhances CycA and alisporivir (ALI) permeability: -to- isomerization at MeVal11-MeBmt1 creates conformers that remain "soluble" in both membrane-like and aqueous environments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExosomes (Exos) are emerging as noninvasive biomarkers for diagnosis and progression monitoring of gastric cancer (GC). However, the heterogeneity discrimination and ultrasensitive quantification of Exos presents a considerable analytical challenge, thereby impeding severely their clinical application. Herein, we propose an integrated terahertz metasensing platform for the discrimination of Exos in distinct subtypes of GC in a single step-through the simultaneous evaluation of the category and richness level of Exos membrane proteins.
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