Clinical outcomes, quality of life, and costs evaluation of peritoneal dialysis management models in Shanghai Songjiang District: a multi-center and prospective cohort study.

The new Family-Community-Hospital (FCH) three-level comprehensive management aimed to improve the efficiency and scale of peritoneal dialysis (PD) to meet the increased population of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Our study focused on the clinical outcomes, quality of life, and costs evaluation of this model in a multi-center and prospective cohort study. A total of 190 ESRD patients who commenced PD at Shanghai Songjiang District were enrolled.

Expression of ARHGAP10 correlates with prognosis of prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignancies in men worldwide. Altered expression of ARHGAP10, a member of the Rho GTPase activating protein (RhoGAP) family, has been found in several human cancers. However, its clinical significance in prostate cancer remains unknown.

Blockade of enhancer of zeste homolog 2 alleviates renal injury associated with hyperuricemia.

Hyperuricemia has been identified as an independent risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is associated with the progression of kidney diseases. It remains unknown whether enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2), a histone H3 lysine 27 methyltransferase, can regulate metabolism of serum uric acid and progression of renal injury induced by hyperuricemia. In this study, we demonstrated that blockade of EZH2 with 3-DZNeP, a selective EZH2 inhibitor, or silencing of EZH2 with siRNA inhibited uric acid-induced renal fibroblast activation and phosphorylation of Smad3, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and extracellular signal-regulated protein kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) in cultured renal fibroblasts.

Regulation of growth of human bladder cancer by miR-192.

The regulation of microRNA-192 (miR-192) is impaired in many cancers. Here, we investigated the role of miR-192 in the proliferation, cell cycle progression, and apoptosis of bladder cancer cells. Human bladder cancer cells were transfected with human miR-192 precursor or non-specific control miRNA.

Dysregulation of cell cycle related genes and microRNAs distinguish the low- from high-risk of prostate cancer.

Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) is a biologically heterogeneous disease with considerable variation in clinical aggressiveness. In this study, bioinformatics was used to detect the patterns of gene expression alterations of PCa patients.

Methods: The gene expression profile GSE21034 and GSE21036 were downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database.

Differentially expressed genes and interacting pathways in bladder cancer revealed by bioinformatic analysis.

The goal of this study was to identify cancer-associated differentially expressed genes (DEGs), analyze their biological functions and investigate the mechanism(s) of cancer occurrence and development, which may provide a theoretical foundation for bladder cancer (BCa) therapy. We downloaded the mRNA expression profiling dataset GSE13507 from the Gene Expression Omnibus database; the dataset includes 165 BCa and 68 control samples. T‑tests were used to identify DEGs.