Publications by authors named "K A Naff"

Aim To evaluate the effectiveness of formal leadership training amongst medical trainees and to review the current literature in this area. Methods A literature review of all PubMed cited articles on Physician Leadership from November 2015 to July 2017 was undertaken. Twenty exemplary articles on physician leadership were identified.

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  • Breast cancer patients resistant to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NeoCT) have a poor prognosis, creating a need for effective in vivo models to test new treatments.
  • The study established 13 patient-derived breast cancer xenografts (BCXs) from 48 tumors, showing higher engraftment rates in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and in patients who had poor responses to NeoCT.
  • Results indicate that BCXs maintain genomic profiles and are linked to worse outcomes, suggesting they can serve as valuable models for researching personalized treatments in aggressive breast cancers.
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TP53 is commonly altered in human cancer, and Tp53 reactivation suppresses tumours in vivo in mice (TP53 and Tp53 are also known as p53). This strategy has proven difficult to implement therapeutically, and here we examine an alternative strategy by manipulating the p53 family members, Tp63 and Tp73 (also known as p63 and p73, respectively). The acidic transactivation-domain-bearing (TA) isoforms of p63 and p73 structurally and functionally resemble p53, whereas the ΔN isoforms (lacking the acidic transactivation domain) of p63 and p73 are frequently overexpressed in cancer and act primarily in a dominant-negative fashion against p53, TAp63 and TAp73 to inhibit their tumour-suppressive functions.

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Because mutations in the human UTP14C gene are associated with male infertility, we sought to develop a method for fertility restoration in azoospermic mice with a mutation in the orthologous Utp14b(jsd) (jsd) gene that have spermatogonial arrest. The method is based on our observation that elevation of testicular temperatures restores spermatogonial differentiation in jsd mutant mice. To non-surgically raise intrascrotal temperatures we placed these mice in incubators at different elevated ambient temperatures.

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