We performed the next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis of a rare grade 1 brain meningioma (angiomatous type) and a common grade 1 spinal meningioma (psammomatous type) and compared their mutation profiling. The data were analysed using the Ion Reporter 5.16 programme (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA).
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August 2022
A cardio-renal syndrome (CRS) is a medical condition in which kidney problems are accompanied by heart problems and diagnosed when acute kidney injury contributes to the development of acute cardiac injury. Regenerative medicine is becoming increasingly interested in adipose stem cells. We evaluated the effect of both adipose-derived stem cell extracellular vesicles (ADSCs-EVs) and adipose stem cells (ADSCs) on an experimental model of CRSIII.
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April 2021
Background: Timely detection of the progression of the highly contagious coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is of utmost importance for management and intervention for patients in intensive care (ICU).
Aim: This study aims to better understand this new infection and report the changes in the various laboratory tests identified in critically ill patients and associated with poor prognosis among COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU.
Methods: This was a retrospective study that included 160 confirmed SARS-CoV-2-positive patients.
Molecular pathology and personalized medicine are still being evolved in Saudi Arabia, and genetic testing for the detection of mutations as cancer markers have not been established in the diagnostics laboratories in Saudi Arabia. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH1 and IDH2) mutations and epidermal growth factor receptor variant (EGFRv)III transcript expression in Saudi Arabian patients with glioma. Out of 117 brain tumors tested by reverse transcription-quantitative PCR for EGFRvIII, 41 cases tested positive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Several recent studies have documented and mutations which are mutually exclusive for adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma (ACP) and papillary craniopharyngioma (PCP) tumors. This discovery is helpful in the development of novel targeted therapies in successful clinical trials with mutations in PCP cases. However, no such targeted therapy is available yet for ACP.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpendymomas are glial tumors derived from differentiated ependymal cells. In contrast to other types of brain tumors, histological grading is not a good prognostic marker for these tumors. In order to determine genomic changes in an anaplastic ependymoma, we analyzed its mutation patterns by next generation sequencing (NGS).
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