The widespread use of pesticides, particularly in combinations, has resulted in enhanced hazardous health effects. However, little is known about their molecular mechanism of interactions. The aim of this study was to assess the neurotoxicity effect of pesticides in mixtures by adopting a 3D in vitro developed neurospheroid model, followed by treatment by increased concentrations of pesticides for 24 h and analysis by a shotgun proteomic-based approach with high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPesticides are increasingly used in combinations in crop protection, resulting in enhanced toxicities for various organisms. Although protein adductomics is challenging, it remains a powerful bioanalytical tool to check environmental exposure and characterize xenobiotic adducts as putative toxicity biomarkers with high accuracy, facilitated by recent advances in proteomic methodologies and a mass spectrometry high-throughput technique. The present study aims to predict the potential neurotoxicity effect of imidacloprid and λ-cyhalothrin insecticides on human neural cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-grade gliomas represent the most common group of infiltrative primary brain tumors in adults associated with high invasiveness, agressivity, and resistance to therapy, which highlights the need to develop potent drugs with novel mechanisms of action. The aim of this study is to reveal changes in proteome profiles under stressful conditions to identify prognostic biomarkers and altered apoptogenic pathways involved in the anticancer action of human isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutant high-grade gliomas. Our protocol consists first of a 3D developing neurospheroid model and then treatment by a pesticide mixture at relevant concentrations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPesticides are widely used, resulting in continuing human exposure with potential health impacts. Some exposures related to agricultural works have been associated with neurological disorders. Since the 2000s, the hypothesis of the role of pesticides in the occurrence of central nervous system (CNS) tumors has been better documented in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntra-articular (IA) hyaluronic acid (HA) and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections are increasingly being prescribed for knee osteoarthritis (KOA). However, failure of the medical treatment may result in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We wondered if IA HA or PRP injections (intervention) may delay the time to TKA (outcome) among KOA patients (population), compared to KOA patients not receiving these injections (comparator).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKallikrein-related peptidases (KLKs) are implicated in many cancer-related processes. KLK6, one of the 15 KLK family members, is a promising biomarker for diagnosis of many cancers and has been associated with poor prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Herein, we evaluated the expression and cellular functions of KLK6 in colon cancer-derived cell lines and in clinical samples from CRC patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Considering non-classical environmental risk factors for osteoarthritis (OA), a systematic literature review (SLR) was performed to summarise existing knowledge on associations between OA and pollutants.
Methods: PubMed was used to identify studies reporting data on OA and pollutants in humans (examples of MeSH terms: "Pesticides" or "Polychlorinated Biphenyls" or 'Lead'). Reports included epidemiological clinical studies, pollutant assessments in ex vivo OA joint, and in vitro effects of pollutants on chondrocytes.
Objective: The aim of this systematic literature review was to provide a comprehensive and exhaustive overview of the use of machine learning (ML) in the clinical care of osteoarthritis (OA).
Methods: A systematic literature review was performed in July 2021 using MEDLINE PubMed with key words and MeSH terms. For each selected article, the number of patients, ML algorithms used, type of data analysed, validation methods and data availability were collected.
Sleep fragmentation and reductions in sleep spindles have been observed in individuals with depression. Sleep spindles are known to play a protective role for sleep, and there are indications that melatonin agents can enhance spindles in healthy people. Whether agomelatine, a melatonin agonist indicated for the treatment of depression, may increase spindle density sufficiently to impact sleep continuity in people with depression remains unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To evaluate an intervention to reduce the nocebo effect (NE) when switching from the originator infliximab (OI) to the infliximab biosimilar SB2 in chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease (CIRD).
Methods: An intervention was built with healthcare professionals (HPs) and a patient representative, based on a systematic review of interventions reducing the NE in musculoskeletal diseases and semi-directed questioning of five patients. Our strategy consisted of training HPs, switch information given by the nurses, a consistent vocabulary.
Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc
October 2021
Environmental contamination by heavy metals has been a matter of great concern in many countries for several decades. Human exposure to such elements may cause adverse health effects and young children are particularly at risk. Many matrixes have been used for determination of metal exposure levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the field of doping, a great interest is carried for the analysis of morphine, a powerful narcotic analgesic opiate which use is prohibited during competitions. In order to confirm the abnormal analytical result in our anti-doping laboratory, a sensitive and selective gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method was performed for the quantification of urinary morphine. As sample preparation is a key step for the determination of drugs in biological samples, the aim of this work consists of the optimization of the urinary human sample pretreatment conditions before quantification by GC/MS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVoriconazole is a second-generation triazole derived from fluconazole, having an enhanced antifungal spectrum, compared with older triazoles. It is the drug of choice for treatment of invasive aspergillosis and many Scedosporium/Pseudallescheria Fusarium infections. Voriconazole is available in both intravenous and oral formulations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOsteoarticular involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is frequent and varied. Data are scarce on the prevalence and risk factors of osteoporosis (OP). We aimed to assess clinical parameters, radiological parameters, US articular involvements, and the frequency of OP and evaluate SSc-specific risk factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe place occupied by fluoroquinolones is very important clinically. Ciprofloxacin has been the most widely prescribed one which exhibits good activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter. D-glucose is frequently used as an excipient in most formulations for perfusion solutions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeveral studies have highlighted that nutritional supplements may contain undeclared anabolic steroids that are banned by the International Olympic Committee/World Anti-Doping Agency. Any kind of abuse with these drugs is extremely dangerous because of their side effects. Thus, the control of food additives in order to protect the best consumer health and to limit fraudulent practices in the field of sports is essential.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe main objective was to develop a suitable and rapid ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) method for the quantitative determination of meloxicam and its impurities. Starting from data in literature, we calculated the new parameters to translate a high performance liquid chromatography method used for the analysis of meloxicam with its major degradation products to UPLC method, and then we switched on many trials to optimize and improve its analytical performance. Chromatographic separation was achieved on ACQUITY UPLC HSS-T3 (2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: We aimed to investigate the prevalence of dyslipidemia in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and whether OA and dyslipidemia are associated.
Methods: We performed a systematic literature review and a meta-analysis, including cross-sectional, cohort and case-control studies, to assess the number of patients with OA and/or dyslipidemia. We calculated the mean (±SD) prevalence of dyslipidemia in patients with and without OA and the risk of dyslipidemia (OR, 95% CI) among patients with OA.
For the most part aged over 50, people affected with osteoarthritis frequently present associated comorbidities. Debilitating and detrimental in terms of quality of life and fitness to work, osteoarthritis is becoming a public health issue which must be considered in terms of prevention, management and research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To investigate the prevalence of osteoarthritis (OA) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and prevalence of DM in patients with OA and whether OA and DM are associated.
Design: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. We included cohort, case-control and cross-sectional studies assessing the number of patients with DM and/or OA.
Fatigue is a frequent symptom in several inflammatory diseases, particularly in rheumatic diseases. Elements of disease activity and cognitive and behavior aspects have been reported as causes of fatigue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Fatigue could be associated with activity of inflammatory rheumatism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhile rapidly destructive OA is more recognized in hip, we report the case of a 50-year-old woman who presented a rapid chondrolysis in the patellofemoral joint in a context of rapid loss of muscular strength. She had arthralgia, myalgia and proximal muscular deficit of the limbs. Creatine phospho kinase level was elevated and electromyogram exam showed a myogenic syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA stability-indicating high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method was developed for the analysis of florfenicol in presence of its two available identified degradation products (thiamphenicol and chlorfenicol). The drug was subjected to different International Conference On Harmonisation (ICH) prescribed stress conditions (hydrolysis, oxidation and photolysis). The products formed under different stress conditions were investigated by liquid chromatography (LC) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS).
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