Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma Long-Term Prognostic Factors.

Introduction: Thyroid cancer is the most common cancer in women in Ecuador.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the demographics and clinical and treatment variables of patients with papillary or follicular thyroid cancer, referred to as differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), treated at a third-level hospital in Quito, Ecuador.

Methods: We reviewed retrospectively the medical records of patients with DTC, who underwent surgical treatment, from 1990 to 2019.

Increasing the Efficacy of Gold Nanorod Uptake in Stem Cell-Derived Therapeutic Cells: Implications for Stem Cell Labeling and Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging.

The advancement of safe nanomaterials for use as optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging and stem cell-labeling agents to longitudinally visually track therapeutic derived retinal stem cells to study their migration, survival rate, and efficacy is challenged by instability, intracellular aggregation, low uptake, and cytotoxicity. Here, we describe a series of hybrid lipid-coated gold nanorods (AuNRs) that could solve these issues. These nanomaterials were made via a layer-by-layer assembly approach, and their stability in biological media, mechanism, efficiency of uptake, and toxicity were compared with a commercially available set of AuNRs with a 5 nm mesoporous silica (mSiO)-polymer coating.

Treatment of pigs with endectocides as a complementary tool for combating malaria transmission by Anopheles farauti (s.s.) in Papua New Guinea.

Background: Outdoor, early-biting, zoophagic behaviours by Anopheles farauti (s.s.) can compromise the effectiveness of bed nets for malaria control.

Proteomics of Anopheles Vectors of Malaria.

Proteomic investigations in Anopheles gained momentum following the sequencing of the Anopheles gambiae genome, allowing peptide data from mass spectrometry to be searched against large datasets of predicted protein sequences. Exhaustive discovery proteomics investigations have improved the annotation of genomic datasets and catalogued proteins from mosquito tissues, including the salivary glands, midgut, and sensory appendages. These efforts have revealed protein constituents that define the unique biological functions of these organs.