Publications by authors named "R Tran"

Gabapentin and pregabalin are widely used in the management of neuropathic pain though their prescribing patterns, effectiveness, and safety profiles remain topics of ongoing research. This retrospective chart review analyzed the prevalence of gabapentinoid use in a chronic pain clinic over a one-year period from May 1, 2023, to April 30, 2024. The study examined patient records from four pain management physicians, focusing on those prescribed gabapentin or pregabalin.

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Multiple myeloma (MM), a cancer of bone marrow plasma cells, is the second-most common hematological malignancy. However, despite immunotherapies like chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells, relapse is nearly universal. The bone marrow (BM) microenvironment influences how MM cells survive, proliferate, and resist treatment.

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  • Pro-regenerative lipid mediator 1 (PreM1) enhances healing and regenerative abilities in cells like mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and macrophages, especially for treating third-degree burns.
  • A novel construct combining PreM1, microvascular fragments (MVFs), and a hybrid hydrogel (ACgel1) effectively delivers these components to improve wound healing, vascularization, and collagen formation in mice with 3° burns.
  • The PreM1-MVFs-ACgel1 construct showed the best results, achieving 97% wound closure by day 13 post-burn, making it a promising treatment for severe burns with minimal donor requirements.
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The efficiency of H production water electrolysis is limited by the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER). As such, significant emphasis has been placed upon improving the rate of OER through the anode catalyst. More recently, the Open Catalyst 2022 (OC22) framework has provided a large dataset of density functional theory (DFT) calculations for OER intermediates on the surfaces of oxides.

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In this manuscript, literature reports on mono- and di-halogen (F, Cl, Br, and I) substituted at positions 4 or/and 4,5 imidazol-2-ylidene (NHC) metal complexes are discussed: particularly, their structural diversity with various metals (groups 6-13), important physicochemical properties, catalytic and medicinal/biological applications are reviewed. To our knowledge, there are no literature reports on group 4 and 5 metal complexes with this type of NHC ligands. Halogenated imidazol-2-ylidene metal complexes deserve special attention because halogens are the classic electron donating groups (mesomerically) in conjugated aromatic/heteroaromatic ring systems, but electron withdrawing inductively.

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