Background: Peripheral biomarkers are becoming an important method by which to monitor the progression of coronary artery disease (CAD). Not only are they minimally invasive and early detection, but they can also be used for classification and diagnosis of disease as well as prognostic assessment. Currently, this approach is still in the exploratory stage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhite matter injury (WMI) resulting from intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is closely associated with adverse prognoses in ICH patients. Although Circ-AGTPBP1 has been reported to exhibit high expression in the serum of premature infants with WMI, its effects and mechanisms in ICH-induced WMI remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the role of circ-AGTPBP1 in white matter injury after intracerebral hemorrhage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Liver metastasis of colorectal cancer (LMCRC) is a major cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. We can reduce the mortality rate by discerning the risk of liver metastases in patients with colorectal cancer at an early stage. Hence, we combined the use of folate receptor (FR)-labeled circulating tumor cells (FR+CTCs) and the metastasis-related marker, heat shock protein 90 (HSP90), to screen patients with colorectal cancer and explore the prognostic factors of patients with high expression of FR+CTC and HSP90.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The morbidity and mortality of colorectal cancer (CRC) remain high, posing a serious threat to human life and health. The early diagnosis and prognostic evaluation of CRC are two major challenges in clinical practice. MTUS1 is considered a tumour suppressor and can play an important role in inhibiting cell proliferation, migration, and tumour growth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is widely recognized that microbial disorders are involved in the pathogenesis of many malignant tumors. The oral and intestinal tract are two of the overriding microbial habitats in the human body. Although they are anatomically and physiologically continuous, belonging to the openings at both ends of the digestive tract, the oral and intestinal microbiome do not cross talk with each other due to a variety of reasons, including intestinal microbial colonization resistance and chemical barriers in the upper digestive tract.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFirst-generation immunological checkpoint inhibitors, such as CTLA-4, PD-L1 and PD-1 exhibit significant advantages over conventional cytotoxic drugs, such as oxaliplatin and 5-FU, for the treatment of colorectal cancer. However, these inhibitors are not ideal due to their low objective response rate and the vulnerability of these treatment methods when faced with emerging drug resistant cancers. This study summarizes the immunological characteristics of colorectal cancer treatment, and analyzes the ways in which OX40 may improve the efficacy of these treatments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnlotinib, a highly selective multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) has therapeutic effects on non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In this study, the anti-tumor activity and molecular mechanism of anlotinib in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) was explored. The anti-angiogenesis, anti-metastasis, anti-proliferative, and anti-multidrug resistance efficacy of anlotinib were analyzed by using and models of human CRC cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCircular RNAs (circRNAs) are evolutionarily conserved and tissue-specific types of non-coding RNA and can serve as potential diagnostic biomarkers for disease. However, the clinical significance and levels of expression of circRNAs for whole blood samples of prematurely born infants afflicted by diseases such as periventricular white matter damage (PWMD) are largely unknown. Therefore, we sought to identify measures of expression of circRNAs in whole blood samples obtained from prematurely born infants afflicted by PWMD and comparatively in samples from prematurely born infants without PWMD.
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October 2018
Background/aims: Periventricular white matter damage (PWMD) is the predominant neurologic lesion in preterm infants who survive brain injury. In this study, we assessed the global changes in and characteristics of the transcriptome of circular RNAs (circRNAs) in the brain tissues of rats with PWMD.
Methods: We compared the expression profiles of circRNAs in brain samples from three rats with PWMD and three paired control tissues using deep RNA sequencing.
Objectives: Inflammation plays a key role in the pathogenesis and progression of ischemic stroke (IS). The high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) nucleoprotein is involved in the amplification of inflammatory responses during acute ischemic injury. HMGB1 levels in patients with active disease are higher than those in healthy controls.
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