Stellar superflares are energetic outbursts of electromagnetic radiation that are similar to solar flares but release more energy, up to 10 erg on main-sequence stars. It is unknown whether the Sun can generate superflares and, if so, how often they might occur. We used photometry from the Kepler space observatory to investigate superflares on other stars with Sun-like fundamental parameters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Standard approaches to the treatment of chronic post-radiation proctitis are associated with a high risk of complications and a high percentage of unsatisfactory results due to the reduced regenerative potential of irradiated tissues. Regenerative surgery techniques using the stromal-vascular cell fraction (SVF) based on the patient's autologous adipose tissue are a promising direction for study.
Clinical Case Description: A 76-year-old patient suffering from chronic post-radiation erosive-ulcerative proctitis, grade 4 according to RTOG-EORTC, complicated by recurrent profuse rectal bleeding, underwent local autotransplantation of SVF into the submucosal layer of the rectum and pararectal connective tissue.
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a pivotal target in cancer therapy due to its significance within the tyrosine kinase family. EGFR inhibitors like AG-1478 and PD153035, featuring a 4-anilinoquinazoline moiety, have garnered global attention for their potent therapeutic activities. While pre-clinical studies have highlighted the significant impact of halogen substitution at the C3'-anilino position on drug potency, the underlying mechanism remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDevelopment of nanoparticles (NPs) serving as contrast enhancing agents in MRI requires a combination of high contrasting effect with the biosafety and hemocompatibility. This work demonstrates that bovine serum albumin (BSA) molecules bound to paramagnetic Mn ions are promising building blocks of such NPs. The desolvation-induced denaturation of BSA bound with Mn ions followed by the glutaraldehyde-facilitated cross-linking provides the uniform in size 102.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent studies have established that the circadian clock influences onset, progression and therapeutic outcomes in a number of diseases including cancer and heart diseases. Therefore, there is a need for tools to measure the functional state of the molecular circadian clock and its downstream targets in patients. Moreover, the clock is a multi-dimensional stochastic oscillator and there are few tools for analysing it as a noisy multigene dynamical system.
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