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Background: Except host and environmental factors influencing individual human cytokine responses, pre-analytical handling procedures and detection methods also affect cytokine levels.
Methods: In this study, we used cytometric bead array (CBA) and chemiluminescence (ECL). These two methods were used to test serum and plasma samples from 50 healthy adult volunteers and 50 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients' cytokine levels.
Nano Lett
January 2025
Faculty of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital, Beijing 100853, P. R. China.
Portal vein tumor thrombus (PVTT) is a poor prognostic factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients, highlighting the need for an oral drug delivery system that combines convenience, simplicity, biosafety, and improved patient compliance. Leveraging the unique anatomy of the portal vein and insights from single-cell RNA sequencing of the PVTT tumor microenvironment, we developed oral pellets using CaCO@PDA nanoparticles (NPs) encapsulating both doxorubicin hydrochloride and low molecular weight heparin. These NPs target the tumor thrombus microenvironment, aiming to break down the thrombus barrier and turn the challenge of portal vein blockage into an advantage by enhancing drug delivery efficiency through oral administration.
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December 2024
Department of Pharmacy, Fujian Maternity and Child Health Hospital College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetric & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
Introduction: Compared with the guideline-recommended use of low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH) for 28 days to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE) after cytoreductive surgery, oral rivaroxaban avoids the pain and inconvenience of daily injections and reduces medical expenses. The proposed randomised controlled trial (RCT) aims to compare the efficacy and safety of rivaroxaban and enoxaparin in preventing VTE in patients after surgery for gynaecological malignancies and to provide a reference for clinical medication prevention.
Methods And Analysis: This is a single-centre, randomised, controlled, open-label and assessor-blind clinical trial.
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis
January 2025
UCHealth Memorial Hospital Colorado Springs, Colorado. Electronic address:
Introduction: During a cerebrovascular procedure, diligent care is made to ensure no air is present in lines and connectors. Should air enter the cerebral vasculature, cerebral air emboli can cause worsening neurological outcome or death. This communication outlines how a process change of refrigerating mixed heparin for storage lead to the presence of unintentional air, or off-gassing of the fluid.
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January 2025
Department of Ophthalmology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany. Electronic address:
Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based vectors have emerged as an effective and widely used technology for somatic gene therapy approaches, including those targeting the retina. A major advantage of the AAV technology is the availability of a large number of serotypes that have either been isolated from nature or produced in the laboratory. These serotypes have different properties in terms of sensitivity to neutralizing antibodies, cellular transduction profile and efficiency.
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