Importance Of The Field: Among the GPCR subclasses that have been discovered to date, 5-HT receptors are especially attractive as key biological targets with enormous clinical importance. In particular, during the last decade, the 5-HT(6) receptor has gained increasing attention due to extensive cellular functions. It has also been suggested that its activity can be mediated by inverse agonists.
Areas Covered In This Review: Summarizing the points listed above, the current review primarily focuses on patent literature within the title field, evolution and trends that have not yet been covered in such depth in other published papers.
What The Reader Will Gain: To obtain a clear understanding of the situation and dynamics within the field of 5-HT(6) ligands, having an obvious pharmaceutical potential in terms of related patents, we provide a comprehensive search through several key patent collections. We have covered promising small molecule compounds which are being evaluated in different clinical trials as well as drugs currently available in the pharmaceutical market. In addition, readers will gain a deep insight into the patent specification, geographic distribution, tendency and patent holders presented.
Take Home Message: Several of 5-HT(6)-targeted compounds are reasonably regarded as powerful drug candidates for the treatment of a range of neuropathological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease.
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BMJ Open
December 2024
Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research including UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Introduction: Scaling up evidence-based practices (EBPs) in family planning (FP), as recommended by the WHO, has increasingly been accepted by global health actors as core to their mission, goals and activities. National policies, strategies, guidance, training materials, political commitment and donor support exist in many countries to adopt and scale up a range of EBPs, including postpregnancy FP, task sharing for FP and the promotion of social and behaviour change (SBC) for FP. While there has been some success in implementing these practices, coverage remains inadequate in many countries.
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December 2024
Business School, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Introduction: Veterans deal with 'unobservable' medical or mental health conditions, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, at higher rates than the general population. Disclosure of such conditions is important to provide social, emotional, medical and mental health support, but veterans may face challenges when deciding whether to disclose conditions, including fear of stigma or discrimination. Safe disclosure in the workplace is particularly important, as it allows employees to gain accommodations and enables employers to manage workplace health and safety effectively.
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December 2024
INSERM UMR1231 Génétique des Anomalies du Développement (GAD), Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
Introduction: The megalencephaly capillary malformation polymicrogyria (MCAP syndrome) results from mosaic gain-of-function variants. The main clinical features are macrocephaly, somatic overgrowth, neurodevelopmental delay and brain anomalies. Alpelisib (Vijoice) is a recently FDA-approved PI3Kα-specific inhibitor for patients with PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum (PROS).
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February 2025
Retired.
This paper proposes a general approach for handling multiple contrast tests for normally distributed data in the presence of partial heteroskedasticity. In contrast to the usual case of complete heteroskedasticity, the treatments belong to subgroups according to their variances. Treatments within these subgroups are homoskedastic, whereas treatments of different subgroups are heteroskedastic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Retina Vitreous
January 2025
Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, #121/C, 1st R Block, Chord Road, Rajaji Nagar, Bengaluru, 560010, India.
Purpose: To evaluate the predictive accuracy of various machine learning (ML) statistical models in forecasting postoperative visual acuity (VA) outcomes following macular hole (MH) surgery using preoperative optical coherence tomography (OCT) parameters.
Methods: This retrospective study included 158 eyes (151 patients) with full-thickness MHs treated between 2017 and 2023 by the same surgeon and using the same intraoperative surgical technique. Data from electronic medical records and OCT scans were extracted, with OCT-derived qualitative and quantitative MH characteristics recorded.
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