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From materials to clinical use: advances in 3D-printed scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering.

Phys Chem Chem Phys

September 2023

Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China.

Osteoarthritis caused by articular cartilage defects is a particularly common orthopedic disease that can involve the entire joint, causing great pain to its sufferers. A global patient population of approximately 250 million people has an increasing demand for new therapies with excellent results, and tissue engineering scaffolds have been proposed as a potential strategy for the repair and reconstruction of cartilage defects. The precise control and high flexibility of 3D printing provide a platform for subversive innovation.

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Purpose: To evaluate the interference effects of various resistance-training (RT) protocols on rowing ergometer performance.

Methods: Fourteen semiprofessional male rowers randomly completed 5 protocols in separate sessions: (1) control-no RT session was performed, (2) upper-body high-fatigue-4 sets to failure during the bench pull exercise, (3) upper-body low-fatigue-4 sets of 6 repetitions during the bench pull exercise, (4) lower-body high-fatigue-4 sets to failure during the leg-press exercise, and (5) lower-body low-fatigue-4 sets of 6 repetitions during the leg-press exercise. All sets were performed against the 12-repetition-maximum load with 2 minutes of interset rest.

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Sex Differences in Fractional Flow Reserve- or Intravascular Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

JACC Cardiovasc Interv

October 2023

Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Transvascular Implantation Devices, Hangzhou, China. Electronic address:

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  • A recent trial shows that using fractional flow reserve (FFR) for PCI is just as good as using intracoronary ultrasound (IVUS) but results in fewer procedures.
  • This study analyzed how sex affects treatment decisions and outcomes in PCI, particularly looking at the differences between men and women concerning procedural characteristics and rates of target vessel failure (TVF) at 24 months.
  • Findings indicate that women had better outcomes and lower rates of TVF, even with fewer interventions, while both FFR and IVUS strategies produced similar results in terms of clinical outcomes for both sexes.
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  • - This study examines how different types of jumps (unilateral vs. bilateral) and various measures (mean force, propulsive impulse, jump height) are affected by fatigue and their effectiveness in revealing inter-limb asymmetries.
  • - Thirty-eight participants completed countermovement jumps before and after either a unilateral or bilateral fatigue protocol, with results showing a decrease in jump performance for both protocols.
  • - The findings suggest that unilateral jumps are more effective than bilateral jumps for highlighting changes in inter-limb asymmetries caused by fatigue, indicating their importance for testing purposes.
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Background: Inflammation is one of the most important characteristics of tumor tissue. Signatures based on inflammatory response-related genes (IRGs) can predict prognosis and treatment response in a variety of tumors. However, the clear function of IRGs in the triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) still needs to be explored.

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Janicijevic, D, Pérez-Castilla, A, Miras-Moreno, S, Ortega-Becerra, M, Morenas-Aguilar, MD, Smajla, D, Sarabon, N, and García-Ramos, A. Effect of a high-intensity handball-specific fatigue protocol focused on the leg contralateral to the throwing arm on interlimb asymmetries. J Strength Cond Res 37(7): 1382-1389, 2023-This study aimed to elucidate which countermovement jump (CMJ) variant (unilateral or bilateral) is more sensitive to detect the decrement in kinetic CMJ-derived variables of the leg more actively involved in a handball-specific fatigue protocol.

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Purpose: To explore fecal immune-related proteins that can be used for colorectal cancer (CRC) diagnosis.

Patients And Methods: Three independent cohorts were used in present study. In the discovery cohort, which included 14 CRC patients and 6 healthy controls (HCs), label-free proteomics was applied to identify immune-related proteins in stool that could be used for CRC diagnosis.

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Importance: Adenomyosis is a common chronic gynecological disorder, and its treatment is an unmet need. New therapies need to be developed. Mifepristone is being tested for adenomyosis treatment.

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Anal fistula is a common proctological disease, but the thorough mechanisms of the anal fistula formation are still unclear. An increasing number of studies have revealed the crucial role of gut microbiota in intestinal diseases. We used 16S rRNA gene sequencing to analyze the intestinal microbiome in order to determine whether there are differences in the microbiome between anal fistula patients and healthy individuals.

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Background: Renal fibrosis is a physiological and pathological characteristic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) to end-stage renal disease. Since renal biopsy is the gold standard for evaluating renal fibrosis, there is an urgent need for additional non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers.

Methods: We used R package "limma" to screen out differently expressed genes (DEGs) based on Epithelial-mesenchymal transformation (EMT), and carried out the protein interaction network and GO, KEGG enrichment analysis of DEGs.

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tsRNAs are small noncoding RNAs that originate from tRNA cleavage and play important regulatory roles in gene expression, translation, transcription, and epigenetic modification. The dysregulation of tsRNAs in cancer disrupts gene expression and perturbs various cellular activities, including cell proliferation, apoptosis, migration, and invasion. Moreover, tsRNAs may influence cancer development by regulating related cell signaling pathways.

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Phenylcapsaicin (PC) is a new capsaicin analog which has exhibited a higher bioavailability. This sudy assessed the effects of a low dose (LD) of 0.625 mg and a high dose (HD) of 2.

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Purpose: The study aims to compare the efficacy and safety of a new minimally invasive osteosynthesis technique with those of conventional open surgery for transverse patellar fractures.

Methods: It was a retrospective study. Adult patients with closed transverse patellar fracture were included, and with open comminuted patellar fracture were excluded.

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The study aimed to evaluate the value of cancer-directed surgery (CDS) in improving the prognosis of patients with stage IVB endometrial cancer (EC) and under which kind of conditions could maximise its value. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database was used to analyse patients diagnosed with stage IVB EC who received chemotherapy between 2004 and 2016. Among 1978 patients were enrolled following propensity score matching (PSM).

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Reactive oxygen species play a crucial role in the prognosis and tumor microenvironment (TME) of malignant tumors. An ROS-related signature was constructed in gastric cancer (GC) samples from TCGA database. ROS-related genes were obtained from the Molecular Signatures Database.

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Background: Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) ATB belongs to an active modulator in multiple cancers, but its expression along with potential underlying non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is obscure. Our study aimed to investigate the role and potential mechanism of LncRNA ATB in NSCLC.

Methods: LncRNA ATB expression in NSCLC tissues and cell lines was detected by qRT-PCR.

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Introduction: Exposure to ambient air pollutants is associated with an increased incidence of respiratory diseases such as pneumonia and asthma, especially in younger children. We investigated the relationship between rates of hospitalization of children aged under 5 years for pneumonia and asthma and the concentration of air pollutants in Ningbo between January 1, 2015 and August 29, 2017.

Methods: Data were obtained from the Ningbo Air Quality Data Real-time Publishing System and the big data platform of the Ningbo Health Information Center.

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Introduction: Cellular senescence is a hallmark of tumors and has potential for cancer therapy. Cellular senescence of tumor cells plays a role in tumor progression, and patient prognosis is related to the tumor microenvironment (TME). This study aimed to explore the predictive value of senescence-related genes in thyroid cancer (THCA) and their relationship with the TME.

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Janicijevic, D, González-Hernández, JM, Jiménez-Reyes, P, Márquez, G, and García-Ramos, A. Longitudinal effects of traditional and rest redistribution set configurations on explosive-strength and strength-endurance manifestations. J Strength Cond Res 37(5): 980-986, 2023-This study aimed to compare the long-term effects of resistance training programs based on traditional and rest redistribution set configurations on explosive-strength and strength-endurance performance of lower-body and upper-body muscles.

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Background: It is well known that the prognosis of Gastric cancer (GC) patient is affected by many factors. However, the latent impact of anoikis on the prognosis of GC patients is insufficient understood.

Methods: According to the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database, we elected discrepantly expressed anoikis-related genes (ARGs).

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Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most common tumor types and has poor outcomes. In this study, a ubiquitination-related prognostic signature was constructed, and its association with immunotherapy response in BC was explored. A list of ubiquitination-related genes was obtained from the molecular signatures database, and a ubiquitination-related gene signature was obtained by least absolute shrinkage and selection operator Cox regression.

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Background: The multi-target stool DNA test (MT-sDNA) has potential utility in the detection of colorectal cancer (CRC), but validation of its clinical accuracy has been limited in China.

Aim: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of MT-sDNA and investigate the combined diagnostic value of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), and carbohydrate antigen 199 (CA199) with MT-sDNA in CRC and adenomas.

Methods: We evaluated the performance of the MT-sDNA kit based on a hospital clinical trial.

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