6,752 results match your criteria: "Ludwig Maximilians University Munich[Affiliation]"
J Am Heart Assoc
December 2024
Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science at University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital Liverpool United Kingdom.
Background: Heart failure (HF) often occurs in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), with a major impact on prognosis. Few data are available on the effect of integrated treatment strategies to improve prognosis in patients with AF. We aimed to evaluate the association between HF (according to left ventricular ejection fraction [LVEF]), HF optimal medical therapy and adherence to the Atrial Fibrillation Better Care pathway, and major outcomes in patients with AF.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAesthet Surg J
December 2024
Department of Oromaxillofacial Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
Background: Understanding the interplay of muscle activity in the upper face is crucial as it can significantly impact the effectiveness and safety of aesthetic treatments. Traditional injection algorithms typically focus on the general 2D and 3D anatomy of muscles, often neglecting the areas where muscles exert the greatest force during facial expressions.
Objectives: To analyze the location of greatest morphological change in upper facial muscles procerus muscle (PM), corrugator supercilia muscle (CSM), orbicularis oculi muscle (OOM) and frontalis muscle (FM) during various facial expressions.
J R Soc Interface
December 2024
Aesculap AG, Research & Development, Tuttlingen, Germany.
Intra-operative tensioning of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is commonly based on the surgeon's experience, resulting in a possibly loose or overly tight PCL. To date, the consequences of different PCL tensioning scenarios for the post-operative biomechanics of the knee remain unclear. Using a comprehensive musculoskeletal modelling approach that allows predictive joint kinematic and kinetic balance, we assessed variations in the movement and loading patterns of the knee as well as changes in ligament and muscle forces during walking in response to systematic variations in the PCL reference strain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAngew Chem Int Ed Engl
December 2024
Universitat Bielefeld, Chemie, Universitätsstraße 15, 33615, Bielefeld, GERMANY.
Fluoromethyl triflate (superfluoromethyl, SFM, FCH2OSO2CF3) and fluoromethyl fluorosulfonate (magic fluoromethyl, MFM, FCH2OSO2F) are two easily synthesized, highly effective and non-ozone depleting fluoromethylation reagents. They are analogous to the well-known and widely used methylation re-agents CH3OSO2CF3 and CH3OSO2F. Both SFM and MFM have been fully characterized by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy (1H, 13C, 17O, 19F, 33S).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Med
December 2024
Rheumazentrum Ostschweiz, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
The therapeutic aim for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is to control disease activity and prevent radiographic progression. Various clinical scores are used to assess disease activity in RA patients. The DAS 28 score can define states of low disease activity (LDA) and remission.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Prim Care
December 2024
Institute of General Practice and Health Services Research, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Department Clinical Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Background: Rural areas are increasingly moving back into the focus of social research, especially in the context of health care. As the shortage of general practitioners (GP) in rural areas is a significant challenge in Germany, there are several programs to counteract underuse effectively, acutely, and sustainably. One of those programs is 'Beste Landpartie Allgemeinmedizin' (BeLA), which was developed to strengthen primary care in rural areas and to sustainably promote young doctors to work as general practitioners in rural regions through didactical and financial support.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCommun Med (Lond)
December 2024
Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Munich, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.
Background: Distal sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSPN) is a common neurological disorder in elderly adults and people with obesity, prediabetes and diabetes and is associated with high morbidity and premature mortality. DSPN is a multifactorial disease and not fully understood yet.
Methods: Here, we developed the Interpretable Multimodal Machine Learning (IMML) framework for predicting DSPN prevalence and incidence based on sparse multimodal data.
Psychol Med
December 2024
Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Background: The Personalized Advantage Index (PAI) shows promise as a method for identifying the most effective treatment for individual patients. Previous studies have demonstrated its utility in retrospective evaluations across various settings. In this study, we explored the effect of different methodological choices in predictive modelling underlying the PAI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlant Physiol
December 2024
Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology (IBBP), Universität Münster, 48143 Münster, Germany.
Front Psychiatry
November 2024
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Freiburg, Freilburg, Germany.
Introduction: Although depressive disorders are frequently associated with relapses, the sustained efficacy of therapies after their termination has been insufficiently investigated.
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the current evidence of enduring effects of psychotherapy, antidepressants and their combination after the end of treatment.
Methods: PubMed and PsychINFO were systematically screened according to PRISMA guidelines (except for preregistration).
Eur Heart J
December 2024
Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research (IMCAR), Aachen-Maastricht Institute for CardioRenal Disease (AMICARE) and Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Clin Epigenetics
December 2024
Goethe University Frankfurt, University Hospital, Neurological Institute (Edinger Institute), Frankfurt, Germany.
Background: Giant cell (gc)-enriched glioblastoma (gcGB) represents a distinct histological variant of isocitrate dehydrogenase wild-type adult-type glioblastoma with notable enlarged mono- or multinuclear tumor cells. While some studies suggest a survival advantage for gcGB patients, the underlying causes remain elusive. GcGBs are associated with TP53 mutations, and gcs were shown to accumulate DNA double-strand breaks and show deficient mitosis, potentially triggering cellular senescence programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhys Med Biol
December 2024
Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Munich Campus Grosshadern, Marchioninistr. 15, Munchen, 81377, GERMANY.
This study aimed to evaluate two real-time target tracking approaches for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) based on foundation artificial intelligence (AI) models. Approach: The first approach used a point-tracking model that propagates points from a reference contour. The second approach used a video-object-segmentation model, based on Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer Immunol Res
December 2024
University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, NRW, Germany.
Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) in cancer are considered ectopic hotspots for immune activation that are similar to lymphoid follicles in secondary lymphoid organs (SLO). This study elucidates shared and TLS/SLO-specific features in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). TLS abundance was related to superior survival and T-cell abundance in 110 treatment-naïve PDAC samples, underlining their clinical relevance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFN Engl J Med
December 2024
From Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York (K.L.J.); University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (P.N.); Hospital María Curie, Buenos Aires (M.L.C.); Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (S.-B.K.); National Hospital Organization Kyushu Cancer Center, Fukuoka, Japan (E.T.); Institut Jules Bordet, Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles, Brussels (P.A.); Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona (C.S.); Baylor University Medical Center, Texas Oncology, U.S. Oncology, Dallas (J.O.); the Breast Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Comprehensive Cancer Center Munich, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich University Hospital, Munich, Germany (N.H.); the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill (L.A.C.); the University of Milan, Milan (G.C.); the European Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Milan (G.C.); Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Valencia, Spain (A.L.-C.); Garvan Institute of Medical Research and University of New South Wales, Sydney (E.L.); Hospital de Oncología, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Mexico City (M.L.G.T.); Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (J.S.); the Mastology Department, Women's Health Hospital, São Paulo (A.M.); Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China (Q.Z.); National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei (C.-S.H.); the Division of Breast Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (C.-C.H.); Filios Alta Medicina, Monterrey, Mexico (J.L.M.R.); the Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain (M.R.B.); the Department of Breast Surgery, Chiba Cancer Center Hospital, Chiba, Japan (R.N.); Eli Lilly, Indianapolis (K.R.P., C.C.L., E.B., S.C., X.A.W., L.M.S.); and Institut Curie and University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines-Paris-Saclay University, Paris (F.-C.B.).
Background: Imlunestrant is a next-generation, brain-penetrant, oral selective estrogen-receptor (ER) degrader that delivers continuous ER inhibition, even in cancers with mutations in the gene encoding ERα ().
Methods: In a phase 3, open-label trial, we enrolled patients with ER-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative advanced breast cancer that recurred or progressed during or after aromatase inhibitor therapy, administered alone or with a cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6 (CDK4/6) inhibitor. Patients were assigned in a 1:1:1 ratio to receive imlunestrant, standard endocrine monotherapy, or imlunestrant-abemaciclib.
Brain Commun
November 2024
Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, LMU University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.
Technologies to study mRNA in post-mortem human brain samples have greatly advanced our understanding of brain pathologies. With ongoing improvements, particularly in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue, these technologies will continue to enhance our knowledge in the future. Despite various considerations for tissue and mRNA quality, such as pre-mortem health status and RNA integrity, the impact of the tissue fixation time has not been addressed in a systemic fashion yet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNat Biomed Eng
December 2024
Translational Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany.
In patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), intratumoural and intertumoural heterogeneity increases chemoresistance and mortality rates. However, such morphological and phenotypic diversities are not typically captured by organoid models of PDAC. Here we show that branched organoids embedded in collagen gels can recapitulate the phenotypic landscape seen in murine and human PDAC, that the pronounced molecular and morphological intratumoural and intertumoural heterogeneity of organoids is governed by defined transcriptional programmes (notably, epithelial-to-mesenchymal plasticity), and that different organoid phenotypes represent distinct tumour-cell states with unique biological features in vivo.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBone Jt Open
December 2024
Department of Hand, Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
Aims: In the treatment of basal thumb osteoarthritis (OA), intra-articular autologous fat transplantation has become of great interest within recent years as a minimally invasive and effective alternative to surgical intervention with regard to pain reduction. This study aims to assess its long-term effectiveness.
Methods: Patients diagnosed with stage one to three OA received a single intra-articular autologous fat transplantation.
Eur Psychiatry
December 2024
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
There is growing interest in lifestyle interventions as stand-alone and add-on therapies in mental health care due to their potential benefits for both physical and mental health outcomes. We evaluated lifestyle interventions focusing on physical activity, diet, and sleep in adults with severe mental illness (SMI) and the evidence for their effectiveness. To this end, we conducted a meta-review and searched major electronic databases for articles published prior to 09/2022 and updated our search in 03/2024.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Neurol
November 2024
Division of Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Planegg, Germany.
Background: Energetic aspects of neuronal activity have become a major focus of interest given the fact that the brain among all organs dominates the oxygen consumption. At variance with the importance of neuroenergetics, the knowledge about how electrical activity and metabolism is correlated in defined neuronal populations is still rather scarce.
Results: We have estimated the ATP consumption in the two physiologically well characterized populations of frog central vestibular neurons, with tonic and phasic firing patterns, respectively.
J Neuroendocrinol
December 2024
Department of Behavioural Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Seewiesen, Germany.
Chem Commun (Camb)
December 2024
Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Butenandtstr. 5-13, Haus F, D-81377 Munich, Germany.
-Adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) is crucial for methylation and tightly controlled in cells. We examined SAM-III riboswitch response to 17 SAM analogues and used a Spinach/SAM aptasensor to monitor their enzymatic formation . Most SAM analogues were recognized, unless they featured an -substituted benzyl ring, indicating potential regulatory effects SAM riboswitches.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNew Phytol
December 2024
Plant Molecular Biology (Botany), Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Martinsried, D-82152, Germany.
Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) exhibits catalytic promiscuity, resulting in error-prone reactions and the formation of inhibitory sugar phosphates. Specifically, Xylulose-1,5-bisphosphate (XuBP) acts as an inhibitor by binding to the active site of Rubisco, thereby impairing its catalytic function. Thermolabile Rubisco activase (Rca) facilitates the release of such inhibitors, including XuBP, by remodelling Rubisco.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCell Host Microbe
December 2024
Institute for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (iTERM), Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany; Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany; Koç University, School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey. Electronic address:
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg
November 2024
Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: