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  • 2S albumins are significant allergens found in various tree nuts and seeds, mainly affecting children and young people.
  • The study focused on analyzing how the structural characteristics of 2S albumins influence their ability to trigger immune responses, aiming to understand their role in food allergies.
  • Researchers isolated and characterized twelve 2S albumins, revealing that despite low amino acid similarity, they have common structural features that may lead to cross-reactivity in allergic reactions among different sources.
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Large-scale deployment of COVID-19 vaccines will seriously affect the ongoing phases 2 and 3 randomised placebo-controlled trials assessing SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates. The effect will be particularly acute in high-income countries where the entire adult or older population could be vaccinated by late 2021. Regrettably, only a small proportion of the population in many low-income and middle-income countries will have access to available vaccines.

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Clinical research is a discipline prone to the use of technical terms that may be particularly at risk for misunderstanding given the complex interpretation that is required. In this century, what is happening with the word 'pragmatic' when describing a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with medicines deserves a public reflection. Explanatory trials are conducted in ideal conditions to assess the comparative efficacy of interventions and are useful to explain whether interventions work.

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Background: Bardet-Biedl syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by rod-cone dystrophy, postaxial polydactyly, kidney defects, obesity, mental retardation and hypogonadism. Here, we report different genotypes in two Bardet-Biedl syndrome affected sisters with a different clinical phenotype regarding severity.

Materials And Methods: The proband of the family was examined by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) using clinical exome and filtering by syndromic and non-syndromic genes associated with retinal dystrophies.

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Despite the term acute kidney injury (AKI), clinical biomarkers for AKI reflect function rather than injury and independent markers of injury are needed. Tubular cell death, including necroptotic cell death, is a key feature of AKI. Cyclophilin A (CypA) is an intracellular protein that has been reported to be released during necroptosis.

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Introduction: Not all patients with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC) are found to carry germline pathogenic variants in the associated gene CDH1, which translates into a challenging clinical management and poor cancer prevention. Thus, several studies have searched for other candidate genes, among which stands PALB2. Our work explores the implication of this known cancer gene in HDGC.

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There is a complex relationship between cardiac and renal disease, often referred to as the cardiorenal syndrome. Heart failure adversely affects kidney function, and both acute and chronic kidney disease are associated with structural and functional changes to the myocardium. The pathological mechanisms and contributing interactions that surround this relationship remain poorly understood, limiting the opportunities for therapeutic intervention.

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In the last decade, several studies based on whole transcriptomic and genomic analyses of pancreatic tumors and their stroma have come to light to supplement histopathological stratification of pancreatic cancers with a molecular point-of-view. Three main molecular studies: Collisson et al. 2011, Moffitt et al.

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  • Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) involve the dysfunction or loss of photoreceptors and show significant clinical and genetic variability; this study aimed to detail the genetic landscape of IRDs in a large cohort of Spanish patients.
  • Over 6,000 individuals from 4,403 families were analyzed, with 53.2% of families genetically characterized, revealing 1,549 likely pathogenic variants across 142 genes, with retinitis pigmentosa being the most common phenotype (55.6% of families).
  • The study identified key genes linked to various IRD forms and highlighted frequent variants, providing valuable insights for genetic diagnosis, counseling, and potential therapies for the Spanish population and related groups.
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The usefulness of local collagenase in therapeutic approaches to solid tumors has been tested recently. In this study, we evaluate the safety and efficacy of intraperitoneal collagenase associated or not to mitomycin for treatment of colorectal peritoneal metastases in an experimental rat model. Using a fixed-dose procedure, we found that a dose of collagenase of 37 IU/mL administered for 15 min with a hyperthermia pump at 37.

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Background: Positive cytology has been identified as an independent negative prognostic factor in patients with peritoneal metastases (PM) of colorectal origin. Liquid biopsy in plasma may detect increasing levels of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and could help predict systemic relapse in patients with colorectal cancer, but little is known about the role of liquid biopsy in peritoneal fluid. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of peritoneal fluid and plasma liquid biopsy in patients undergoing complete cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CC-HIPEC).

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Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) constitute the cell type more frequently used in many regenerative medicine approaches due to their exclusive immunomodulatory properties, and they have been reported to mediate profound immunomodulatory effects . Nevertheless, MSCs do not express essential adhesion molecules actively involved in cell migration, a phenotypic feature that hampers their ability to home inflamed tissues following intravenous administration. In this study, we investigated whether modification by fucosylation of murine AdMSCs (mAdMSCs) creates Hematopoietic Cell E-/L-selectin Ligand, the E-selectin-binding CD44 glycoform.

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Cigarette smoke is considered the chief leading cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Its impact on the progressive deterioration of airways has been extensively studied, but its direct effects on the pulmonary vasculature are less known. To prove that pulmonary arterial remodeling in patients with COPD is not just a consequence of alveolar hypoxia but also due to the direct effects of cigarette smoke on the pulmonary vascular bed.

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Oxidative stress contributes not only to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) but also to diabetic vascular complications. It follows that antioxidants might contribute to limiting the diabetes burden. In this review we focus on ellagic acid (EA), a compound that can be obtained upon intestinal hydrolysis of dietary ellagitannins, a family of polyphenols naturally found in several fruits and seeds.

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