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BioTech (Basel)
January 2025
Applied Physiology Laboratory, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA.
The study of nutritional compounds with the potential to train the innate immune response has implications for human health. The objective of the current study was to discover by what means 6 weeks of oral baker's yeast beta glucan (BYBG) supplementation altered the mRNA expression of genes that reflect innate immune training in the absence of a physical stressor. Nineteen adults were randomly assigned to either a Wellmune BYBG or Placebo for 6 weeks.
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January 2025
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a complex congenital disorder often accompanied by long-term feeding difficulties. There is a paucity of published data regarding the impact of swallowing difficulties on long-term patient outcomes. Our study attempts to evaluate this phenomenon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQ J Nucl Med Mol Imaging
December 2024
Nuclear Medicine, Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and biliary tract cancers (BTC) pose significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and multiphase computed tomography (CT) have been the preferred imaging modalities for diagnosis, staging, and surveillance of patients with these malignancies. The best clinical outcomes depend on the appropriate selection of treatment options from the tools available in neo-adjuvant therapy, surgical resection, locoregional therapy, liver transplantation, and adjuvant therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQ J Nucl Med Mol Imaging
December 2024
Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA.
Genet Med
January 2025
Genomics Ethics, and Translational Research Program, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC; Department of Translational and Applied Genomics, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, OR. Electronic address:
Purpose: Limited evidence evaluates parents' perceptions of their child's clinical genomic sequencing (GS) results, particularly among individuals from medically underserved groups. Five Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research (CSER) consortium studies performed GS in children with suspected genetic conditions with high proportions of individuals from underserved groups to address this evidence gap.
Methods: Parents completed surveys of perceived understanding, personal utility, and test-related distress after GS result disclosure.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol
January 2025
Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, Baylor University, Houston, TX, USA.
Most studies on the impact of maternal incarceration on adolescent health risk behaviors have focused on singular, separated behaviors, even though these behaviors often cluster and co-occur. This study used the FFCWS dataset to examine the association between maternal incarceration and the aggregation of health risk behaviors among adolescents. Latent class analysis suggested the four-class model had the optimal model fit.
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August 2025
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Purpose: This study aims to compare the biomechanical performance of elastic and static suture-based cerclage systems to traditional screw constructs in the setting of modeled glenoid bony augmentation.
Methods: Biomechanical testing was conducted on polyurethane cellular foam blocks modeling a 20 % glenoid defect repaired with a coracoid graft. Constructs consisted of an elastic suture-based cerclage, static suture-based cerclage, and a two-screw construct.
Front Med (Lausanne)
January 2025
VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, United States.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Pharmacol
January 2025
Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular System, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Front Public Health
January 2025
Department of Cardiology, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX, United States.
Introduction: Financial stress (FS) during young adulthood may have lasting effects on financial security, physical health, and overall wellbeing. This study examines the burden, social determinants and mental health consequences of experienced FS among young adults in the United States, based on objective measures of financial stress.
Methods: We studied young adults aged 18-26 years using pooled data from the 2013-18 National Health Interview Survey.
Surg Pract Sci
June 2024
Baylor Scott and White, The Heart Hospital, 4708 Alliance Blvd, Suite 540, Plano, TX, United States.
Introduction: Although left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation is associated with improved survival in patients with end-stage heart failure, the impact of preoperative pulmonary function on short-term outcomes is unclear.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of all primary LVAD implants at a single institution. Common measures of preoperative pulmonary function were evaluated.
Surg Pract Sci
March 2024
Department of Surgery, Division of Multiorgan Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX, 77555-0655, USA.
Introduction: In renal transplantation, donor hepatitis C virus (HCV) status is crucial to consider when selecting a recipient given the high likelihood of transmission. We analyzed the effect of donor HCV status on post-renal transplant rejection and virologic infectious outcomes using electronic health record data from multiple US health care organizations.
Methods: Using real world data from electronic health records of renal transplant recipients, a propensity score-matched case-control study of one-year renal transplant outcomes was conducted on cohorts of HCV-negative recipients who received an organ from an HCV-positive donor (HCV D+/R-) versus from an HCV-negative donor (HCV D-/R-).
Genes Cancer
January 2025
Laboratorio de Interacciones Biomoleculares y Cáncer, Instituto de Física Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí 78210, México.
is a gene that codes for a tumour suppressor protein involved in various types of cancer. It was first described in retinoblastoma and is segregated as an autosomal dominant trait with high penetrance. In 1971, Knudson proposed his hypothesis of the two hits, where two mutational events are required to initiate tumour progression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuroImmune Pharm Ther
September 2024
Department of Neurobiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, TX, USA.
A major barrier to cure HIV is the early generation of viral reservoirs in tissues. These viral reservoirs can contain intact or defective proviruses, but both generates low levels of viral proteins contribute to chronic bystander damage even in the ART era. Most viral reservoir detection techniques are limited to blood-based, reactivation, and sequencing assays that lack spatial properties to examine the contribution of the host's microenvironment to latency and cure efforts.
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January 2025
Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, 78412, USA.
Heparin is a highly valuable active pharmaceutical ingredient, typically derived from porcine intestinal mucosa. Traditionally, various commercial resins have been used as adsorbents for heparin extraction; however, there has been growing interest in exploring more cost-effective adsorbents in recent years to improve heparin recovery. Zeolites, a typical aluminosilicate known for their high surface area, porosity, and thermal stability, were selected for evaluation in this study.
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January 2025
Guangdong Provincial Biotechnology Research Institute, Guangdong Provincial Laboratory Animals Monitoring Center, Guangzhou, China.
Kidney Med
February 2025
Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Rationale & Objective: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common in patients with kidney failure on hemodialysis (HD), but few patients receive oral anticoagulant (OAC) treatment. Availability of direct-target OACs starting in 2010 may have induced greater OAC initiation, but this has not been systematically studied.
Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Toxicol Rep
June 2025
Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA.
Over the past two decades, research has increasingly focused on the interactions between diet, gut microbiota, and host organisms. Recent evidence suggests that tryptophan, an essential amino acid, can be metabolized by gut microbiota into indoles, which have significant biological effects. However, most research is limited to indole and its liver metabolite, indoxyl sulfate.
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August 2024
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA.
Depression is a common consequence of sexual victimization. Although religious coping has been previously studied within the context of sexual victimization, there is a dearth of research examining the potential reciprocal relationships between religious coping and depression among adults with a history of sexual victimization at the daily level. The current study addresses this important gap by leveraging an intensive longitudinal design and data analysis to explore bidirectional daily relations between religious coping and depression symptoms in a community sample of adults with a history of sexual victimization.
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January 2025
Department of Chemistry and Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA.
MXenes are a large family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides. While MXenes have great potential for applications in analytical chemistry, most of the studies in this field are focused on TiCT, the most popular MXene material. For example, several studies employed TiCT as an adsorbent for the trace detection of toxic analytes, but there is limited knowledge on the utility of other MXene materials for this application.
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January 2025
Department of Pain Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Introduction: The QTc prolongation effect of methadone has been extensively studied at higher doses commonly used in opioid dependence maintenance therapy, but evidence remains limited regarding its impact at the lower doses typically prescribed for cancer pain. This study aims to evaluate the effect of oral methadone on QTc intervals in cancer pain patients.
Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on adult patients initiated on oral methadone therapy for cancer.
Clin Epigenetics
January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, USDA Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Background: The incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC) has been rising at an alarming rate in the USA, and EOCRC disproportionately affects racial/ethnic minorities. Here, we construct comprehensive profiles of EOCRC DNA methylomes at base-pair resolution for a cohort of Hispanic and African American patients.
Results: We show the epigenetic landscape of these EOCRC patients differs from that of late-onset colorectal cancer patients, and methylation canyons in EOCRC tumor tissue preferentially overlapped genes in cancer-related pathways.
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy
January 2025
Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
Background: Alternative payment models (APMs) are methods through which insurers reimburse health care providers and are widely used to improve the quality and value of health care. While there is a growing movement to utilize APMs for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services, they have rarely included SUD prevention strategies. Challenges to using APMs for SUD prevention include underdeveloped program outcome measures, inadequate SUD prevention funding, and lack of clarity regarding what prevention strategies might fit within the scope of APMs.
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January 2025
Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Background: Night shift work during pregnancy has been associated with differential DNA methylation in placental tissue, but no studies have explored this association in cord blood. We aimed to examine associations of maternal night shift work with cord blood DNA methylation.
Methods: A total of 4487 mother-newborn pairs from 7 studies were included.
BMC Public Health
January 2025
Polio and Immunization, Public Health Programs, Global Health Development| Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network, Beirut, Lebanon.
Background: Despite vaccine availability, Pertussis remains a global public health challenge, especially among infants. The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) presents a diverse epidemiological landscape with varying vaccination coverages and healthcare infrastructures. This systematic review aimed to assess the burden of pertussis in infants < 1 year of age in the EMR and evaluate the use and impact of pertussis vaccination during pregnancy.
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