Liver cancer cell-secreted exosomes promote bone metastasis of liver cancer by facilitating osteoclast differentiation through the miR-574-5p/BMP2 axis.

Bone metastasis of liver cancer leads to a worse prognosis with no appropriate treatment clinically. Exosomes are associated with tumor bone metastasis. This study aimed to investigate the effects of liver cancer cell-derived exosomes on bone metastasis.

Nutritional assessment and risk factors associated to malnutrition in patients with esophageal cancer.

Introduction: Esophageal cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer death in China. Patients with esophageal cancer are more likely to suffer from malnutrition. The purpose of this study is to assess nutritional status of patients with esophageal cancer from multiple perspectives and analyze the risk factors.

Nutritional status and survival of 8247 cancer patients with or without diabetes mellitus-results from a prospective cohort study.

Background: The number of cancer patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) is steadily rising. Little is known about the nutritional status of this population. This study characterized the nutritional status and survival of cancer patients with diabetes compared with those without diabetes.

A single-nucleotide polymorphism in the 3'-UTR region of the adipocyte fatty acid binding protein 4 gene is associated with prognosis of triple-negative breast cancer.

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer with poor prognosis and high heterogeneity. The aim of this study was to screen patients for single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with the prognosis of TNBC. Database-derived SNPs (NextBio, Ensembl, NCBI and MirSNP) located in the 3'-untranslated regions (3'-UTRs) of genes that are differentially expressed in breast cancer were selected.

Remote ischemic conditioning: a novel way to treat ischemia-related injury of limbs.

Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) including remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) and remote ischemic postconditioning (RIPostC) is widely reported to be able to prevent many organs, such as heart, brain, and skeletal muscle from ischemia-related injury. However, the clinical application of RIC is confined to treating myocardial infarction and stroke. Since RIC could prevent skeletal muscle from ischemia-related injury, and was effective in heart and brain treatments, we hypothesized RIC could treat ischemia-related injury of limbs, such as diabetic foot, Buerger's disease, plantation of severed limb, and crush injury.

Could microbe stimulated maggots become a targeted natural antibiotics family?

Maggot debridement therapy plays an important role in treatment of diabetic foot ulcers and other chronic infectious wounds, cause of this is its extremely low drug resistance. However, the microbe stimulated maggot, we may call it a derivative of normal sterile maggot, could exhibit stronger bacterial or bactericidal effects. Methods of the pretreatment on maggot was different germ solution were artificially mixed and added with originally sterile maggots, the novel secretions were collected.