CONCLUSION: Patients with advanced BRAF mutant melanoma treated with 1L immunotherapy have significantly longer BMFS and OS, and reduced incidence of brain metastases, compared with those treated with 1L targeted therapy. Further studies evaluating the ability of immunotherapy and targeted therapy to improve OS and prevent brain metastases are warranted.
Thu, Jun 17, 2021
CONCLUSION: Together, these results strongly suggest that variants in TP73 correlate with risk for ALS and indicate a novel role for apoptosis in ALS disease pathology.
Thu, Jun 17, 2021
Autoimmune neurology is a rapidly developing specialty driven by an increasing recognition of autoimmunity as the cause for a broad set of neurologic disorders and ongoing discovery of new neural autoantibodies associated with recognizable clinical syndromes. The diversity of clinical presentations, unique pathophysiology, and the complexity of available treatments requires a dedicated multidisciplinary team to diagnose and manage patients. In this article, we focus on antibody-associated...
Wed, Jun 16, 2021
Rapid and widespread implementation of infectious disease surveillance is a critical component in the response to novel health threats. Molecular assays are the preferred method to detect a broad range of viral pathogens with high sensitivity and specificity. The implementation of molecular assay testing in a rapidly evolving public health emergency, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, can be hindered by resource availability or technical constraints. We present a screening strategy that is...
Tue, Jun 15, 2021
CONCLUSIONS: Every second patient with cancer experiences preDM or DM. It is essential to foster interprofessional collaboration and to develop evidence-based practice guidelines. A better understanding of the impact of cancer treatment on the development of preDM and DM remains critical.
Tue, Jun 15, 2021
CONCLUSIONS: In older adults with diabetes, maintaining A1C levels within individualized target ranges is associated with lower risk of mortality and CVD.
Tue, Jun 15, 2021
Infection by novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 causes different presentations of COVID-19 and some patients may progress to a critical, fatal form of the disease that requires their admission to ICU and invasive mechanical ventilation. In order to predict in advance which patients could be more susceptible to develop a critical form of COVID-19, it is essential to define the most adequate biomarkers. In this study, we analyzed several parameters related to the cellular immune response in blood...
Mon, Jun 14, 2021
INTRODUCTION: Graft survival in pediatric kidney transplant patients has increased significantly within the last three decades, correlating with the discovery and utilization of new immunosuppressants as well as improvements in patient care. Despite these developments in graft survival for patients, there is still improvement needed, particularly in long-term care in pediatric patients receiving grafts from deceased donor patients. Maintenance immunosuppressive therapies have narrow therapeutic...
Mon, Jun 14, 2021
Because patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are often physically inactive, it is still unclear whether the lower respiratory capacity in the locomotor muscles of these patients is due to cigarette smoking per se or is secondary to physical deconditioning. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to examine mitochondrial alterations in the quadriceps muscle of 10 mice exposed to 8-months of cigarette smoke, a sedentary mouse model of emphysema, and 9 control mice, using...
Mon, Jun 14, 2021
Megakaryocytes (MKs), the platelet progenitor cell, play important roles in hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) maintenance and immunity. However, it is not known whether these diverse programs are executed by a single population or by distinct subsets of cells. Here, we manually-isolated primary CD41+ MKs from the bone marrow (BM) of mice and human donors based on ploidy (2N-32N), performed single-cell RNA sequencing analysis. We found that cellular heterogeneity existed within three distinct...
Fri, Jun 11, 2021
