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When sperm and testicular tissues are not available for fertility preservation, inducing pluripotent stem cells derived from somatic cells, such as blood or skin, may provide an alternative path to produce sperms through a process call in vitro gametogenesis. This review describes standard and experimental options to preserve male fertility as well as the experimental options to produce functional spermatids or sperms from immature cryopreserved testicular tissues or somatic cells.
We assessed the ability to use circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and the DNA integrity index (DNAII) to detect the transition from liver cirrhosis (LC) to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Circulating cfDNA and DNAII were measured in 50 patients with advanced LC and 50 patients with HCC who were followed for 1 month after transarterial chemoembolization (TACE). Fifty healthy participants served as a control group. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to measure circulating cfDNA concentration, and Alu-PCR was used to measure the concentration of Alu repeats, both short fragments (115 base pairs [bp]) and long fragments (247 bp). We compared liquid biopsy results with the relevant traditional markers.
The HCC group showed significantly higher circulating cfDNA concentrations and DNAII values compared with the LC and control groups. No significant differences were found in circulating cfDNA concentrations and DNAII values between the LC and control groups. Circulating cfDNA concentrations decreased significantly after treatment (TACE); areas under the curve of circulating cfDNA concentration and DNAII values were significantly better than those of ɑ-fetoprotein and vascular endothelial growth factor in discriminating between LC and HCC.
The combined use of DNAII with proteins induced by vitamin K absence or antagonist showed better diagnostic performance in HCC. Circulating cfDNA could have a potential role in monitoring HCC treatment.
The combined use of DNAII with proteins induced by vitamin K absence or antagonist showed better diagnostic performance in HCC. Circulating cfDNA could have a potential role in monitoring HCC treatment.
Evidence-based guideline recommendations for vancomycin dosing recently shifted from a trough-based strategy to an area under the curve (AUC) approach. While several AUC dosing methods exist, the optimal approach has not been determined. Literature characterizing time requirements for various vancomycin dosing strategies remains limited.
A time and motion study was conducted to measure the time spent by clinical pharmacists dosing vancomycin using an AUC nomogram. Pharmacists who dosed and monitored vancomycin for adult patients on the general medical ward (GMW) or intensive care unit (ICU) of a large academic medical center consented to study participation. Vulnerable patients and vancomycin orders for surgical infection prophylaxis were excluded. The primary outcome was the median amount of time clinical pharmacists dedicated to vancomycin-related clinical activities during an 8-hour weekday shift. Secondary outcomes included the proportion of patients prescribed vancomycin at the beginning of each shife requirements associated with other existing vancomycin dosing strategies, which may help healthcare systems determine the optimal AUC dosing method for their specific practice model.
Nurses record data in electronic health records (EHRs) using different terminologies and coding systems. (Z)-4-Hydroxytamoxifen The purpose of this study was to identify unstructured free-text nursing activities recorded by nurses in EHRs with natural language processing (NLP) techniques and to map these nursing activities into standard nursing activities using the SMASH method.
A retrospective study using NLP techniques with a unidirectional mapping strategy called SMASH.
The unstructured free-text nursing activities recorded in the Medicine, Neurology and Gastroenterology inpatient units of the Agostino Gemelli IRCCS University Hospital Foundation, Rome, Italy were collected for 6 months in 2018. Data were analyzed by three phases a) text summarization component with NLP techniques, b) a consensus analysis by four experts to detect the category of word stems, and c) cross-mapping with SMASH. The SMASH method calculated the string comparison, similarity and distance of words through the Levenshtein distance (LD), Jaro-Winkere found, NLP with the SMASH method is a feasible approach to extract data related to nursing concepts that are not recorded through structured data entry.
As a producer of hazardous waste, hospitals have the responsibility to manage the waste they produce. Hospital non-compliance in managing hazardous waste can have a negative impact on the environment and public health, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the amount of hazardous waste produced by healthcare facilities is increasing. To protect the environment and public health from the negative impact of hazardous medical waste, this study was conducted to determine the level of compliance of hazardous waste management in hospitals in Indonesia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, from 2019 to 2020.
Cross-sectional.
This study was conducted at 343 hospitals in Indonesia using secondary data obtained from Sikelim (Medical Waste Management Information System), which is owned and operated by the Ministry of Health. The data have been analyzed using chi-square tests and logistic regressions of the determinant model.
There was an increase in the level of compliance of hazardous waste managemene that was reduced to 6% during the pandemic.A rare case in the remains of a full-term fetus was recovered from the archaeological site 'Arriaca-Zaide' (Guadalajara, Spain) that dates to the century V-VII BC. The right humerus presents an osseous tubercle, fractured at its end that extends obliquely forward and medially, from the anteromedial aspect of the lower third of the humerus. It is a supracondylar process, a rare osseous anatomic variation. The presence of the supracondylar process in the fetal period allowed us to propose its congenital nature. Furthermore, its disposition and state of ossification allowed us to suggest that it was formed from the ossification center of the humeral diaphysis and not from a secondary ossification center. This case represents the first time that the supracondylar process during the fetal period has been described in the anthropological physical literature.Here we present the dental pathologies found in the population of Cortijo Coracho, which dates from Late Antiquity (4th-8th centuries AD) and is located in the region of Lucena (Córdoba). Using a sample of 160 individuals over the age of twenty years at death, with a total of 1681 dental crowns, the frequency of various oral diseases (dental calculus, alveolar reabsorptions, periodontal diseases, and dental abscesses) were analysed. The frequency of oral disease was compared between the mandible and the maxilla, the anterior and posterior teeth as well as the right and left sides. Consideration was given to ante-mortem tooth loss, which may be caused by dental disease. Statistical analysis showed a significantly greater frequency of oral disease in the posterior teeth of the mandible.Aims The aim of this paper was to analyse post-mortem dental records of a collection of 93 skeletal remains exhumed from the ossuary of Bari Municipal Cemetery, Apulia, Italy. These skeletal remains belonged to Slavic soldiers deported in 1941 during World War II in two Italian concentration camps and who died in 1946-1947. Methods A total number of 1949 teeth were analysed according to the American Board of Forensic Odontology and the WHO methods. The majority of the victims were men (95%) between the age of 18 and 62. Results The results showed the dental health situation of a population of soldiers of World War II, in particular the high rate of caries (35%), periodontal disease (61%), and dental wear (65%) according to the high stress level of the soldiers during the armed conflict and the subsequent deportation. Conclusions This is the first study reported in literature that analyses the effects of war and deportation on soldiers' pathological conditions of the oral cavity. This analysis also confirmed the usefulness of teeth for anthropological and forensic research thanks to their high resistance and preservation even after post-mortem modifications and different environmental factors.Self-assembled amino acid derivatives could form well-defined nanostructures which have great application value for drug delivery systems. In particular, D-amino acid derivatives possess tremendous advantages including anti-degradation and good lysosome escape compared with L-amino acid derivatives. In this work, 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (Fmoc) neighboring D-arginine derivatives were replaced by dibenzocyclooctyne (DBCO) to extend the class of functional D-arginine derivatives, which were further reacted with various cross-linkers including azide to construct a library of self-assembled supramolecular nanovehicles and strengthen the stability of nanostructures for disease immunotherapy. Moreover, in vitro studies demonstrated that the combination of DBCO modified D-arginine derivative DR3 and cross-linker C1 not only reinforced the cellular uptake efficiency of ovalbumin (OVA) which was chosen as the model antigen, but also promoted the cytokine TNF-α release of RAW 264.7 cells after the introduction of adjuvant unmethylated cytosine-phosphate-guanine dinucleotides (CpG). Furthermore, the nanovaccine based on DR3C1 could enhance the antigen OVA and adjuvant cytosolic delivery of marrow derived dendritic cells (BMDCs), which improved the antigen-presentation cross efficiency and induced the maturation of BMDCs. Taken together, we believe that D-arginine derivatives functionalized by DBCO provide an effective strategy for disease immunotherapy and act as a great potential delivery tool.A conductive hydrogel P(AAm-co-AA)/CS-Fe3+ with double cross-linked networks was fabricated using a one-step polymerization by UV irradiation and a soaking process in Fe(NO3)3 solution. In this hydrogel, the rigid chain of chitosan (CS) and the soft chain of copolymer P(AAm-co-AA) with acrylic acid (AA) and acrylamide (AAm) act as the backbone, among which large amounts of hydrogen bonds are formed by the amino, hydroxyl, and carboxyl groups on the two polymers. Ferric irons (Fe3+) are introduced and form coordination interactions with carboxyl and amino groups of the polymers. The double cross-linked interactions in the system can enhance the tensile strength and toughness of the hydrogel. Thus, the prepared P(AAm-co-AA)/CS-Fe3+ hybrid network hydrogel shows excellent mechanical properties in many aspects a strength of up to 550 kPa, a broad strain-range up to 800%, fast self-recovery ability (30 min), and low hysteresis strain ( less then 100%). The conductive hydrogel demonstrates high strain sensitivity (gauge factor (GF) = 6.6 at a strain of 700%) as a flexible sensor. Human movements (for example, finger bending, vocal cord vibration, and other human activities) can be sensitively detected using the P(AAm-co-AA)/CS-Fe3+ hydrogel sensor.