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Objective To describe the associations between elevated urinary ammonium and clinical characteristics of kidney stone formers. A 24-hour urine test is recommended in high-risk patients to identify urinary abnormalities and select interventions to reduce the recurrence risk. While elevations in urine ammonium may be seen in acidosis, diarrhea, high protein diets or due to pathogenic bacteria, the clinical characteristics of these patients has not been previously described. Materials and methods We retrospectively identified adult patients with kidney stone disease who completed a 24-hour urine at our institution between 2006-2017. Patients with elevated urinary ammonium were identified (n=121) and matched 11 by age and sex to controls for an overall cohort of n = 242. Differences in medical and surgical history, 24-hour urine analytes and stone composition were compared. Results Among 3,625 24-hour urine studies screened, 7.1% of patients showed high urinary ammonium. In our study cohort, patients with elevated urinary ammonium also showed higher urine volume, oxalate, calcium, uric acid, sodium, chloride and sulfate. Clinically, these patients had higher BMI, and more often had a history of recurrent urinary tract infections, diabetes, gout, bowel resection and urinary reconstruction history. Struvite stones tended to be more common in the elevated ammonium group versus control (n=7 vs 1, p=0.07). Conclusions Elevated urinary ammonium among kidney stone patients is relatively uncommon. However, these patients have higher rates of comorbid metabolic conditions, urinary tract infections, and bowel surgery. This finding should prompt further review of the patient's history and may help direct prevention strategies.Researches focusing on the effects of alternative splicing (AS) on relapse of rectal cancer is little and signature based on the AS is blank. Entinostat datasheet In this study, bioinformatic analysis was performed to identify and analyze the relapse-associated ASs, a signature was also constructed. In conclusion, 829 relapse-associated ASs of 676 mRNA were identified. 603 proteins with 2119 interactions were involved in the PPI (protein-protein interactions) network. 43 relapse-associated ASs and 64 SFs (splicing factors) with 160 interactions were indicated. Finally, we built a robust signature to predict the relapse of I-III rectal cancer with a high AUC (0.98) of ROC at 1 year. Based on the ASs involved in the signature, 4 molecular subgroups that could distinguish the relapse rate in diverse groups were identified. Our research provided an overview of relapse-associated ASs in I-III rectal cancer.We aim to characterize the expression of RNA panel in HCC. We assessed the expression of HCC-associated mRNA, miRNA and lncRNA network by real time PCR in sera and tissue samples. In a proof-of-principle approach, CRISPR cas9 mediated knock out for lncRNA- RP11-156p1.3 was performed in HEPG2 cell line to validate the role of the chosen RNA in HCC pathogenesis. The differential expression of RFTN1 mRNA, lncRNA- RP11-156p1.3 and miRNA-4764-5p was statistically different among the studied groups. After CRISPR cas9 mediated knockout of lncRNA- RP11-156p1.3 in HEPG2 cells, there was significant decrease in cell count and viability with reversal of the expression of the chosen RNAs. The chosen RNAs play a significant role in HCC pathogenesis and may be potential diagnostic and therapeutic targets.Background Asthma is a diverse condition that differs with age and sex. However, it remains unclear how sex, age of asthma-onset, and/or their interaction, influence clinical expression of more problematic adult "difficult" asthma. Objectives To better understand the clinical features of difficult asthma within a real-world clinical setting using novel phenotypic classification, stratifying subjects by sex and age of asthma-onset. Methods Participants in a longitudinal difficult asthma clinical cohort study (Wessex AsThma CoHort of difficult asthma; WATCH), United Kingdom, (n=501) were stratified into 4 difficult asthma phenotypes based on sex and age of asthma-onset (early less then 18-years or adult≥18-years) and characterised in relation to clinical and pathophysiological features. Results The cohort had more female participants (65%) but had similar proportions of participants with early or adult-onset disease. Early-onset female disease was commonest (35%), highly atopic, with good spirometry and strong associations to some physical comorbidities but highest psychophysiologic comorbidities. Adult-onset females also had considerable psychophysiologic comorbidities, highest obesity, and were least atopic. Amongst male subjects, proportionately more had adult-onset disease. Early-onset male disease was rarest (14%) but associated with worst lung function, high smoking, atopy and fungal sensitisation. Despite shortest disease duration, adult-onset males had highest use of maintenance oral corticosteroid, poor lung function and highest FeNO in spite of highest smoking prevalence. Conclusion This study shows that sex, age of asthma-onset, and their interactions influence different clinical manifestations of difficult asthma and identifies a greater risk for lung function loss and oral corticosteroid dependency associated with smoking in adult-onset male subjects.The COVID-19 pandemic affected many activities in the healthcare system including oncology drug development. Clinical trial recruitment was temporary halted in many centres to reduce patients and healthcare workers' potential exposure to the virus. Conversely, to continue offering treatments for patients already on effective therapies, multiple actions were timely put in place, resulting in simplification of trial-related procedures for patients and clinicians' best interest, reduction of the operational burden and effective communication. Here, we suggest maintaining effective measures for future trial simplification and to expedite drug development.Zebrafish are now widely accepted as a valuable animal model for a number of different central nervous system (CNS) diseases. They are suitable both for elucidating the origin of these disorders and the sequence of events culminating in their onset, and for use as a high-throughput in vivo drug screening platform. The availability of powerful and effective techniques for genome manipulation allows the rapid modelling of different genetic epilepsies and of conditions with seizures as a core symptom. With this review, we seek to summarize the current knowledge about existing epilepsy/seizures models in zebrafish (both pharmacological and genetic) and compare them with equivalent rodent and human studies. New findings obtained from the zebrafish models are highlighted. We believe that this comprehensive review will highlight the value of zebrafish as a model for investigating different aspects of epilepsy and will help researchers to use these models to their full extent.