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Blood transfusion was more prevalent within RIM group (34.48% RIM vs. 20% URIM; p = 0.044) with a clinical tendency of higher blood loss (207.86 ± 150.83RIM vs. 127.00 ± 179.98 URIM; p = 0.092). There was a consolidation rate of 71.05% (27/38) with no statistical difference (73.08% (19/26) RIM vs. 66.67% (8/12) URIM; p = 0.685). Conclusion Our study suggests possible benefit of URIM in terms of less blood transfusions with no difference in consolidation rates. Even though without significance, a tendency to less blood loss, less events of systemic complication and lower length of stay was observed with URIM. Despite its limitations, this study can be used to design future prospective ventures that quantify patient-reported outcomes and provide more clear evidence.Drawing on fieldwork and interviews in Oslo and Bergen, Norway, this article discusses irregular migrants' experiences of existential displacement and the tactics they use to try to re-establish a sense of emplacement and belonging. More specifically, it argues that irregular migrants' experiences of embodied unbelonging are a consequence of a violent form of governmentality that includes specific laws, healthcare structures, and migration management rationalities. The article makes this argument by tracing how these experiences translate into embodied effects that feature prominently in migrants' narratives of suffering while living in a country that purports to provide welfare services to all. The narratives of their state of being-in-the-world are ways through which migrants both experience and express the violence and deprivation they face. I argue that these narratives are instances of structures of feeling (Williams 1973), which are shaped by modes of governmentality. The article shows that irregular migrants' coping strategies centrally involve faith, religious communities and friends. Irregular migrants draw on these relationships to get by, access healthcare, and to resist the (health) effects of social deprivation and political violence. These relationships allow irregular migrants to find meaningful ways of being-in-the-world and rebuilding, to some extent, a sense of entitlement and belonging.Background Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are a class of oral anti-hyperglycemic agents that have been available on the market in Japan since 2014. CP-456773 inhibitor Although safety information has accumulated alongside the clinical use, the warnings issued by each country based on adverse events associated with the drug are different and examination of the safety of the drug is insufficient. Objective This study examined the safety of SGLT2 inhibitors by using a Japanese spontaneous reporting database and focusing on the cautions issued in each country and the disparities within existing research into the occurrence of the adverse events of acute renal failure (ARF), ketoacidosis, and urogenital tract infections (UTIs). Patients and methods We analyzed data recorded on the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report database (JADER) between April 2014 and February 2019. We calculated the reporting odds ratio (ROR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) with sex and age as adjustment factors. Results JADER contained 366,501 cases with the adverse events of interest; 4322 involved SGLT2 inhibitors. The ROR for SGLT2 inhibitors was calculated as 1.0 (95% CI 0.9-1.2) for ARF, 72.2 (95% CI 59.3-87.8) for ketoacidosis, and 14.0 (95% CI 11.0-17.8) for UTIs. Analysis of only subjects receiving treatment for diabetes showed a similar trend. Conclusion The results suggested a correlation between SGLT2 inhibitors and the onset of ketoacidosis and UTIs, but not between SGLT2 inhibitors and ARF. Further verification of the safety of SGLT2 inhibitors, through continued risk assessments and large-scale clinical studies, are necessary.Glioma is the most common primary brain tumor in humans and the most deadly. Stem cells, which are characterized by therapeutic resistance and self-renewal, play a critical role in glioma, and therefore the identification of stem cell-related genes in glioma is important. In this study, we collected and evaluated the epigenetically regulated-mRNA expression-based stemness index (EREG-mRNAsi) of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA, http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) for glioma patient samples, corrected through tumor purity. After EREG-mRNAsi correction, glioma pathological grade and survival were analyzed. The differentially expressed gene (DEG) co-expression network was constructed by weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) in TCGA glioma samples to find modules of interest and key genes. Gene ontology (GO) and pathway-enrichment analysis were performed to identify the function of significant genetic modules. Protein-protein interaction (PPI) and co-expression network analysis of key genes was performed for further analysis. In this experiment, we found that corrected EREG-mRNAsi was significantly up-regulated in glioma samples and increased with glioma grade, with G4 having the highest stemness index. Patients with higher corrected EREG-mRNAsi scores had worse overall survival. Fifty-one DEGs in the brown gene module were found to be positively related to EREG-mRNAsi via WGCNA. GO and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analysis showed that chromosome segregation and cell cycle molecular function were the major functions in key DEGs. Among these key DEGs, BUB1 showed high connectivity and co-expression, and also high connectivity in PPI. Fifty-one key genes were verified to play a critical role in glioma stem cells. These genes may serve as primary therapeutic targets to inhibit the activity of glioma stem cells.Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex and severe psychiatric disorder, which has a global lifetime prevalence of 0.4% and a heritability of around 0.81. A number of epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) have been carried out for SZ, with discordant results. The main aim of this study was to carry out an integrative in silico analysis of available genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in schizophrenia. In this work, an integration of multiple lines of evidence (top candidate genes from several EWAS and genome-wide expression and association data) was carried out, in order to identify top differentially methylated (DM) genes for SZ. In addition, functional enrichment and protein-protein interaction analyses were carried out. Several top differentially methylated genes, such as APC, CACNB2, and PRKN, were found, and an enrichment of binding sites for brain-expressed transcription factors, such as FOXO1, MYB, and ZIC3, was also observed. Moreover, a protein-protein interaction network showed a central role for DISC1 and ZNF688 genes, and experimentally validated targets of MIR-137, such as and KCNB2, NRXN1, and SYN2, were identified among DM genes.