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Artificial intelligence and machine learning are often discussed in grandiose contexts. Global technologies, trillion-dollar companies or sweeping societal implications tend to dominate the arguments. Terms like big data and petabyte storage evoke vastness. As an artist, David Young wants nothing to do with any of this. He would rather concern himself with beauty, mystery, and the little things in life-machine life, that is. There is nothing "big" about his work.Status epilepticus (SE) is a medical emergency with high mortality and a risk factor for the development of chronic epilepsy. Given that effective treatments for the pathophysiology following SE are still lacking, suppressing pathophysiological mechanisms of SE may be important to inhibit epileptogenesis. Withanolide-A (WA), a major bioactive component of Withania somnifera, is a potential medicinal natural compound showing improvement of some neurological diseases, such as cerebral ischemia. In the present study, we examined whether administration of WA can exert the beneficial effects involved in neuroprotection and anti-inflammatory effects in a mouse model of pilocarpine-induced SE. Our results showed that WA treatment ameliorated SE-induced apoptotic neuronal cell death in the hippocampus. Moreover, WA treatment reduced immunoreactivity of both ionized calcium binding adapter molecule 1-positive microglia/macrophage and glial fibrillary acidic protein-positive reactive astrocytes, and the SE-induced increase in both interleukin-1 β and tumor necrosis factor in the hippocampus, suggesting that inhibiting pro-inflammatory factors by WA treatment might induce neuroprotection after SE. These results suggest that WA may be useful in improving the treatment efficacy for pathophysiology following SE.Background Hibiscus syriacus L. has been used as a medicinal plant in many Asian countries. However, anti-inflammatory activity of H. syriacus L. remains unknown. Purpose This study was aimed to investigating the anti-inflammatory effect of anthocyanin fractions from the H. syriacus L. variety Pulsae (PS) on the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced inflammation and endotoxic shock. Study design and methods MTT assay and flow cytometry analysis were performed to determine cytotoxicity of PS. RT-PCR, western blotting, and ELISA were conducted to evaluate the expression of proinflammatory mediators and cytokines. Molecular docking study predicted the binding scores and sites of PS to TLR4/MD2 complex. Immunohistochemical assay was conducted to evaluate the binding capability of PS to TLR4/MD2 and nuclear translocation of NF-κB p65. Apabetalone concentration A zebrafish endotoxic shock model was used to evaluate anti-inflammatory activity of PS in vivo. Results PS suppressed LPS-induced nitric oxide and prostaglandin E2 secretion concomitant ted inflammatory diseases.New series of compounds bearing 2-thioquinazolinone scaffold were designed, synthesized as HSP90 inhibitors. Anti-proliferative activity of the synthesized compounds was evaluated against HCT-116, Hela and MCF-7 cell lines and compound 5k was found to be the most active member of the entire study with IC50 of 4.47, 7.55 and 4.04 μM, respectively, compared to DOX (IC50 of 5.23, 5.57 and 4.17 μM, respectively). Most of the tested compounds revealed lower cytotoxicity against normal fibroblast cells WI-38. Compounds 5b, 5k and 8a showed potent HSP90 inhibitory activities with IC50 values in nanomolar range; 71.32, 25.07 and 56.78 nm, respectively, against Tanespimycin (IC50 of 86.45 nm). Their HSP90 inhibitory activities were confirmed by their down regulation of HSP90 client protein Her2 and up regulation of chaperone HSP70 levels. Compound 5k had shown potent multi-target inhibitory activities against EGFR, VEGFR-2 and Topoisomerase-2 with IC50 values in nanomolar range; 38.5, 126.95 and 25.85 nm, respectively. Compound 5k was further evaluated for cell cycle distribution and apoptosis induction on MCF-7 cells using flow cytometry. Compound 5k arrested the cell cycle on MCF-7 at a G2/M phase by 35.06% and induced apoptosis by 19.82%. Mechanistic evaluation of apoptosis induction was studied by following ways triggering mitochondrial apoptotic pathway through inducing ROS accumulation, increasing Bax/Bcl-2 ratio and activation of caspases 6, 7 and 9. Comparative molecular modeling study was performed between active and inactive HSP90 inhibitors. Docking studies into the active site of HSP90 N-terminal domain showed good agreement with the obtained biological results. ADMET analysis and parameters of Lipinski's rule of five were calculated where compound 5k had reasonable drug-likeness with acceptable physicochemical properties so it could be used as promising orally absorbed antibreast targeted therapy.A series of novel scutellarin methyl ester-4'-dipeptide conjugates exhibiting active transport characteristics and protection against pathological damage caused by hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) were successfully designed and synthesized. The physiochemical properties of the obtained compounds, as well as the Caco-2 cell-based permeability and uptake into hPepT1-MDCK cells were evaluated using various analytical methods. Scutellarin methyl ester-4'-Val-homo-Leu dipeptide (5k) was determined as the optimal candidate with a high apparent permeability coefficient (Papp A to B) of 1.95 ± 0.24 × 10-6 cm/s, low ER (Papp BL to AP/Papp AP to BL) of 0.52 in Caco-2 cells, and high uptake of 25.47 μmol/mg/min in hPepT1-MDCK cells. Comprehensive mechanistic studies demonstrated that pre-treatment of PC12 cells with 5k resulted in more potent anti-oxidative activity, which was manifested by a significant decrease in the malondialdehyde (MDA) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, attenuation of the H2O2-induced urther investigation.This study aimed to evaluate the benefits and risks of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with ibrutinib. PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched for relevant studies. The pooled overall response (OR), complete response (CR), and partial response (PR) were 57.9 %, 35.0 %, and 20.1 %, respectively. The pooled OR and CR of ibrutinib monotherapy were 41.6 % and 15.2 % and of ibrutinib + rituximab-based therapy were 72.0 % and 47.5 %, respectively. The relapsed/refractory DLBCL achieved a pooled OR and CR of 49.7 % and 27.7 %, respectively. The pooled OR and CR were 64.2 % and 56.9 % in non-germinal center B-cell-like (non-GCB) DLBCL and 68.3 % and 36.0 % in relapsed/refractory central nervous system lymphoma (CNSL), respectively. The pooled median progression-free and overall survival were 4.54 months and 11.5 months, respectively. 70.7 % and 52.6 % patients experienced ≥ grade 3 adverse events and serious adverse events. The ibrutinib-contained therapy was well tolerated and showed the potential to improve tumor response of patients with non-GCB DLBCL and relapsed/refractory CNSL.