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There are some techniques to ablate tumours of brain, breast and liver. One of them is laser irradiation. The most important problem of this technique is to injure noncancerous tissues. It is a challenging work to control the domain of laser effects. In other words, it is hard to ablate cancerous tissue without ablating noncancerous. To gain this goal, some researchers have been proposed some ways, such as using two or three applicators or moving applicator. The objective of this paper is to present an approach to control the temperature distribution and heat affected zone in brain tumours when irradiated by shielded laser beam, 1064 nm ND-YAG. The effects of laser beam, resulting in tissue temperature increasing, follows the border of tumour by defining of a dual intensity distribution. This is included two distinct intensity distributions of laser on the applicator by shielding. Treatment of an arbitrary topology of tumour will be simulated irradiation of laser by two different distributions through numerical method. Results show when dual distribution on the tumour border is used, the pattern of photon distribution is coincident by the tumour and the affected zone and temperature increasing follows the borderline of tumour, qualitatively. It shows that the ablated volume of tumour will be 53% more than when the unique distribution is used and the treatment time is shorter, resultantly.Background Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is characterized by fast tumor increase, rapid recurrence and natural metastasis. We aimed to identify a genetic signature for predicting the prognosis of TNBC. Materials & methods We conducted a weighted correlation network analysis of datasets from the Gene Expression Omnibus. VLS-1488 Multivariate Cox regression was used to construct a risk score model. Results The multi-factor risk scoring model was meaningfully associated with the prognosis of patients with TBNC. The predictive power of the model was demonstrated by the time-dependent receiver operating characteristic curve and Kaplan-Meier curve, and verified using a validation set. Conclusion We established a long noncoding RNA-based model for the prognostic prediction of TNBC.Background TP53 is ranked as the most common mutated gene in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Results The status of TP53 mutation was investigated on International Cancer Genome Consortium and The Cancer Genome Atlas database and TP53-related differentially expressed genes were screened out from transcriptome data and mutation information. A TP53-related prognostic gene signature (TIMP4, ONECUT2, CGNL1, DMRTA2 and NKX2.3) was constructed based on Cox regression analysis and LASSO algorithm. Univariate and multivariate analyses were carried out to identify promising prognosticators for HNSCC. Conclusion Our findings provide a well-rounded landscape of TP53 mutation in HNSCC and pave the groundwork for developing innovative and effective cancer treatment methods for HNSCC.Aim This study aims to identify novel marker to predict biochemical recurrence (BCR) in prostate cancer patients after radical prostatectomy with negative surgical margin. Materials & methods The Cancer Genome Atlas database, Gene Expression Omnibus database and Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia database were employed. The ensemble support vector machine-recursive feature elimination method was performed to select crucial gene for BCR. Results We identified MYLK as a novel and independent biomarker for BCR in The Cancer Genome Atlas training cohort and confirmed in four independent Gene Expression Omnibus validation cohorts. Multi-omic analysis suggested that MYLK was a DNA methylation-driven gene. Additionally, MYLK had significant positive correlations with immune infiltrations. Conclusion MYLK was identified and validated as a novel, robust and independent biomarker for BCR in prostate cancer.Aim Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is a molecular chaperone regulating immune response. We aimed to assess systemic Hsp90 as a biomarker for spondyloarthritis (SpA). Materials & methods Total of 80 axial SpA (axSpA) and 22 psoriatic arthritis patients and a corresponding number of age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HC) were included. Plasma Hsp90 levels were measured by ELISA. Results Hsp90 was significantly increased in axSpA patients compared with HC (median interquartile range 15.7 [10.5-19.8] vs 8.3 [6.6-11.8] ng/ml, p less then 0.001). Moreover, Hsp90 was superior to C-reactive protein in differentiating axSpA (and both radiographic axSpA [r-axSpA] and nonradiographic-axSpA) from HC. Hsp90 levels correlated with bone marrow edema of sacroiliac joints in r-axSpA patients (r = 0.594, p = 0.019). Conclusion Hsp90 could become a biomarker for active inflammation in r-axSpA, and can better distinguish axSpA patients from healthy subjects than C-reactive protein.This paper presents Batch OpenSim Processing Scripts (BOPS), a Matlab toolbox for batch processing common OpenSim procedures Inverse Kinematics, Inverse Dynamics, Muscle Analysis, Static Optimization, and Joint Reaction Analysis. BOPS is an easy-to-use and highly configurable tool that aims to reduce the time required to process large datasets, thus fostering the adoption of musculoskeletal modeling and simulations in daily practice. Its graphical user interface includes pre-defined setup files and has been designed to fulfill the needs of different research projects by simplifying the customization of the procedures, facilitating the analysis, and boosting research group collaborations. BOPS is released under Apache License 2.0, and its source code is freely available on SimTK and GitHub.In the present study, we evaluated the antibacterial activity of Citrus reticulata (C. reticulata) essential oil-incorporated gelatin film solution against Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of C. reticulata essential oil (CrEO) on E. coli and S. aureus were found to be 10.1 and 9.1 mg mL-1, respectively, using spectrophotometric microdilution technique. The antimicrobial effect of CrEO alone and incorporated gelatin-based film solutions (CrEO-F) against these pathogens were determined by the disc diffusion method. While the inhibition zones of CrEO were 2.4 mm and 10.05 mm, CrEO-F was reported as 1.5 and 7.8 mm against E. coli and S. aureus, respectively. These findings demonstrated that the CrEO can compete with coating agents with antimicrobial additives and it can find a place in the application areas. Besides, the chemical composition of the CrEO was determined by GC-MS.