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Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is primarily a multisystem nonmotile ciliopathy. In this study, we describe the successful establishment and characterization of an iPSC line from a patient diagnosed with BBS who was compound heterozygous for the BBS7 variants c.849 + 1G > C (splicing) and c.754G > A (p.D252N).

To assess how patient characteristics and study design influence the effectiveness of control interventions in hand OA trials.

The study protocol was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42020163473). Two authors independently searched four electronic databases from their inception to December 31, 2019. Randomized and non-randomized controlled hand OA trials were included if pain intensity was assessed using a validated scale. We allocated control groups into one of the following placebo, add-on treatment, no treatment, or active treatment. The standardized mean differences (d) of pain, as well as subjective function and hand strength, were pooled with 95% confidence intervals (CI) and 90% prediction intervals using random-effects models. Meta-regression and post-hoc subgroup analyses were performed to investigate which factors potentially impacted placebo analgesia and between-study heterogeneity.

Thirty-one placebo, 11 add-on, 12 no-treatment, and 10 active-treatment controls were included in meta-analyses. Effds and flare requirements at patient enrollment, moderate pain relief may be replicated among control participants in future randomized placebo-controlled trials.Raspberry, the fruit of Rubus Chingii Hu, has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to nourish kidney and strengthen Yang-qi. In order to determine the quality of raspberry, the quality markers (Q-markers) of raspberry that can improve renal function were investigated using UPLC-ESI-QTOF-MS in this study. Navitoclax The results of serum pharmacochemistry indicated that six components rutin, ellagic acid, kaempferol-3-rutinoside, astragalin, tiliroside, and goshonoside F5 in raspberry were absorbed into rat blood. The HEK293 cells treated with cisplatin were used to evaluate the kidney-protecting activity of these absorbed components. All these components could markedly inhibit cell damage induced by cisplatin and restore the levels of malondialdehyde (MDA) and catalase (CAT) in the cells, suggesting that these components may be the Q-markers of raspberry. More importantly, except for ellagic acid, other five Q-markers in raspberries from Dexing of Jiangxi province were higher than those from most of other areas. It is well known that Dexing raspberry is the Dao-di herbs raspberry used in the clinic of Chinese Medicine, demonstrating that these components could be used as Q-markers of raspberry. This study provides a reliable and valuable method for quality evaluation of raspberry.Modern supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) is now a well-established technique, especially in the field of pharmaceutical analysis. We recently demonstrated the transferability and the reproducibility of a SFC-UV method for pharmaceutical impurities by means of an inter-laboratory study. However, as this study involved only one brand of SFC instrumentation (Waters®), the present study extends the purpose to multi-instrumentation evaluation. Specifically, three instrument types, namely Agilent®, Shimadzu®, and Waters®, were included through 21 laboratories (n = 7 for each instrument). First, method transfer was performed to assess the separation quality and to set up the specific instrument parameters of Agilent® and Shimadzu® instruments. Second, the inter-laboratory study was performed following a protocol defined by the sending lab. Analytical results were examined regarding consistencies within- and between-laboratories criteria. Afterwards, the method reproducibility was estimated taking into account variances in replicates, between-days and between-laboratories. Reproducibility variance was larger than that observed during the first study involving only one single type of instrumentation. Indeed, we clearly observed an 'instrument type' effect. Moreover, the reproducibility variance was larger when considering all instruments than each type separately which can be attributed to the variability induced by the instrument configuration. Nevertheless, repeatability and reproducibility variances were found to be similar than those described for LC methods; i.e. reproducibility as %RSD was around 15 %. These results highlighted the robustness and the power of modern analytical SFC technologies to deliver accurate results for pharmaceutical quality control analysis.Planning of a fracture reduction is important in order to reduce the surgery time, with the consequent improvement of the recovery process. There are no fully automatic methods that solve an adequate fracture reduction without the intervention of a specialist. Usually there are parameters that must be supervised or adjusted by the specialist, in order to obtain a satisfactory reduction. Furthermore, most of the studies in the literature focus on a certain type of bone and area on it. This paper presents an approach that tries to reduce to some extent the intervention of the specialist, so that it can be closer to an automatic approach. The proposed method can be applied to a wide variety of bones and areas, based on the identification of the complete fracture zone and the use of an ICP algorithm modified to work with the distance between fragments. The cases in which it has been tested are clinical cases of real fractures obtained from CT scan. This method allows working with a wide range of fractures, as well as complex fractures or deformed fragments. Unfortunately, all possible cases and situations could not be obtained and proved, but the method can be successfully applied to cases that meet a set of characteristics. The proposed technique has been validated by experts, both visually and empirically, using a framework based on virtual reality (VR). This VR framework has allowed comparing the reduction performed by the method with a reduction made virtually by specialists. This technique has also been compared with other existing techniques, obtaining a significant improvement over these.