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The usefulness of the urine protein  creatine ratio (UPCR) in management of molecular targeted therapy and immunotherapy has not been studied, although urine protein dipstick testing (uPr) is widely used in the clinical setting. The aim of this study was to investigate the usefulness of UPCR as compared to uPr in patients undergoing molecular targeted therapy for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). A total of 25 patients (median age 68 years) with advanced RCC were included. Sunitinib, pazopanib, axitinib, sorefenib, everolimus, and nivolumab were administered to 15, 9, 16, 3, 7, and 13 patients, respectively, with duplication. Proteinuria was managed according to the grade determined by UPCR. Data at every treatment visit were retrospectively collected and uPr and UPCR were compared. The overall incidences of any grade of proteinuria associated with sunitinib, pazopanib, axitinib, sorafenib and everolimus were 86.7, 88.9, 93.8, 100, and 85.7%, respectively. There were discordances between the uPr-based grade and UPCR-based grade. UPCR did not meet the criteria of Grade 3 in 70.6, 100, 83.3, and 83.3% at visits in cases with uPr 3+ for sunitinib, pazopanib, sorafenib, and everolimus, respectively. LXS-196 supplier In axitinib treatment, UPCR did not meet the criteria for withholding in 46.2% of the cases of uPr 2+ and more. Our study suggests that UPCR may be useful tool in management of adverse events associated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors, everolimus and can provide patients with optimal opportunities for receiving treatment.Osteoclasts are the only bone-resorbing cells in organisms and understanding their differentiation mechanism is crucial for the treatment of osteoporosis. In the present study, we investigated the effect of Thiamet G, an O-GlcNAcase specific inhibitor, on osteoclastogenic differentiation. Thiamet G treatment increased global O-GlcNAcylation in murine RAW264 cells and suppressed receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL)-dependent formation in tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP)-positive multinuclear cells, thereby suppressing the upregulation of osteoclast specific genes. Meanwhile, knockdown of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) transferase promoted the formation TRAP-positive multinuclear cells. Thiamet G treatment also suppressed RANKL and macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) dependent osteoclast formation and bone-resorbing activity in mouse primary bone marrow cells and human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. These results indicate that the promotion of O-GlcNAc modification specifically suppresses osteoclast formation and its activity and suggest that chemicals affecting O-GlcNAc modification might potentially be useful in the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis in future.Stroke is a common cerebrovascular disease. Inflammation-induced neuronal death is one of the key factors in stroke pathology. Propofol has been shown to ameliorate neuroinflammatory injury, but the exact mechanism of its neuroprotective role remains to be fully elucidated. In the present study, we found that inflammation was activated in ischemic cortical neurons, and the expression of nucleotide-binding domain, leucine-rich-repeat containing family, pyrin domain-containing 1 (NLRP1), NLRP3 inflammasome and effectors in primary cortical neurons increased. However, we found that propofol could inhibit the increased expression of NLRP1 and NLRP3 inflammasome induced by oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD). Furthermore, the effector molecule caspase-1 (casp1) was revealed to be the downstream target of NLRP1 and propofol repressed the activation of caspase-1 via inhibiting NLRP1 in cortical neurons. Moreover, propofol inhibits caspase-6 activation in neurons through the NLRP1-caspase-1 pathway. Once the expression of caspase6 increases, propofol reduced its neuroprotective effect in OGD-treated cortical neurons. In the stroke middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model, infusion of caspase-6 inhibitors enhanced the protective effect of propofol on infarct size and neurological function. In conclusion, our results suggest that propofol plays a neuroprotective role in stroke by inhibiting the inflammatory pathway of NLRP1-caspase-1-caspase-6. Overall, these data suggest that propofol plays a key role in the inflammatory-dependent pathway after stroke, providing an important evidence for propofol as an effective strategy for neuroprotection in stroke.Various sources of information are available for identifying and evaluating adverse drug reactions (ADRs). However, some studies only used the ADR data from spontaneous reporting databases to evaluate the safety of post-marketing drugs. This study was performed to identify an appropriate method for evaluating the safety of post-marketing drugs by comparing the frequencies of ADRs among three datasets randomized controlled trials, published case reports, and spontaneous reports. Taking ADR data for fluorouracil as an example, we collected the three types of data and extracted their ADR information. All listed ADRs were sorted by frequency from high to low, and the top five ADRs were chosen from each dataset. We assigned an index value of 1.0 to the frequency of one specific ADR (diarrhea) and then calculated the index values of the other ADRs relative to diarrhea. Ten different ADRs were mentioned in the top five ADRs of the three datasets, and only diarrhea and nausea/vomiting were included in all three datasets. The rank orders of the top five ADRs varied among the three datasets. Nausea and vomiting was the most frequent ADR in all three datasets; the remaining ADRs differed among the datasets. There were significant differences in the recording of ADRs and the frequency distributions among the three datasets. A comprehensive and reliable safety profile for post-marketing drugs should not be based on any one source. Spontaneous reports from monitoring institutions provided the most ADR data. Randomized controlled trials and case reports published in the literature can supplement the results from spontaneous reports.Vancomycin is a glycopeptide antibiotic used for the treatment of Gram-positive infections. link2 For adult patients, treatment with vancomycin requires effective therapeutic drug-monitoring (TDM) to achieve clinical outcomes and reduce the incidence of adverse effects. However, it remains still unclear whether the TDM with vancomycin is beneficial in yielding better clinical outcomes in pediatrics. link3 The objective of our study was to evaluate whether the clinical response to treatment was associated with initial trough concentrations of vancomycin in pediatric patients. A retrospective observation study of 60 patients (age 1 month-15 years) who had completed and qualified for analysis was conducted at Kyoto University Hospital. The response to treatment was assessed by the time to resolution of fever and time to 50% decline in C-reactive protein (CRP). In addition, we explored whether vancomycin trough level was associated with the baseline characteristics. Trend analysis showed that there were significant correlations between vancomycin trough level and age, body weight, estimated glomerular filtration rate, and serum albumin levels. The time to resolution of fever of the patients with higher initial trough level (≥ 5 µg/mL) was significantly lower than that of the patients with lower trough level ( less then  5 µg/mL). The higher vancomycin concentration tended to be associated with the shorter time to 50% decline in CRP. The findings suggest that initial trough concentration is important in achieving better outcomes with vancomycin treatment in pediatrics.Hair follicular keratinocyte stem cells (HFKSC) which provide a functional niche for melanocyte stem cells (MSC) are the primary target of hair graying. However, little research has been done on anti-hair graying medicines targeting HFKSC. We focused on Eriodictyon angustifolium (Ea), which reduces human hair graying when applied topically. To investigate the protective effect of dietary Ea tea (EaT) on hair pigmentation, we used an acute mouse model of hair graying that mimics X-ray-induced DNA damage associated with age-related hair graying. Our results suggest that dietary EaT maintained the niche HFKSC function against X-ray-induced DNA damage and hair graying. These results indicate that dietary EaT may prevent age-related hair graying and serve as an anti-hair graying herbal medicine.One-pot process for the production of ginsenoside Rd by coupling enzyme-assisted extraction with selective enzymolysis was explored in this paper. Several detection methods including HPLC-MS were used to identify and quantify the products in the enzymolysis solution of pectinase. Results showed that ginsenoside Rd was the main component in enzymolysis solution, pectinase specifically hydrolyzes protopanaxadiol (PPD)-type ginsenoside and was a selective enzyme to convert ginsenoside Rb1 to Rd in a way. In addition the influencing factors on the yield of ginsenoside Rb1 and Rd were optimized using L9(34) orthogonal design data. The enzymolysis conditions for the higher yield of Rd were 52.5 °C, pH 6 and 1 h with a yield of 0.8314 from 50 mg drug material. The controllable transformation hypothesis of the PPD-type ginsenoside was also explored from the perspective of the molecular steric hindrance. Pectinase could be used as an efficient enzyme for one-pot producing ginsenoside Rd.Profile data is defined as data which describes the properties of an object. Omics data of a specimen is profile data because its comprehensiveness supports the idea that omics data is numeric information which reflects biological information of the specimen. In general, omics data analysis utilizes an existing body of biological knowledge, while some profile data analysis methods are independent of existing knowledge, which is suitable for uncovering unidentified aspects of a specimen of interest. The effects of a small compound, such as drugs, are multiple, and include unrecognized effects, even by the developers. To uncover such unrecognized effects, it is useful to employ profile data analysis independent of existing knowledge. In this review, we summarize what profile data is, properties of profile data analysis, and current applications of profile data in order to understand and utilize the effects of small compounds, in particular, in a recently developed method to decompose multiple effects of a drug.This study describes the novel utility of cyclic sulfamidite as a simultaneous protecting group for 1,2- or 1,3-amino alcohols. An exceptionally mild and neutral condition for the removal of the cyclic sulfamidite was developed. The deprotection condition demonstrated a broad range of functional-group compatibility, including a substrate bearing a Z-enyne structure without any loss of double-bond stereochemistry.Dantrolene capsule, an effective therapeutic agent for the treatment of spasticity, is administered to children who cannot swallow the capsule after reformulation into a powder. The powdered drug can alter the specified dosage and it is also difficult to dispense the powdered formulation because of its bulky and sticky nature. To resolve these problems, we reformulated dantrolene capsules into granules using a centrifugal planetary mixer in the pharmacy. The granules containing lactose-cornstarch, D-mannitol, or microcrystalline cellulose as a diluent were examined to determine particle size distribution, flowability, drug content uniformity, and disintegration time. The granules with microcrystalline cellulose were superior to the other forms, owing to their smaller size, good drug content uniformity, and rapid disintegration. We further investigated the usability of the granules in the dispensing procedure (dividing and packing) and in the dosing process (retrieval from package) using the powders as controls.