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001). The CIP2A inhibitor group exhibited significantly lower numbers of invasive cells and invading cells than the blank group and NC group (P less then 0.001). The apoptosis rate in the CIP2A inhibitor group was significantly higher than that in the NC and blank groups (P less then 0.05). These finding suggests that CIP2A promotes survival of renal clear cell carcinoma Caki-2 cells. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association of fatty infiltration of the quadriceps and vastus medialis (VM) with increase in knee cartilage, meniscus, or bone marrow lesions (BML) from MRI in knee osteoarthritis (OA) over 3-years. METHODS Participants (n=69) with and without radiographic knee OA underwent MRI at baseline and 3-years later. Chemical shift-based water/fat MRI were used to quantify the intramuscular fat fraction and the lean anatomical cross-sectional area (ACSA) for the VM and entire quadriceps muscles. MRI images of the knee were analyzed using semi-quantitative modified WORMS (mWORMS) grading to assess change in lesions in the articular cartilage, meniscus, and BML. Logistic regression was used to assess if baseline quadriceps and VM fat fraction and lean ACSA were associated with increase in mWORMS scores. Odds ratios (ORs) were adjusted for age, sex, and BMI. RESULTS Overall 62% (43/69) of subjects had an increase in cartilage (26/43), meniscus (19/43), or BML (22/43) scores. Quadriceps (OR 2.13 [95% confidence interval 1.09, 4.15]) and VM (OR 2.05 [95% confidence interval 1.25, 3.36]) fat fraction were both associated with an increase in cartilage, meniscus, or BML scores over 3-years. The association of quadriceps or VM lean ACSA with the outcomes was not significant. CONCLUSIONS These longitudinal findings using quantitative MRI methods for assessment of muscle adiposity highlight the role of quadriceps adiposity, specifically VM, in knee OA progression. However, studies in larger cohorts are needed to confirm these findings. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.BACKGROUND There have been few studies on the relationship between oral status and postoperative pneumonia (POP) in patients with lung cancer, and whether improving their oral condition assists with a lower incidence of POP before lung cancer surgery remains controversial. This retrospective study was conducted by a stomatologist to assess the effect of controlling oral pathogenic bacteria of patients with lung cancer to prevent POP. METHODS A total of 235 patients with lung cancer who underwent lobectomy by open thoracotomy between July 2015 and December 2018 were selected and given the choice of being in the experimental or control group. A total of 122 participants in the experimental group received professional oral plaque control, and 113 participants in the control group did not receive plaque control. All clinical data of participants in both groups were retrospectively studied to determine the incidence of POP at the thirtieth day of discharge from hospital. RESULTS Eight in the experimental group and six in the control group were excluded from the study. It was found that four of 114 patients suffered from POP in the experimental group (incidence = 3.51%). A total of 17 of 107 patients in the control group had pulmonary infection (incidence = 15.89%). Odds ratio was 0.19. The incidence of POP in the experimental group was significantly lower than that of the control group (P  less then  0.05). Selleck Decitabine CONCLUSIONS Professional oral plaque control is associated with a lower incidence of POP following lung cancer surgery and is therefore a favorable factor for preventing POP, and should be carried out before the surgical treatment of lung cancer. KEY POINTS Professional oral plaque control was associated with a lower incidence of POP following lung cancer surgery, and it is recommended this should be carried out before the surgical treatment of lung cancer. © 2020 The Authors. Thoracic Cancer published by China Lung Oncology Group and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.Regenerative medicine approaches, specifically stem cell technologies, have demonstrated significant potential to treat a diverse array of pathologies. However, such approaches have resulted in a modest clinical benefit, which may be attributed to poor cell retention/survival at the disease site. A delivery system that facilitates regional and repeated delivery to target tissues can provide enhanced clinical efficacy of cell therapies when localized delivery of high doses of cells is required. In this study, a new regenerative reservoir platform (Regenervoir) is described for use in large animal models, with relevance to cardiac, abdominal, and soft tissue pathologies. Regenervoir incorporates multiple novel design features essential for clinical translation, with a focus on scalability, mechanism of delivery, fixation to target tissue, and filling/refilling with a therapeutic cargo, and is demonstrated in an array of clinical applications that are easily translated to human studies. Regenervoir consists of a porous reservoir fabricated from a single material, a flexible thermoplastic polymer, capable of delivering cargo via fill lines to target tissues. A radiopaque shear thinning hydrogel can be delivered to the therapy reservoir and multiple fixation methods (laparoscopic tacks and cyanoacrylate bioadhesive) can be used to secure Regenervoir to target tissues through a minimally invasive approach. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Synthetic DNA has emerged as a powerful self-assembled material for the engineering of nanoscale supramolecular devices and materials. Initial examples were focused on thermodynamically driven self-assembly of DNA-based structures with exquisite near-angstrom control of their geometry. More recently dissipative self-assembly of DNA-based supramolecular structures has emerged as a novel approach providing access to a new class of kinetically-controlled DNA materials with unprecedented life-like properties. In the examples reported so far, dissipative control has been achieved using DNA-recognizing enzymes as energy dissipating units. Although highly efficient, enzymes pose limits in terms of long term stability and inhibition of enzyme activity by waste products. Here we provide the first example of kinetically controlled DNA nanostructures in which energy dissipation is achieved through a non-enzymatic chemical reaction. More specifically, inspired by the redox signalling employed by cells to control cellular processes, we employ redox cycles of disulfide-bond formation/breakage to kinetically control the assembly and disassembly of DNA tubular nanostructures in a highly controllable and reversible fashion.