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Phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) deleted on human chromosome 10 is a tumor suppressor with bispecific phosphatase activity, which is often involved in the study of energy metabolism and tumorigenesis. PTEN is recently reported to participate in the process of acute injury. However, the mechanism of PTEN in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury (IRI) has not yet been clearly elucidated. In this study, mice with bilateral renal artery ischemia-reperfusion and HK-2 cells with hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) were used as acute kidney injury models. We demonstrated that PTEN was downregulated in IRI-induced kidney as well as in H/R-induced HK-2 cells. By silencing and overexpressing PTEN with si-PTEN RNA and PHBLV-CMV-PTEN-flag lentivirus before H/R, we found that PTEN protected HK-2 cells against H/R-induced injury reflected by the change in cell activity and the release of LDH. Furthermore, we inhibited HIF1-α with PX-478 and inactivated mTOR with Rapamycin before the silence of PTEN in H/R model. Our data indicated that the renoprotective effect of PTEN worked via PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway and PI3K/Akt/HIF1-α pathway, hence alleviating apoptosis and improving autophagy respectively. Our findings provide valuable insights into the molecular mechanism underlying renoprotection of PTEN on autophagy and apoptosis induced by renal IRI, which offers a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of AKI.CBL (Casitas B cell lymphoma), an important ubiquitin protein ligase, is involved in protein folding, protein maturation, and proteasome-dependent protein catabolism in different cells. However, its role in cardiac hypertrophy is still unclear. In this study, we found that expression of CBL is increased in an Ang II-induced mouse cardiac hypertrophy animal model and in Ang II-treated H9C2 cells. Interference with CBL expression attenuates the degree of myocardial hypertrophy as well as the expression of hypertrophy-related genes in H9C2 cells. Further research found that CBL aggravates myocardial hypertrophy by activating HIF-1α, which is an aggravating factor for hypertrophy. The effect of CBL on promoting myocardial hypertrophy was reversed by interference with HIF-1α. Mechanistically, we found that CBL directly interacted with and degraded VHL by increasing its ubiquitination level, which is a widely accepted regulatory factor of HIF-1α. Finally, our results showed that CBL was partially dependent on degradation of VHL and that activation of HIF-1α promoted myocardial hypertrophy. Collectively, these findings suggest that strategies based on activation of the CBL/HIF-1α axis might be promising for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.Breast cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers and the leading cause of cancer death in women. MIER3 (Mesoderm induction early response 1, family member3) is considered as a potential oncogene for breast cancer. However, the role of MIER3 in breast cancer remain largely unknown. The expression of MIER3 was detected and the relationship between its expression and clinicopathological characteristics was also analyzed. The effect of MIER3 on proliferation and migration of breast cancer cells was detected in vitro and in vivo. Western blot, IF, and Co-IP were employed to detect the relationship between MIER3, HDAC1, HDAC2, and Snail. ChIP assay was performed to determine the binding of MIER3/HDAC1/HDAC2/Snail complex to the promoter of E-cadherin. In this study, we found that MIER3 was upregulated in breast cancer tissue and closely associated with poor prognosis of patients. MIER3 could promote the proliferation, migration, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of breast cancer cells. Further studies showed that MIER3 interacted with HDAC1/HDAC2 and Snail to form a repressive complex which could bind to E-cadherin promoter and was related to its deacetylation. Our study concluded that MIER3 was involved in forming a co-repressor complex with HDAC1/HDAC2/Snail to promote EMT by silencing E-cadherin.

Acute aortic syndromes may present with a number of cardiovascular complications, including atrial fibrillation. We assessed the prevalence of atrial fibrillation in patients presenting with acute aortic syndromes and evaluated atrial fibrillation's association with in-hospital mortality and stroke.

Consecutive patients with acute aortic syndromes admitted to a single tertiary care center from January 2015 to March 2020 were included. We identified patients with atrial fibrillation on the presenting electrocardiogram.

A total of 309 patients with acute aortic syndromes were included in our analyses 148 (48%) presented with Stanford type A and 161 (52%) with Stanford type B acute aortic syndromes. CPI-1205 in vivo Twenty-seven (8.7%) patients had atrial fibrillation on the presenting electrocardiogram 12 (44%) with type A and 15 (56%) with type B acute aortic syndromes. Patients with atrial fibrillation were older, more likely to be white, had a higher frequency of history of cancer, peripheral artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, compared with those without atrial fibrillation. Acute aortic syndromes patients with atrial fibrillation had higher frequencies of in-hospital mortality compared with those without atrial fibrillation (40.7% vs 12.4%, P < .0001). However, stroke frequencies did not differ between the 2 groups.

In patients presenting with acute aortic syndromes and atrial fibrillation, we observed higher frequencies of in-hospital mortality, without differences in the frequencies of stroke.

In patients presenting with acute aortic syndromes and atrial fibrillation, we observed higher frequencies of in-hospital mortality, without differences in the frequencies of stroke.

Masking, which is known to decrease the transmission of respiratory viruses, was not widely practiced in the United States until the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This provides a natural experiment to determine whether the percentage of community masking was associated with decreases in emergency department (ED) visits due to non-COVID viral illnesses (NCVIs) and related respiratory conditions.

In this observational study of ED encounters in a 11-hospital system in Maryland during 2019-2020, year-on-year ratios for all complaints were calculated to account for "lockdowns" and the global drop in ED visits due to the pandemic. Encounters for specific complaints were identified using the International Classification of Diseases, version 10. Encounters with a positive COVID test were excluded. Linear regression was used to determine the association of publicly available masking data with ED visits for NCVI and exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), after adjusting for patient age, sex, and medical history.