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harmacokinetics, and in many cases, clinical outcomes can be highly variable, with some patients responding remarkably well and others not. SB-297006 mouse This study's results show that patients who experienced longer overall survival also had significantly higher exposure to bevacizumab. Therefore, bevacizumab trough concentrations could be used both as a predictive biomarker and as a tool for treatment monitoring and optimization. Finally, the development of validated, rapid, and sensitive assays for bevacizumab concentration measurements in combination with these results may lead to a therapeutic drug monitoring-guided approach in bevacizumab treatment with better clinical outcomes. Bevacizumab concentrations as a predictive biomarker for clinical outcomes could represent an advance in therapeutics. This study investigated the relationship between bevacizumab exposure and overall survival in metastatic colorectal cancer. © AlphaMed Press 2020.Primitive aortic sarcomas are rare tumors characterized by resistance to medical treatment and a poor prognosis with high metastatic rates and local recurrences. Surgery remains the mainstay treatment and is based on challenging and technically demanding resections with high rate of major intraoperative and postoperative complications. We report the case of a patient with primitive intimal sarcoma of the aorta, who underwent a descending aortic resection and reconstruction with a prosthetic tube. Thieme Medical Publishers 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA.Acute Type-A aortic dissection (AAAD) remains a surgical emergency with a relatively high operative mortality despite advances in medical and surgical management over the past three decades. In spite of the severity of disease, there is a paucity of studies reviewing key controversies surrounding AAAD repair and management. A systematic literature search was performed using Cochrane review and PubMed bibliography review. Abstracts were first reviewed for general pertinence and then articles were reviewed in full. Literature review indicates that use of moderate hypothermia and antegrade cerebral perfusion is a safe alternative to deep hypothermia. In hemodynamically stable patients, axillary cannulation may be substituted for femoral cannulation. With regard to the technical aspects of repair, preserving the aortic root whenever possible and performing the distal anastomosis with the open distal technique rather than with the clamp on is the preferred approach. In patients with a patent false lumen, close monitoring is indicated. As demonstrated by the literature, significant improvement of early and late mortality over the past years has occurred in patients presenting with AAAD. Repair of acute Type-A aortic dissection remains a challenge with high operative mortality; however, improvement of surgical techniques and management have resulted in improvement of early and late clinical outcomes. Thieme Medical Publishers 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA.BACKGROUND In the cuprizone model of multiple sclerosis, de- and remyelination can be studied without major interference from the adaptive immune responses. Since previous proteomic studies did not focus on the corpus callosum, where cuprizone causes the most pronounced demyelination, we performed a bottom up proteomic analysis on this brain region. METHODS Eight week-old mice treated with 0.2% cuprizone, for 4 weeks and controls (C) were sacrificed after termination of the treatment (4wD), and 2 (2dR) or 14 (2wR) days later. Homogenates of dissected corpus callosum were analysed by quantitative proteomics. For data processing, clustering, gene ontology analysis, and regulatory network prediction, we used Perseus, PANTHER and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis softwares, respectively. RESULTS We identified 4886 unmodified, single- or multi phosphorylated and/or gycosylated (PTM) proteins. Out of them, 191 proteins were differentially regulated in at least one experimental group. We found 57 proteins specific for demyelination, 27 for early- and 57 for late remyelinationwhile 36 proteins were affected in two, and 23 proteins in all three groups. Phosphorylation represented 92% of the post translational modifications among differentially regulated modified (PTM) proteins with decreased level, while it was only 30% of the PTM proteins with increased level. Gene ontology analysis could not classify the demyelination specific proteins into any biological process category, while allocated the remyelination specific ones to nervous system development and myelination as the most specific subcategory. We also identified a protein network in experimental remyelination, and the gene orthologues of the network were differentially expressed in remyelinating multiple sclerosis brain lesions consistent with an early remyelination pattern. CONCLUSION Proteomic analysis seems more informative for remyelination than demyelination in the cuprizone model.BACKGROUND To determine total sodium load, including inadvertent load, during the first 2 postnatal weeks, and its influence on serum sodium, morbidity, and mortality in extremely low birth weight (ELBW, birth weight less then 1000 g) infants and to calculate sodium replacement models. METHODS Retrospective data analysis on ELBW infants with a gestational age less then 28 + 0/7 weeks. RESULTS Ninety patients with a median birth weight of 718 g and a median gestational age of 24 + 6/7 weeks were included. Median sodium intake during the first 2 postnatal weeks was 10.2 mmol/kg/day, which was significantly higher than recommended (2-5 mmol/kg/day). Sodium intake did not affect the risk for hypernatremia. Each mmol of sodium intake during the first postnatal week was associated with an increased risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (45%) and higher-grade intraventricular hemorrhage (31%), during the second postnatal week for necrotizing enterocolitis (19%), and during both postnatal weeks of mortality (13%). Calds, model based.Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (TS) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by the presence of motor and vocal tics as well as psychiatric comorbidities such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), depression, and anxiety. The underlying cause of the disease is still unknown, but several lines of evidence suggest a paramount role of the dopaminergic system. Based on the clinical observation that cannabis-based medicine including cannabis and delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, dronabinol) may improve TS, alternatively, an involvement of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) has been suggested. In this study we measured cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of the two most important endocannabinoids "N"-arachidonoylethanolamine (AEA, anandamide) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), the endocannabinoid-like molecule palmitoyl ethanolamide (PEA), and the lipid arachidonic acid (AA) in a sample of adult patients with TS (n = 20) compared with controls (n = 19) using liquid-liquid lipid extraction and simultaneous quantification by liquid chromatography multiple reaction monitoring (LC/MRM).