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Prediction of severe neutropenia and diarrhoea in breast cancer patients treated with abemaciclib.

Apr 29, 2021

Neutropenia and diarrhoea are common and potentially serious adverse events associated with abemaciclib in advanced breast cancer (ABC), and the risk factors have been minimally explored. The study ai...

Preparation, characterization, and in vitro tumor-suppressive effect of anti-miR-21-equipped RNA nanoparticles.

Apr 29, 2021

MicroRNAs play an irreplaceable role in gene expression regulation. Upregulation of several miRNAs increases the risk of invasion and metastasis of breast cancer cells. An oncogenic miRNA, miR-21, is ...

Effect of an educational intervention on women's healthcare provider knowledge gaps about breast density, breast cancer risk, and screening.

Apr 29, 2021

We sought to assess the effect of an educational intervention, based on DenseBreast-info.org website content, on women's healthcare provider knowledge of breast density, its risk and screening implica...

Failure to Rescue Drives Racial Disparity in Maternal Mortality

Apr 28, 2021

WEDNESDAY, April 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Failure to rescue from severe maternal morbidity contributes to more than half of the threefold difference in maternal mortality between Black women and W...

Kidney intercalated cells are phagocytic and acidify internalized uropathogenic Escherichia coli.

Apr 26, 2021

Kidney intercalated cells are involved in acid-base homeostasis via vacuolar ATPase expression. Here we report six human intercalated cell subtypes, including hybrid principal-intercalated cells ident...

Tamsulosin Versus Placebo to Prevent Postoperative Urinary Retention Following Female Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery: a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.

Apr 26, 2021

Postoperative urinary retention is common following female pelvic reconstructive surgery. Alpha receptor antagonists can improve dysfunctional voiding by relaxing the bladder outlet, and may be effect...

Preconceptional and the first trimester exposure to PM and offspring neurodevelopment at 24 months of age: Examining mediation by maternal thyroid hormones in a birth cohort study.

Apr 26, 2021

Prenatal fine particulate matter (PM) exposure has been associated with impaired offspring neurodevelopment; however, the association of PM exposure during preconception with offspring's neurodevelopm...

A Population Pharmacokinetic Meta-analysis of Veliparib, a PARP Inhibitor, Across Phase I/II/III Trials in Cancer Patients.

Apr 26, 2021

Veliparib (ABT-888) is a poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor in development for treatment of high-grade ovarian cancer or BRCA-mutated breast cancer in combination with carboplatin and pacli...

Oleuropein reduces cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancer by targeting apoptotic pathway regulators.

Apr 26, 2021

Despite many attempts to treat ovarian cancer, 13,940 individuals perish annually due to this disease worldwide. Chemotherapy is the main approach to ovarian cancer treatment, but the development of d...

Circular RNA circE2F2 promotes malignant progression of ovarian cancer cells by upregulating the expression of E2F2 protein via binding to HuR protein.

Apr 26, 2021

Ovarian cancer (OC) is a gynecological malignancy with a poor prognosis and low survival rate. E2F2 is a transcription activator that plays an indispensable role in cell proliferation and cell cycle p...

Regulatory T cells induce polarization of pro-repair macrophages by secreting sFGL2 into the endometriotic milieu.

Apr 26, 2021

An increased number of highly active regulatory T cells (Tregs) and macrophages has been found in peritoneal fluid from women with endometriosis. Here, we show that the level of Tregs-derived soluble ...

A homozygous variant in TBPL2 was identified in women with oocyte maturation defects and infertility.

Apr 26, 2021

What are the genetic causes of oocyte maturation defects?A homozygous splicing variant (c.788 + 3A>G) in TATA-box binding protein like 2 (TBPL2) was identified as a contributory genetic factor ...

Design, synthesis and molecular docking studies of thymol based 1,2,3-triazole hybrids as thymidylate synthase inhibitors and apoptosis inducers against breast cancer cells.

Apr 26, 2021

Natural product produced by plants has been the backbone for numerous anticancer agents. In the present work, natural bioactive thymol based 1,2,3-triazole hybrids have been synthesized and evaluated ...

Micropatterned growth surface topography affects extracellular vesicle production.

Apr 26, 2021

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are micro and nanoscale packages that circulate in all bodily fluids and play an important role in intercellular communication by shuttling biomolecules to nearby and dist...

Covid-19: Early CDC Data Show No Vaccine Safety Signals in Pregnant Women

Apr 23, 2021

Continued monitoring is critical, officials say Preliminary data from a U.S. CDC Covid-19 mRNA vaccine safety study show no obvious safety signals in close to 36,000 women vaccinated during pregnancy...

Covid-19 Increases Pregnancy Complication Risk

Apr 23, 2021

International study confirms link to worse outcomes Having Covid-19 during pregnancy was associated with worse outcomes, such as maternal mortality, preeclampsia, and preterm birth, in an internati...

A matter of size? Health-related quality of life after radical prostatectomy for patients with giant prostates.

Apr 22, 2021

Evidence regarding the impact of giant prostate volume (PV) on outcome after radical prostatectomy (RP) is controversial with a lack of evidence on the impact of PV on health-related quality of life (...

Epidemiological characteristics of uropatogenic isolates of Escherichia coli in hospitals.

Apr 22, 2021

The aim of the study was to evaluate the genetic affinity of uropathogenic E. coli cultures (UPEC) and to identify the major types of extended spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL) found among nosocomial is...

A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effect of Standardized Video Education on Prenatal Genetic Testing Choices: Uptake of Genetic Testing.

Apr 22, 2021

 This study aimed to assess the use of a standardized prenatal genetic testing educational video and its effects on patient uptake of prenatal testing, patient knowledge, decisional conflict, and de...

Neonatal Outcomes after Uterus Transplantation: Dallas Uterus Transplant Study.

Apr 22, 2021

 Limited data are available on the outcome of infants born after uterus transplantation. Our aim was to describe the hospital course and laboratory findings in the first 2 months of life of the 12 i...

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