Plant polyphenols are important components of human diet, and a number of them are considered to possess chemopreventive and
therapeutic properties against cancer. They are recognized as naturally occurring anti-oxidants but also act as pro-oxidants
catalyzing DNA degradation in the presence of metal ions such as copper. The plant polyphenol resveratrol confers resistance
to plants against fungal agents and has been implicated as a cancer chemopreventive agent. Of particular interest is the observation
that resveratrol has been found to induce apoptosis in cancer cell lines but not in normal cells. Over the last few years,
we have shown that resveratrol is capable of causing DNA breakage in cells such as human lymphocytes. Such cellular DNA breakage
is inhibited by copper specific chelators but not by iron and zinc chelating agents. Similar results are obtained by using
permeabilized cells or with isolated nuclei, indicating that chromatin-bound copper is mobilized in this reaction. It is well
established that tissue, cellular and serum copper levels are considerably elevated in various malignancies. Therefore, cancer
cells may be more subject to electron transfer between copper ions and resveratrol to generate reactive oxygen species responsible
for DNA cleavage. The results are in support of our hypothesis that anti-cancer mechanism of plant polyphenols involves mobilization
of endogenous copper and the consequent pro-oxidant action. Such a mechanism better explains the anti-cancer effects of resveratrol,
as it accounts for the preferential cytotoxicity towards cancer cells. 相似文献
Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis remains a diagnostic challenge for many clinicians despite current advances in diagnostic laboratory techniques. Although much has been done to prevent tuberculosis, cases of mycobacterial disease in endemic form still occur. Six hundred and forty-five patients with tuberculosis were diagnosed and treated at the American University of Beirut Medical Center during the period from 1970 to 1985. Twenty-nine (4.5%) of these patients had proven mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis. We stress histopathologic examination as the single most important means for diagnosing mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis. Operation in combination with antituberculous chemotherapy remain the treatments of choice. 相似文献
Nine isoquinoline alkaloids have been isolated from the bark of Artabotrys maingayi: four noraporphines (norstephalagine, 3-hydroxynornuciferine, anonaine, and nornuciferine), one 7-hydroxyaporphine (ushinsunine), three oxoaporphines (atherospermidine, liriodenine, and lysicamine), and one protoberberine (discretamine). The effects of the main alkaloids, norstephalagine and atherospermidine, have been studied on the Ca-dependent contractile activity of smooth muscle (uterus). Both norstephalagine and atherospermidine show relaxing activity on rat uterine contractions induced by KCl or rhythmic contractions induced by oxytocin in the presence of Ca, but only atherospermidine can relax oxytocin- or vanadate-induced contractions in a Ca-free medium. 相似文献
We report intraoperative hypotony throughout the 25G vitrectomy procedure of an elderly patient with dense vitreous hemorrhage when switching to a 20G cutter. This was due to fluidic mismatch between the 25G infusion and 20G aspiration systems. No leakage from the sclerotomy sites or choroidal effusion was noted. 相似文献
Rheumatoid arthritis and hand osteoarthritis are two different arthritis that causes pain, function limitation, and permanent joint damage in the hands. Plain hand radiographs are the most commonly used imaging methods for the diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. In this retrospective study, the You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm was used to obtain hand images from original radiographs without data loss, and classification was made by applying transfer learning with a pre-trained VGG-16 network. The data augmentation method was applied during training. The results of the study were evaluated with performance metrics such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and precision calculated from the confusion matrix, and AUC (area under the ROC curve) calculated from ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve. In the classification of rheumatoid arthritis and normal hand radiographs, 90.7%, 92.6%, 88.7%, 89.3%, and 0.97 accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, and AUC results, respectively, and in the classification of osteoarthritis and normal hand radiographs, 90.8%, 91.4%, 90.2%, 91.4%, and 0.96 accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, and AUC results were obtained, respectively. In the classification of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and normal hand radiographs, an 80.6% accuracy result was obtained. In this study, to develop an end-to-end computerized method, the YOLOv4 algorithm was used for object detection, and a pre-trained VGG-16 network was used for the classification of hand radiographs. This computer-aided diagnosis method can assist clinicians in interpreting hand radiographs, especially in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.
Inflammation - Grass pollens have been identified as mediators of respiratory distress, capable of exacerbating respiratory diseases including epidemic thunderstorm asthma (ETSA). It is... 相似文献
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate electroencephalogram (EEG) dynamics using complexity analysis in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared with healthy control children when performing a cognitive task. Method: Thirty 7–12-year-old children meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fifth Edition (DSM–5) criteria for ADHD and 30 healthy control children underwent an EEG evaluation during a cognitive task, and Lempel–Ziv complexity (LZC) values were computed. There were no significant differences between ADHD and control groups on age and gender. Results: The mean LZC of the ADHD children was significantly larger than healthy children over the right anterior and right posterior regions during the cognitive performance. In the ADHD group, complexity of the right hemisphere was higher than that of the left hemisphere, but the complexity of the left hemisphere was higher than that of the right hemisphere in the normal group. Conclusion: Although fronto-striatal dysfunction is considered conclusive evidence for the pathophysiology of ADHD, our arithmetic mental task has provided evidence of structural and functional changes in the posterior regions and probably cerebellum in ADHD. 相似文献
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore whether bone pain “clusters” with other symptoms in patients with bone metastases.
Materials and methods Patients with bone metastases referred to a palliative radiotherapy clinic were asked to rate their symptom distress using
the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS). Analgesic consumption during the previous 24 h was captured at initial consultation.
To determine interrelationships between symptoms, a principal component analysis (PCA) with “varimax rotation” was performed
on the nine ESAS symptoms. This study defined a “symptom cluster” as two or more symptoms that occur together, are stable,
and are relatively independent of other clusters. Patients were followed 1, 2, 4, 8, and 12 weeks post-radiation treatment
by telephone. Statistical analysis was performed at each time point for both responders and nonresponders to radiation (response
was defined in accordance to the International Bone Metastases Consensus Working Party).
Results Five hundred eighteen patients with bone metastases provided complete baseline data using the ESAS. The four most prevalent
symptoms were poor sense of well-being (93.5%), fatigue (92.3%), pain (84.1%), and drowsiness (81.8%). Three clusters were
identified and accounted for 66% of the total variance at baseline. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient demonstrated high internal
reliability in the clusters, with a coefficient ranging from 0.61 to 0.81. It was observed that the clusters changed post-radiation
in both responders and nonresponders and that pain clustered with different symptoms (or remained a separate symptom in responders).
In nonresponders, three symptom clusters were consistently present, except in week 8.
Conclusion Radiotherapy influenced the structure of symptom clusters in both responders and nonresponders. There was evidence that pain
clustered out in responders of radiation to pain. It was found that pain clustered with fatigue, drowsiness, and poor sense
of well-being at baseline. However, these findings must be heeded with caution, as more work is needed to clearly define symptom
clusters and to understand the effects of radiation in the symptom experience of patients with bone metastases. 相似文献