Phosphorus and Nutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease by Emilio González-Parra, Carolina Gracia-Iguacel, Jesús Egido, Alberto Ortiz

“…Patients with renal impairment progressively lose the ability to excrete phosphorus. …”
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Novel treatment strategy targeting interleukin-6 induced by cancer associated fibroblasts for peritoneal metastasis of gastric cancer by Ema Mitsui, Satoru Kikuchi, Tomohiro Okura, Hiroshi Tazawa, Yuta Une, Noriyuki Nishiwaki, Shinji Kuroda, Kazuhiro Noma, Shunsuke Kagawa, Toshiaki Ohara, Junko Ohtsuka, Rieko Ohki, Toshiyoshi Fujiwara

“…Anti-IL-6R Ab inhibited the progression of PM in GC cells cocultured with fibroblasts in the orthotopic mouse model but could not inhibit the progression of PM consisting of GC cells alone. …”
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Macrophage Extracellular Traps: Current Opinions and the State of Research regarding Various Diseases by Weizhen Weng, Zuoyu Hu, Yunfeng Pan

“…ETs are thought to immobilize and kill microorganisms, as well as play an important role in tissue damage, inflammatory progression, and autoimmune diseases. In this review, the structure, identification, mechanism, and research progress of macrophage extracellular traps (METs) in related diseases are reviewed.…”
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Sustainable Community Development Step 6: Carry Out Projects and Monitor, Evaluate and Make Adjustments as Needed by Mickie E. Swisher, Sandra Rezola, James Sterns

“… This document explains how to evaluate your project and use sustainability indicators to measure progress. The document includes the 10 steps of the Bellagio Principles used to measure and assess progress towards sustainability. …”
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Dysregulation of Mitochondrial Homeostasis in Cardiovascular Diseases by Ricky Patil, Hui Wang, Matthew Kazaleh, Gorav Ailawadi, Morgan Salmon

“…Mitochondria dysfunction plays a central role in the development of vascular diseases as oxidative stress promotes alterations in mitochondrial morphology and function that contribute to disease progression. Redox imbalances can affect normal cellular processes including mitochondrial biogenesis, electrochemical equilibrium, and the regulation of mitochondrial DNA. …”
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Forearmed and Deceived: Diagnosis? by LJ Miedzinski, J Mahood, M Sin, G Sterling

“…A 58-year-old male with a four-year history of noninsulin dependent diabetes presented in early January 1999 with a two-week history of progressive right fore arm swelling, pain, and limitation of wrist and elbow movement unassociated with recognized trauma. …”
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Decompressive Hemicraniectomy and Favorable Outcome in a Pediatric Patient with Malignant Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction by Ricardo Barrientos, Carlos Sisniega, Samanta Catueno, Robin Hougen, Ashley Hanna, Utpal Bhalala

“…We report a rare case of middle cerebral artery (MCA) stroke in a teenage girl with initial improvement, followed by progression to malignant MCA infarction, requiring an urgent decompressive hemicraniectomy (DHC). …”
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Optic Nerve Vascular Compression in a Patient with a Tuberculum Sellae Meningioma by Cezar José Mizrahi, Samuel Moscovici, Shlomo Dotan, Sergey Spektor

“…The patient presented with pronounced progressive visual deterioration. Following surgery, there was immediate resolution of her visual deficit. …”
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Successful Treatment of Recurrent Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation with Oral Vancomycin by Yinka K. Davies, Cynthia J. Tsay, Dario V. Caccamo, Kathleen M. Cox, Ricardo O. Castillo, Kenneth L. Cox

“…Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a progressive, cholestatic disease of the liver that is marked by inflammation of the bile ducts and damage to the hepatic biliary tree. …”
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Sustainable Community Development Step 6: Carry Out Projects and Monitor, Evaluate and Make Adjustments as Needed by Mickie E. Swisher, Sandra Rezola, James Sterns

“… This document explains how to evaluate your project and use sustainability indicators to measure progress. The document includes the 10 steps of the Bellagio Principles used to measure and assess progress towards sustainability. …”
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Optical Coherence Tomography in Huntington's Disease—A Potential Future Biomarker for Neurodegeneration? by Clancy Cerejo, Nicolas De Cleene, Elias Mandler, Katarina Schwarzová, Samuel Labrecque, Philipp Mahlknecht, Florian Krismer, Atbin Djamshidian, Klaus Seppi, Beatrice Heim

“…Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder for which, until now, only symptomatic treatment has been available. …”
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Trends in Survival for Adult Organ Transplantation by Grant Patrick, BS, Brian Hickner, MD, Karthik Goli, BS, Liam D. Ferreira, MBA, John Goss, MD, Abbas Rana, MD

“…Intent-to-treat analysis follows patients from listing to death, regardless of their transplant status, and aims to provide a more holistic scope of the progress made in adult solid-organ transplantation. …”
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Exercise Training in Athletes with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Does Not Result in Increased Dimensions and Impaired Performance of the Left Ventricle by Laura Stefani, Giorgio Galanti, Gabriele Innocenti, Roberto Mercuri, Nicola Maffulli

“…BAV can lead to aortic valve dysfunction and to a progressive aortic dilatation. Trained BAV athletes exhibit a progressive enlargement of the left ventricle (LV) compared to athletes with normal aortic valve morphology. …”
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Serum Cytokeratin-18 Is Associated with NOX2-Generated Oxidative Stress in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver by M. Del Ben, L. Polimeni, F. Baratta, S. Bartimoccia, R. Carnevale, L. Loffredo, P. Pignatelli, F. Violi, F. Angelico

“…Hepatocyte apoptosis may play a role in progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver and oxidative stress seems one of the key mechanisms responsible for liver damage. …”
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A novel machine learning methodology for the systematic extraction of chronic kidney disease comorbidities from abstracts by Eszter Sághy, Mostafa Elsharkawy, Frank Moriarty, Sándor Kovács, István Wittmann, Antal Zemplényi, Antal Zemplényi

“…Abstracts about a disease affecting CKD development and/or progression were selected by multiple ML classifiers trained on a human-labelled sample. …”
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Systematic review of innate immune responses against Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex infection in animal models by Luisa Maria Nieto Ramirez, Carolina Mehaffy, Karen Marie Dobos

“…P2X7R receptor's role in disease progression and higher macrophage recruitment were observed differentially after infection with hypervirulent Mtb strains. …”
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Changes in the Parietal Lobe Subregion Volume at Various Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease and the Role in Cognitively Normal and Mild Cognitive Impairment Conversion by Fang Lu, Qing Ma, Cailing Shi, Wenjun Yue

“…The model consisting of the left IPL_6_4 (caudal area 40) and bilateral IPL_6_5 showed the best combination for predicting the CN progression to MCI. The left IPL_6_1 (caudal area 39) showed the best predictive power in predicting the progression of MCI to AD. …”
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TNBC response to paclitaxel phenocopies interferon response which reveals cell cycle-associated resistance mechanisms by Nicholas L. Calistri, Tiera A. Liby, Zhi Hu, Hongmei Zhang, Mark A. Dane, Sean M. Gross, Laura M. Heiser

“…We further explored the influence of these TFs on paclitaxel-induced cell cycle behavior via live cell imaging, which revealed altered progression rates through G1, S/G2 and M phases. We found that ELF3 knockdown synergized with paclitaxel treatment to lock cells in a G1 state and prevent cell cycle progression. …”
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a Multisystem Pathology: Insights into the Role of TNFα by Massimo Tortarolo, Daniele Lo Coco, Pietro Veglianese, Antonio Vallarola, Maria Teresa Giordana, Gabriella Marcon, Ettore Beghi, Marco Poloni, Michael J. Strong, Anand M. Iyer, Eleonora Aronica, Caterina Bendotti

“…However, whether they play a detrimental or protective role on the disease progression is still not clear. Our group and others have recently reported opposite involvements of TNFR1 and TNFR2 in motor neuron death. …”
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Amarogentin suppresses cell proliferation and EMT process through inducing ferroptosis in colorectal cancer by Chao Wang, Zihao You, Guoqing Zhou, Juanjuan Dong, Sihao Tong, Guoping Sun

“…Amarogentin (AG) has been found to exhibit regulatory roles and join into the progression of multiple diseases. However, the regulatory impacts and associated molecular mechanisms of AG in CRC progression keep unclear. …”
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