The role of immunotherapy in the treatment of lip squamous cell carcinoma: A series of six cases and a review of the current literature by Ido Amir, Nir Tsur, Itamar Averbuch, Gideon Bachar, Noga Kurman

“…Conclusion: Immunotherapy shows promise for lip SCC after conventional treatment failure or as an alternative to surgery or radiotherapy in unsuitable candidates, suggesting a tumor biology resembling cutaneous rather than oral cavity SCC. …”
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iNOS-Produced Nitric Oxide from Cancer Cells as an Intermediate of Stemness Regulation by PARP-1 in Colorectal Cancer by María del Moral-Martinez, Paula Sánchez-Uceta, Ruben Clemente-Gonzalez, Sara Moreno-SanJuan, Jose D. Puentes-Pardo, Huda Khaldy, David Lopez-Perez, Javier Arnedo, Jorge Casado, Luis Martínez-Heredia, Angel Carazo, Josefa León

“…We have recently reported that PARP-1 influences tumor progression in CRC through the regulation of CSCs in a p53-dependent manner. …”
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Evaluating the Relationship of GDF-15 with Clinical Characteristics, Cardinal Features, and Survival in Multiple Myeloma by Małgorzata Banaszkiewicz, Jolanta Małyszko, Krzysztof Batko, Ewa Koc-Żórawska, Marcin Żórawski, Paulina Dumnicka, Artur Jurczyszyn, Karolina Woziwodzka, Joanna Tisończyk, Marcin Krzanowski, Jacek Małyszko, Anna Waszczuk-Gajda, Ryszard Drożdż, Marek Kuźniewski, Katarzyna Krzanowska

“…It is abnormally secreted in marrow stromal cells of patients with multiple myeloma (MM), which may reflect the tumor microenvironment. We analyzed the associations of serum GDF-15 with clinical characteristics of 73 MM patients (including asymptomatic MM) and the laboratory indices of renal function, anemia, and inflammation. …”
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AM1241 inhibits chondrocyte inflammation and ECM degradation through the Nrf2/HO-1 and NF-κB pathways and alleviates osteoarthritis in mice by Zhuan Zou, Songmu Pan, Changzheng Sun, Jiyong Wei, Yi Xu, Kaizhen Xiao, Jinmin Zhao, Ronghe Gu

“…Results AM1241 inhibited the levels of LPS-induced transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β1), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin 6 (IL-6), matrix metalloproteinase-13 (MMP-13), and a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motif 5 (ADAMTS-5) and diminished the degradation of type II collagen and Aggrecan. …”
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Recent trends in research on the role of cholesterol in leukemia: a bibliometric and visualization study by Huijuan Lv, Ke Lu, Ximing Wang, Yanfang Zhang, Mengqi Zhuang, Jing Li, Keli Su, Wen Gao

“…BackgroundCholesterol metabolism significantly impacts leukemia pathophysiology, affecting tumor cell survival, proliferation, and treatment resistance. …”
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Glioblastoma drives protease-independent extracellular matrix invasion of microglia by Chia-Wen Chang, Ashwin Bale, Rohit Bhargava, Brendan A.C. Harley

“…Microglia infiltration into the tumor microenvironment is associated with immunosuppression and poor prognosis. …”
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Reproducibility and repeatability of 18F-(2S, 4R)-4-fluoroglutamine PET imaging in preclinical oncology models. by Gregory D Ayers, Allison S Cohen, Seong-Woo Bae, Xiaoxia Wen, Alyssa Pollard, Shilpa Sharma, Trey Claus, Adria Payne, Ling Geng, Ping Zhao, Mohammed Noor Tantawy, Seth T Gammon, H Charles Manning

“…Three individuals analyzed the tumor uptake of 18F-Gln using the same set of images, the same image analysis software, and the same analysis method. …”
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Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy combined with systemic therapy sequentially or simultaneously for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma by Yu-zhe Cao, Jia-yu Pan, Guang-lei Zheng, Chao An, Meng-Xuan Zuo

“…We used the Kaplan–Meier method and a log-rank test to compare the overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) rates between the SI and SE groups. The tumor response and the incidence of adverse events (AEs) were reported. …”
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Prognostic significance of PD‐L2 expression in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma—A comparison to the PD‐L1 expression profile by Manuel Weber, Falk Wehrhan, Christoph Baran, Abbas Agaimy, Maike Büttner‐Herold, Marco Kesting, Jutta Ries

“…Moreover, it should be analyzed if PD‐L2 is differentially expressed in tissue and blood samples of OSCC patients compared to healthy controls and if there is an association of PD‐L2 expression with histomorphologic and prognostic tumor parameters. Methods PD‐L2 mRNA expression was analyzed in tumors and healthy oral mucosa specimens and in corresponding peripheral blood samples of 48 OSCC patients and 26 healthy controls using RT‐qPCR. …”
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Pirfenidone regulates seizures through the HMGB1/TLR4 axis to improve cognitive functions and modulate oxidative stress and neurotransmitters in PTZ-induced kindling in mice by Mansi Dahalia, Sparsh Gupta, Haya Majid, Divya Vohora, Nidhi

“…Pirfenidone significantly reduced pro-inflammatory cytokines including interleukin-6, interleukin-1β, transforming growth factor-β, tumor necrosis factor- α, high-mobility group box-1, and toll-like receptor-4, elevated gamma-aminobutyric acid, decreased glutamate levels, modulated aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase levels. …”
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Photoprotective Effect of the Plant Collaea argentina against Adverse Effects Induced by Photodynamic Therapy by Leandro Mamone, Daniel Sáenz, Pablo Vallecorsa, Alcira Batlle, Adriana Casas, Gabriela Di Venosa

“…C. argentina extract protects these mammalian tumor cells against PDT effects, and it interferes with the oxygen singlet production from PSs during PDT treatment. …”
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Mis-localization of endogenous TDP-43 leads to ALS-like early-stage metabolic dysfunction and progressive motor deficits by Yiying Hu, Alexander Hruscha, Chenchen Pan, Martina Schifferer, Michael K. Schmidt, Brigitte Nuscher, Martin Giera, Sarantos Kostidis, Özge Burhan, Frauke van Bebber, Dieter Edbauer, Thomas Arzberger, Christian Haass, Bettina Schmid

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A Novel Approach for In Vitro Testing and Hazard Evaluation of Nanoformulated RyR2-Targeting siRNA Drugs Using Human PBMCs by Valeria Bettinsoli, Gloria Melzi, Angelica Crea, Lorenzo Degli Esposti, Michele Iafisco, Daniele Catalucci, Paolo Ciana, Emanuela Corsini

“…To assess immune activation, the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines (interleukin-6, interleukin-8, tumor necrosis factor-α, and interferon-γ) was measured 24 h after exposure. …”
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Treatment of uterine fibroid: focus on endometrial receptivity. A pilot randomized prospective study by Yulia E. Dobrokhotova, Irina A. Lapina, Valeriia M. Gomzikova, Yury А. Sorokin, Eleonora T. Khatagova, Ayshan R. Allakhverdieva, Mariya A. Olkhovskaya

“…The impact of a benign tumor on the endometrium state is currently being actively discussed, which may become another potential target in UF therapy. …”
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Mechanism of Electroacupuncture on Neuropathic Pain via Regulation of CD137L in Hippocampal Glia by ZHENG Changyue, LAN Yanyan, HUANG Qiuling, JIANG Menghong, WANG Zhifu

“…The expression of hippocampal CA1 region CD137L, Iba-1, GFAP and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) was detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). …”
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TransRAUNet: A Deep Neural Network with Reverse Attention Module Using HU Windowing Augmentation for Robust Liver Vessel Segmentation in Full Resolution of CT Images by Kyoung Yoon Lim, Jae Eun Ko, Yoo Na Hwang, Sang Goo Lee, Sung Min Kim

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> TransRAUnet is expected to serve as a navigation aid for liver resection surgery through accurate liver vessel and tumor segmentation.…”
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Clinical treatment score Post-5 Years (CTS5) predicts the benefit of postmastectomy radiotherapy in patients with T1-2N1 luminal breast cancer by Ke Liu, Guan-Qiao Li, Si-Qi Li, Xue-Qin Chen, San-Gang Wu

“…Patients with younger age, T2 stage, higher tumor grade, a higher number of positive lymph nodes, infiltrating lobular carcinoma subtype, and receipt of chemotherapy were associated with the receipt of PMRT (all P < 0.05). …”
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Study on postoperative survival prediction model for non-small cell lung cancer: application of radiomics technology workflow based on multi-organ imaging features and various mach... by Hanlin Wang, Yuan Hong, Zimo Zhang, Kang Cheng, Bo Chen, Renquan Zhang

“…The study extracted radiomic features from the tumor, whole lung, and erector spinae muscles of the patients and applied 11 machine learning algorithms to construct prediction models. …”
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Physical parameters and biological factors affect the abscopal effect of combining radiotherapy with immunotherapy: an update on preclinical works by Wangcai Ren, Jialing Wen, Gang Guo, Gang Guo, Wenchao Gu, Shenke Zhang, Shenke Zhang, Chang Liu, Chang Liu, Kensuke Osada, Takashi Shimokawa, Qiaojuan Wang, Qiaojuan Wang, Yue Wang, Yue Wang, Xuanzhang Tu, Chen Li, Li Sui, Liqiu Ma, Liqiu Ma, Liqiu Ma

“…In the process of radiotherapy for cancer patients, there is an extremely low probability phenomenon that the distal tumor/metastasis away from the irradiation field undergoes regression after localized radiation therapy, which is called the abscopal effect. …”
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IL-10 and socs3 Are Predictive Biomarkers of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever by Lilian Karem Flores-Mendoza, Tania Estrada-Jiménez, Virginia Sedeño-Monge, Margarita Moreno, María del Consuelo Manjarrez, Guadalupe González-Ochoa, Lourdes Millán-Pérez Peña, Julio Reyes-Leyva

“…Amounts of interleukins IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, and IL-10, interferon- (IFN-) γ, and tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-) α were quantified by flow cytometry, and the relative expression of socs1 and socs3 mRNA was quantified by real-time RT-PCR. …”
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