Real-world effectiveness of azvudine versus nirmatrelvir-ritonavir in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and pre-existing diabetes by Guanyue Su, Silin Li, Donghua Zhang, Yongjian Zhou, Ling Wang, Yiqiang Yuan, Guowu Qian, Guotao Li, Na Han, Ming Cheng, Guangming Li, Shixi Zhang, Hong Luo, Mengzhao Yang, Yanyang Zhang, Zhan Song, Jiyuan Xing, Zujiang Yu, Zhigang Ren

“…Overall, azvudine may be comparable to nirmatrelvir-ritonavir in terms of both all-cause death and composite disease progression among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and pre-existing diabetes, with acceptable adverse events.…”
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Efficacy and safety of surufatinib plus toripalimab in treatment-naive, PD-L1-positive, advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer and previously treated small-cell lung can... by Ying Cheng, Panpan Zhang, Ming Lu, Zhendong Chen, Lijie Song, Si Shi, Feng Ye, Xing Zhang, Baorui Liu, Dongmei Ji, Yanqiao Zhang, Weiguo Su, Michael Shi, Songhua Fan, Panfeng Tan, Chen Zhong

“…Abstract Background Combining the programmed death-1 inhibitor toripalimab and the angio-immuno kinase inhibitor surufatinib showed preliminary antitumor activity in patients with advanced solid tumors in a phase I study. …”
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Associations of prognostic nutritional index with cardiovascular all-cause mortality among CVD patients with diabetes or prediabetes: evidence from the NHANES 2005–2018 by WenYi Xu, Li Zhang, Li Zhang, QianKun Yang, Ying Cao, Rui Rao, Li Lv, Qin Cen, Qiong Wei, LuLing Yang

“…Mortality outcomes and causes of death were obtained from National Death Index (NDI) records. …”
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Protection against Mitochondrial and Metal Toxicity Depends on Functional Lipid Binding Sites in ATP13A2 by Shaun Martin, Sarah van Veen, Tine Holemans, Seyma Demirsoy, Chris van den Haute, Veerle Baekelandt, Patrizia Agostinis, Jan Eggermont, Peter Vangheluwe

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Refined methodology for quantifying Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence using Galleria mellonella by Christopher M. R. Axline, Travis J. Kochan, Sophie Nozick, Timothy Ward, Tania Afzal, Issay Niki, Sumitra D. Mitra, Ethan VanGosen, Julia Nelson, Aliki Valdes, David Hynes, William Cheng, Joanne Lee, Prarthana Prashanth, Timothy L. Turner, Nathan B. Pincus, Marc H. Scheetz, Kelly E. R. Bachta, Alan R. Hauser

“…For this reason, some groups have used time-to-death as a measure of P. aeruginosa virulence, but methodologies have not been standardized. …”
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Evaluation of the ABC pathway in patients with atrial fibrillation: A machine learning cluster analysis by Jingyang Wang, Haiyang Bian, Jiangshan Tan, Jun Zhu, Lulu Wang, Wei Xu, Lei Wei, Xuegong Zhang, Yanmin Yang

“…The clusters showed significant differences in MACNE, all-cause death, stroke, and cardiovascular death. All clusters showed that full adherence to the ABC pathway was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of MACNE (all P < 0.05). …”
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Intricating connections: the role of ferroptosis in systemic lupus erythematosus by Guowang Zhao, Xinghai Li, Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Xingzi Wang, Li Deng, Juan Xu, Shumei Jin, Zan Zuo, Zan Zuo, Linting Xun, Linting Xun, Mei Luo, Mei Luo, Fan Yang, Jialong Qi, Jialong Qi, Jialong Qi, Jialong Qi, Ping Fu

“…Multiple types of programmed cell death (PCD) implicated in SLE progression have recently been identified. …”
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Cystatin C as a Predictor of Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in a Population with Chronic Kidney Disease by Ana Vigil, Emilia Condés, Luis Vigil, Paloma Gallar, Aniana Oliet, Olimpia Ortega, Isabel Rodriguez, Milagros Ortiz, Juan Carlos Herrero, Carmen Mon, Gabriela Cobo, Juana Jimenez

“…Cystatin C may be an alternative to creatinine for detecting a high risk of death and cardiovascular events in a population with CKD.…”
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NPT100-18A rescues mitochondrial oxidative stress and neuronal degeneration in human iPSC-based Parkinson’s model by Julian E. Alecu, Veronika Sigutova, Razvan-Marius Brazdis, Sandra Lörentz, Marios Evangelos Bogiongko, Anara Nursaitova, Martin Regensburger, Laurent Roybon, Kerstin M. Galler, Wolfgang Wrasidlo, Beate Winner, Iryna Prots

“…Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels were measured using a luminescence-based assay, and neuronal cell death was evaluated by immunocytochemistry. Results Compared to controls, patient-derived mDANs exhibited higher cytoplasmic and mitochondrial ROS probe levels, reduced ATP-related signals, and increased activation of caspase-3, reflecting early neuronal cell death. …”
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In Vitro Cytotoxic Study and Detection of Apoptosis on Breast Cancer Cell lines MDA-MB 231 after Exposed to Azadirachta Indica A. Juss (neem) Extract by Dessy Arisanty

“…Thus, the results from this study strongly suggest that the ethanol extract of A.indica may contain bioactive compound(s) that caused breast carcinoma, MDA-MNB 231 cell death by apoptosis. It’s needed to do advance research to know more deeply the mechanism this plant on breast cancer cell line MDA-MB.…”
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Clinicopathologic characteristics, therapeutic modalities and survival outcomes of plasmablastic lymphoma: A real-world study by Yan-Hua Zheng, Kun Xie, Hong-Yuan Shen, Zhuo Wan, Shan Gao, Wen-Rui Sun, Guang-Xun Gao, Li Liu, Juan Feng

“…Patients with a higher Ann Arbor stage at diagnosis were at higher risk of death than those with a lower stage. Chemotherapy alone or chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy could significantly reduce the risk of death and extend the patients’ survival, yielding a HR of 0.209 (95% CI: 0.152–0.288) and 0.187 (95% CI: 0.089–0.394), respectively. …”
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Modulation of DAPK1 expression by its alternative splice variant DAPK1-215 in cancer by QingShui Wang, ShuYun Weng, WenTing Zhong, YouYu Lin, Yan Yu, YiMin Huang, LiLin Ge, XiuLi Zhang, FangQin Xue, Yehuda G. Assaraf, Yao Lin

“…Abstract Background Death-Associated Protein Kinase 1 (DAPK1) family members are calcium/calmodulin-regulated serine/threonine kinases implicated in cell death, normal development, and human diseases. …”
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The Association Between Mitral Regurgitation and Long-Term Outcomes in Acute Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Retrospective Large Sample Cohor... by Yan N, Wu P, Zhu B, Ma A, Wang X, Hai X, Ma X, Jiang H, Yang S

“…Kaplan–Meier survival curves of MR with all-cause death and RHF were also plotted (log-rank p < 0.001). …”
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Disturbed sleep after lung transplantation is associated with worse patient-reported outcomes and chronic lung allograft dysfunction by Aric A. Prather, PhD, Ying Gao, MS, Legna Betancourt, BS, Rose C. Kordahl, BS, Anya Sriram, BS, Chiung-Yu Huang, PhD, Steven R. Hays, MD, Jasleen Kukreja, MD, Daniel R. Calabrese, MD, Aida Venado, MD, Bhavya Kapse, PhD, John R. Greenland, MD, PhD, Jonathan P. Singer, MD, MS

“…We evaluated the associations between SPI and insomnia on time to chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) and death using Cox models, adjusting for age, sex, and transplant indication. …”
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Infection‐Related Hospitalization and Incident Heart Failure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study by Rebecca L. Molinsky, Amil Shah, Melana Yuzefpolskaya, Bing Yu, Jeffrey R. Misialek, Bruno Bohn, David Vock, Richard MacLehose, Barry A. Borlaug, Paolo C. Colombo, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Junichi Ishigami, Kunihiro Matsushita, Pamela L. Lutsey, Ryan T. Demmer

“…HF incidence was defined as the first occurrence of either a hospitalization that included an ICD, Ninth Revision (ICD‐9) discharge code of 428 (428.0–428.9) among the primary or secondary diagnoses or a death certificate with an ICD‐9 code of 428 or an ICD, Tenth Revision (ICD‐10) code of I50 among any of the listed diagnoses or underlying causes of death. …”
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Comparison of PD-L1 tumor cell expression with 22C3, 28-8, and SP142 IHC assays across multiple tumor types by Jeffrey S Ross, Richard S P Huang, Jake G Maule, Lani K Clinton, Ryon P Graf, Jinpeng Xiao, Geoffrey R Oxnard

“…Background Multiple PD-L1 immunohistochemistry (IHC) assays, including DAKO 22C3, DAKO 28-8, and Ventana SP142 PD-L1 IHC assays, have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a companion diagnostic (CDx) for various antiprogrammed death-1 and antiprogrammed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) based cancer immunotherapies. …”
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Health and Cellular Impacts of Air Pollutants: From Cytoprotection to Cytotoxicity by Karine Andreau, Melanie Leroux, Aida Bouharrour

“…Environmental air pollutants are a heterogeneous mixture of particles suspended into a liquid and gaseous phase which trigger the disruption of redox homeostasis—known under the term of cellular oxidative stress—in relation with the establishment of inflammation and cell death via necrosis, apoptosis, or autophagy. Activation or repression of the apoptotic process as an adaptative response to xenobiotics might lead to either acute or chronic toxicity. …”
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Establishment of a Rapid and Convenient Fluoroimmunoassay Platform Using Antibodies Against PDL1 and HER2 by Ji Eun Choi, Hanool Yun, Hee-Jin Jeong

“…In this study, we developed a simple and rapid fluorescence-linked immunosorbent assay (FLISA) using fluorescent dye-conjugated antibody fragments against programmed cell death ligand 1 (PDL1) and human epithelial growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…POPLINK allows for a large array of longitudinal studies, such as social mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, civil status, kinship relations, diseases, disability and causes of death. International standards of occupations (HISCO) and diseases (ICD-10) have been applied, facilitating comparability. …”
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