Hoppe Damsgaard (threadwing1)

The present systematic review and meta-analysis implicated that the aberrant expressions of lncRNA SPRY4-IT1 were strongly associated with clinical survival outcomes in various cancers and therefore might serve as a promising biomarker for predicting prognosis of human cancers. The present systematic review and meta-analysis implicated that the aberrant expressions of lncRNA SPRY4-IT1 were strongly associated with clinical survival outcomes in various cancers and therefore might serve as a promising biomarker for predicting prognosis of human cancers.Air pollution could impact on the alteration of intestinal microbiome. Maturation of intestinal microbiome in early life played an important role in the development of allergic diseases, including asthma. Recent studies presented an increase in the evidence of association between the shift of gut microbiota and asthma. This article is aimed at exploring whether the alteration in the intestinal microbiome triggered by a short wave of air pollution could influence the colonization of bacteria that have been related to the immunological mechanisms of the asthma attack. The impact of air pollution on intestinal microbiome was assessed by longitudinal comparison. Fecal samples were collected twice for twenty-one children in clean and smog days, respectively, including eleven asthmatic children and ten healthy children. Intestinal bacteria were discriminated by using the method of 16S rRNA gene sequence. The results showed that the composition of intestinal microbiome changed between clean and smog days among all c intestinal bacteria.Cross-modality medical image synthesis between magnetic resonance (MR) images and computed tomography (CT) images has attracted increasing attention in many medical imaging area. Many deep learning methods have been used to generate pseudo-MR/CT images from counterpart modality images. In this study, we used U-Net and Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks (CycleGAN), which were typical networks of supervised and unsupervised deep learning methods, respectively, to transform MR/CT images to their counterpart modality. Experimental results show that synthetic images predicted by the proposed U-Net method got lower mean absolute error (MAE), higher structural similarity index (SSIM), and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) in both directions of CT/MR synthesis, especially in synthetic CT image generation. Though synthetic images by the U-Net method has less contrast information than those by the CycleGAN method, the pixel value profile tendency of the synthetic images by the U-Net method is closer to the ground truth images. This work demonstrated that supervised deep learning method outperforms unsupervised deep learning method in accuracy for medical tasks of MR/CT synthesis. The aim of this article is to present a short review of noninvasive, nonpharmacological treatment methods used in somatic illnesses that fall under the umbrella of approach called behavioral medicine. The narrative review method was applied in the study. Science paper databases, including PubMed, had been used to retrieve papers on therapeutic methods used in clinical setting that meet the broad criteria of behavioral medicine definition as stated in the Charter of International Behavioral Medicine Society. Main groups of methods, disorders in which they are being employed and their effectiveness, have been identified. Behavioral medicine is grouping treatment methods and interventions that hold large potential for clinical setting. Two groups of methods can be distinguished by the scrutiny and level of evidence gathered in their effectiveness assessment; for biofeedback, guided imagery, and hypnosis techniques, comprehensive evidence reports in the framework of U.S. Evidence Synthesis Program exist. find more quality evidence of effectiveness for many of the methods and their insufficiencies in underlying therapeutic mechanism knowledge