TOWARDS CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF BLOOD-BORNE MIRNA SIGNATURES: THE INFLUENCE OF THE ANTICOAGULANT EDTA ON MIRNA ABUNDANCE.

Towards Clinical Applications of Blood-Borne miRNA Signatures: The Influence of the Anticoagulant EDTA on miRNA Abundance.

Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) from blood are increasingly recognized as biomarker candidates for human diseases.Clinical routine settings frequently include blood sampling in tubes with EDTA as anticoagulant without considering the influence of phlebotomy on the overall miRNA expression pattern.We collected blood samples from six healthy individua

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Trial Watch: Toll-like receptor agonists in cancer immunotherapy

Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists demonstrate therapeutic promise as immunological adjuvants for anticancer immunotherapy.To date, AGRIMONY three TLR agonists have been approved by US regulatory agencies for use in cancer patients.Additionally, the potential of hitherto experimental TLR ligands to mediate clinically useful immunostimulatory effects

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Hepatic branch vagus nerve plays a critical role in the recovery of post-ischemic glucose intolerance and mediates a neuroprotective effect by hypothalamic orexin-A.

Orexin-A (a neuropeptide in the hypothalamus) plays an important role in many physiological functions, including the regulation of glucose metabolism.We have previously found that the development of post-ischemic glucose intolerance is one of the triggers of ischemic neuronal damage, which is suppressed by hypothalamic orexin-A.Other reports have s

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Dressing, coating, cross-dressing

If deconstruction implies a critique of the dual structures of thought, the Clothing destabilization of binaries proposed by queer theory would be the deconstructive exercise par excellence.In this case, the original pair is not destroyed; instead, their relationship is dismantled to expand its possibilities and make them more complex.This essay sh

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