AN INFLAMMATION-RELATED GENE LANDSCAPE PREDICTS PROGNOSIS AND RESPONSE TO IMMUNOTHERAPY IN VIRUS-ASSOCIATED HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA

An inflammation-related gene landscape predicts prognosis and response to immunotherapy in virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma

BackgroundDue to the viral infection, chronic inflammation significantly increases the likelihood of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development.Nevertheless, an inflammation-based signature aimed to predict the prognosis and therapeutic effect in virus-related HCC has rarely been established.MethodBased on the integrated analysis, inflammation-asso

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Elevated Plasma Immunoglobulin Levels Prior to Heart Transplantation Are Associated with Poor Post-Transplantation Survival

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) and antibody-mediated rejection are immune-mediated, long-term complications Accent Ottoman that jeopardize graft survival after heart transplantation (HTx).Interestingly, increased plasma levels of immunoglobulins have been found in end-stage heart failure (HF) patients prior to HTx.In this study, we aimed to d

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A Cell Line for Detection of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type B

Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) type A and type B are commonly used as biopharmaceutics for neurological diseases, uniquely allowing months-long paralysis of target muscles.Their exquisite neuronal specificity is conferred by a multistep process of binding, internalization, cytosolic escape and cleavage of the neuron-specific proteins, SNAP-25 and ve

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The role of the surface smear microbiome in the development of defective smear on surface-ripened red-smear cheese

The complex smear microbiota colonizing the surface of red-smear cheese fundamentally impacts the ripening process, appearance and shelf life of cheese.To decipher the prokaryotic composition of the cheese smear microbiome, the surface of a semi-hard surface ripened cheese was studied post-ripening by culture-based and Cake culture-independent mole

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