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OBJECTIVE: To compare the effects of laparoscopic hepatectomy (LH) on the short-term and long-term outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with and without clinically significant portal hypertension (CSPH). METHODS: A systematic literature search of the PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases was performed for articles published from inception to March 1, 2023. Meta-analysis of surgical and oncological outcomes was performed using a random effects model. Data were summarized as mean difference and risk ratio with 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS: Five cohort studies with a total of 310 HCC patients were included (CSPH 143; Non-CSPH 167). In terms of surgical outcomes, estimated blood loss and the length of hospital stay were significantly lower in the Non-CSPH group than in the CSPH group. There were no significant differences between the two groups regarding other surgical outcomes, including the operative time, ratio of conversion to open surgery, and overall complication rate. In addition, there were also no significant differences between the two groups regarding the oncological outcomes, such as 1-, 3-, and 5-year overall survival. CONCLUSIONS: HCC patients with and without CSPH who underwent LH had comparable surgical and oncological outcomes. LH is a safe and effective treatment for HCC patients with CSPH under the premise of rational screening of patients.
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Carcinoma Hepatocelular , Hipertensión Portal , Laparoscopía , Neoplasias Hepáticas , Humanos , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/complicaciones , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/cirugía , Neoplasias Hepáticas/complicaciones , Neoplasias Hepáticas/cirugía , Hepatectomía/efectos adversos , Resultado del Tratamiento , Hipertensión Portal/complicaciones , Hipertensión Portal/cirugía , Laparoscopía/efectos adversos , Tiempo de Internación , Estudios RetrospectivosRESUMEN
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to assess the role of DNA methylation changes in tongue cancer through a comprehensive analysis of global DNA methylation alterations during experimental lingual carcinogenesis. METHODS: C57BL/6J mice were subjected to 16-week oral administration of 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide (4NQO, 50 mg/L). Lingual mucosa samples, being representative of normal tissue (week 0) and early (week 12) and advanced (week 28) tumorigenesis, were harvested for microarray and methylated DNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (MeDIP-Seq). The mRNA and promoter methylation of transforming growth factor-beta-signaling protein 1 (SMAD1) were evaluated with real-time quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and Massarray in human lingual mucosa and tongue cancer cell lines. RESULTS: The cytosine guanine island (CGI) methylation level observed at 28 weeks surpassed that of both 12 weeks and 0 weeks. The promoter methylation level at 12 weeks exceeded that at 0 weeks. Notably, 208 differentially expressed genes were negatively correlated to differential methylation in promoters among 0, 12, and 28 weeks. The mRNA of SMAD1 was upregulated, concurrent with a decrease in promoter methylation levels in cell lines compared to normal mucosa. CONCLUSIONS: DNA methylation changed during lingual carcinogenesis. Overexpression of SMAD1 was correlated to promoter hypomethylation in tongue cancer cell lines.
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Carcinogénesis , Metilación de ADN , Ratones Endogámicos C57BL , Regiones Promotoras Genéticas , Neoplasias de la Lengua , Animales , Neoplasias de la Lengua/metabolismo , Neoplasias de la Lengua/genética , Ratones , 4-Nitroquinolina-1-Óxido , Humanos , Línea Celular Tumoral , Mucosa Bucal/metabolismoRESUMEN
Objective: Amino acid (AA) metabolism plays a vital role in liver regeneration. However, its measuring utility for post-hepatectomy liver regeneration under different conditions remains unclear. We aimed to combine machine learning (ML) models with AA metabolomics to assess liver regeneration in health and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Methods: The liver index (liver weight/body weight) was calculated following 70% hepatectomy in healthy and NASH mice. The serum levels of 39 amino acids were measured using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis. We used orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis to determine differential AAs and disturbed metabolic pathways during liver regeneration. The SHapley Additive exPlanations algorithm was performed to identify potential AA signatures, and five ML models including least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, random forest, K-nearest neighbor (KNN), support vector regression, and extreme gradient boosting were utilized to assess the liver index. Results: Eleven and twenty-two differential AAs were identified in the healthy and NASH groups, respectively. Among these metabolites, arginine and proline metabolism were commonly disturbed metabolic pathways related to liver regeneration in both groups. Five AA signatures were identified, including hydroxylysine, L-serine, 3-methylhistidine, L-tyrosine, and homocitrulline in healthy group, and L-arginine, 2-aminobutyric acid, sarcosine, beta-alanine, and L-cysteine in NASH group. The KNN model demonstrated the best evaluation performance with mean absolute error, root mean square error, and coefficient of determination values of 0.0037, 0.0047, 0.79 and 0.0028, 0.0034, 0.71 for the healthy and NASH groups, respectively. Conclusion: The KNN model based on five AA signatures performed best, which suggests that it may be a valuable tool for assessing post-hepatectomy liver regeneration in health and NASH.
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Accurate assessment of future liver remnant growth after partial hepatectomy (PH) in patients with different liver backgrounds is a pressing clinical issue. Amino acid (AA) metabolism plays a crucial role in liver regeneration. In this study, we combined metabolomics and machine learning (ML) to develop a generalized future liver remnant assessment model for multiple liver backgrounds. The liver index was calculated at 0, 6, 24, 48, 72 and 168â¯h after 70â¯% PH in healthy mice and mice with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or liver fibrosis. The serum levels of 39 amino acids (AAs) were measured using UPLC-MS/MS. The dataset was randomly divided into training and testing sets at a 2:1 ratio, and orthogonal partial least squares regression (OPLS) and minimally biased variable selection in R (MUVR) were used to select a metabolite signature of AAs. To assess liver remnant growth, nine ML models were built, and evaluated using the coefficient of determination (R2), mean absolute error (MAE), and root mean square error (RMSE). The post-Pareto technique for order preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS) was employed for ranking the ML algorithms, and a stacking technique was utilized to establish consensus among the superior algorithms. Compared with those of OPLS, the signature AAs set identified by MUVR (Thr, Arg, EtN, Phe, Asa, 3MHis, Abu, Asp, Tyr, Leu, Ser, and bAib) are more concise. Post-Pareto TOPSIS ranking demonstrated that the majority of ML algorithm in combinations with MUVR outperformed those with OPLS. The established SVM-KNN consensus model performed best, with an R2 of 0.79, an MAE of 0.0029, and an RMSE of 0.0035 for the testing set. This study identified a metabolite signature of 12 AAs and constructed an SVM-KNN consensus model to assess future liver remnant growth after PH in mice with different liver backgrounds. Our preclinical study is anticipated to establish an alternative and generalized assessment method for liver regeneration.
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Aminoácidos , Hepatectomía , Regeneración Hepática , Hígado , Aprendizaje Automático , Metabolómica , Espectrometría de Masas en Tándem , Animales , Hepatectomía/métodos , Metabolómica/métodos , Ratones , Hígado/metabolismo , Hígado/cirugía , Aminoácidos/metabolismo , Aminoácidos/sangre , Regeneración Hepática/fisiología , Masculino , Espectrometría de Masas en Tándem/métodos , Ratones Endogámicos C57BL , Enfermedad del Hígado Graso no Alcohólico/metabolismo , Enfermedad del Hígado Graso no Alcohólico/cirugía , Cirrosis Hepática/cirugía , Cirrosis Hepática/metabolismo , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Cromatografía Líquida de Alta Presión/métodosRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Posthepatectomy liver failure (PHLF) is the leading cause of mortality in patients undergoing hepatectomy. However, practical models for accurately predicting the risk of PHLF are lacking. This study aimed to develop precise prediction models for clinically significant PHLF. METHODS: A total of 226 patients undergoing hepatectomy at a single center were recruited. The study outcome was clinically significant PHLF. Five pre- and postoperative machine learning (ML) models were developed and compared with four clinical scores, namely, the MELD, FIB-4, ALBI, and APRI scores. The robustness of the developed ML models was internally validated using 5-fold cross-validation by calculating the average of the evaluation metrics and was externally validated on an independent temporal dataset, including the area under the curve (AUC) and the area under the precisionârecall curve (AUPRC). SHapley Additive exPlanations analysis was performed to interpret the best performance model. RESULTS: Clinically significant PHLF was observed in 23 of 226 patients (10.2%). The variables in the preoperative model included creatinine, total bilirubin, and ChildâPugh grade. In addition to the above factors, the extent of resection was also a key variable for the postoperative model. The pre- and postoperative artificial neural network (ANN) models exhibited excellent performance, with mean AUCs of 0.766 and 0.851, respectively, and mean AUPRC values of 0.441 and 0.645, whereas the MELD, FIB-4, ALBI, and APRI scores reached AUCs of 0.714, 0.498, 0.536 and 0.551, respectively, and AUPRC values of 0.204, 0.111, 0.128 and 0.163, respectively. In addition, the AUCs of the pre- and postoperative ANN models were 0.720 and 0.731, respectively, and the AUPRC values were 0.380 and 0.408, respectively, on the temporal dataset. CONCLUSION: Our online interpretable dynamic ML models outperformed common clinical scores and could function as a clinical decision support tool to identify patients at high risk of PHLF pre- and postoperatively.
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Herein we describe the medicinal chemistry efforts that led to the discovery of the clinical-staged Syk inhibitor sovleplenib (41) via a structure-activity relationship investigation and pharmacokinetics (PK) optimization of a pyrido[3,4-b]pyrazine scaffold. Sovleplenib is a potent and selective Syk inhibitor with favorable preclinical PK profiles and robust anti-inflammation efficacy in a preclinical collagen-induced arthritis model. Sovleplenib is now being developed for treating autoimmune diseases such as immune thrombocytopenic purpura and warm antibody hemolytic anemia as well as hematological malignancies.