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BACKGROUND: Serum adiponectin circulates in three multimeric isoforms: high-molecular-weight (HMW), middle-molecular-weight (MMW), and low-molecular-weight (LMW) isoforms. Potential change in the circulating adiponectin levels in patients with nephrotic syndrome (NS) remain unknown. This study aimed to assess the levels of total adiponectin and the distribution of its isoforms in pediatric patients with NS. METHODS: We sequentially measured total adiponectin and each adiponectin isoform levels at the onset of NS, initial remission, and during the remission period of the disease in 31 NS patients. We also calculated the ratios of HMW (%HMW), MMW (%MMW), and LMW (%LMW) to total adiponectin incuding 51 control subjects. RESULTS: The median of total serum adiponectin levels in patients were 36.7, 36.7, and 20.2 µg/mL at the onset, at initial remission, and during the remission period of NS, respectively. These values were significantly higher than those in control subjects. The median values of %HMW, %MMW, and %LMW values were 56.9/27.0/14.1 at the onset, 62.0/21.8/13.4 at the initial remission, and 58.1/21.7/17.5 at during the remission period of NS, respectively. Compared with control subjects, %HMW at initial remission and %MMW at the onset were high, and the %LMW values at the onset and at initial remission were low. CONCLUSIONS: In patients with NS, total serum adiponectin levels increase at the onset of the disease, and the ratio of adiponectin isoforms changes during the course of the disease. Further studies are needed to delineate the mechanisms between proteinuria and adiponectin isoforms change.
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Adiponectin/blood , Nephrotic Syndrome/blood , Nephrotic Syndrome/drug therapy , Anti-Inflammatory Agents/therapeutic use , Case-Control Studies , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Molecular Weight , Prednisolone/therapeutic use , Protein Isoforms/blood , Remission InductionABSTRACT
We report the case of a 2-month-old infant with incomplete Kawasaki disease that presented as an apparent urinary tract infection. The patient's fever persisted despite antibiotic treatment. Intravenous immunoglobulin and aspirin therapy cured both the incomplete Kawasaki disease and bacterial pyuria. Renal sonography, voiding cystourethrography, and renal parenchyma radionuclide scanning did not detect any abnormalities. Temporary dilation of the coronary artery was noted. In a urine specimen obtained through transurethral catheterization, the growth of 105 colony-forming units/mL of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli was detected. Polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed that the enzyme genotype was CTX-M-8, which is a rare type in Japan. In conclusion, attention should be paid to a misleading initial presentation of fever and pyuria, which might be interpreted as urinary tract infection in patients with Kawasaki disease. Furthermore, pediatricians should consider incomplete Kawasaki disease when patients present with fever and pyuria, which are consistent with urinary tract infection, but do not respond to antibiotic treatment.
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The synthesis of alkylated pyrimidines was achieved via benzophenone-mediated photoinduced coupling between saturated heterocycles and sulfonylpyrimidines. The pyrimidine ring was selectively introduced at the nonacidic C(sp3)-H bond proximal to heteroatoms including oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur. This is a coupling reaction mediated solely by photoexcited benzophenone, an organic molecule, without the aid of any metallic catalysts or reagents.
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The catalytic introduction of an allyl group at nonacidic C(sp3)-H bonds was achieved under photoirradiation, in which 1,2-bis(phenylsulfonyl)-2-propene acts as an allyl source and 5,7,12,14-pentacenetetrone (PT) works as a C-H bond-cleaving catalyst. A variety of substances, including alkanes, carbamates, ethers, sulfides, and alcohols, were chemoselectively allylated in a single step under neutral conditions. The present transformation is catalyzed solely by an organic molecule, PT, and proceeds smoothly even under visible light irradiation (425 nm) in the case of alkanes as a starting substance.
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Photoinduced catalytic Michael-type radical addition was achieved via olefin insertion into a nonacidic C(sp3)-H bond, utilizing 2-chloroanthraquinone as a C-H bond-cleaving catalyst and 1,1-bis(phenylsulfonyl)ethylene as an olefinic substrate. The present radical protocol allows carbon chain extension stemming from nonacidic C-H bonds, which complements alkylation at acidic C-H bonds under ionic conditions and installs the active methine site that acts as a versatile synthetic handle for further transformations.
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A photo-induced substitutive introduction of an aldoxime functional group to carbon chains was achieved using photo-excited 4-benzoylpyridine as a C(sp(3) )-H bond cleaving agent and arylsulfonyl oxime as an aldoxime precursor. The non-acidic C-H bonds in various substances, including cycloalkanes, ethers, azacycles, and cyclic sulfides, were chemoselectively converted at ambient temperature under neutral conditions. The present transformation is a formal formylation of non-acidic C(sp(3) )-H bonds in a single step.
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Optimization of the lead 2a led to the identification of a novel diarylketoxime class of melanin-concentrating hormone 1 receptor (MCH-1R) antagonists. Our focus was directed toward improvement of hERG activity and metabolic stability. The representative derivative 4b showed potent and dose-dependent body weight reduction in diet-induced obese (DIO) C57BL/6J mice after oral administration. The synthesis and structure-activity relationships of the novel diarylketoxime MCH-1R antagonists are described.
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Anti-Obesity Agents/chemistry , Anti-Obesity Agents/therapeutic use , Ether-A-Go-Go Potassium Channels/metabolism , Obesity/drug therapy , Oximes/chemistry , Oximes/therapeutic use , Receptors, Somatostatin/antagonists & inhibitors , Animals , Anti-Obesity Agents/pharmacokinetics , Anti-Obesity Agents/pharmacology , Body Weight/drug effects , Humans , Mice , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Oximes/pharmacokinetics , Oximes/pharmacology , Protein Binding , Receptors, Somatostatin/metabolism , Structure-Activity RelationshipABSTRACT
A novel class of imidazopyridine derivatives was designed as PLK1 inhibitors. Extensive SAR studies supported by molecular modeling afforded a highly potent and selective compound 36. Compound 36 demonstrated good antitumor efficacy in xenograft nude rat model.
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Antineoplastic Agents/chemistry , Cell Cycle Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors , Imidazoles/chemistry , Protein Kinase Inhibitors/chemistry , Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors , Proto-Oncogene Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors , Pyridines/chemistry , Animals , Antineoplastic Agents/chemical synthesis , Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology , Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism , Cell Line, Tumor , Computer Simulation , HeLa Cells , Humans , Imidazoles/chemical synthesis , Imidazoles/pharmacology , Models, Chemical , Protein Kinase Inhibitors/chemical synthesis , Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology , Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism , Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism , Pyridines/chemical synthesis , Pyridines/pharmacology , Rats , Structure-Activity Relationship , Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays , Polo-Like Kinase 1ABSTRACT
Sexuality is a basic property of the human being and provides an important background for the human life and society. The present situation in the world strongly suggests that the human being will extensively and intensively spread out in space and the population in space, particularly on the space stations in orbit, moon and possibly Mars, will rapidly increase during this century. Therefore sexual health will become a serious issue for the development of space and a better life of the human in the space environment. It is not too early to consider sexuality in the space life and to discuss how to maintain sexual health, how to control it in the space society, or whether it should be controlled. Space biological sciences should be the key and play an important role in studying scientifically sexuality especially the sex, sexual behavior and reproduction in the space environment.