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Front Immunol ; 15: 1367265, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38550589

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Background: Evidence shows people living with CHB even with a normal ALT (40U/L as threshold) suffer histological disease and there is still little research to evaluate the potential benefit of antiviral benefits in them. Methods: We retrospectively examined 1352 patients who underwent liver biopsy from 2017 to 2021 and then obtained their 1-year follow-up data to analyze. Results: ALT levels were categorized into high and low, with thresholds set at >29 for males and >15 for females through Youden's Index. The high normal ALT group showed significant histological disease at baseline (56.43% vs 43.82%, p< 0.001), and better HBV DNA clearance from treatment using PSM (p=0.005). Similar results were obtained using 2016 AASLD high normals (male >30, female >19). Further multivariate logistic analysis showed that high normal ALT (both criterias) was an independent predictor of treatment (OR 1.993, 95% CI 1.115-3.560, p=0.020; OR 2.000, 95% CI 1.055-3.793, p=0.034) Both of the models had higher AUC compared with current scoring system, and there was no obvious difference between the two models (AUC:0.8840 vs 0.8835). Conclusion: Male >30 or female >19 and Male >29 or female>15 are suggested to be better thresholds for normal ALT. Having a high normal ALT in CHB provides a potential benefit in antiviral therapy.


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Hepatite B Crônica , Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Hepatite B Crônica/tratamento farmacológico , Hepatite B Crônica/patologia , Alanina Transaminase , Estudos Retrospectivos , DNA Viral , Antivirais/uso terapêutico
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Front Microbiol ; 14: 1282106, 2023.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38111648

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Background: Hyperammonemia is critical to the development of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and is associated with mortality in end-stage liver disease. This study investigated the clinical value of ammonia variation in hepatitis B virus-related acute-on-chronic liver failure (HBV-ACLF) patients. Methods: A total of 276 patients with HBV-ACLF were retrospectively recruited. Patients' ammonia levels were serially documented. Baseline ammonia, Peak ammonia (highest level), and Trough ammonia (lowest level) were particularly corrected to the upper limit of normal (AMM-ULN). The primary endpoint was 28-day mortality. Results: The 28-day, 3-month, and 12-month mortality rates were 19.2, 25.7, and 28.2%, respectively. A total of 51 (18.4%) patients had overt HE (grade 2/3/4). Peak AMM-ULN was significantly higher in patients with overt HE and non-survivors compared with their counterparts (P < 0.001). Following adjustment for significant confounders, high Peak AMM-ULN was an independent predictor of overt HE (hazard ratio, 1.031, P < 0.001) and 28-day mortality (hazard ratio, 1.026, P < 0.001). The cut-off of Peak AMM-ULN was 1.8, determined by using the X-tile. Patients with Peak AMM-ULN appearing on days 1-3 after admission had a higher proportion of overt HE and mortality compared to other groups. Patients with decreased ammonia levels within 7 days had better clinical outcomes than those with increased ammonia. Conclusion: Serum Peak ammonia was independently associated with overt HE and mortality in HBV-ACLF patients. Serial serum ammonia may have prognostic value.

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Anal Chim Acta ; 1221: 340103, 2022 Aug 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35934395

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Controllable encapsulation of sulfur quantum dots (SQDs) into metal-organic frameworks (ZIF-8) by a surface-bound zinc ion-induced growth strategy, and SQDs@ZIF-8 was successfully prepared for alkaline phosphatase (ALP) detection. The new synthesis procedure involves first binding Zn2+ to the surface of SQDs to form SQDs/Zn, and then via zinc ion-induced in situ ZIF-8 growth to obtain SQDs@ZIF-8, which greatly improved the luminous efficiency of SQDs. The specific process of detecting ALP using pH-triggered fluorescence quenching of SQDs@ZIF-8: firstly ALP hydrolyzes 2-phosphate-l-ascorbic acid trisodium salt (AAP) to ascorbic acid (AA), and then the leakage of SQDs in the SQDs@ZIF-8 leads to a decrease in fluorescence intensity based on the destruction of ZIF-8 skeleton by H+ released by AA. A linear relationship was obtained between the fluorescence intensity and the ALP concentration in the range of 0.15-50 U/L, and the detection limit was 0.044 U/L. Moreover, it was found that free SQDs can be complexed with Fe2+ to produce wine red complexes, and the obtained UV absorbance and ALP concentration have a linear relationship in the range of 10-200 U/L. The detection range of ALP is significantly broadened based on the combination of the above two detection methods. Furthermore, SQDs@ZIF-8 exhibited excellent stability in water and was successfully applied to the fluorescence and colorimetric detection of ALP in human serum.


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Pontos Quânticos , Fosfatase Alcalina/química , Ácido Ascórbico , Colorimetria/métodos , Corantes , Humanos , Limite de Detecção , Pontos Quânticos/química , Enxofre , Zinco
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Clin Chim Acta ; 504: 88-97, 2020 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32032609

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There is a lack of precise and clinical accessible model to predict the prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in clinic practice currently. Here, an inclusive nomogram was developed by integrating genomic markers and clinicopathologic factors for predicting the outcome of patients with HCC. A total of 365 samples of HCC were obtained from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. The LASSO analysis was carried out to identify HCC-related mRNAs, and the multivariate Cox regression analysis was used to construct a genomic-clinicopathologic nomogram. As results, 9 mRNAs were finally identified as prognostic indicators, including RGCC, CDH15, XRN2, RAB3IL1, THEM4, PIF1, MANBA, FKTN and GABARAPL1, and used to establish a 9-mRNA classifier. Additionally, an inclusive nomogram was built up by combining the 9-mRNA classifier (P < 0.001) and clinicopathologic factors including age (P = 0.006) and metastasis (P < 0.001) to predict the mortality of HCC patients. Time-dependent receiver operating characteristic, index of concordance and calibration analyses indicated favorable accuracy of the model. Decision curve analysis suggested that appropriate intervention according to the established nomogram will bring net benefit when threshold probability was above 25%. The genomic-clinicopathologic model could be a reliable tool for predicting the mortality, helping determining the individualized treatment and probably improving HCC survival.


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Carcinoma Hepatocelular , Neoplasias Hepáticas , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/diagnóstico , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/genética , Genômica , Humanos , Neoplasias Hepáticas/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Hepáticas/genética , Nomogramas , Prognóstico
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J Thorac Dis ; 11(7): 2990-3003, 2019 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31463129

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BACKGROUND: Many factors are reported to be related to the prognosis of patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), but few reliable and straightforward tools for clinicians to estimate individual mortalities have been developed. This study aimed to evaluate the probability of cancer-specific death for patients with EAC and to build nomograms for predicting long-term cancer-specific mortality and overall mortality for EAC patients. METHODS: Between 2004 and 2013, a total of 20,623 patients were identified from the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER) database and randomly divided into training (N=14,436) and validation (N=6,187) cohorts. The cumulative incidence functions (CIFs) of EAC-specific death and other causes were evaluated at the 1st, 3rd, and 5th year after diagnosis. We integrated the significant prognostic factors to construct nomograms and subjected them to internal and external validation. RESULTS: The CIFs of EAC-specific survival at 1, 3, and 5 years after diagnosis were 60.9%, 37.1%, and 31.3%, respectively. Predictors for cancer-specific mortality for EAC comprised tumor grade, tumor extension, the involvement of lymph nodes, distant metastasis, surgery of primary site, insurance recode, and marital status. For overall mortality, it also included the predictor of age at diagnosis. The nomograms were well-calibrated and had good discriminative ability with concordance indexes (c-indexes) of 0.733, 0.728, and 0.728 for 1-, 3- and 5-year prognosis prediction of EAC-specific mortality respectively, and 0.726, 0.720, 0.719 for 1-, 3-, and 5-year prognosis prediction of overall mortality respectively. CONCLUSIONS: We proposed and validated the effective and convenient nomograms to predict cancer-specific mortality and the overall mortality for patients with EAC, which only require the basic information available in clinical practice.

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Brain Behav ; 8(2): e00921, 2018 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29484272

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Background and Purpose: Curcumin, a natural antioxidant isolated from Curcuma longa, has been reported to exert neuroprotective effect in animal models of ischemic stroke. However, the underlying mechanism is still not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of curcumin treatment on neuronal apoptosis in the periinfarct cortex after cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury and in mouse N2a cells after oxygen-glucose deprivation/reoxygenation (OGD/R) injury and its underlying mechanism. Methods: The cerebral I/R injury was established by 1-hr middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) and reperfusion in mice. Infarct volume was determined by TTC staining, and neurological score was evaluated by mNSS. Cell morphology in the ischemic boundary zone were detected by HE staining. The number and apoptotic rate of neurons in ischemic boundary zone were assayed by immunohistochemistry and TUNEL, respectively. Mouse neuroblastoma N2a cells were subjected to OGD/R. Cell viability was assessed with CCK-8. The mitochondrial membrane potential was measured using JC-1 staining. The expression of Bax, Bcl-2, and caspase-3 was detected using Western blotting. Besides, cellular distribution of Bax was determined by immunofluorescence assays. Results: Curcumin treatment reduced infarct volume, improved neurological function, alleviated the morphological damage of neurons, and increased neuronal survival rate after I/R injury in vivo. Moreover, curcumin treatment improved cell viability, reduced cell apoptosis, increased Bcl-2 protein levels while decreased Bax and caspase-3 expressions in mouse N2a cells after OGD/R injury. Besides, curcumin treatment inhibited Bax activation and maintained mitochondrial membrane integrity. Conclusion: Curcumin promotes neuron survival in vivo and in vitro to exert neuroprotective effects against ischemia injury. Moreover, our results for the first time demonstrated curcumin inhibited ischemia-induced mitochondrial apoptosis via restricting Bax activation, which may be one of the possible mechanisms underlying the neuroprotective effects of curcumin.


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Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Isquemia Encefálica/metabolismo , Curcumina/farmacologia , Neurônios , Traumatismo por Reperfusão , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/metabolismo , Animais , Antioxidantes/farmacologia , Caspase 3/metabolismo , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Sobrevivência Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Cultivadas , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Camundongos , Neurônios/efeitos dos fármacos , Neurônios/metabolismo , Fármacos Neuroprotetores/farmacologia , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-bcl-2/metabolismo , Traumatismo por Reperfusão/metabolismo , Traumatismo por Reperfusão/prevenção & controle , Proteína X Associada a bcl-2/metabolismo
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Clin Chim Acta ; 468: 195-200, 2017 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28283440

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BACKGROUND: Acute-on-chronic hepatitis B liver failure (ACHBLF) is associated with poor short-term prognosis. The aim of the present study was to construct and validate a model for end-stage liver disease (MELD)-based nomogram for the 3-month mortality estimation for patients with ACHBLF. METHODS: A total of 551 patients with ACHBLF were prospectively enrolled from 2 independent medical centers and divided into 2 cohorts of training and validation, respectively. The 3-month mortality was recorded as the outcome. The MELD-based nomogram was constructed to predict the 3-month mortality for ACHBLF using the training group of 335 patients and validated using an independent cohort of 216 patients. The predictive capability of MELD-based nomogram was compared with the MELD score system by calibration analysis, receiver operating characteristics (ROC) and decision curve analysis in both training cohort and validation cohort. RESULTS: Multivariate analysis suggested that age, serum sodium, and MELD score were independent prognostic indicators associated with the 3-month mortality for ACHBLF, and therefore used for developing the nomogram. In terms of calibration, the predicted survival by the MELD-based nomogram was found to be extremely in line with the observed 3-month mortality both in training cohort and validation cohort. Additionally, both ROC and decision curve analyses showed that the MELD-based nomogram was better than MELD, MELD-Na, MELDNa, and iMELD for ACHBLF prognosis prediction. The results were confirmed in the external cohort of validation. CONCLUSIONS: The MELD-based nomogram provided a user-friendly, accurate and reproducible tool for predicting 3-month mortality of patients with ACHBLF.


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Insuficiência Hepática Crônica Agudizada/mortalidade , Nomogramas , Calibragem , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes
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Clin Chim Acta ; 469: 171-179, 2017 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28365450

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BACKGROUND: The presence of vascular invasion (VI) in pathology specimens is a well-known unfavorable prognostic factor of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence and overall survival (OS). We investigated the vascular invasion related microRNA (miRNA) expression profiles and potential of prognostic value in HCC. METHODS: MiRNA and mRNA expression data for HCC were accessed from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). LASSO logistic regression models were used to develop a miRNA-based classifier for predicting VI. The predictive capability was accessed by area under receiver operating characteristics (AUC). Concordance index (C-index) and time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (td-ROC) were used to determine its prognostic value. We validated the predictive and prognostic accuracy of this classifier in an external independent cohort of 127 patients. Functionally relevant targets of miRNAs were determined using miRNA target prediction, experimental validation and correlation of miRNA and mRNA expression data. RESULTS: A 16-miRNA-based classifier was developed which identified VI accurately, with AUC of 0.731 and 0.727 in TCGA set and validation cohort, respectively. C-index and td-ROC showed that the classifier was able to stratify patients into risk groups strongly associated with OS. When stratified by tumor characteristics, the classifier was still a clinically and statistically significant prognostic model. The predictive and prognostic accuracy of the classifier was confirmed in validation cohort. Vascular invasion related miRNA/target pairs were identified by integrating expression patterns of predicted targets, which were validated in cell lines. CONCLUSIONS: A multi-miRNA-based classifier developed based on the presence of VI, which could effectively predict OS in HCC.


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Vasos Sanguíneos/patologia , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/diagnóstico , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/genética , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Neoplasias Hepáticas/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Hepáticas/genética , MicroRNAs/genética , Idoso , Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/patologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Feminino , Humanos , Neoplasias Hepáticas/patologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Invasividade Neoplásica , Prognóstico , Análise de Sobrevida
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Toxicol Lett ; 241: 103-10, 2016 Jan 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26617183

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Impaired intestinal barrier function plays a critical role in alcohol-induced hepatic injury, and the subsequent excessive absorbed endotoxin and bacterial translocation activate the immune response that aggravates the liver injury. Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG supernatant (LGG-s) has been suggested to improve intestinal barrier function and alleviate the liver injury induced by chronic and binge alcohol consumption, but the underlying mechanisms are still not clear. In this study, chronic-binge alcohol fed model was used to determine the effects of LGG-s on the prevention of alcoholic liver disease in C57BL/6 mice and investigate underlying mechanisms. Mice were fed Lieber-DeCarli diet containing 5% alcohol for 10 days, and one dose of alcohol was gavaged on Day 11. In one group, LGG-s was supplemented along with alcohol. Control mice were fed isocaloric diet. Nine hours later the mice were sacrificed for analysis. Chronic-binge alcohol exposure induced an elevation in liver enzymes, steatosis and morphology changes, while LGG-s supplementation attenuated these changes. Treatment with LGG-s significantly improved intestinal barrier function reflected by increased mRNA expression of tight junction (TJ) proteins and villus-crypt histology in ileum, and decreased Escherichia coli (E. coli) protein level in liver. Importantly, flow cytometry analysis showed that alcohol reduced Treg cell population while increased TH17 cell population as well as IL-17 secretion, which was reversed by LGG-s administration. In conclusion, our findings indicate that LGG-s is effective in preventing chronic-binge alcohol exposure-induced liver injury and shed a light on the importance of the balance of Treg and TH17 cells in the role of LGG-s application.


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Consumo Excessivo de Bebidas Alcoólicas/patologia , Intestinos/efeitos dos fármacos , Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus/química , Hepatopatias Alcoólicas/prevenção & controle , Linfócitos T Reguladores/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Th17/efeitos dos fármacos , Animais , Consumo Excessivo de Bebidas Alcoólicas/complicações , Doença Crônica , Dieta , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Fígado Gorduroso Alcoólico/patologia , Interleucina-17/biossíntese , Absorção Intestinal/efeitos dos fármacos , Intestinos/citologia , Fígado/enzimologia , Fígado/patologia , Hepatopatias Alcoólicas/enzimologia , Hepatopatias Alcoólicas/patologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Proteínas de Junções Íntimas/biossíntese
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Eur J Pharmacol ; 779: 22-30, 2016 May 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26945822

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Liver fibrosis is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide and lacks efficient therapy. Recent studies suggest the curcumin protects liver from fibrosis. However, curcumin itself is in low bioavailable concentration when administered orally, and the protective mechanism remains poorly understood. The current study aimed to investigate whether a more stable derivative of curcumin, C66, protects against CCl4-inudced liver fibrosis and examine the underlying mechanism involving cannabinoid receptor (CB receptor). At a dose lower than curcumin itself, C66 displayed a superior anti-fibrotic effect. C66 significantly reduced collagen deposition, pro-inflammatory cytokine expression, and liver enzyme activities. Mechanistic study revealed that C66 treatment decreased CCl4-induced cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1 receptor) expression and increased cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2 receptor) expression, along with an inhibition of JNK/NF-κB-mediated inflammatory signaling. In conclusion, this curcumin derivative attenuates liver fibrosis likely involving a CB/JNK/NF-κB-mediated pathway.


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Tetracloreto de Carbono/farmacologia , Curcumina/análogos & derivados , Curcumina/farmacologia , Citoproteção/efeitos dos fármacos , Cirrose Hepática/tratamento farmacológico , Cirrose Hepática/metabolismo , Receptores de Canabinoides/metabolismo , Animais , Curcumina/uso terapêutico , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Estreladas do Fígado/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Estreladas do Fígado/metabolismo , Células Estreladas do Fígado/patologia , Proteínas Quinases JNK Ativadas por Mitógeno/metabolismo , Fígado/efeitos dos fármacos , Fígado/metabolismo , Fígado/patologia , Fígado/fisiopatologia , Cirrose Hepática/induzido quimicamente , Cirrose Hepática/patologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , NF-kappa B/metabolismo , Transporte Proteico/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptores de Canabinoides/genética , Transdução de Sinais/efeitos dos fármacos
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