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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Abdul Hadee Lone, Jialing Tang, Angelica Pignalosa, Henry H Hsu, Ali A Abdul-Sater, Gary Sweeney
The diverse beneficial effects of adiponectin-receptor signaling, including its impact on the regulation of inflammatory processes in vivo, have resulted in development of adiponectin receptor agonists as a treatment for metabolic disorders. However, there are no established non-invasive bioassays for detection of adiponectin target engagement in humans or animal models. Here, we designed an assay using small amounts of blood to assess adiponectin action. Specifically, we tested effects of the small 10-amino acid peptide adiponectin receptor agonist, ALY688, in a sublethal LPS endotoxemia model in mice...
March 27, 2024: International Immunopharmacology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vincent Guiraud, Yann Ciczora, Muriel Cardona, Christine Defer, Sandrine Gréaume, David Nogues, Agnès Gautheret-Dejean
UNLABELLED: Diagnosing of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) types 1 and 2 requires a screening with a highly sensitive and specific enzyme immunoassay and a low detection limit for the HIV-1 p24 antigen to minimize the diagnostic window. The objective of the study was to determine the sensitivity, specificity, and p24 limit of detection of the Access HIV combo V2 assay. Retrospective part of sensitivity: 452 HIV-1 positive samples from 403 chronic (9 different HIV-1 group M subtypes, 22 different HIV-1 group M CRFs, and 3 HIV-1 group O), 49 primary HIV-1 infections, 103 HIV-2 positive samples assessed at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 600 untyped HIV-1, 10 subtype-D, and 159 untyped HIV-2 samples assessed in Bio-Rad Laboratories...
March 27, 2024: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mattias A S Henning, Hajer I Al-Rahimi, Gregor B E Jemec, Ole B Pedersen
INTRODUCTION: The gold standard method for diagnosing primary hyperhidrosis (PHH) is based on seven patient-reported criteria. By determining an individual criterion's diagnostic accuracy, one can identify short-version classification models. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, data were collected from Danish blood donors in 2021. Cohen's kappa and diagnostic accuracy were determined by comparing each criterion with the gold standard method. RESULTS: The study included 1,039 participants...
March 2024: Acta Dermatovenerologica Alpina, Panonica, et Adriatica
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aseem Kumar Tiwari, Shalini Goel, Ganesh Singh, Pawan Kumar Gahlot, Renu Saxena, Vaibhav Jadhav, Monisha Sethi
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Malaria continues to be a significant public health concern in India, with several regions experiencing endemicity and sporadic outbreaks. The prevalence of malaria in blood donors, in India, varies between 0.02% and 0.07%. Common techniques to screen for malaria, in blood donors and patients, include microscopic smear examination and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) based on antigen detection. The aim of this study was to evaluate a new fully automated analyser, XN-31, for malaria detection, as compared with current practice of using RDT...
March 24, 2024: Vox Sanguinis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Suprit Basu, Rashmi Rikhi, Kanika Arora, Vibhu Joshi, Saniya Sharma, Amit Rawat, Surjit Singh, Deepti Suri
INTRODUCTION: Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a rare X-linked inborn error of immunity characterized by microthrombocytopenia, infections, eczema, and increased predisposition to develop autoimmunity and malignancy. Flow cytometric assay for determining WAS protein (WASp) is a rapid and cost-effective tool for detecting patients. However, very few studies described WASp expression in female carriers. Most WAS carriers are clinically asymptomatic. Active screening of female family members helps identify female carriers, distinguish de novo mutations, and to select appropriate donor prior to curative stem cell transplantation...
March 24, 2024: Pediatric Blood & Cancer
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Elisabeth Dovern, Mesire Aydin, Michael R DeBaun, Komeil Alizade, Bart J Biemond, Erfan Nur
Sickle cell disease (SCD)-related organ complications are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with SCD. We sought to assess whether hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) stabilizes, attenuates, or exacerbates organ decline. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of trials investigating organ function before and after HSCT in patients with SCD. We searched MEDLINE/PubMed and EMBASE up to September 21, 2023. Continuous data were expressed as standardized mean difference (SMD) and pooled in a weighted inverse-variance random-effects model; binomial data were expressed as risk ratio (RR) using the Mantel-Haenszel random-effects meta-analyses...
March 22, 2024: American Journal of Hematology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Helen M Faddy, Carla Osiowy, Brian Custer, Michael Busch, Susan L Stramer, Melinda M Dean, Jessika Acutt, Elvina Viennet, Thijs van de Laar, Wai-Chiu Tsoi, Claire Styles, Phil Kiely, Angelo Margaritis, So-Yong Kwon, Yan Qiu, Xuelian Deng, Antoine Lewin, Signe Winther Jørgensen, Christian Erikstrup, David Juhl, Silvia Sauleda, Bernardo Armando Camacho Rodriguez, Lisbeth Jennifer Catherine Soto Coral, Paula Andrea Gaviria García, Sineenart Oota, Sheila F O'Brien, Silvano Wendel, Emma Castro, Laura Navarro Pérez, Heli Harvala, Katy Davison, Claire Reynolds, Lisa Jarvis, Piotr Grabarczyk, Aneta Kopacz, Magdalena Łętowska, Niamh O'Flaherty, Fiona Young, Padraig Williams, Lisa Burke, Sze Sze Chua, An Muylaert, Isabel Page, Ann Jones, Christoph Niederhauser, Marion Vermeulen, Syria Laperche, Pierre Gallian, Masahiro Satake, Marcelo Addas-Carvalho, Sebastián Blanco, Sandra V Gallego, Axel Seltsam, Marijke Weber-Schehl, Arwa Z Al-Riyami, Khuloud Al Maamari, Fatma Ba Alawi, Hem Chandra Pandey, Rochele Azevedo França, Richard Charlewood
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Nucleic acid-amplification testing (NAT) is used for screening blood donations/donors for blood-borne viruses. We reviewed global viral NAT characteristics and NAT-yield confirmatory testing used by blood operators. MATERIALS AND METHODS: NAT characteristics and NAT-yield confirmatory testing used during 2019 was surveyed internationally by the International Society of Blood Transfusion Working Party Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases...
March 22, 2024: Vox Sanguinis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kati Hyvärinen, Katri Haimila, Camous Moslemi, Blood Service Biobank, Martin L Olsson, Sisse R Ostrowski, Ole B Pedersen, Christian Erikstrup, Jukka Partanen, Jarmo Ritari
A key element for successful blood transfusion is compatibility of the patient and donor red blood cell (RBC) antigens. Precise antigen matching reduces the risk for immunization and other adverse transfusion outcomes. RBC antigens are encoded by specific genes, which allows developing computational methods for determining antigens from genomic data. We describe here a classification method for determining RBC antigens from genotyping array data. Random forest models for 39 RBC antigens in 14 blood group systems and for human platelet antigen (HPA)-1 were trained and tested using genotype and RBC antigen and HPA-1 typing data available for 1,192 blood donors in the Finnish Blood Service Biobank...
March 21, 2024: PLoS Computational Biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Saba Manoochehrabadi, Morteza Talebi, Hossein Pashaiefar, Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard, Mohammad Vaezi, Mir Davood Omrani, Mohammad Ahmadvand
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous hematologic malignancy with an unfavorable outcome. The present research aimed to identify novel biological targets for AML diagnosis and treatment. In this study, we performed an in-silico method to identify antisense RNAs (AS-RNAs) and their related co-expression genes. GSE68172 was selected from the AML database of the Gene Expression Omnibus and compared using the GEO2R tool to find DEGs. Antisense RNAs were selected from all the genes that had significant expression and a survival plot was drawn for them in the GEPIA database, FOXD2-AS1 was chosen for further investigation based on predetermined criteria (logFC ≥|1| and P < 0...
February 19, 2024: Blood Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Donglin Tan, Xinman Du, Jingyun Tang, Humin Liu, Meng Li, Jianxun Kang, Xiaochun Li, Ying Li, Yue Luo, Qing Wang, Xiaobo Gu, Zonghan Zhao, Xuemei Fu, Xue Chen
Blood transfusions from convalescent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infected patients could be used to treat patients with severe infections or immunocompromised patients. However, it is necessary to select the optimal donors to maximize the utilization of resources. In this study, we investigated the associations among body mass index (BMI), tobacco smoking, exercise frequency and duration, and alcohol consumption with the SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin-G (IgG) antibody titer levels with in the Chinese convalescent blood donor population...
March 13, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
R Muhtadi, S Stewart, F Bunert, O O Fatanmi, S Y Wise, C Gärtner, S Motzke, C Ruf, P Ostheim, S Schüle, D Schwanke, V K Singh, M Port, M Abend
In gene expression (GE) studies, housekeeping genes (HKGs) are required for normalization purposes. In large-scale inter-laboratory comparison studies, significant differences in dose estimates are reported and divergent HKGs are employed by the teams. Among them, the 18S rRNA HKG is known for its robustness. However, the high abundance of 18S rRNA copy numbers requires dilution, which is time-consuming and a possible source of errors. This study was conducted to identify the most promising HKGs showing the least radiation-induced GE variance after radiation exposure...
March 13, 2024: Radiation Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Y J Liang, H Wang, P Z Zhao, F Wang, Q Li, Y Xu, Y X Wu, D M Zhang, X H He
Objective: To analyze the transfusion effect of different platelet matching schemes in patients with platelet transfusion refractoriness (PTR). Methods: A total of 94 patients with PTR received by Taiyuan Blood Center from January to December 2021 were retrospectively analyzed, including 26 males and 68 females, aged 53(34,66) years. Platelet antibody screening was performed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). For patients with positive human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class Ⅰ antibodies, Luminex platform liquid chip assay was used to identify the specificity of antibodies, and platelets with missing allelic expression antigen corresponding to their specific antibodies were found in the platelet donor gene database established in our laboratory...
March 19, 2024: Zhonghua Yi Xue za Zhi [Chinese medical journal]
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hanadi Rafii, Fernanda Volt, Marc Bierings, Jean-Hugues Dalle, Mouhab Ayas, Rawad Rihani, Maura Faraci, Giuseppina de Simone, Henrik Sengeloev, Jakob Passweg, Marina Cavazzana, Regis Costello, Johan Maertens, Alessandra Biffi, Jan-Erik Johansson, Juan Montoro, Gabrielle Roth Guepin, Miguel Angel Diaz, Anne Sirvent, Chantal Kenzey, Monica M Rivera Franco, Barbara Cappelli, Graziana Maria Scigliuolo, Vanderson Rocha, Annalisa Ruggeri, Antonio Risitano, Regis Peffault De Latour, Eliane Gluckman
BACKGROUND: Hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) remains the only available curative treatment for Fanconi Anemia (FA), with particularly favorable outcomes reported after matched sibling donor (MSD) transplant. OBJECTIVES: To describe outcomes, with a special focus on late complications, in FA patients who underwent umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT). STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of allogeneic UCBT for FA performed between 1988 and 2021 in European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) affiliated centers...
March 5, 2024: Transplantation and cellular therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Francesc Rudilla, María Paz Carrasco-Benso, Helena Pasamar, María López-Montañés, María Andrés-Rozas, Maria Tomás-Marín, Desirée Company, Cristina Moya, Luis Larrea, Manuel Guerreiro, Pere Barba, Cristina Arbona, Sergio Querol
Adoptive cell therapy using virus-specific T cells (VST) is a strategy for treating common opportunistic viral infections after transplantation, particularly when these infections do not resolve through antiviral drug therapy. The availability of third-party healthy donors allows for the immediate use of cells for allogeneic therapy in cases where patients lack an appropriate donor. Here, we present the creation of a cell donor registry of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-typed blood donors, REDOCEL, a strategic initiative to ensure the availability of compatible cells for donation when needed...
March 2024: HLA
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Paolo Magistri, Stefano Di Sandro, Riccardo Boetto, Francesco Tandoi, Stefania Camagni, Andrea Lauterio, Duilio Pagano, Daniele Nicolini, Paola Violi, Daniele Dondossola, Nicola Guglielmo, Vittorio Cherchi, Quirino Lai, Luca Toti, Marco Bongini, Samuele Frassoni, Vincenzo Bagnardi, Vincenzo Mazzaferro, Giuseppe Tisone, Massimo Rossi, Umberto Baccarani, Giuseppe Maria Ettorre, Lucio Caccamo, Amedeo Carraro, Marco Vivarelli, Salvatore Gruttadauria, Luciano De Carlis, Michele Colledan, Renato Romagnoli, Umberto Cillo
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Besides the increased risk of perioperative morbidity, graft failure, and mortality, the majority of PVT are diagnosed at liver transplantation (LT). Improving preoperative management and patient selection may lead to better short-term and long-term outcomes and reduce the risk of a futile LT. The authors aimed to identify predictors of adverse outcomes after LT in patients with nonmalignant portal vein thrombosis (PVT) and improve donor to recipient matching by analyzing the results of the Italian cohort of LT recipients...
March 4, 2024: International Journal of Surgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mehlika Toy, Begüm Güler, Kayra Somay, Genco Gençdal, Cihan Yurdaydin
OBJECTIVES: Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection has been granted orphan disease status by the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency owing to its rarity and relatively limited research and treatment options. Turkey is considered an endemic country for the virus. We aimed to provide a current and updated country- and region-specific HDV infection prevalence. METHODS: In this meta-analysis, we searched databases, including MEDLINE, PUBMED, EMBASE, and UlakBim (Turkish Medical Index) published between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2022...
March 2024: IJID Reg
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Abdirahman Khalif Mohamud, Pamornsri Inchon, Sirinan Suwannaporn, Kriengkrai Prasert, Najib Isse Dirie
BACKGROUND: The Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is transmitted through contaminated blood or bodily fluids. Globally, over 81 million blood units are donated annually, a crucial therapeutic procedure without alternatives. However, blood-borne infections, including HBV, pose a significant hurdle to safe transfusions, especially in HBV-endemic regions like Somalia with limited screening. Therefore, this study aims to estimate the prevalence of Hepatitis B virus infection and identify risk factors associated with it among blood donors in Mogadishu, Somalia...
March 4, 2024: BMC Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Boonrat Tassaneetrithep, Angsana Phuphuakrat, Ekawat Pasomsub, Kanit Bhukhai, Wasinee Wongkummool, Thongkoon Priengprom, Wannisa Khamaikawin, Sujittra Chaisavaneeyakorn, Usanarat Anurathapan, Nopporn Apiwattanakul, Suradej Hongeng
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infection is an important public health problem worldwide. After primary HIV-1 infection, transcribed HIV-1 DNA is integrated into the host genome, serving as a reservoir of the virus and hindering a definite cure. Although highly active antiretroviral therapy suppresses active viral replication, resulting in undetectable levels of HIV RNA in the blood, a viral rebound can be detected after a few weeks of treatment interruption. This supports the concept that there is a stable HIV-1 reservoir in people living with HIV-1...
February 29, 2024: Heliyon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yushan Xu, Yan Lv, Mengjiao Lin, Miaomiao Li, Dawei Cui, Yongjun Wang, Cuifen Shen, Jue Xie
A multiplex real-time PCR has been developed to simultaneously detect transfusion-transmissible pathogens cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus and herpes simplex virus, as well as to provide sample quality testing, for the conserved regions of the cytomegalovirus UL123 gene, the Epstein-Barr virus BKRF1 gene, and the herpes simplex virus 1/2 UL30 gene, tested on 500 blood donors and 320 transfusion recipients. The laboratory sensitivities for all 3 pathogens were 100 copies/μL. Compared to the commercial real-time PCR reference kit, the multiplex real-time PCR assay for the detection of CMV, EBV and HSV presented 100% consistency...
February 24, 2024: Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Haiyan Zhang, Chen Liu, Yi Liu, Zhongtao Gai
Type 1 familial glucocorticoid deficiency (FGD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder due to variation of the melanocortin-2-receptor (MC2R) gene. Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line SDQLCHi029-A was successfully generated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from a 5-day-old girl with MC2R mutations (c.428C > T and c.409C > T). The iPSC line showed genetically stable and matched the donor's PBMCs. displayed a normal karyotype, expressed high pluripotent markers, and exhibited differentiation potential of three germ layers in vitro...
February 27, 2024: Stem Cell Research
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