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Efficacy and Safety of Thermal Ablation for Solitary Low-Risk T2N0M0 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Fei Yu-Lin,Wei Ying,Zhao Zhen-Long,Peng Li-Li,Li Yan,Cao Shi-Liang,Wu Jie,Zhou Hui-Di,Yu Ming-An 대한영상의학회 2024 Korean Journal of Radiology Vol.25 No.8
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of thermal ablation in treating solitary low-risk T2N0M0 papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and compare the outcomes of microwave ablation (MWA) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA). Materials and Methods: This retrospective, single center study involved 34 patients (age: 40.0 ± 13.9 years; 28 female) who had low-risk T2N0M0 PTC with a maximum diameter >2 cm and ≤4 cm and underwent MWA (n = 15) or RFA (n = 19) from November 2016 to April 2023. The primary outcomes were the cumulative rate of disease progression and delayed surgery rates. In contrast, the secondary outcomes included changes in tumor size, cumulative rate of complete tumor disappearance, and complication rates. Results: The median follow-up period was 18.0 months (interquartile range [IQR]: 9.0–40.0 months). At 12 months, the median volume reduction rate of the ablation zone was 74.2% (IQR: 53.7%–86.0%). Disease progression was noted in two patients within 1 year, including one patient with local tumor progression post-RFA and one with a new tumor post-MWA, resulting in a constant cumulative disease progression rate of 8.8% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0%–19.8%) throughout the remaining follow-up period. Both patients were subsequently treated with additional ablation and did not require surgery. The cumulative rates of complete tumor disappearance at 1, 3, and 5 years were 4.0% (95% CI: 0%–11.4%), 26.8% (95% CI: 2.7%– 44.9%), and 51.2% (95% CI: 0%–79.1%), respectively. No significant differences were observed in the disease progression (P = 0.829) or complete tumor disappearance (P = 0.633) rates between the MWA and RFA groups. Complications occurred in 14.7% (5/34) of patients presenting with transient hoarseness. RFA had a higher but not statistically significant complication rate than MWA did (21.1% [4/19] vs. 6.7% [1/15]; P = 0.355). Conclusion: Both MWA and RFA demonstrated promising short-term outcomes in terms of efficacy and safety in treating solitary low-risk T2N0M0 PTC, with no significant differences.
Han Li,Hua Cao,Rong‑pei Yu,Zhen Miao,Ji‑hua Wang,Su‑Ping Qu,Qiang Yuan,Shenchong Li 한국원예학회 2018 Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology Vol.59 No.3
Paphiopedilum pacific shamrock is an orchid with high ornamental value. Understanding the mechanisms responsible for leaf color in albino mutants is important for ornamental development and breeding. In this study, we compared the leaf photosynthetic pigment content and transcriptome of albino mutants ppa01 and wild-type P. pacific shamrock. Photosynthetic pigment in mutants was less than 2% of the wild type and chl a/b was 60% less than the wild type. Transcriptome sequencing yielded 6.27 Gb and 5.67 Gb clean data from the mutant and wild-type leaves, respectively. De novo assembly yielded 104,763 unigenes with 15,400 greater than 1 kb in length. In unigene expression analysis, 3170 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified with 2231 (70.38% of total DEGs) down-regulated. Results from GO and KEGG enrichment analysis, KEGG pathway analysis and qPCR suggest that the reduction of chloroplast biosynthesis and division in the mutant was due to low expression levels of ppGLK1 and ppFtsz. Mutants were associated with fewer chloroplasts in leaf cells, abnormal chloroplast structures, impaired chlorophyll biosynthesis, and thus reduced total chlorophyll and carotenoid contents. Furthermore, down-regulated expression of ppNYC1 reduced transformation of chlorophyll b into chlorophyll a, leading to a chl a/b decline. The research will guide future studies of leaf pigment mutations and the breeding of P. pacific shamrock.
Effect of polymer and additive on the structure and property of porous stainless steel hollow fiber
Xiao-Hua Ma,Zhen-Liang Xu,Yu Bai,Yue Cao 한국화학공학회 2014 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.31 No.8
Porous stainless steel hollow fiber has been widely used due to its high mechanical strength, excellentthermal conductivity and good sealing properties compared with other porous supports. We successfully prepared porousstainless steel hollow fibers using polyacrylonitrile (PAN) as polymer via dry-wet spinning followed by sintering throughtemperature programming method. The PAN concentration had an obvious impact on the structure and property ofporous stainless steel hollow fiber even if it would be burned off during sintering. The results showed that the morphologycould be tuned by adjusting the concentration of PAN. With increasing PAN concentration in casting solutionfor spinning, the viscosity was increased dramatically, resulting in much compact structures with high pure water flux(higher than 3×105 L·m−2·h−1·Pa−1). A more dense structure could be obtained by adding additive polyvinylpyrrolidone(PVP) as viscosity enhancer.
Su, Shu,Zhou, Hao,Xue, Meng,Liu, Jing-Yu,Ding, Lei,Cao, Meng,Zhou, Zhen-Xian,Hu, Hong-Min,Wang, Li-Xin Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2013 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.14 No.5
The majority of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients have a poor prognosis with current therapies, and new approaches are urgently needed. We have developed a novel therapeutic cancer vaccine platform based on tumor cell derived autophagosomes (DRibbles) for cancer immunotherapy. We here evaluated the effectiveness of DRibbles-pulsed dendritic cell (DC) immunization to induce anti-tumor immunity in BALB/c mouse HCC and humanized HCC mouse models generated by transplantation of human HCC cells (HepG2) into BALB/c-nu mice. DRibbles were enriched from H22 or BNL cells, BALB/c-derived HCC cell lines, by inducing autophagy and blocking protein degradation. DRibbles-pulsed DC immunization induced a specific T cell response against HCC and resulted in significant inhibition of tumor growth compared to mice treated with DCs alone. Antitumor efficacy of the DCs-DRibbles vaccine was also demonstrated in a humanized HCC mouse model. The results indicated that HCC/DRibbles-pulsed DCs immunotherapy might be useful for suppressing the growth of residual tumors after primary therapy of human HCC.