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- Uusimäki, Liisa, 1959
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Panteha Bigdeli / The link between oral care and your general health
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- Dr. Panteha Bigdeli, is an innovative entrepreneur and CEO behind AuraDent. As a highly skilled and compassionate dentist, Dr. Bigdeli is dedicated to transforming smiles with the latest advancements in orthodontic care. With dual degrees in Dentistry and a Master of Science in Dental Surgery from Malmö University in Sweden, she brings a wealth of expertise to her practice. Dr. Bigdeli is deeply committed to providing top-notch patient care, with a special focus on Invisalign treatment. Recognizing the transformative potential of this cutting-edge aligner system, she has honed her skills to master the art of Invisalign, ensuring her patients receive the best possible outcomes. In her discussions, Dr. Bigdeli emphasizes the rapid technological advancements that have made dental visits more efficient and less painful. She also underscores the importance of open communication with your dentist about any fears or anxieties related to treatment. In Sweden, where dental check-ups are mandatory for children aged 3 to 18, Dr. Bigdeli expresses concern about parents who suffer from dental anxiety themselves. She advises that parents with such anxieties consider having another family member or friend accompany their child to these appointments, as parental fears can easily be transferred to the child. Dr. Bigdeli also addresses the common reasons why adults, particularly the elderly, tend to avoid regular dental check-ups. She notes that feelings of shame over poor oral care and concerns about the costs of dental visits often prevent people from seeking the care they need.
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- Ihse, Elisabet, 1977-, et al.
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Amyloid fibrils with fragmented ATTR may be the rule in non-Val30Met ATTR amyloidosis
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- The clinical phenotype of familial ATTR amyloidosis depends to some extent on the particular mutation, but differences exist also within mutations. We have previously described that two types of amyloid fibril compositions exist among Swedish ATTRV30M amyloidosis patients, one consisting of a mixture of intact and fragmented ATTR (type A) and one composed of only intact ATTR (type B). Patients with type A fibrils have a late age of onset and signs of cardiomyopathy, while patients with type B fibrils have an early onset and much less myocardial involvement. The present study aimed to determine if the correlation between fibril type and clinical phenotype is true for familial amyloidosis in general. Cardiac and/or adipose tissue from 48 patients carrying 21 different non-TTRV30M mutations were examined, as well as 7 non-Swedish ATTRV30M patients. Fibril type was determined with western blotting and compared to the patients´ age of onset and degree of cardiomyopathy. Non-Swedish V30M patients showed the same correlation as described for Swedish V30M patients, with fibrils of only full-length ATTR (type B) linked to less myocardial involvement. In contrast, all patients with non-V30M mutations had a fibril composition with ATTR fragments (type A). Some of these patients had onset of disease at young age. The vast majority had increased thickness of left cardiac ventricle, but a few individuals had values within normal limits. This study shows that a fibril composition with fragmented ATTR is very common in ATTR amyloidosis. It also suggests that fibrils composed of only full-length ATTR is an exception, perhaps only found among young ATTRV30M amyloidosis patients.
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- Hall, Håkan, 1963-, et al.
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Pharmacological characterization of 18F-labeled vorozole analogues.
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- Two 18F-labeled analogues of vorozole ([18F]FVOZ and [18F]FVOO) have been developed as potential tools for the in vivo characterization of aromatase. The purpose of the project was to evaluate the pharmacological properties of these radioligands using a combination of in vitro binding and in vivo distribution studies in the rat and primate. Saturation binding studies with the radioligands in homogenates of rat ovary gave KD and Bmax values of 0.21 ± 0.1 nM and 210 ± 20 fmol/mg, respectively, for [18F]FVOZ, and 7.6 ± 1 nM and 293 ± 12 fmol/mg, respectively, for [18F]FVOO. Organ distribution studies in rats showed the highest accumulation in the adrenal glands, with standardized uptake values (SUVs) of 15 to 20, followed by ovaries and liver with SUVs of approximately 5. The SUVs in the remaining organs were between 0.5 and 1.5. There was probably some defluorination of both radioligands, as the accumulation of radioactivity in bone increased with time. The regional distribution in the brain was studied using ex vivo and in vitro autoradiography. In the brain, specific binding of both [18F]FVOZ and [18F]FVOO were found mainly in the amygdala. PET studies were performed in the Rhesus monkey, and these showed displaceable binding in the amygdala and the preoptic area of the hypothalamus. These studies suggest that [18F]FVOZ might be to be a suitable tracer for the study of aromatase in vitro and in vivo, and could be an alternative to [11C]vorozole in human PET-studies.
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- Kazemi Rashed, Salma, et al.
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English dictionaries, gold and silver standard corpora for biomedical natural language processing related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19
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- Here we present a toolbox for natural language processing tasks related to SARS-CoV-2. It comprises English dictionaries of synonyms for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, a silver standard corpus generated with the dictionaries and a gold standard corpus of 10 Pubmed abstracts manually annotated for disease, virus, symptom and protein/gene terms. This toolbox is freely available on github and can be used for text analytics in a variety of settings related to the COVID-19 crisis. It will be expanded and applied in NLP tasks over the next weeks and the community is invited to contribute.
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- Lindberg, Frida A, et al.
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SLC38A10 deficiency in male mice affect plasma levels of threonine and histidine
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- Solute carriers belong to the biggest group of transporters in the human genome, but more knowledge is needed in order to fully understand their function and possible role as therapeutic targets. SLC38 is a family of amino acid transporters, commonly referred to as SNATs, consisting of 11 members. The tenth member, SLC38A10, is one of the least characterized members and is the focus of this study. By using a knockout mouse model, we studied the biological effects of SLC38A10 deficiency in vivo. We performed a transcriptomic analysis of whole brain and found seven differentially expressed genes in SLC38A10 deficient mice (Gm48159, Nr4a1, Tuba1c, Lrrc56, mt-Tp, Hbb-bt and Snord116/9). By measuring amino acids in plasma, we found lower levels of threonine and histidine in males, while no amino acids were altered in females, suggesting that SLC38A10-/- might affect sexes differently. Using RT-qPCR, we investigated the effect of SLC38A10 deficiency on mRNA expression of other SLC38 members, Mtor and Rps6kb1 in brain, liver, lung, muscle and kidney, but no differences were found. A relative telomere length measurement was also made, as a marker for cellular age, but no differences were found between the genotypes. We conclude that SLC38A10 might be important for keeping amino acid homeostasis in plasma, at least in males, but no major effects were seen on transcriptomic expression or telomere length in whole brain.
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