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Genetic variants involved in Blood Pressure response to hydrochlorothiazide identified by GWAS methodology
Full text linkAim:
To identify new loci regulating blood pressure response to thiazide diuretics (HCTZ) with a genome wide association analysis, thus optimizing therapeutic advantages and minimizing side effects.Methods:
Treatment started after a 8 week run-in period under standardized dietary regimen to qualify patients as “essential hypertensives”. Never treated mild-to-moderate hypertensive patients were studied in two Italian cohorts: n=343 patients in Sardinia and 142 in Milano. A genome-wide association study and imputation were performed: variants associated with blood pressure response to HCTZ over an 8-weeks follow up period were analysed. The specificity of our findings was confirmed in an independent cohort of never treated essential hypertensives treated with Losartan.Results:
We identified 141 SNPs and 130 SNPs showing a significant association with for deltaSBP8 for deltaDBP8 (P≤10-5). Six SNPs showed the best association with deltaSBP8 and five SNPs with deltaDBP8, respectively. TET2 and CSMD1 gene variants showed the best effect on deltaSBP after 8 weeks of HCTZ treatment. No association was found in Losartan sample. We looked for replication in other studies (GENRES, GERA1, NORDIL, PEAR and CSN-StayOnDiur).Conclusions:
TET2 and CSMD1 affect SBP response to HCTZ. TET2, may affect the transcription of αENaC gene thus acting as an aldosterone-responsive mediator. CSMD1 gene was associated with increased risk of hypertension: its putative role in BP regulation remains to be clarified
Solid-Phase Synthesis of Conformationally Constrained Peptidomimetics Based on a 3,6-Disubstituted-1,4-diazepan-2,5-dione Core
No full textStarting from a chlorotrityl resin-linked hydroxylamine, a hydroxamic dipeptide having serine at the N-terminus was prepd. by using DMTMM [4-(4,6-dimethoxy-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)-4-methylmorpholinium chloride] as the coupling agent. Under microwave heating, Mitsunobu cyclization of the hydroxamic dipeptide gave a 3,6-disubstituted-perhydro-diazepin-2,5-dione in very good yields. Thus, by using Fmoc-Ser-Glu(OCH2CH:CH2)-NH-O-Resin, H3CCO-Gly-OH and H-Pro-OMe, peptidomimetic I was prepd. in four steps in 75% yield
Unusual skin metastasis due to adenocarcinoma of the stomach: a case report
Full text linkClinical FindingsA 68- year-old man presented with a skin thickening of the anterior neck started few months earlier. Upper respiratory and digestive tract had already been examined which proved normal. On clinical examination a hyper pigmented massively indurated leathery plaque was seen on the anterior and lateral aspect of the neck from the submandibular region down to the jugular fossae.
The plaque was firm, well demarcated and measured 15 by 12 cm in diameter. It had a cobblestone like appearance with exaggerated folds, and was non painful. Patient complained of a mild discomfort while swallowing saliva of recent onset, but was otherwise asymptomatic.
All his routine blood test was normal. The full skin examination was otherwise unremarkable. Our main differential diagnosis at that stage included a reactive process such as a sclerodermatous process, a neoplastic reaction or a lymph proliferative disease
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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