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Life, Volume 11, Issue 12

2021 December - 158 articles

Cover Story: Due to a reduced immune function in elderly patients, young patients with a robust immune system are theoretically expected to benefit more from the anti-PD1 immunotherapy approach. In contrast to this hypothesis, recent studies in patients with metastatic melanoma have demonstrated that immunotherapy, especially with anti-PD1 treatment, is less effective in patients below 65 years, on average, with significantly lower responses and reduced overall survival compared to patients above 65 years of age. Besides, data on young patients are even more sparse. Hence, in this review, we focus on age-dependent differences in the previously described resistance mechanisms to the treatment, and discuss the development of potential combination treatment strategies for enhancing the anti-tumor efficacy of anti-PD1 treatment in young melanoma patients. View this paper.
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Articles (158)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,102 Views
14 Pages

Low-Level Elevations of Procalcitonin Are Associated with Increased Mortality in Acute Heart Failure Patients, Independent of Concomitant Infection

  • Fabrice F. Darche,
  • Moritz Biener,
  • Matthias Müller-Hennessen,
  • Rasmus Rivinius,
  • Kiril M. Stoyanov,
  • Barbara R. Milles,
  • Hugo A. Katus,
  • Norbert Frey and
  • Evangelos Giannitsis

18 December 2021

We aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of procalcitonin (PCT) in acute heart failure (AHF) patients, especially in those without underlying infection. We enrolled patients presenting with acute dyspnea to the emergency department (ED) of Heidelber...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,220 Views
14 Pages

Differential Regulation of Myocardial E3 Ligases and Deubiquitinases in Ischemic Heart Failure

  • Kristin Klaeske,
  • Maria Dix,
  • Volker Adams,
  • Khalil Jawad,
  • Sandra Eifert,
  • Christian Etz,
  • Diyar Saeed,
  • Michael A. Borger and
  • Maja-Theresa Dieterlen

18 December 2021

The pathological changes of ubiquitination and deubiquitination following myocardial infarction (MI) and chronic heart failure (CHF) have been sparsely examined. We investigated the expression of muscle-specific E3 ubiquitin ligases and deubiquitinas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,715 Views
18 Pages

Combined Transcriptome and Lipidomic Analyses of Lipid Biosynthesis in Macadamia ternifolia Nuts

  • Rui Shi,
  • Haidong Bai,
  • Biao Li,
  • Can Liu,
  • Zhiping Ying,
  • Zhi Xiong and
  • Wenlin Wang

18 December 2021

Macadamia nuts are considered a high-quality oil crop worldwide. To date, the lipid diversity and the genetic factors that mediate storage lipid biosynthesis in Macadamia ternifolia are poorly known. Here, we performed a comprehensive transcriptomic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,709 Views
10 Pages

House Dust Mite Precision Allergy Molecular Diagnosis (PAMD@) in the Th2-prone Atopic Dermatitis Endotype

  • Ruperto González-Pérez,
  • Paloma Poza-Guedes,
  • Fernando Pineda,
  • Miriam Castillo and
  • Inmaculada Sánchez-Machín

17 December 2021

Atopic dermatitis (AD) endotyping might be important for developing personalized diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to the different phenotypes. The current study investigated the IgE molecular profile to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (D. pterony...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,542 Views
40 Pages

17 December 2021

Can a replicase be found in the vast sequence space by random drift? We partially answer this question through a proof-of-concept study of the times of occurrence (hitting times) of some critical events in the origins of life for low-dimensional RNA...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,757 Views
8 Pages

Photobiomodulation Therapy Applied after 6 Months for the Management of a Severe Inferior Alveolar Nerve Injury

  • Marwan El Mobadder,
  • Samir Nammour,
  • Marlin Ortega and
  • Kinga Grzech-Leśniak

17 December 2021

Despite its significant negative impact on the quality of life, the methods for the management of the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) injury are still limited. In this case report, the patient did not show any improvement from the day of the iatrogenic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,105 Views
15 Pages

Efficient Generation of P53 Biallelic Mutations in Diannan Miniature Pigs Using RNA-Guided Base Editing

  • Honghui Li,
  • Wenmin Cheng,
  • Bowei Chen,
  • Shaoxia Pu,
  • Ninglin Fan,
  • Xiaolin Zhang,
  • Deling Jiao,
  • Dejia Shi,
  • Jianxiong Guo and
  • Hong-Jiang Wei
  • + 4 authors

17 December 2021

The base editing 3 (BE3) system, a single-base gene editing technology developed using CRISPR/Cas9n, has a broad range of applications for human disease model construction and gene therapy, as it is highly efficient, accurate, and non-destructive. P5...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,584 Views
16 Pages

17 December 2021

Wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) display well-developed anoxia tolerance as one component of their capacity to endure prolonged whole-body freezing during the winter months. Under anoxic conditions, multiple cellular responses are triggered to efficiently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,410 Views
12 Pages

Decorin Concentrations in Aqueous Humor of Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy

  • Shermaine W. Y. Low,
  • Tanuja Vaidya,
  • Santosh G. K. Gadde,
  • Thirumalesh B. Mochi,
  • Devesh Kumar,
  • Iris S. Kassem,
  • Deborah M. Costakos,
  • Baseer Ahmad,
  • Swaminathan Sethu and
  • Shyam S. Chaurasia
  • + 1 author

17 December 2021

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a microvascular complication of diabetes in the retina. Chronic hyperglycemia damages retinal microvasculature embedded into the extracellular matrix (ECM), causing fluid leakage and ischemic retinal neovascularization. C...

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