Female adnexal tumors of probable Wolffian origin (FATWO) are a rare neoplasm from the mesonephric duct remnants with less than 90 cases having been reported worldwide. A 34-year-old nulliparous woman was referred to our clinic for a recent discovery of a pelvic mass, the diagnosis of FATWO has been confirmed based on the pathological and immunohistochemical results.
We investigated the effects of exposure to environmental electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in 1170 subjects. Neutrophil phagocytosis was enhanced in the low-intensity exposure groups, but reduced significantly at relatively high intensities. Visual reaction time was prolonged and the scores of shortterm memory testa were lower in some high-intensity exposure groups. EMFs may affect the central nervous and immune systems in man.
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Fibroblasts are the essential cell type of skin, highly involved in the wound regeneration process. In this study, we sought to screen out the novel genes which act important roles in diabetic fibroblasts through bioinformatic methods. A total of 811 and 490 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between diabetic and normal fibroblasts were screened out in GSE49566 and GSE78891, respectively. Furthermore, the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways involved in type 2 diabetes were retrieved from miRWalk. Consequently, the integrated bioinformatic analyses revealed the shared KEGG pathways between DEG-identified and diabetes-related pathways were functionally enriched in the MAPK signaling pathway, and the MAPKAPK3, HSPA2, TGFBR1, and p53 signaling pathways were involved. Finally, ETV4 and NPE2 were identified as the targeted transcript factors of MAPKAPK3, HSPA2, and TGFBR1. Our findings may throw novel sight in elucidating the molecular mechanisms of fibroblast pathologies in patients with diabetic wounds and targeting new factors to advance diabetic wound treatment in clinic.
Tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a core role in the genesis and progress of endometrial carcinoma (EC). The immune system, a crucial element of TME, functions in various immune cells. In this paper, we have tried to evaluate the prognosis in EC patients by the status of TME. The ESTIMATE algorithm was implemented to computer the number of immune and stromal components in EC tissues from the Cancer Genome Atlas dataset. The CIBERSORT algorithm was employed to assess the proportion of tumorinfiltrating immune cells in EC tissues, which were quantified as Stromal score and Immune score. After the construction of protein-protein interaction network, cell-cell chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2) was identified as a potential predictive element for EC. Further analysis indicated that a higher expression of CCR2 in EC patients was correlated with a better prognosis and a prolonged disease-free survival.According to the transcript level of CCR2, samples were separated into low-and high-expression groups. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis unveiled that metabolism-related pathways were mostly abundant in groups with high-expression, the other one was primarily correlated to immune-related activities. We figured out that some immune cells were positively related to CCR2, suggesting that CCR2 might serve as the immune-dominant status of TME, which was verified by qRT-PCR and HPA analysis in transcriptome and protein level, respectively. Also, CCR2 showed high correlation with immune modulators and chemokine signaling pathway. Thus, the level of CCR2 might have a prognostic value for EC patients, which provides a novel insight for therapeutic strategies of EC.
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