BACKGROUND Differential diagnosis of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) with or without infectious cause is critically important in terms of initiating antimicrobial agents in case of infectious etiology such as ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic and prognostic roles of C-reactive protein (CRP) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha...

Introduction: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a complicated condition that usually occurs two-three days after endo-tracheal intubation and characterized by some signs symptoms such as fever, changed white blood cell count chest infiltration. Objectives: Our study was aimed at comparing the therapeutic effects of meropenem, injectable colistin plus nebulized colistin, G-CSF (granulocyt...

Background: The utilization of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) for immunoadsorption has proven efficacious in reducing mortality rates among neonatal and pediatric patients afflicted with severe sepsis septic shock. However, the effectiveness this treatment adult shock remains controversial. Objective: This study was designed to assess potential VA-ECMO as an therapy...

Cysteine proteinases (CPs) have been considered suitable targets for the development of antiparasitic drugs. To assess the importance of CPs for the growth and pathogenicity of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica we have cultured amoebae in the presence of various cysteine proteinase inhibitors (CPIs). It was found that broad range CPIs, which are membrane permeable and rapidly enter t...

The discovery of novel bioactive molecules advances our systems-level understanding of biological processes and is crucial for innovation in drug development. For this purpose, the emerging field of chemical genomics is currently focused on accumulating large assay data sets describing compound-protein interactions (CPIs). Although new target proteins for known drugs have recently been identifi...

The aim of this observational study was to investigate the occurrence of post operation delirium in the elderly patients undergoing the transurethral prostatectomy and to identify these factors associated with the delirium. 485 patients, undergoing the transurethral prostatectomy, were selected. Demographics, medical, cognitive and functional data, IPSS and NIH-CPSI score were collected as pred...

Aspergillus oryzae O-1018 (FERM P-15834) separated from industrial koji for brewing sake was found to produce five papain-inhibitory compounds in the culture supernatant. The five isolated inhibitors were named CPI-1 to CPI-5, and their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic analyses and chemical degradation. We determined the structures of CPI-2, CPI-3 and CPI-4 as 4-amino-1-[[N- [(2S, 3S...

Despite the revolutionary progress of immune checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) for cancer immunotherapy, CPIs are effective only in a subset of patients. Combining CPIs and cancer vaccines to achieve better clinical outcomes is a reasonable approach since CPI enhances cancer vaccine-induced tumor-associated antigen (TAA) specific CTL. Among the various TAAs so far identified, WT1 protein is one of t...

on the potential contribution of oral care in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has led to the generally accepted practice of using oral antiseptic agents [1]; however, the value of toothbrushing remains controversial. Dr Gu and colleagues [2] investigated the eff ect of oral care with versus without toothbrushing on VAP prevention by meta-analysis, and found toothbrushing not to...