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Adequate effectiveness of ribociclib plus letrozole or fulvestrant in patients with advanced or metastatic hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative breast cancer treated in routine Bulgarian clinical practice 在保加利亚的常规临床实践中,核波西尼联合来曲唑或氟维司汀治疗晚期或转移性激素受体阳性、人表皮生长因子受体2阴性乳腺癌患者的足够有效性
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Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2023.2268753
Manoela Manova, Jeliazko Arabadjiev, Radoslav Mangaldzhiev, Assen Dudov, Daniel Penchev, Margit Hemetsberger, Arkadi Sharkov, Boryana Zidarova, Dimitrina Apostolova, Maria Vasileva, Silvia Terezova, Mila Vlaskovska, Alexandra Savova
{"title":"Adequate effectiveness of ribociclib plus letrozole or fulvestrant in patients with advanced or metastatic hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative breast cancer treated in routine Bulgarian clinical practice","authors":"Manoela Manova, Jeliazko Arabadjiev, Radoslav Mangaldzhiev, Assen Dudov, Daniel Penchev, Margit Hemetsberger, Arkadi Sharkov, Boryana Zidarova, Dimitrina Apostolova, Maria Vasileva, Silvia Terezova, Mila Vlaskovska, Alexandra Savova","doi":"10.1080/13102818.2023.2268753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2023.2268753","url":null,"abstract":"Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are typically conducted in highly selected patient populations to ideally demonstrate unconfounded clinical efficacy of a drug. In the real world, there may be confounding factors, such as comorbidities or less frequent monitoring. It has therefore become standard practice in many countries to validate findings from RCTs against available real-world datasets. The present analysis investigated a real-world evidence (RWE) cohort of Bulgarian patients treated with ribociclib in combination with letrozole or fulvestrant and compared the clinical benefit rate (CBR, defined as complete remission [CR] or partial remission [PR] or stable disease [SD]) and progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) with pivotal RCTs. Data from 812 patients treated between 2018 and 2022 were used. The number of patients at risk was statistically robust to compare PFS and OS during the earlier periods of the real-world data analysis with the corresponding RCTs. Baseline characteristics (age, hormone receptor status, status of newly diagnosed vs. existing, previous treatments, performance status and tumor stage) were largely comparable between the RWE cohort and the RCTs. The RWE cohorts corroborated RCT findings of a CBR benefit of the ribociclib plus letrozole or fulvestrant combination compared to letrozole or fulvestrant alone. In the periods of adequate statistical robustness, PFS and OS were comparable within 95% confidence intervals (CIs) with RCT findings. This analysis found that patients with comparable characteristics use ribociclib in the real-world similarly to what has been investigated in the RCTs. Real-world effectiveness and outcomes of ribociclib combination therapy were comparable with observations from RCTs.","PeriodicalId":9076,"journal":{"name":"Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136252972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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TLR4 signalling protects Sertoli cells from cell stress via reprogramming inflammasome and autophagy pathways in MAPK1/ERK2 dependent way TLR4信号以MAPK1/ERK2依赖的方式通过重编程炎性体和自噬途径保护支持细胞免受细胞应激
4区 生物学
Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2023.2268749
Elina Avramska, Ilka Tsvetkova, Krassimira Todorova, Soren Hayrabedyan
{"title":"TLR4 signalling protects Sertoli cells from cell stress via reprogramming inflammasome and autophagy pathways in MAPK1/ERK2 dependent way","authors":"Elina Avramska, Ilka Tsvetkova, Krassimira Todorova, Soren Hayrabedyan","doi":"10.1080/13102818.2023.2268749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2023.2268749","url":null,"abstract":"Sertoli cells constitutively maintain the spermatogonial stem cell niche and blood-testis barrier via impenetrable tight junctions under hormonal, growth factor and cytokine control. Immature Sertoli cell proliferation and survival benefit from FSH, NF-κB, and IL-1α-dependent signalling effective via the MAPK family of pathways and related to p38 MAPK dependent Ca2+ and K+ fluxes. Little is known about how the NF-κB and MAPK axis interact with pro-inflammatory NOD1/TLR4 and different voltage-gated channels. Silencing MAPK1, we found that MAPK1/ERK2 has a synergistic role with TLR4 in restricting the pro-inflammatory NF-κB/Caspase-1/IL-1β axis while having an antagonistic effect on TLR4 in promoting adult 15 P-1 Sertoli cell line proliferation and migration. In MAPK1/ERK2 absence, there was an unexpected TLR4-NF-κB behaviour, showing a strong NF-κB transactivation, assessed using a pNIFTY-SEAP reporter plasmid, accompanied by significantly activated cell migration and proliferation, as demonstrated by the wound healing assay. Voltage-gated potassium flux, most likely via Kv1.3, was significantly increased after TLR4 and NOD1 challenge in ATP DAMP signal presence, associated with inflammasome activation. TLR4 challenge also activated macroautophagy while inhibiting mitophagy. Thus, TLR4 activation restricted the NF-κB and Caspase-1/IL-1β pro-inflammatory axis, cell migration and proliferation, voltage-gated potassium efflux, and shifted mitophagy to macroautophagy (towards an inflammasome pathway-related cell death), promoting cell survival. MAPK1/ERK2 had a differential effect, as in its absence, TLR4 activation had the opposite effect on NF-κB transactivation and cell migration and proliferation. Thus, TLR4/MAPK1/NF-κB/Kv1.3 interaction provides optimal Sertoli cell maintenance conditions and allows cell death only in extreme circumstances of cumulative DAMP/PAMP signalling stimulation.","PeriodicalId":9076,"journal":{"name":"Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135148475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Microsatellite unstable colorectal cancers are associated with increased CD1a- and CD83-positive dendritic cell infiltration 微卫星不稳定结直肠癌与CD1a-和cd83阳性树突状细胞浸润增加有关
4区 生物学
Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2023.2266517
Maya Gulubova, Elina Aleksandrova, Yovcho Yovchev, Dimitar Chonov, Petio Chilingirov, Tatyana Vlaykova
{"title":"Microsatellite unstable colorectal cancers are associated with increased CD1a- and CD83-positive dendritic cell infiltration","authors":"Maya Gulubova, Elina Aleksandrova, Yovcho Yovchev, Dimitar Chonov, Petio Chilingirov, Tatyana Vlaykova","doi":"10.1080/13102818.2023.2266517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2023.2266517","url":null,"abstract":"Microsatellite instability (MSI) is characterized by a highly immunogenic tumor phenotype and abundant lymphocytic infiltrates. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between four immunohistochemically determined classes of dendritic cells (DC) with microsatellite instability status of 258 colorectal cancer (CRC) patients and to explore the possible role of those cells as prognostic factors for survival. We observed a distinct infiltration pattern of DCs both in tumor stroma (TS) and invasive front (IF), with DCs significantly prevailing in the IF (p < 0.0001). MSI cancer biopsies showed significantly higher infiltration of CD1a + and CD83+ DCs in the TS and IF compared to microsatellite stable CRCs. Survival analysis revealed that higher CD1a + and CD83+ DC numbers both in TS and IF correlated with longer survival of the patients after surgical therapy (p < 0.05, Log rank test). Cox multivariate analysis showed that lower infiltration with CD1a + DCs in TS (p = 0.039) and CD83+ DCs in IF (p = 0.022) was an independent prognostic factor for unfavorable outcome for CRC patients. The results of our study suggest that the immunohistochemically determined CD1a + and CD83+ DCs could be used as a feature of microsatellite instability and could be further explored as prognostic markers for patients’ outcome.","PeriodicalId":9076,"journal":{"name":"Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135546546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Overexpression of GhSWEET42 , a SWEET -like gene from cotton, enhances the oil content and seed size 棉花中类似SWEET的基因GhSWEET42的过表达可以提高含油量和种子大小
4区 生物学
Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2023.2266529
Deying Wang, Mengxue Du, Jingyu Li, Shuwen Yin, Yongwang Sun, Shangjing Guo
{"title":"Overexpression of <i>GhSWEET42</i> , a <i>SWEET</i> -like gene from cotton, enhances the oil content and seed size","authors":"Deying Wang, Mengxue Du, Jingyu Li, Shuwen Yin, Yongwang Sun, Shangjing Guo","doi":"10.1080/13102818.2023.2266529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2023.2266529","url":null,"abstract":"SWEET (‘sugars will eventually be exported transporters’) family genes reportedly play a critical role in sugar translocation and oil biosynthesis in various plant species. However, their functions in cotton are unknown. The present study demonstrated that while GhSWEET42 was widely expressed in different cotton tissues, it had the highest expression level in the developing ovules. Hence, it performs a vital role in seed development. We constructed GhSWEET42 transgenic Arabidopsis lines to verify the biological function of this gene and found that the oil content and weight of the seeds produced by the overexpression lines were 18–23% and 19–20% higher, respectively than those of the wild-type. Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) analysis revealed that it was mainly a relative increase in unsaturated fatty acids (FAs) that contributed to the relative increase in oil content in the transgenic seeds. Moreover, the latter exhibited comparative upregulation of certain genes associated with FA and triacylglycerol biosynthesis as well as cell expansion. GhSWEET42 might work synergistically with the aforementioned genes. This finding indicates that GhSWEET42 may be essential in oil biosynthesis and seed development in cotton. The results of the present work may facilitate further explorations into the molecular mechanism of cottonseed oil biosynthesis as well as the cultivation of novel oil-rich cotton varieties.","PeriodicalId":9076,"journal":{"name":"Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135647498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Bigel formulations of St. John’s wort extract in wound healing: toxicological aspects 圣约翰草提取物在伤口愈合中的Bigel配方:毒理学方面
4区 生物学
Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2023.2263570
Yoana Sotirova, Deyana Vankova, Oskan Tasinov, Stefka Stoeva, Minka Hristova, Ivelin Iliev, Svetlana Georgieva, Yoana Kiselova-Kaneva, Velichka Andonova
{"title":"Bigel formulations of St. John’s wort extract in wound healing: toxicological aspects","authors":"Yoana Sotirova, Deyana Vankova, Oskan Tasinov, Stefka Stoeva, Minka Hristova, Ivelin Iliev, Svetlana Georgieva, Yoana Kiselova-Kaneva, Velichka Andonova","doi":"10.1080/13102818.2023.2263570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2023.2263570","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to investigate the toxicological profile of hyperforin (HP) in silico and to assess it in vivo after topical application of an HP-rich St. John’s wort (SJW) extract. The former analysis predicted low toxicity because of HP’s inability to bind DNA or proteins, but structural alerts for skin irritation/corrosion, carcinogenicity, and mutagenicity were found. Animal studies involved the treatment of excision wounds in Wistar rats with poloxamer 407/borage oil formulations (bigels; Bs) containing HP-rich SJW extract previously developed by us. The effects of semisolids comprising ‘free’ extract (B/SJW) or extract loaded in nanostructured lipid carriers (B/NLC-SJW) were compared to positive (commercial herbal product) and negative (untreated) controls after 2-, 7-, 14-, and 21-day applications. Malondialdehyde (MDA) and ABTS assays evaluated the degree of oxidative stress—treatment with bigels did not affect MDA favorably but led to an increased radical-cation scavenging capacity (compared to controls). Gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), aspartate aminotransferase (ASAT), alanine aminotransferase (ALAT), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) enzyme levels were measured as indicators for liver/tissue damage. Treatment with both B/SJW and B/NLC-SJW for 21 days resulted in lower GGT and ASAT levels than those in controls. Two-day application of the biphasic semisolids contributed to normalized ALAT levels (lower than in both negative and positive controls), and the same trends were observed in LDH levels after a 7-day treatment. The promising results obtained after the B/NLC-SJW application suggest that this drug delivery system may not only preserve HP in SJW extract effectively but also ‘expose’ its cyto-/hepatoprotective potential.","PeriodicalId":9076,"journal":{"name":"Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135587266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Enhancement of taxane production in cell suspension culture of Corylus avellana L. Kalınkara by elicitation and precursor feeding 诱导和前体摄食提高榛树悬浮培养Kalınkara细胞紫杉烷产量
4区 生物学
Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2023.2255703
Ilayda Goktepe-Atilgan, Ahmet Dogan, Sule Ari
{"title":"Enhancement of taxane production in cell suspension culture of <i>Corylus avellana</i> L. Kalınkara by elicitation and precursor feeding","authors":"Ilayda Goktepe-Atilgan, Ahmet Dogan, Sule Ari","doi":"10.1080/13102818.2023.2255703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2023.2255703","url":null,"abstract":"Paclitaxel (trademark Taxol®) is the most effective chemotherapeutic agent against a wide range of cancers. Hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) cell culture is a promising and inexpensive strategy for producing paclitaxel and related taxanes. This study evaluated the effect of elicitation and taxane precursor feeding for the enhancement of taxanes in a Turkish hazelnut (C. avellana cv. ‘Kalınkara’) cell suspension culture. Elicitor methyl jasmonate (100, 200 and 300 µmol L−1) and precursor phenylalanine (3μmol, 3 and 6 mmol L−1) were tested in cell suspension cultures. While methyl jasmonate increased the accumulation of taxanes, especially cephalomannine, via induction of the paclitaxel biosynthetic pathway, phenylalanine slightly induced the conversion of 10-deacetylbaccatin III and baccatin III to the end product paclitaxel (0.5349 µg g−1). The results showed that 200 µmol L−1 methyl jasmonate led to significantly greater induction of taxanes than 100 and 300 µmol L−1. The amount of cephalomannine (331.6 µg g−1) in cell suspension cultures elicited by 200 µmol L−1 methyl jasmonate was 8-fold higher than that in the control (41.61 µg g−1), while 10-deacetylbaccatin III (6.174 µg g−1) and baccatin III (3.956 µg g−1) increased almost twice as much as the control. The highest total paclitaxel yield was 5.453 µg g−1 in the same culture conditions. In conclusion, cell culture systems of C. avellana L. cv. ‘Kalınkara’ hazelnut, established for the first time, may become a potential candidate for industrial-level production of cephalomannine and other taxanes with further optimization.","PeriodicalId":9076,"journal":{"name":"Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135720839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Flaxseed protein isolate-alginate microbeads as encapsulating agents for enhanced survival of Enterococcus faecalis HZNU S1 during storage and in vitro gastrointestinal conditions 亚麻籽分离蛋白-海藻酸盐微球作为包封剂提高粪肠球菌HZNU S1在储存和体外胃肠道条件下的存活率
4区 生物学
Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment Pub Date : 2023-09-23 DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2023.2262625
Zhen-Xing Tang, Zheng Xu, Qing-Nan Ma, Xue-Yan Chen, Hang-Qi Chen, Yu-Jie Cao, Tao-Yang Zhang, Zhen-Bo Yao, Lu-E Shi
{"title":"Flaxseed protein isolate-alginate microbeads as encapsulating agents for enhanced survival of <i>Enterococcus faecalis</i> HZNU S1 during storage and <i>in vitro</i> gastrointestinal conditions","authors":"Zhen-Xing Tang, Zheng Xu, Qing-Nan Ma, Xue-Yan Chen, Hang-Qi Chen, Yu-Jie Cao, Tao-Yang Zhang, Zhen-Bo Yao, Lu-E Shi","doi":"10.1080/13102818.2023.2262625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2023.2262625","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to study the entrapment of Enterococcus faecalis HZNU S1 using a mixture of flaxseed protein isolate (FPI) and sodium alginate (SA) as an encapsulation agent. The characteristics of free and encapsulated cells during storage and under in vitro gastrointestinal conditions were investigated. The survival rate of encapsulated cells did not decline after 2 h exposure to pH 2.5 simulated gastric juice (SGJ), while viable free probiotics treated at the same conditions, were not found. After encapsulated probiotics were exposed to SGJ pH 2.0 for 2.0 h, the viability decreased from 10.01 to 8.01 Log CFU/g. After exposure to 1.0% and 2.0% bile salt solutions for 2 h, the viable amounts of encapsulated probiotics were still higher 8.0 Log CFU/g, whereas, viable free cells were not observed after treatment at the same conditions. Encapsulated probiotics were fully released from the microbeads in simulated intestinal juice (SIJ) in around 4 h. The viable numbers of encapsulated probiotics were only reduced 0.5 Log CFU/g after two weeks of storage (4 °C), and the viable amounts of encapsulated probiotics were reduced to 8.2 Log CFU/g at 25 °C after eight days of storage. However, the viable amounts of free cells were reduced from 10.01 to 8.8 Log CFU/mL (4 °C), and 4.0 Log CFU/mL (25 °C) during the investigated storage period, respectively. Encapsulated E. faecalis HZNU S1 showed enhanced resistance to environmental conditions, allowing the delivery of probiotics that could be used to increase foods added value.","PeriodicalId":9076,"journal":{"name":"Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136011052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A study of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among healthcare personnel and the general population 医务人员与普通人群抗sars - cov -2抗体的研究
4区 生物学
Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2023.2256417
Iva Trifonova, Kim Ngoc, Teodora Gladnishka, Vladislava Ivanova, Metodi Kunchev, Ventsislav Mutafchiyski, Iva Christova
{"title":"A study of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among healthcare personnel and the general population","authors":"Iva Trifonova, Kim Ngoc, Teodora Gladnishka, Vladislava Ivanova, Metodi Kunchev, Ventsislav Mutafchiyski, Iva Christova","doi":"10.1080/13102818.2023.2256417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2023.2256417","url":null,"abstract":"Bulgaria, like many other countries, has experienced the far-reaching consequences of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Seroprevalence studies serve as a crucial method for assessing the exposure and immunity levels within a population. In this serosurvey, which is the first of this kind conducted in Bulgaria, we enrolled 104 healthcare workers (HCWs) from one front-line Bulgarian hospital and 237 individuals from the general population. Serum samples were collected in December 2021 from the general population and in February 2023 from HCWs and the general population. The presence of four anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies was evaluated: anti-Spike 1-IgG, anti-Nucleoprotein-IgG, anti-Spike1-IgA and anti-Recombinant binding domain neutralizing antibodies. Our results showed high percentages of seropositivity in both the HCWs and the general population (99% and 78%, respectively) in February 2023. HCWs had significantly higher mean IgA and mean anti-S1-IgG antibody levels compared to the general population. The seropositivity in the general population in December 2021 was 79%. The mean levels of IgA and anti-NCP-IgG were significantly higher, whereas the mean anti-S1-IgG levels were significantly lower in February 2023 compared to December 2021. We found a strong correlation between neutralizing antibodies and anti-S1-IgA and anti-S1-IgG antibodies for all tested groups. It is necessary to perform large-scale serosurveys to provide analysis of the seroprevalence in a larger population and its dynamics over time and to facilitate evidence-based strategies that will safeguard the health and well-being of the Bulgarian population and contribute to the global efforts in combating the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":9076,"journal":{"name":"Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134970534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Serum sRAGE, sRANKL and osteoprotegerin in subgroups of rheumatoid arthritis patients: biomarkers associated with iron and disease status 类风湿关节炎亚组患者血清sRAGE、sRANKL和骨保护素:与铁和疾病状态相关的生物标志物
4区 生物学
Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2023.2256428
Ginka Delcheva, Katya Stefanova, Teodora Stankova
{"title":"Serum sRAGE, sRANKL and osteoprotegerin in subgroups of rheumatoid arthritis patients: biomarkers associated with iron and disease status","authors":"Ginka Delcheva, Katya Stefanova, Teodora Stankova","doi":"10.1080/13102818.2023.2256428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2023.2256428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9076,"journal":{"name":"Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135096599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy: clinical and genetic analysis of Bulgarian patients 利伯氏遗传性视神经病变:保加利亚患者的临床和遗传分析
4区 生物学
Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2023.2255073
Sylvia Cherninkova, Boryana Zaharova, Kunka Kamenarova, Kalina Mihova, Slavena Atemin, Tihomir Todorov, Vasil Haykin, Alexander Oscar, Ivailo Tournev, Radka Kaneva, Albena Todorova
{"title":"Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy: clinical and genetic analysis of Bulgarian patients","authors":"Sylvia Cherninkova, Boryana Zaharova, Kunka Kamenarova, Kalina Mihova, Slavena Atemin, Tihomir Todorov, Vasil Haykin, Alexander Oscar, Ivailo Tournev, Radka Kaneva, Albena Todorova","doi":"10.1080/13102818.2023.2255073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2023.2255073","url":null,"abstract":"Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a rare maternally inherited disease caused by mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genes encoding subunits of complex I in the mitochondrial respiratory chain. The most common mutations causing LHON are G11778A, G3460A and T14484C, but there are also several less common mutations. LHON presents as acute or subacute bilateral visual loss, usually affecting young males. The aim of this study was to assess the clinical symptomatology and genetic analysis of Bulgarian patients with LHON. Twenty-two patients were diagnosed with LHON based on clinical evaluation and genetic examination (17 males and 5 females); 12 of them were previously reported, while 8 males and 2 females are newly diagnosed. A full neuroophthalmologic and genetic examination was performed. Eight patients had a family history of LHON, while 14 were isolated cases. The age at onset ranged from 3 to 43 years, and visual acuity ranged from counting fingers to 0.9. Genetic testing revealed various mutations, including a rare mutation G3635A in MT-ND1 in five affected members of one pedigree and digenic inheritance of G11778A and T14484C in three individuals from a different family. A variant m.15988A > G in the mitochondrial gene MT-TP with a high level of heteroplasmy was found in one patient. In addition to the most common mutations causing LHON, our patients also had rare mutations. These results suggest that genetic analysis of the entire mtDNA sequence is recommended in cases with strong clinical suspicion of LHON, since new rare mtDNA pathogenic variants are being identified.","PeriodicalId":9076,"journal":{"name":"Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135362925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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