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The location of the tumor considerably attributed to the congestion of venous flow in IVC causing various symptoms and intrahepatic inferior right hepatic vein-right hepatic vein bypass. The surgical indication of FNH is limited in most cases; however, the current report alerts that the location of FNH should be taken into account when monitoring it.There has been a rapid advance in germline multigene panel testing by next-generation sequencing, and it is being widely used in clinical settings. A 56-year-old woman suspected of having Lynch syndrome was identified as a BRCA2 pathogenic variant carrier by multigene panel testing. The patient was diagnosed with endometrial cancer at the age of 39 years, and total laparoscopic hysterectomy and bilateral salpingectomy were performed at the age of 49 years; however, bilateral oophorectomy was not performed at that time. As she had a family history of colorectal cancer and a history of endometrial cancer, Lynch syndrome was suspected. However, germline multigene panel testing revealed a pathogenic BRCA2 variant rather than pathogenic variants in mismatch repair genes. In this case, with conventional genetic risk assessment, we were unable to determine whether the patient had a high risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer; thus, germline multigene panel testing may provide valuable information to improve disease management strategies for patients in clinical settings. Particularly, germline multigene panel testing may be useful for detecting hereditary tumor syndromes if a patient does not present with a typical family history of cancer.A 65-year-old woman with prior personal and family histories of cancer was admitted to our hospital for quadruple cancer. Preoperative endoscopy revealed a type 0-II gastric cancer (GC; gastric body), advanced type-II colon cancer (ascending colon), and early-stage recto-sigmoid colon cancers. We diagnosed her with Lynch syndrome (LS) per Amsterdam criteria, and performed distal gastrectomy, ileocecal resection and high anterior resection. Her pathological diagnoses were GC well-to-poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma (AD, por2 > tub2) with signet-ring cells, ypT1b SM2; ascending colon cancer AD with focal mucin products (tub2 > muc), SS; sigmoid colon cancer AD (tub1), M; recto-sigmoid cancer AD (tub1 > tub2), SM. Immunohistochemical tests revealed that all cancers lacked the MLH1/PMS2 protein. However, the three colon cancers were found to have high microsatellite instability (MSI); the GC was microsatellite stable (MSS). No recurrence or other cancers were observed for 30 months after surgery without adjuvant chemotherapy. As patients with LS may also develop MSS cancers, we should check for MSI in all LS cancers for proper treatment.Pseudozyma sp. are yeasts that are commercially important due to their production of glycolipid biosurfactants, squalene, itaconic acid, and exopolysaccharide. The search for other analgesia inducing drugs, such as opiates and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), as alternatives is beneficial. In this study, the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory actions of α-d-mannan were studied using acetic acid-induced writhing, open field test, formalin test, and carrageenan-induced paw oedema tests in mice. The α-d-mannan obtained from Pseudozyma sp. was confirmed by methylation analysis, 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopic analysis, and GC-MS. The results show that α-d-mannan from Pseudozyma sp. has analgesic and anti-inflammatory activities.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13205-020-02635-1.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13205-020-02635-1.The microRNAs role in various cellular and metabolic functions is gaining more limelight in line with second-generation NGS technology. For the validation of candidate miRNA genes, the quantitative real-time PCR is the widely trusted and efficient method to follow. Sugarcane miRNAs are less explored in sugarcane defense response during their interaction with Colletotrichum falcatum inciting red rot. Further, for RT-qPCR experiments involving sugarcane miRNA expression studies, a stable internal reference gene is required. Hence, we have taken a study involving 20 candidate genes to identify stable expressing reference genes using NormFinder, geNorm, BestKeeper, and deltaCt statistical algorithms. The candidate reference genes included miRNAs and protein-coding genes. Fluoxetine The results indicated that there is a variation in ranking among the algorithms. We found miR1862c as the stably expressed miRNA reference gene among the candidates and miR444b.2 along miR1862c formed the best reference gene pair combination, which can be used in the experiments aiming to explore sugarcane miRNAs in the defense mechanism against C. falcatum. The stable miRNA reference gene was further validated with other lesser stable reference gene candidates to assess the effect of stable reference genes during normalization. The present study evaluating the sugarcane miRNAs as reference genes for normalizing RT-qPCR expression data involving miRNAs during sugarcane × C. falcatum interaction is the first of its kind. Further, this systematic approach can be followed to assess the reference gene in various experimental conditions involving sugarcane miRNAs.A marine organism, belonging to the Thraustochytrids family was isolated from mangroves of Mumbai, India. The isolated strain was identified as Aurantiochytrium limacinum by internal transcribed spacer sequence analysis. Optimization of process parameters yielded 14.47 g/L dry cell weight containing 55-58% oil in 3.5 days’ cultivation on glucose, yeast extract, and peptone in the bioreactor. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) was found to be the dominant long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid, accounting for 32-35% of total fatty acid content. The process parameter was tweaked to simultaneously synthesize astaxanthin along with DHA. The concurrent synthesis of DHA and astaxanthin-containing biomass establishes the isolated strain as a perfect choice for aquafeed. Accession number NCBI accession number MN046792.