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Computer Science: Computer hardware - 0 views

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    Computer Science Tuesday, April 25, 2023 Computer hardware Computer hardware is the physical components that make up a computer system. It includes everything from the central processing unit (CPU) to the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Understanding the different types of hardware and how they work together is essential for anyone who works with computers. In this article, we will explore the various components of computer hardware, including internal and external components, and the peripherals that connect to them. We will also discuss the importance of hardware maintenance, the latest advancements in computer technology, and factors to consider when choosing the right hardware for your needs. Whether you are a computer technician, a gamer, or simply someone who uses a computer for everyday tasks, this article will help you better understand the world of computer hardware. Introduction to Computer Hardware Computer hardware refers to the physical components that make up a computer system. It includes everything from the processor and memory to input/output devices such as the keyboard and monitor. In this article, we will explore the different types of computer hardware and their functions. What is Computer Hardware Computer hardware refers to the physical components of a computer system. It includes all the components that can be touched, seen, and used to interact with a computer, such as the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Hardware is different from computer software, which refers to the programs and applications that run on a computer system. History of Computer Hardware The history of computer hardware dates back to the 1820s when Charles Babbage, an English mathematician, and inventor, designed the first analytical engine, which was considered to be the first mechanical computer. With time, more complex electronic computers were developed, including the first Intel microprocessor in 1971. Since then, computer hardware has continued to evolve, becoming
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Premature Ovarian Failure and Ovarian Autoimmunity - 0 views

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    Premature ovarian failure shown to be autoimmune.  This study from '97 describes the mechanism of the autoimmune ovarian failure.  Now, case studies are emerging of young women developing premature ovarian failure following the HPV vaccine.
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Ovarian failure and flares of systemic lupus... [Arthritis Rheum. 1999] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

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    Low estrogen levels in ovarian failure patients found to reduce flares in those with Lupus.  Estrogen can promote inflammation, especially high estrone levels.  It is easy to see how ovarian failure and a drop in estrogen could reduce inflammation and thus autoimmune flares.
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ESC | Congresses | HEART FAILURE 2013 | Scientific Programme - 0 views

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    CoQ10 in those with prior MIs, found to have reduced hospital readmission, less heart failure, and lower cardiovascular death.  Enough said.
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Treatment for Diabetic Kidney Disease - 0 views

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    Silver Line is one of the top hospital in Kochi, Kerala, India for Diabetic Kidney Care. Silver line provide expert surgeons for kidney transplantation, dialysis and treatment for kidney failure, diabetic kidney disease, diabetic kidney problems, chronic kidney disease and diagnosis the symptoms of kidney failure like fatigue, nausea and vomiting, heartburn, itchy skin.
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Testosterone Supplementation in Heart Failure - 0 views

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    Review of 4 studies found that Testosterone therapy improved exercise capacity in those patients with heart failure.
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Clinical review: Specific aspects of acute renal failure in cancer patients - 0 views

  • uric acid crystal formation in the renal tubules secondary to hyperuricaemia
  • calcium phosphate deposition related to hyperphosphataemia
  • usually develops shortly after the initiation of cytotoxic chemotherapy
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  • Non-recombinant urate oxidase (Uricozyme®)
  • recombinant urate oxidase (Rasburicase®)
  • urine alkalisation may induce calcium phosphate deposition
  • renal replacement therapy should be started on an emergency basis when hydration fails to produce a prompt metabolic improvement or when ARF develops
  • Up to 50% of patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma have renal failure and up to 10% require dialysis
  • renal ultrasonography remains the method of choice for investigating extra-renal obstruction
  • The relief of the obstruction, either by percutaneous nephrostomy or through a ureteral stent, is the cornerstone of treatment
  • TMA may be associated with the cancer itself, with cancer chemotherapy, or with allogeneic BMT
  • thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA)
  • it may be as high as 5%
  • Most of the cases occur in patients with solid tumours, the most common type being adenocarcinoma (stomach, breast and lung)
  • The pathophysiology of the TMA-malignancy association remains controversial, although many studies suggest an insult to the vascular endothelium
  • mitomycin C. Subsequently, TMA has been reported with many anti-cancer agents, including gemcita-bine, bleomycin, cisplatin, CCNU, cytosine arabinoside, daunorubicin, deoxycoformycin, 5-FU, azathioprine and interferon α
  • Plasma exchanges have been shown to improve prognosis in the general population of patients with TMA
  • Causative factors should be looked for and antihypertensive treatment given. Lastly, in the absence of guidelines, we believe that plasma exchange should be proposed in patients with severe cancer treatment-associated TMA
  • The most widely used protective measure is saline infusion to induce solute diuresis
  • During methotrexate infusion and elimination, fluids should be given to maintain a high urinary output and urinary alkalisation should be performed to keep the urinary pH above 7.5. Rescue with folinic acid (50 mg four times a day) should be started 24 hours after each high-dose metho-trexate infusion and serum methotrexate concentrations should be measured every day
  • cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide
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    cancer and renal failure
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American College of Cardiology Foundation | Journal of the American College of Cardiolo... - 0 views

  • Although currently no drugs that specifically target mitochondrial biogenesis in HF are available, acceleration of this process through adenosine monophosphate–activated kinase (AMPK), endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), and other pathways may represent a promising therapeutic approach
  • Mitochondrial biogenesis can be enhanced therapeutically with the use of adenosine monophosphate kinase (AMPK) agonists, stimulants of nitric oxide/cyclic guanosine monophosphate (NO/cGMP) pathway (including phosphodiesteraes type 5 inhibitors), or resveratrol
  • metformin, a commonly used antidiabetic drug that activates AMPK signaling
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  • Recent evidence suggests that the eNOS/NO/cGMP pathway is an important activator of mitochondrial biogenesis
  • BH4 (tetrahydrobiopterin) supplementation can prevent eNOS uncoupling and was found to reduce left ventricular hypertrophy
  • folic acid is known to replenish reduced BH4 and has been shown to protect the heart through increased eNOS activity
  • Both folate deficiency and inhibition of BH4 synthesis were associated with reduced mitochondrial number and function
  • Resveratrol, a polyphenol compound responsible for the cardioprotective properties of red wine, was recently identified as a potent stimulator of mitochondrial biogenesis
  • epidemiological studies reveal a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease in premenopausal, but not post-menopausal, women compared with men
  • post-menopausal women
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      I would hypothesis that a change in the predominance of ER expression is one of ER beta to ER alpha: creating a more pro-inflammatory signal.
  • The majority of ROS in the heart appear to come from uncoupling of mitochondrial electron transport chain at the level of complexes I and III
  • Because the majority of ROS in HF comes from mitochondria, these organelles are the primary target of oxidative damage.
  • cardioprotective therapies such as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and ATII receptor blockers were shown to possess antioxidant properties, although it is not known whether they target mitochondrial ROS directly or indirectly
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    great review of mitochondrial biogenesis, oxidative stress and heart failure.  
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Will testosterone replacement therapy become a new treatment of chronic heart failure? ... - 0 views

  • TRT could improve significantly the exercise capacity of patients, compared with placebo
  • it could be seen that the effect of TRT on SBP and DBP was controversial
  • in men with congestive heart failure, testosterone reduced the Q-Td, whereas placebo had no effects
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  • The MVC and PTmax were significantly improved in TRT patients but remained unchanged in the placebo group
  • handgrip strength improved significantly with testosterone treatment
  • According to EF assessed by echocardiography, no differences were observed between the patients who were prescribed testosterone and those who received placebo
  • There were no differences between the groups in circulating levels of NT pro-BNP, and inflammatory markers were unchanged, except for a decrease in TNF-α from baseline in the placebo group
  • Testosterone supplementation therapy appeared to be safe, and the subjects who accepted testosterone treatment did not appear any obvious adverse reactions.
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    Testosterone therapy in men with CHF found to increase exercise capacity, reduced the Q-T interval in men, improved muscle strength in men, and was found to be safe in meta-analysis.
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Acute Effects of Triiodothyronine (T3) Replacement Therapy in Patients with Chronic Hea... - 0 views

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    IV T3 was given to patients with chronic heart failure.  What the study found may surprise you: improved heart function (ventricular), improved BNP, decrease heart rate, no side effects.  T3 has been shown to be more predictive of cardiac death in those with cardiac disease, than elevated lipids or decreased ejection fraction.
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Thyroid hormone and heart failure. [Curr Heart Fail Rep. 2006] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

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    Hypothyroidism is found to be associated with low T3, reduced heart contractility, and poor prognosis in heart failure
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Low vitamin C levels may raise heart failure patients' risk / American Heart Association - 0 views

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    patients with heart failure and low vitamin C levels have higher inflammation as measured by hs-CRP and elevated risk of worse outcomes
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Arch Intern Med -- Abstract: Subclinical Hypothyroidism and the Risk of Heart Failure, ... - 0 views

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    subclinical hypothyroidism associated with increased risk of heart failure
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Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction, Cardiac Function, and the Risk of Heart Failure: The C... - 0 views

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    increased risk of heart failure found in patients with TSH > 10.
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Testosterone supplementation in Heart Failure: A meta-analysis - 0 views

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    study shows that testosterone therapy provides benefits in heart failure patients.
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Intratumoral androgen biosynthesis in prostate cancer pathogenesis and response to therapy - 0 views

  • Additional studies have similarly found that prostate tissue levels of DHT in PCa patients treated with ADT therapy before prostatectomy declined by only ∼75% versus declines of ∼95% in serum levels
  • In a recent study in healthy men, treatment for 1 month with a GnRH antagonist to suppress testicular androgen synthesis caused a 94% decline in serum testosterone, but only a 70–80% decline in prostate tissue testosterone and DHT
  • progression to CRPC was associated with increased intratumoral accumulation or synthesis of testosterone.
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  • the intraprostatic synthesis of testosterone from adrenal-derived precursors likely accounts for the relatively high testosterone levels in prostate after ADT
  • In addition, AR activity in these cells is likely further enhanced by multiple mechanisms that sensitize AR to low levels of androgens
  • higher affinity ligand DHT (approximately eightfold higher affinity
  • type 2 5α-reductase (SRD5A2) being the major enzyme in prostate
  • reduce DHT to 5α-androstane-3α,17β-diol (3α-androstanediol; Ji et al. 2003, Rizner et al. 2003), which is then glucuronidated to form 3α-androstanediol glucuronide by the enzymes UDP glycosyltransferase 2, B15 (UGT2B15) or UGT2B17
  • DHT in prostate is inactivated by the enzyme AKR1C2, which is also termed 3α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 3 (3α-HSD type 3
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      The metabolite 3-alpha androstanediol is NOT inactive as this author states.  This DHT metabolite actually can stimulate  ER alpha receptors in the prostate.
  • AKR1C1, is also expressed in prostate. However, in contrast to AKR1C2, it converts DHT primarily to 5α-androstane-3β,17β-diol (3β-androstanediol; Steckelbroeck et al. 2004), which is a potential endogenous ligand for the estrogen receptor β
  • Significantly, intraprostatic testosterone levels were not substantially reduced relative to controls with normal serum androgen levels, although DHT levels were reduced to 18% of controls
  • testosterone levels in many of the CRPC samples were actually increased relative to control tissues (Montgomery et al. 2008). While DHT levels were less markedly increased, this may have reflected DHT catabolism
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    This article discusses the failure of androgen deprivation therapy and prostate cancer.  This failure is quite common.  The authors point to alpha-DHT as the primary mechanism through AR stimulation.  However, we know that DHT metabolites also stimulate estrogen receptors.
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Testosterone level and mortality in elderly men with systolic chronic heart failure - 0 views

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    Good article.  Heart failure in men associated with lower Total Testosterone and estimated Free Testosterone. The severity of disease was associated with lower Testosterone levels.   I wish they would have measured free levels not estimated them.   Increased SHBG concentrations was associated increased CHF as well. This study found no association with mortality.
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Age-related testosterone decline is due to waning of both testicular and hypothalamic-p... - 0 views

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    Only abstract available here, but low T is the result of primary (testicular failure) and/or secondary (HPA failure). 
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Safety and hemodynamic effects of intravenous trii... [Am J Cardiol. 1998] - PubMed result - 0 views

  • Acute intravenous administration of triiodothyronine is well tolerated in patients with advanced heart failure
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    T3 beneficial in those with acute heart failure
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Thyroid hormone abnormalities in heart failure: po... [Thyroid. 1996] - PubMed result - 0 views

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    T3 improves cardiac output in those with heart failure
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