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  For advanced tumors that lack specific oncogenic alteration and are resistant to chemotherapy, anti-angiogenesis therapy or immunotherapy or a combination of the two are the most important treatments. Anlotinib is a newly developed oral small molecule receptor tyrosine kinases inhibitor with the potency of inhibiting tumor angiogenesis. This was an open-label, single-arm, phase 2 study to validate the efficacy and safety of anlotinib in patients with various cancer types.
 
  Patients with advanced malignancy who have failed previous therapies or lack effective treatment choices received daily oral administration of 12mg anlotinib on days 1-14 every 3weeks until disease progression, intolerable toxicity or physician decision. The primary endpoint was objective response rate (ORR).
 
  A total of 93 eligible patients with 26 different cancer types were enrolled. The overall ORR was 21.5%. The median PFS was 5.7months and median OS was 12.0months. The most common treatment-related AE of all grades and of grade 3 was both hypertriglyceridemia at an incidence of 40.9% and 5.4%, respectively.
 
  Anlotinib exhibits objective efficacy and safety in advanced malignancy and might be a possible treatment option for many types of cancer patients who have failed prior treatment and with no optimal therapy regimen.
 Anlotinib exhibits objective efficacy and safety in advanced malignancy and might be a possible treatment option for many types of cancer patients who have failed prior treatment and with no optimal therapy regimen.
  The levator plate descent angle (LPDA) quantifies the levator plate position with reference to the pubic bone and perineal body at rest. Unfortunately, research on this notable new parameter is lacking, but it is clear that levator ani deficiency (LAD) will undermine the fundamental role of the levator ani muscle (LAM) in organ support. The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between the LPDA and LAD in patients with pelvic floor disorders.
 
  This retrospective study was conducted at Seoul Songdo Hospital, Korea between August 2019 and August 2020 on women with symptoms of pelvic floor disorder such as urinary incontinence, constipation, and fecal incontinence. In all cases, three-dimensional pelvic floor ultrasound was performed for LAD scoring, minimal levator hiatus, and LPDA evaluation. We evaluated LAD using a scoring system that graded levator injury according to the insertion point of each subdivision scored unilaterally. For the entire LAM group, a cumulative LAD score that ranged bects.
 The LAD score and LPDA have a moderate negative correlation. In patients with severe pelvic floor symptoms and extensive LAM injury, high LAD scores and low LPDA results were confirmed. In the treatment of patients with pelvic floor disorders, the LPDA seems to be a very useful parameter in determining the severity of structural defects.The present study was designed to evaluate the age-related changes in biometal and antimicrobial peptide (cathelicidin) concentration and their role in oxidative cum pro-inflammatory cascade in an ovine animal model. Clinically healthy ovine (n = 126) were grouped as Group I (n = 55, age = up to 3 years), Group II (n = 52, age = above 3-below 6 years) and Group III (n = 19, age = 6 years above).  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/alantolactone.html  Samples (aqueous humour and lens of the eye) were collected stored at - 80 °C till further analysis. In aqueous humour, the concentration of zinc (p  less then  0.001 in group III), copper (p  less then  0.05 in group II and p  less then  0.001 group III) and iron (p  less then  0.05 in group III) were significantly increased compared to group I. While as the concentration of magnesium were significantly decreased in group II (p  less then  0.001) and group III (p  less then  0.05) compared to group I. Similarly in eye lens the level of copper remained uniform as no significant change was observed across different ages, oxidative stress and pro-inflammatory cytokines. These changes might help understand age-related changes in pathogenesis and effective targeting of pathogenetic pathways in ocular diseases.
  There is a well-recognized male excess in childhood cancer incidence; however, it is unclear whether there is etiologic heterogeneity by sex when defined by epidemiologic risk factors.
 
  Using a 5-state registry-linkage study (cases n = 16,411; controls n = 69,816), we estimated sex-stratified odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) between birth and demographic characteristics for 16 pediatric cancers. Evidence of statistical interaction (p-interaction < 0.01) by sex was evaluated for each characteristic in each cancer.
 
  Males comprised > 50% of cases for all cancers, except Wilms tumor (49.6%). Sex interacted with a number of risk factors (all p-interaction < 0.01) including gestational age for ALL (female, 40 vs. 37-39weeks OR 0.84, 95% CI 0.73-0.97) and ependymoma (female, 40 vs. 37-39 OR 1.78, 95% CI 1.14-2.79; female, ≥ 41 OR 2.01. 95% CI 1.29-3.14), birth order for AML (female,  ≥ 3rd vs. 1st OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.01-1.92), maternal education for Hodgkin lymphoma (male, any college vs. < high school[HS] OR 1.47, 95% CI 1.03-2.09) and Wilms tumor (female, any college vs. HS OR 0.74, 95% CI 0.59-0.93), maternal race/ethnicity for neuroblastoma (male, black vs. white OR 2.21, 95% CI 1.21-4.03; male, Hispanic vs. white OR 1.86, 95% CI 1.26-2.75; female, Asian/Pacific Islander vs. white OR 0.28, 95% CI 0.12-0.69), and paternal age (years) for hepatoblastoma in males (< 24 vs. 25-29 OR 2.17, 95% CI 1.13-4.19; ≥ 35 vs. 25-29 OR 2.44, 95% CI 1.28-4.64).
 
  These findings suggest etiologic heterogeneity by sex for childhood cancers for gestational age, maternal education, and race/ethnicity and paternal age.
 These findings suggest etiologic heterogeneity by sex for childhood cancers for gestational age, maternal education, and race/ethnicity and paternal age.