Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: July 5

By Samantha Rossi • July 5, 2022

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The research roundup provides an overview of the past week’s research from Mayo Clinic Laboratories consultants, including featured abstracts and a complete list of published studies and reviews.

Featured Abstract

The publication impact of the first 100 THOR Network publications by bibliometric and social network analyses. 

A specialized international multidisciplinary group of investigators wanted to determine the performance and impact of publications presented at an annual conference over a 6 year period. Specifically, the group wanted to know if the influence of the conference publications extended beyond conference publication authors and attendees.

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Published to PubMed This Week

• Evaluation of PD-L1 and B7-H3 expression as a predictor of response to adjuvant chemotherapy in bladder cancer. 
  BMC urology
• Prevalence of heavy chain MGUS by race and family history risk groups using a high-sensitivity screening method. 
  Blood advances
• CSF phosphorylated tau as an indicator of subsequent tau accumulation. 
  Neurobiology of aging
• Efficacy and outcomes of faecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent clostridioides difficile infection in children with inflammatory bowel disease. 
  Journal of Crohn's & colitis
• Crosstalk between lysine methyltransferase Smyd2 and TGF-β-Smad3 signaling promotes renal fibrosis in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. 
  American journal of physiology. Renal physiology
• Eosinophilic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and associated abdominal viscera: imaging findings and diagnosis. 
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc
• Assessment of gadolinium and iodine concentrations in kidney stones and correlation with contrast agent exposure, stone matrix composition, and patient demographic factors. 
  Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology : organ of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements
• Nivolumab in patients with relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma: modest activity and cases of hyperprogression. 
  Journal for immunotherapy of cancer
• Renin production by juxtaglomerular cell tumors and clear cell renal cell carcinoma and the role of angiotensin signaling inhibitors. 
  Mayo Clinic proceedings
• Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers differentiate patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and autoimmune encephalitis. 
  European journal of neurology
• Daunorubicin-60 vs daunorubicin-90 vs idarubicin-12 for induction chemotherapy in acute myeloid leukemia: a retrospective analysis of the Mayo Clinic experience. 
  Haematologica
• Luminal androgen receptor breast cancer subtype and investigation of the microenvironment and neoadjuvant chemotherapy response. 
  NAR cancer
• Classification of BRCA2 variants of uncertain significance (VUS) using an ACMG/AMP model incorporating a homology directed repair (HDR) functional assay. 
  Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research
  

Samantha Rossi

Samantha Rossi is a Digital Marketing Manager at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. She supports marketing strategies for product management and specialty testing. Samantha has worked at Mayo Clinic since 2019.