Front Med (Lausanne)
April 2025
New disease entities have been emerging based on molecular pathological findings, such as pseudoendocrine sarcoma and mesenchymal neoplasm with gene alterations, which resemble well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors. We report a unique case of a gastric submucosal neoplasm of approximately 1.5 cm in size with mutation showing overexpression and epithelial differentiation in a 66-year-old man.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 30-year-old woman presented with infertility and irregular menstruation. Physical examination revealed obesity and slightly pale conjunctivae. Transvaginal ultrasound revealed polycystic ovary, bilateral hydrosalpinx, and endometrial thickening.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChem Pharm Bull (Tokyo)
July 2024
Although opioid analgesics are indispensable in treating pain, these drugs are accompanied by life-threatening side effects. While clinically relevant opioid drugs target the µ opioid receptor (MOR), a heterodimer between the MOR and the δ opioid receptor (DOR) has emerged as another target to develop safer analgesics. Although some heterodimer-preferring agonists have been reported so far, it is still difficult to activate the MOR/DOR heterodimer selectively in the presence of MOR or DOR monomers/homodimers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are typically characterized by activating mutations of the KIT proto-oncogene receptor tyrosine kinase (KIT) or platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (PDGFRA). Recently, the neurotrophic tyrosine receptor kinase (NTRK) fusion was reported in a small subset of wild-type GIST. We examined trk IHC and NTRK gene expressions in GIST.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn medicinal chemistry, the copper-catalyzed click reaction is used to prepare ligand candidates. This reaction is so clean that the bioactivities of the products can be determined without purification. Despite the advantages of this in situ screening protocol, the applicability of this method for transmembrane proteins has not been validated due to the incompatibility with copper catalysts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Neurol Surg Rep
April 2022
Intraosseous lipoma (IOL) is a benign bone tumor that usually arises from the lower limb and rarely arises from the skull. Radiological diagnosis of a typical case is not problematic due to its characteristic calcification and marginal sclerosis. Here, we report a case of calvarial IOL in the early stage lacking conventional radiopathological features.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study describes an autopsy case of pancreatic/peripancreatic myeloid sarcoma in a 70-year-old man, initially presenting with obstructive jaundice. Pathologically, diffuse infiltration of round cells containing atypical nuclei with marked cleavage was observed mainly in the pancreas head, peripancreatic lymph nodes, spleen, bilateral lung, and bone marrow. Immunohistochemically, the tumor cells were negative for CD20, CD79a, CD3, CD5, c-kit, CD34, and TdT and positive for myeloperoxidase, CD33, CD68, and CD163.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn intracranial collision tumor is a rare lesion composed of two histologically different neoplasms in the same anatomic location. Even more rare is the collision tumor of a solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytoma (SFT/HPC) and meningioma. The patient was a 46-year-old woman who had a 40 × 35 × 30-mm mass in the vermis of the cerebellum.
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April 2021
Dysgerminoma is a malignant ovarian germ cell tumor, and unlike sex-cord stromal tumors, endocrine manifestation is considered rare. Here, we report the first case of dysgerminoma presenting precocious puberty. The patient is a 7-year-old girl who presented with a breast development in Tanner stage 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntern Med
September 2021
Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a rare aggressive B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder that is strongly associated with immunodeficiency, most often with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, and that mainly occurs in the oral cavity. Although some clinical features can lead to a diagnosis, PBL in an extraoral site is difficult to suspect clinically in a patient who is HIV negative. The small intestine as a site of PBL has also been described very rarely.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF. The canal of Nuck is an embryological remnant of the peritoneal pouch that extends into the labium majus of women. Hydrocele is the most common presentation, but only a small number of cases are reported in association with endometriosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough the advantages of sp -rich, sterically complicated molecules in drug development have been pointed out, modern screening libraries are filled with planar, sp -rich components. Compounds that are sp -rich are difficult to synthesize, and thus we aimed to invent an efficient method to construct sp -rich libraries. By modifying sp -rich 7-azanorbornane scaffolds through click chemistry, we efficiently prepared a small set of compounds.
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