Medicine
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Pharmacological studies have found Ginkgo biloba leaves have the effect of inhibiting neoplasms, it is clinically used in treating various neoplasms. However, the mechanism of Ginkgo biloba leaves in treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains unclear. ⋯ The potential mechanism of Ginkgo biloba leaves in treating NSCLC has been discussed in this study, which provides a theoretical basis for the clinical treatment of NSCLC and further experimental validation.
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disease. Immune system cells have an important role in RA. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between disease activity, systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), and pan-immune-inflammation value (PIV) levels in RA patients. ⋯ Our findings show that PIV, and SII are easy, inexpensive and reliable markers predicting remission in RA patients. CRP was not significant compared to remission RA and control group, PIV and SII was significant and PIV has higher sensitivity and specificity than SII in the remission group in RA. Patients with high disease activity, PIV, SII, and CRP levels were effective in showing disease activity compared to RA remission group and healthy controls.