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An Observational Post-Marketing Safety Registry of Sativex® The purpose of this registry is to monitor safety outcomes of patients who are receiving Sativex® for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) spasticity and for off-label indications in the United Kingdom (UK), Germany and Sweden.

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Study to Evaluate Safety and Immunogenicity of GSK Biologicals' Pandemic Influenza (H1N1) Candidate Vaccine in Children The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and immunogenicity of two doses of the H1N1 candidate vaccine administered in children aged between 8 and 12 weeks at the time of first vaccination.

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The Physiological Impact of CTO PCI on Coronary Pressure Measurements and Correlation in Donor Vessel This study will be recording pressure wire readings from both blocked and narrowed arteries, to better guide treatment options; medications, stents or potentially bypass surgery, for patients with Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO).

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Testosterone Effects on Men With the Metabolic Syndrome The metabolic syndrome is a medical condition defined by high levels of cholesterol in the blood, high blood pressure, central obesity (gain in fat around the region of the stomach), and insulin resistance (body responds less well to insulin). This state of impaired insulin resistance can lead to type 2 diabetes mellitus, which is one of the most common metabolic disorders in the U.S. Numerous studies have shown an inverse relationship between insulin resistance and testosterone levels in men, however, causality has not been established. This protocol investigates the role of testosterone in modulating insulin sensitivity in insulin resistant states such as the metabolic syndrome. The hypothesis is that testosterone administration will improve insulin sensitivity.

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Infusion of T-Regulatory Cells in Kidney Transplant Recipients (The ONE Study) This research study is for patients who are going to receive a kidney transplant from a living donor. After kidney transplantation, it is necessary for transplant recipients to take "immunosuppressive drugs". These drugs work by preventing the body's immune cells from attacking and "rejecting" the new kidney. Taking these drugs long-term may also cause harm to the transplanted kidney. Therefore, the transplant community is very interested in finding ways to decrease immunosuppressive drug treatment and further reduce the risk of kidney rejection. One method to do so is known as "induction of tolerance", which is when the person who receives a transplant has treatment to make their immune cells tolerant to the donor cells. In this study, we will try to induce tolerance by mixing recipient cells and their donor's cells together with belatacept, an immunosuppressive drug. Belatacept is a protein that attaches to immune system cells, interferes with the immune response and results in tolerance induction. After we mix the recipient cells with the donor's cells, we will sort out one particular kind of immune cell, called a regulatory T cell, and inject them back into the recipient. Regulatory T cells are the cells that are affected by induction to reduce rejection of donated organs. This method for inducing tolerance has been used in bone marrow transplantation, but this is the first time it is being done in kidney transplantation. This study is being conducted as part of a unique collaboration of US and EU centers called The ONE Study. The ONE Study centers have agreed to work together using common protocols and procedures but with each testing their own regulatory population for safety and the ability to promote kidney survival. Sharing data among the participating sites will permit a deeper understanding of how and why some treatments might succeed while others work less well.

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Safety of BKM120 Monotherapy in Advanced Solid Tumor Patients This is a first-in-man, phase I clinical research study with BKM120, a potent and highly specific oral pan-class I phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor. The study consists of a dose escalation part followed by a MTD expansion part. Once the MTD has been defined, the MTD expansion part will be opened for enrollment.

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A Study of Etirinotecan Pegol (NKTR-102) Versus Treatment of Physician's Choice (TPC) in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer Who Have Stable Brain Metastases and Have Been Previously Treated With an Anthracycline, a Taxane, and Capecitabine This is an open-label, randomized, active comparator, multicenter, international Phase 3 study of NKTR-102 versus TPC in patients with metastatic breast cancer who have stable brain metastases and have been previously treated with an anthracycline, a taxane, and capecitabine in either the adjuvant or metastatic setting (prior anthracycline may be omitted if medically appropriate or contraindicated for the patient).

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Efficacy of Preoperative Autologous Blood Donation and Tranexamic Acid in Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty Sixty patients aged between 60 and 75 years old of both sex of ASA physical status I and II were included in this randomized study who were divided into the study group of 30 patients who had been transfused autologous blood and the control group of 30 patients who had been transfused only allogeneic blood. Parenteral iron preparation was given to all patients of the study group after each donation. Intraoperatively all patients of the study group received 2 grams of intravenous tranexamic acid. This study was conducted through the laboratory analysis of the hemoglobin and the hematocrit values during blood donation and for both groups in the pre-operative and the post-operative period and the assessment of the amount of transfused blood units in both groups.

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Irinotecan and Taxotere With Radiotherapy as Preoperative Treatment in Resectable Esophageal Cancer There is a need for more effective therapy for patients following surgery for esophageal carcinoma. Docetaxel and Irinotecan, independent of each other, have demonstrated activity in this disease. There is interest in the combination of these two active agents plus radiotherapy.

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Impact of IL-28B rs12979860 and rs4803217 Gene Polymorphisms Associated With miRNAs Deregulation on HCV-related Hepatocellular Carcinoma Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide as well as in Egypt. Despite improvements in HCC therapy, the prognosis for HCC patients remains poor. Today molecular, genomic and epigenomic aberrations in tumors are being deeply investigated. Many biomarkers were associated to HCC onset, and they could be useful for clinicians, but all show some limitations and no one is so early to predict the HCC onset. It is estimated that 51.5% of HCC cases can be attributed to HCV infection. Moreover, there is a large occult reservoir of HCV caused chronic liver disease in approximately 9 % in the Egyptian with estimated 6 million HCV chronic infections and estimated 150 000 new infections per year. Among them, we have to mention the polymorphism of IL28B gene rs12979860 C/T. and rs 4803217. The IL-28B gene encodes interferon-lambda 3 (IFN-λ3), which belongs to the type III IFN family. IFN-λ interacts with a transmembrane receptor inducing a potent antiviral response. In experimental model of HCV type III IFN was able to inhibit viral replication. IL-28B polymorphisms are linked to the efficiency of the inflammatory process during HCV infection, and to the mechanisms that HCV adopts to escape by innate and adaptive immunity. During the last years, a number of studies have assessed the association between the IL-28B polymorphisms and risk of HCC and liver cirrhosis (LC) occurrence in various populations; however, results obtained are still inconclusive. Interestingly, some polymorphisms located at the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of IL28B, e.g. rs 4803217, seem to interfere with the binding of miRNA, to date recognized as important post-transcriptional regulators. In the last years miRNAs acquired a growing relevance as potential biomarkers for several diseases including cancer, and many researches are focusing on understanding their role in cancer. Thus the objectives of the current proposal are to determine through investigating a cohort of 405 patients, whether IL28B rs12979860 and rs4803217 polymorphisms are associated to the risk of HCC in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients and, above all, to identify their role as predictor marker of HCC in CHC, when associated to miRNAs modulation. Data obtained by our work could be helpful in HCC diagnosis, thus leading to the improvement of the patients prognosis. The proposed activities are going to be implemented through a partnership us as Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH)- Dakhlya- Egypt and Non- Egyptian Partners.

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