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This section aims to allow rapid communication of innovative early phase clinical trials, where novel scientific ideas are translated to the clinic. These include clinical trials that are distinguished for their novelty in approach, design or indication, timeliness, and unique ability to translate laboratory concepts from the bench to the bedside. Manuscripts are submitted typically at the time a clinical trial has gained full regulatory approval and is being initiated. No clinical results are required. These articles review the background, rationale, clinical design and approach, translational endpoints and expected outcomes of a new clinical trial in a scholarly manner, and provide the opportunity to investigators to share their views and clinical translation efforts with a wide audience at an early stage.

Featured articles

Tianzhi granule improves cognition and BPSD of vascular dementia

Research | Jing Shi et al


Tissue microRNAs in non-small cell lung cancer detected with a new kind of liquid bead array detection system​​​​​​​

Research | Yuan-Yuan Zheng et al


The clinical application of electrical impedance technology in the detection of malignant neoplasms

Review | Angela A. Pathiraja â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹et al

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  1. Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare and aggressive tumour. For patients with inoperable disease, few treatment options are available after first line chemotherapy. The combination of ipilimumab and ...

    Authors: Vilde Drageset Haakensen, Anna K. Nowak, Espen Basmo Ellingsen, Saima Jamil Farooqi, Maria Moksnes Bjaanæs, Henrik Horndalsveen, Tine Mcculloch, Oscar Grundberg, Susana M. Cedres and Åslaug Helland
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2021 19:232
  2. Electrical impedance technology has been well established for the last 20 years. Recently research has begun to emerge into its potential uses in the detection and diagnosis of pre-malignant and malignant cond...

    Authors: Angela A. Pathiraja, Ruwan A. Weerakkody, Alexander C. von Roon, Paul Ziprin and Richard Bayford
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:227
  3. Docetaxel (DTX) is a widely used anti-tumour drug, and its dosage is solely determined by body surface area (BSA). Adverse events, such as neutropenia or unsatisfied efficacy, likely occur because of differenc...

    Authors: Ning Sun, Bo Shen, Jiali Zhu, Xiaomei Zhang, Huayun Zhu, Geyu Liang, Deliang Yang, Jianwei Lu and Yan Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:226
  4. Commonly used miRNA detection methods cannot be applied for high-throughput analyses. However, this study was aimed to performed a liquid bead array detection system (LBAS) to detect tissue 6 miRNAs in non-sma...

    Authors: Yuan-Yuan Zheng, Yun Fei, Zheng Wang, Yue Chen, Cheng Qiu and Fu-Rong Li
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:108
  5. Tianzhi granule (TZ) is usually used for patients with vascular dementia (VaD) in China. The aim was to assess the effect of TZ by a randomized clinical trial (RCT).

    Authors: Jing Shi, Mingqing Wei, Jingnian Ni, Feng Sun, Li Sun, Junfu Wang, Tao Yu, Kai Wang, Peiyuan Lv, Yunfu Wang, Yulian Zhang, Xuguang Gao, Xuanzhao Gao, Benyan Luo, Shanping Mao, Baorong Zhang…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:76
  6. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by triglyceride accumulation in the hepatocytes in the absence of alcohol overconsumption, commonly associated with insulin resistance and obesity. Bo...

    Authors: Benedetta M. Motta, Christoph Grander, Martin Gögele, Luisa Foco, Vladimir Vukovic, Roberto Melotti, Christian Fuchsberger, Alessandro De Grandi, Chiara Cantaloni, Anne Picard, Deborah Mascalzoni, Alessandra Rossini, Cristian Pattaro, Herbert Tilg and Peter P. Pramstaller
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:408
  7. Most ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed at a late stage with 85% of them relapsing after surgery and standard chemotherapy; for this reason, new treatments are urgently needed. Ovarian cancer has become a c...

    Authors: Apostolos Sarivalasis, Caroline Boudousquié, Klara Balint, Brian J. Stevenson, Philippe O. Gannon, Emanuela Marina Iancu, Laetitia Rossier, Silvia Martin Lluesma, Patrice Mathevet, Christine Sempoux, George Coukos, Urania Dafni, Alexandre Harari, Michal Bassani-Sternberg and Lana E. Kandalaft
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:391
  8. World Trade Center (WTC) responders were exposed to mixture of dust, smoke, chemicals and carcinogens. New York University (NYU) and Mount Sinai have recreated WTC exposure in rodents to observe the resulting ...

    Authors: Wil Lieberman-Cribbin, Stephanie Tuminello, Christina Gillezeau, Maaike van Gerwen, Rachel Brody, David J. Mulholland, Lori Horton, Maureen Sisco, Colette Prophete, Judith Zelikoff, Hyun-Wook Lee, Sung-Hyun Park, Lung-Chi Chen, Mitchell D. Cohen and Emanuela Taioli
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:342
  9. The role of body fat distribution in uric acid metabolism is still ambiguity. We aimed to investigate the independent contribution of visceral adipose measured by visceral adiposity index and lipid accumulatio...

    Authors: Xiaolin Huang, Xiaohong Jiang, Long Wang, Lu Chen, Yang Wu, Pei Gao and Fei Hua
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:341
  10. In colorectal cancer surgery there is a delicate balance between complete removal of the tumor and sparing as much healthy tissue as possible. Especially in rectal cancer, intraoperative tissue recognition cou...

    Authors: E. J. M. Baltussen, S. G. Brouwer de Koning, J. Sanders, A. G. J. Aalbers, N. F. M. Kok, G. L. Beets, B. H. W. Hendriks, H. J. C. M. Sterenborg, K. F. D. Kuhlmann and T. J. M. Ruers
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:333
  11. Acute traumatic cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) is a leading cause of disability in adolescents and young adults worldwide. Evidence from previous studies suggests that circulating cell-free DNA is associate...

    Authors: Hung-Chen Wang, Yu-Tsai Lin, Shih-Yuan Hsu, Nai-Wen Tsai, Yun-Ru Lai, Ben Yu-Jih Su, Chia-Te Kung and Cheng-Hsien Lu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:329
  12. Treatment with anti-PD1 monoclonal antibodies improves the survival of metastatic melanoma patients but only a subgroup of patients benefits from durable disease control. Predictive biomarkers for durable bene...

    Authors: Teofila Seremet, Yanina Jansen, Simon Planken, Hassan Njimi, Mélanie Delaunoy, Hakim El Housni, Gil Awada, Julia Katharina Schwarze, Marleen Keyaerts, Hendrik Everaert, Danielle Lienard, Véronique Del Marmol, Pierre Heimann and Bart Neyns
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:303
  13. Over many years, OM-85, a lysate of 21 common bacterial respiratory pathogens, has been demonstrated to prevent respiratory recurrences in children. However, further studies are needed to explore the true impo...

    Authors: Susanna Esposito, Sonia Bianchini, Samantha Bosis, Claudia Tagliabue, Ilaria Coro, Alberto Argentiero and Nicola Principi
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:284
  14. Hypothermia, leading to mitochondrial inhibition, is widely used to reduce ischemic injury during kidney preservation. However, the exact effect of hypothermic kidney preservation on mitochondrial function rem...

    Authors: Koen D. W. Hendriks, Isabel M. A. Brüggenwirth, Hanno Maassen, Albert Gerding, Barbara Bakker, Robert J. Porte, Robert H. Henning and Henri G. D. Leuvenink
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:265
  15. Lung cancer is the second most common cancer with an extremely poor overall survival rate. Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression play many important roles in human cancer, and one of the potential...

    Authors: Shirong Zhang, Xiaochen Zhang, Wei Lei, Jiafeng Liang, Yasi Xu, Hailiang Liu and Shenglin Ma
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:257
  16. Melanoma is one of the most aggressive cancers with extremely poor prognosis, and the median survival time for stage IV patients is approximately 6 to 8 months. Unlike cutaneous melanoma, mucosal melanoma is a...

    Authors: Longwen Xu, Zhiyuan Cheng, Chuanliang Cui, Xiaowen Wu, Huan Yu, Jun Guo and Yan Kong
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:245

    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:358

  17. Despite of medical advances, the number of patients suffering on non-healing chronic wounds is still increasing. This fact is attended by physical and emotional distress and an economic load. The majority of c...

    Authors: M. Besser, J. Terberger, L. Weber, B. Ghebremedhin, E. A. Naumova, W. H. Arnold and E. K. Stuermer
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:243
  18. Wolfram syndrome (WS), a rare genetic disorder, is considered the best prototype of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) diseases. Classical WS features are childhood-onset diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, deafness, di...

    Authors: Maria Teresa Pallotta, Giorgia Tascini, Roberta Crispoldi, Ciriana Orabona, Giada Mondanelli, Ursula Grohmann and Susanna Esposito
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:238
  19. Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a promising biomarker of early diagnosis and prediction for acute kidney injury (AKI). However, the current program for NGAL detection is not extensively ap...

    Authors: Xiaoqian Hong, Huihui Yan, Fuan Xie, Kaiyu Wang, Qiang Wang, Huijuan Huang, Kunrong Yang, Suhong Huang, Tingting Zhao, Junkai Wang, Yunyun Chen, Kuancan Liu and Xiaopeng Lan
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:204
  20. Orthostatic intolerance (OI) is a significant problem for those with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). We aimed to characterize orthostatic intolerance in CFS and to study the effects of exercise on OI.

    Authors: Richard Garner and James N. Baraniuk
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:185
  21. There is an urgent need for novel and effective treatment options for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Triptolide, a diterpenoid tri-epoxide compound isolated from the herb Tripterygium wilfordii and its water-solub...

    Authors: Bhuwan Giri, Vineet K. Gupta, Brianna Yaffe, Shrey Modi, Pooja Roy, Vrishketan Sethi, Shweta P. Lavania, Selwyn M. Vickers, Vikas Dudeja, Sulagna Banerjee, Justin Watts and Ashok Saluja
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:163

    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:301

  22. Nutrition of the newborn during the early postnatal period seems to be of capital importance and there is clinical evidence showing the protective effect of breastfeeding compared with formula feeding on child...

    Authors: Julio Alvarez-Pitti, Maria Amparo Ros-Forés, Ana Bayo-Pérez, Mariona Palou, Empar Lurbe, Andreu Palou and Catalina Picó
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:145
  23. Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) is a phenomenon, whereby repeated, non-lethal episodes of ischemia to an organ or limb exert protection against ischemia–reperfusion (I/R) injury in distant organs. Despi...

    Authors: Lars Hummitzsch, Karina Zitta, Rouven Berndt, Yuk Lung Wong, Rene Rusch, Katharina Hess, Thilo Wedel, Matthias Gruenewald, Jochen Cremer, Markus Steinfath and Martin Albrecht
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:136
  24. Low back pain has become a serious social and economic burden and the leading cause of disability worldwide. Among a variety of pathophysiological triggers, intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration plays a prima...

    Authors: Xubin Qiu, Ming Zhuang, Ziwen Lu, Zhiwei Liu, Dong Cheng, Chenlei Zhu and Jinbo Liu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:135
  25. Keto-analogues administration plays an important role in clinical chronic kidney disease (CKD) adjunctive therapy, however previous studies on their reno-protective effect mainly focused on kidney pathological...

    Authors: Meng Wang, Huzi Xu, Octavia Li-Sien Chong Lee Shin, Li Li, Hui Gao, Zhi Zhao, Fan Zhu, Han Zhu, Wangqun Liang, Kun Qian, Chunxiu Zhang, Rui Zeng, Hanjing Zhou and Ying Yao
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:122
  26. OZ439 is a new chemical entity which is active against drug-resistant malaria and shows potential as a single-dose cure. However, development of an oral formulation with desired exposure has proved problematic...

    Authors: Kurt D. Ristroph, Jie Feng, Simon A. McManus, Yingyue Zhang, Kai Gong, Hanu Ramachandruni, Claire E. White and Robert K. Prud’homme
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:97
  27. Excess dietary sodium is not only excreted by the kidneys, but can also be stored by non-osmotic binding with glycosaminoglycans in dermal connective tissue. Such storage has been associated with dermal inflam...

    Authors: Ryanne S. Hijmans, Marco van Londen, Kwaku A. Sarpong, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Gerjan J. Navis, Twan T. R. Storteboom, Wilhelmina H. A. de Jong, Robert A. Pol and Jacob van den Born
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:88
  28. There are no known objective biomarkers to assist with the diagnosis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). A small number of studies have shown that ME/CFS patients exhibit an earlier...

    Authors: Maximillian J. Nelson, Jonathan D. Buckley, Rebecca L. Thomson, Daniel Clark, Richard Kwiatek and Kade Davison
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:80
  29. Previous studies from this as well as other research groups suggested that non-invasive chromosome screening (NICS) with embryo culture medium can be used to identify chromosomal ploidy and chromosomal abnorma...

    Authors: Rui Fang, Weimin Yang, Xin Zhao, Fang Xiong, Caiqing Guo, Jianping Xiao, Li Chen, Xiaoqing Song, Honghua Wang, Jie Chen, Xiao Xiao, Bing Yao and Li-Yi Cai
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:73
  30. Visible light spectroscopy (VLS) is a technique used to measure the mucosal oxygen saturation during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy to evaluate mucosal ischemia, however in vivo validation is lacking. We aim...

    Authors: Rinse Ubbink, Louisa J. D. van Dijk, Desirée van Noord, Tanja Johannes, Patricia A. C. Specht, Marco J. Bruno and Egbert G. Mik
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:65
  31. Marshallese face significant health disparities, with particularly high rates of type 2 diabetes. Engaging stakeholders in the research process is essential to reduce health inequities.

    Authors: Pearl A. McElfish, Britni L. Ayers, Holly C. Felix, Christopher R. Long, Zoran Bursac, Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula, Sheldon Riklon, Williamina Bing, Anita Iban and Karen Hye-cheon Kim Yeary
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:42
  32. Systemic inflammation and immune dysfunction have been proved to be associated with cancer progression and metastasis in various malignancies. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the prognostic...

    Authors: Ke Zhang, Yong-Qiang Hua, Dan Wang, Lian-Yu Chen, Cai-Jun Wu, Zhen Chen, Lu-Ming Liu and Hao Chen
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:30
  33. The epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a multi-factorial biological mechanism involved in renal and hepatic fibrosis and the IL-1 beta has been assumed as a mediator of this process although data ar...

    Authors: Valentina Masola, Amedeo Carraro, Simona Granata, Lorenzo Signorini, Gloria Bellin, Paola Violi, Antonio Lupo, Umberto Tedeschi, Maurizio Onisto, Giovanni Gambaro and Gianluigi Zaza
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:12
  34. Total temporomandibular joint (TMJ) prosthesis is an effective and reliable method of joint reconstruction. However, there is still an urgent need to design a new TMJ prosthesis because of no commercially avai...

    Authors: JiSi Zheng, XuZhuo Chen, WenBo Jiang, ShanYong Zhang, MinJie Chen and Chi Yang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:4
  35. The clinical significance of fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) protein expression in pancreatic cancer is largely unknown. In this study, we aimed investigate the clinical significance of FGFR1 expre...

    Authors: Farhan Haq, You-Na Sung, Inkeun Park, Mahmood Akhtar Kayani, Faizah Yousuf, Seung-Mo Hong and Sung-Min Ahn
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:374
  36. To investigate diffusion-weighted magnetic imaging (DWI) and diffusion kurtosis magnetic imaging (DKI) for the early detection of the response to docetaxel (DTX) chemotherapy in rat epithelial ovarian cancer (...

    Authors: Su-juan Yuan, Tian-kui Qiao and Jin-Wei Qiang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:340
  37. Recent studies have suggested a possible association between heparin treatment at the time of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing and a non-reportable result. However, these studies lack of proper methodology and ha...

    Authors: Yohann Dabi, Sarah Guterman, Jacques C. Jani, Alexandra Letourneau, Adèle Demain, Pascale Kleinfinger, Laurence Lohmann, Jean-Marc Costa and Alexandra Benachi
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:335
  38. While auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) is a heterogeneous disorder and its management quite varies depending upon the etiology, even including self-resolution, OTOF is an important molecular etiology ...

    Authors: Bong Jik Kim, Jeong Hun Jang, Jin Hee Han, Hye-Rim Park, Doo Yi Oh, Seungmin Lee, Min Young Kim, Ah Reum Kim, Chung Lee, Nayoung K. D. Kim, Woong-Yang Park, Yun-Hoon Choung and Byung Yoon Choi
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:330
  39. The prognostic impact of surgical paraaortic staging remains unclear in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC). The objective of our study was to evaluate the survival impact of surgical staging...

    Authors: Yohann Dabi, Vanille Simon, Xavier Carcopino, Sofiane Bendifallah, Lobna Ouldamer, Vincent Lavoue, Geoffroy Canlorbe, Emilie Raimond, Charles Coutant, Olivier Graesslin, Pierre Collinet, Alexandre Bricou, Emile Daraï, Cyrille Huchon, Marcos Ballester, Bassam Haddad…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:326
  40. The diagnosis of metastasis by sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in early breast cancer surgery provides an accurate view of the state of metastases to the axillary lymph nodes, and it has now become the stand...

    Authors: Koji Takada, Shinichiro Kashiwagi, Wataru Goto, Yuka Asano, Katsuyuki Takahashi, Hisakazu Fujita, Tsutomu Takashima, Shuhei Tomita, Kosei Hirakawa and Masaichi Ohira
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:318
  41. The prognosis of breast cancer and the treatment response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) differ depending on the intrinsic molecular subtypes. We evaluated the prognostic significance of immunohistological ...

    Authors: Wataru Goto, Shinichiro Kashiwagi, Koji Takada, Yuka Asano, Katsuyuki Takahashi, Hisakazu Fujita, Tsutomu Takashima, Shuhei Tomita, Kosei Hirakawa and Masaichi Ohira
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:307
  42. The pharmaceutical industry is in the midst of a productivity crisis and rates of translation from bench to bedside are dismal. Patients are being let down by the current system of drug discovery; of the sever...

    Authors: Pandora Pound and Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:304
  43. We have previously shown that podocalyxin-like protein (PODXL) is a prognostic biomarker for poor survival in gastric and esophageal adenocarcinoma treated with surgery up-front. The aim of the present study w...

    Authors: David Borg, Anna H. Larsson, Charlotta Hedner, Björn Nodin, Anders Johnsson and Karin Jirström
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:290
  44. Liquid biopsy approaches, such as measuring circulating tumour cells (CTCs), have recently been introduced in several clinical studies. However, the development of CTCs as a predictive marker for treatment eff...

    Authors: Yoshiya Horimoto, Emi Tokuda, Fumi Murakami, Toshitaka Uomori, Takanori Himuro, Katsuya Nakai, Gotaro Orihata, Kotaro Iijima, Shinsaku Togo, Hideo Shimizu and Mitsue Saito
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:287
  45. World Trade Center (WTC) responders were exposed to mixture of dust, smoke, chemicals and carcinogens. Studies of cancer incidence in this population have reported elevated risks of cancer compared to the gene...

    Authors: Wil Lieberman-Cribbin, Stephanie Tuminello, Christina Gillezeau, Maaike van Gerwen, Rachel Brody, Michael Donovan and Emanuela Taioli
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:280
  46. Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) results in sensory and motor function impairment and may cause a substantial social and economic burden. For the implementation of novel treatment strategies, parallel develo...

    Authors: Adriano Wang-Leandro, Marc K. Hobert, Sabine Kramer, Karl Rohn, Veronika M. Stein and Andrea Tipold
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:258
  47. Radiation-induced kidney damage can severely affect renal function, and have a serious impact on glucose reabsorption. Fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) is routinely utilized for met...

    Authors: Yu-Guang Tian, Min Yue, Bayaer Nashun, Shao-Jie Wu, Wei-Wang Gu and Yu-Jue Wang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:257

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