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The evolution of key innovations-unique features that enable a lineage to interact with the environment in a novel way-may drive broad patterns of adaptive diversity. However, traditional tests of the key innovation hypothesis, those which attempt to identify the evolutionary effect of a purported key innovation by comparing patterns of diversity between lineages with and without the key trait, have been challenged on both conceptual and statistical grounds. Here, we explore alternative, untested hypotheses of the key innovation framework. In lizards, adhesive toepad structures increase grip strength on vertical and smooth surfaces such as tree trunks and leaves and have independently evolved multiple times. As such, toepads have been posited as a key innovation for the evolution of arboreality. Leveraging a habitat use dataset applied to a global phylogeny of 2692 lizard species, we estimated multiple origins of toepads in three major clades and more than 100 origins of arboreality widely across the phylogeny. Our results suggest that toepads arise adaptively in arboreal lineages and are subsequently rarely lost while maintaining arboreal ecologies. Padless lineages transition away from arboreality at a higher rate than those with toepads, and high rates of invasion of arboreal niches by non-arboreal padbearing lineages provides further evidence that toepads may be a key to unlocking evolutionary access to the arboreal zone. Our results and analytical framework provide novel insights to understand and evaluate the ecological and evolutionary consequences of key innovations.Originally developed to inform the acute toxicity of chemicals on fish, the zebrafish embryotoxicity test (ZET) has also been proposed for assessing the prenatal developmental toxicity of chemicals, potentially replacing mammalian studies. While extensively evaluated in primary studies, a comprehensive review summarizing the available evidence for the ZET's capacity is lacking. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review of how well the presence or absence of exposure-related findings in the ZET predict prenatal development toxicity in studies with rats and rabbits. A two-tiered systematic review of the developmental toxicity literature was performed, a review of the ZET literature was followed by one of the mammalian literature. Data were extracted using DistillerSR, and study validity was assessed with an amended SYRCLE's risk-of-bias tool. Extracted data were analyzed for each species and substance, which provided the basis for comparing the two test methods. While limited by the number of 24 included chemicals, our results suggest that the ZET has potential to identify chemicals that are mammalian prenatal developmental toxicants, with a tendency for overprediction. Furthermore, our analysis confirmed the need for further standardization of the ZET. In addition, we identified contextual and methodological challenges in the application of systematic review approaches to toxicological questions. One key to overcoming these challenges is a transition to more comprehensive and transparent planning, conduct and reporting of toxicological studies. The first step towards bringing about this change is to create broad awareness in the toxicological community of the need for and benefits of more evidence-based approaches.
Activity of the sympathetic nervous system is increased in patients with hypertension and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Here we compare short- and long-term blood pressure (BP) lowering effects of renal denervation (RDN) between hypertensive patients with or without CKD in the Global SYMPLICITY Registry.

Office and 24-hour ambulatory BP (ABP) were assessed at pre-specified time-points after RDN. The presence of CKD was defined according to estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and enrolled patients were stratified based on the presence (N = 475, eGFR < 60 ml/min/1.73m2) or absence (N = 1505, eGFR ≥ 60ml/min/1.73m2) of CKD.

Patients with CKD were older (p < 0.001) and were prescribed more antihypertensive medications (p < 0.001). eGFR-decline/year was not significantly different between groups after the first year. Office and 24-hour ABP were significantly reduced from baseline at all timepoints after RDN in both groups (all p < 0.001). After adjusting for baseline data, patients without CKD had a greater reduction in office systolic BP (-17.3 ± 28.3 vs. -11.7 ± 29.9 mmHg, p = 0.009), but not diastolic BP at 36 months compared to those with CKD. Similar BP and eGFR-results were found when the analysis was limited to patients with both baseline and 36-month BP data available. 3,4-Dichlorophenyl isothiocyanate There was no difference in the safety profile of the RDN-procedure between groups.

After adjusting for baseline data, 24-hour systolic and diastolic ABP reduction was similar in patients with and without CKD after RDN, whereas office systolic but not diastolic BP was reduced less in patients with CKD. We conclude that RDN emerged as an effective antihypertensive treatment option in CKD patients.
After adjusting for baseline data, 24-hour systolic and diastolic ABP reduction was similar in patients with and without CKD after RDN, whereas office systolic but not diastolic BP was reduced less in patients with CKD. We conclude that RDN emerged as an effective antihypertensive treatment option in CKD patients.
Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) including mind-body medicine (MBM) is a treatment option that has been proven to alleviate symptoms in patients with low back and neck pain.

Prevalence and predictors of MBM use and consultation of CIM practitioners in patients with low back and neck pain in the American adult population are examined using data from the National Center for Health Statisticś National Health Interview Survey, 2017.

A weighted total of 81,671,436 (33.1%) participants reported low back and neck pain. Of those, more participants used mantra meditation, mindfulness meditation, spiritual meditation, guided imagery, and progressive relaxation compared to participants without low back and neck pain (all p <0.001). Spiritual meditation was the most popular (12.6%) followed by mindfulness meditation (6.9%) and progressive relaxation (5.4%). Participants with low back and neck pain consulted practitioners for CIM more often than those without (p < 0.001). MBM use was predicted by being female, having a higher educational level, being employed, and living in the Western United States. Consultation of practitioners for CIM was predicted by younger age, being female, not being married or living with a partner, having a higher educational level, being employed, living in the Western United States, and being uninsured.

MBM is a popular treatment option for people with low back and neck pain. Practitioners for CIM are also being sought out by people with such complaints. Further research in this direction is relevant.
MBM is a popular treatment option for people with low back and neck pain. Practitioners for CIM are also being sought out by people with such complaints. Further research in this direction is relevant.
Recently, patients with cT4b esophageal cancer often require conversion surgery following induction therapy, for which the standard procedure is open esophagectomy. However, thoracoscopic esophagectomy, including thoracoscopic esophagectomy in the prone position, is increasingly used. We compared short-term outcomes of thoracoscopic esophagectomy and open esophagectomy in this setting.

We retrospectively analyzed 14 patients who underwent thoracoscopic esophagectomy, and 10 who underwent open esophagectomy, for locally advanced unresectable esophageal cancer after induction therapy between March 2007 and July 2020.

The two groups did not significantly differ in patient background. Median total and thoracic surgical times were both significantly longer for open esophagectomy than for thoracoscopic esophagectomy. Median blood loss was also greater in the open esophagectomy group than in the thoracoscopic esophagectomy group. The thoracoscopic esophagectomy group also had significantly shorter median chest drain duration; and lower C-reactive protein levels on the second and third postoperative days. The two groups did not significantly differ in total complications or postoperative hospital stay.

Thoracoscopic esophagectomy is as safe and feasible as open esophagectomy for conversion surgery after induction therapy for locally advanced unresectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
Thoracoscopic esophagectomy is as safe and feasible as open esophagectomy for conversion surgery after induction therapy for locally advanced unresectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.Macropinocytosis allows cells to take up extracellular material in a non-selective manner into large vesicles called macropinosomes. After internalization, macropinosomes acquire phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PtdIns3P) on their limiting membrane as they mature into endosomal-like vesicles. The molecular mechanisms that underlie recycling of membranes and transmembrane proteins from these macropinosomes still need to be defined. Here, we report that JIP4 (officially known as SPAG9), a protein previously described to bind to microtubule motors, is recruited to tubulating subdomains on macropinosomes by the PtdIns3P-binding protein Phafin2 (officially known as PLEKHF2). These JIP4-positive tubulating subdomains on macropinosomes contain F-actin, the retromer recycling complex and the retromer cargo VAMP3. Disruption of the JIP4-Phafin2 interaction, deletion of Phafin2 or inhibition of PtdIns3P production by VPS34 impairs JIP4 recruitment to macropinosomes. Whereas knockout of JIP4 suppresses tubulation, its overexpression enhances tubulation from macropinosomes. JIP4-knockout cells display increased retention of macropinocytic cargo in both early and late macropinosomes. Collectively, these data identify JIP4 and Phafin2 as components of a tubular recycling pathway that operates from macropinosomes. This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.Pelvis radiography is a frequent X-ray examination. The objective of our study was to determine the minimum dose to be delivered without reducing the quality. We included 60 children having a pelvis X-ray in four groups that were equally represented by weight ranges. A software simulated, for each radiograph, six additional simulated photonic noise images corresponding to 100, 80, 64, 50, 40 and 32% of the initial dose. The 360 radiographs were blindly scored by two radiologists using a semi-quantitative Likert scale. There was no significant difference in scoring between the reference radiograph and simulated radiographs at 80% of the dose in children between 0 and 15 kg and over 35 kg. Inter-observer reproducibility was moderate to very good. Pelvis X-ray doses might be reduced by 20% in children in our institution. Software that produces simulated X-ray with decreasing dose might be a useful tool for an optimization process.The COVID-19 pandemic has increased relationships and interactions between human and companion animals, supported by widespread social distancing and isolation measures. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an exponential growth in antibiotic and biocide use worldwide, possibly inducing further pressure, contributing to the selection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including WHO critical priority pathogens. While data from global surveillance studies reveal a linear trend of increasing carbapenem resistance among Gram-negative pathogens from companion animals, the acquisition of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales through direct contact with colonized hosts and contaminated veterinary hospital environments has been documented. This article highlights the rapid spread of WHO critical priority carbapenemase-producing pathogens in companion animals, which is a One Health challenge for a post-pandemic world.
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