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Data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's post hoc test (P = 0.05). There was a significant difference between the groups (P  less then  0.001). Teeth restored with FRC and ceramic overlays had the highest load-bearing capacity. Pulp chamber restoration with either FRC or SDR before ceramic overlay fabrication provided significantly better tooth reinforcement than ceramic overlay alone (P  less then  0.001). Fracture modes were analyzed to determine the type of fracture as repairable or catastrophic, where FRC + CO and SDR + CO groups had favorable fracture modes that were mostly repairable. When restoring root canal-treated molars with overlays, the pulp chamber should be sealed with either FRC or SDR to ensure the best possible fracture resistance. The clinical relevance of the study is that a new simple restorative protocol is presented to enhance the survival of root canal-treated molars using ceramic overlays.Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) is a form of resource governance that has been widely popularized across southern Africa. CBNRM consists of three main goals or pillars which include economic development, environmental conservation, and community empowerment. It is intended to devolve control of certain natural resources from national government to local communities. The idea being that local residents will manage resources more sustainably and break neopatrimonial webs that have led to mismanagement and protracted underdevelopment. However, with communities there are important politics that often go understudied and there are instances where the same type of issues that going local was intended to circumvent, are re-engendered at the local level. Beyond this, CBNRM cannot only be understood as a form of domestic resource governance that happens in a vacuum and instead there are important politics and power imbalances between local, national, and global actors, that sees the will of some win out over others. As a result of these power asymmetries, I argue that the three goals of CBNRM form a trilemma in which the realization of one goal undermines success in achieving one or both of the others. As a result, CBNRM programs have failed to achieve the success proponents envision. Thus, it becomes integral to understand and account for the politics involved, rather than to analyze CBNRM as an apolitical policy fix for domestic conservation as much of the literature presents it as.
Primary tumor resection is the mainstay of treatment for undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS); however, the necessity of adjuvant chemotherapy has been debated. We aimed to clarify the effect of adjuvant chemotherapy on survival rates in patients with UPS with localized and resectable primary lesions.

This retrospective analysis included data of 2112 patients with localized UPS arising in the extremities and trunk, extracted from a registry in Japan. We estimated overall survival (OS), identified prognostic factors, and adjusted patient characteristics in the two groups treated with or without chemotherapy using propensity score matching (PSM).

The 5-year OS rate was 79.4%. In multivariate OS analysis, adjuvant chemotherapy was a good prognostic factor (hazard ratio 0.65; 95% confidence interval 0.48-0.9, P = 0.009). Large tumor size was the poorest prognostic factor, and OS decreased with the tumor size (P < 0.0001). In all patients, adjuvant chemotherapy prolonged OS (5-year OS 82.3% vs. 78.6%, P = 0.03). Adjuvant chemotherapy did not affect OS in patients with tumor size < 5cm; the benefit was strong in patients with tumor size 10 to < 15cm (5-year OS 79.5% vs. 66.8%, P = 0.003). Adjuvant chemotherapy efficacy was not pronounced in patients with tumor size 5 to < 10cm (5-year OS 87% vs. 80%, P = 0.06) and ≥ 15cm (5-year OS 60.7% vs. 49.5%, P = 0.08). After PSM, adjuvant chemotherapy was significantly associated with improved OS (P = 0.02).

In patients with localized UPS, adjuvant chemotherapy tended to improve OS when tumors were ≥ 5cm, especially when they were 10 to < 15cm.
In patients with localized UPS, adjuvant chemotherapy tended to improve OS when tumors were ≥ 5 cm, especially when they were 10 to  less then  15 cm.The management of brain tumors developed in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) is challenging because of their histological heterogeneity and low incidence. The brain tumor and its treatment interventions can negatively affect neurological, neurocognitive, and endocrinological function, and dramatically affect the circumstances of AYA patients progressing to further education, employment, and marriage. Specific support is thus necessary to maintain the quality of life (QOL) of AYA brain tumor patients. AYA patients and survivors require active intervention and support for returning to school or work, progressing to further education, finding employment, and preserving fertility. Recent cancer genome profiling revealed that AYA gliomas include pediatric- and adult-type genetic alteration. Insights into the biology underlying the distribution of tumors in AYAs may influence the development of prospective trials. A more individualized view of brain tumors may influence stratification of patients' in future clinical studies as well as selection for molecular targeted therapy. Here I review strategies for achieving a better outcome to decrease late effects and improve QOL.The possibility to prepare molecularly imprinted nanoparticles from silk fibroin was recently demonstrated starting from methacrylated silk fibroin and choosing a protein as template. Here, we attempted the imprinting of fibroin-based molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), called bioMIPs, using as a template hepcidin that is a iron-metabolism regulator-peptide, possessing a hairpin structure. A homogeneous population (PDI less then 0.2) of bioMIPs with size ~50 nm was produced. The bioMIPs were selective for the template; the estimated dissociation constant for hepcidin was KD = 3.6 ± 0.5 10-7 M and the average number of binding sites per bioMIP was equal to 2. The bioMIPs used in a competitive assay for hepcidin in serum showed a detection range of 1.01 10-7- 6.82 10-7 M and a limit of detection of 3.29 10-8 M.
To compare the MRI-derived liver surface nodularity (LSN) scores acquired on both 1.5T and 3T.

Forty chronic liver disease patients who underwent gadoxetic acid-enhanced MRI at both 1.5 and 3T were included. Axial hepatobiliary phase images with the same voxel size were used to calculate the LSN score in both liver lobes with a quantitative software. Rank correlation, Wilcoxon test, and Bland-Altman limits of agreement were used for statistical analysis.

There was a weak correlation between the right and left liver lobe on 1.5T (r
 = 0.331, p = 0.037) and 3T (r
 = 0.381, p = 0.015). The correlation between 1.5T and 3T on both liver lobes showed a very strong correlation (right, r
 = 0.927, p < 0.001; left, r
 = 0.845, p < 0.001). LSN scores differed significantly between both lobes on 1.5T (median, 1.201 vs. 0.674, right vs. left) and 3T (1.076 vs. 0.592) (all p < 0.001). LSN scores differed significantly between 1.5T and 3T on both lobes (all p < 0.001). The Bland-Altman plot comparing 1.5T and 3T on right and left liver lobes showed a systemic bias of 0.08 and 0.07, respectively.

LSN scores differed significantly on 1.5T vs. 3T and right vs. left liver lobe. Caution should be made when comparing LSN scores derived from different field strengths or the hepatic lobe. Interplatform, interlobar reproducibility should be resolved to use LSN scores, which is relatively easy to perform without additional hardware or images.
LSN scores differed significantly on 1.5 T vs. 3 T and right vs. left liver lobe. Caution should be made when comparing LSN scores derived from different field strengths or the hepatic lobe. Interplatform, interlobar reproducibility should be resolved to use LSN scores, which is relatively easy to perform without additional hardware or images.Adrenergic β receptor activation may ameliorate amyloid β toxicity. We examined whether isoproterenol, an adrenergic β receptor agonist reduces neurodegeneration caused by Aβ1-42, for which intracellular Zn2+ dysregulation is a trigger. Neurodegeneration was assessed in the dentate granule cell layer 14 days after intracerebroventricular injection of human Aβ1-42 into the mouse brain. Neurodegeneration was canceled after co-injection of isoproterenol. Isoproterenol did not affect Aβ staining (uptake) in the dentate granule cell layer 1 h after Aβ injection. In contrast, isoproterenol reduced intracellular Zn2+ level increased by Aβ. The synthesis of intracellular metallothioneins (MTs), Zn2+-binding proteins was not enhanced in the dentate granule cell layer 24 h after Aβ1-42 injection, but significantly enhanced after co-injection of isoproterenol. These data indicate that isoproterenol enhances MT synthesis and cancels neurodegeneration via intracellular Zn2+ toxicity after Aβ1-42 injection. It is likely that MT synthesis enhanced by adrenergic β receptor-mediated signaling contributes to ameliorating Aβ1-42 toxicity in the brain.
Controlled hypotension is an important tool in the open treatment of complex intracranial aneurysms. Of the available methodologies, rapid ventricular pacing (RVP) provides titratable, sustained hypotension with a relatively safe profile.

We report the case of a 63-year-old woman who underwent a combined subfrontal and subtemporal approach for clipping of anterior communicating artery and basilar apex aneurysms. RVP was used during initial dissection of the basilar apex aneurysm and perforators but caused uncontrolled ventricular tachycardia requiring synchronized defibrillation. After restoration of hemodynamic stability, the aneurysm was uneventfully clipped.

Preparation for unstable cardiac arrhythmias is needed with RVP.
Preparation for unstable cardiac arrhythmias is needed with RVP.Meiotic homologous chromosomes synapse and undergo crossing over (CO). In many eukaryotes, both synapsis and crossing over require the induction of double stranded breaks (DSBs) and subsequent repair via homologous recombination. In these organisms, two key proteins are recombinases RAD51 and DMC1. Recombinase-modulators HOP2 and MND1 assist RAD51 and DMC1 and also are required for synapsis and CO. We have investigated the hop2-1 phenotype in Arabidopsis during the segregation stages of both meiosis and mitosis. Despite a general lack of synapsis during prophase I, we observed extensive, stable interconnections between nonhomologous chromosomes in diploid hop2-1 nuclei in first and second meiotic divisions. Using γH2Ax as a marker of unrepaired DSBs, we detected γH2AX foci from leptotene through early pachytene but saw no foci from mid-pachytene onward. We conclude that the bridges seen from metaphase I onward are due to mis-repaired DSBs, not unrepaired ones. see more Examining haploids, we found that wild type haploting a role for HOP2 beyond its established role in synapsis and crossing over.
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