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During the last 2 decades, new treatment methods have been developed for the surgical removal of second branchial cysts which result in less visible scars. The aim of this systematic review is to assess which surgical technique for second branchial arch cyst removal results in the lowest complication and recurrence rates with the highest scar satisfaction.

Two authors systematically reviewed the literature in the Cochrane, PubMed, and EMBASE databases (search date 1975 to December 2nd, 2020) to identify studies comparing surgical outcomes of second branchial arch cyst removal. Authors appraised selected studies on directness of evidence and risk of bias. Results are reported according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement.

Out of the 2442 retrieved articles, 4 articles were included in the current review including a total of 140 operated cysts. Only 2 studies included pre-operatively infected cysts. Follow up ranged from 3 to 24 months. Complication rates ranged months after surgery in comparison to the conventional technique. Future studies are needed to support these findings.Intraperitoneal injection of amylin or its analog reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in the brains. However, self-injecting amylin analogs is difficult for patients due to cognitive deficits. This work aims to study the effects of amylin on the brain could be achieved by oral delivery as some study reported that amylin receptor may be present in the gastrointestinal tract. A 6-week course of oral amylin treatment reduced components of AD pathology, including the levels of amyloid-β, phosphorylated tau, and ionized calcium binding adaptor molecule 1. The treatment reduced active forms of cyclin-dependent kinase 5. Oral amylin treatment led to improvements in social deficit in AD mouse. Using immunofluorescence, we observed the amylin receptor complexed with the calcitonin receptor and receptor activity-modifying proteins in the enteric neurons. The study suggests the potential of the oral delivery of amylin analogs for the treatment of AD and other neurodegenerative diseases through enteric neurons.Background A comprehensive approach to drug repositioning will be required to overcome translational hurdles and identify more neuroprotective drugs. Results & methods Gene Set Enrichment Analysis was applied to identify related pathways and enriched genes. Candidate genes were optimized using ToppGene, ToppGenet and pBRIT. From the perspective of the local structures, gene-domain-substructure-drug relationships were constructed. Using the MCODE algorithm and K-means clustering, 31 functional subnetworks were obtained, and 252 drugs with proposed neuroprotective function were identified. Using computational analysis, 72 substructures with different scores were found to correspond to neuroprotective functions. The protective effects of benidipine and barnidipine were confirmed in vitro. Conclusion The authors' research has great potential to discover more neuroprotective drugs and obtain more information regarding mechanisms of action and functional substructures.Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease are the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases and the leading causes of dementia worldwide. The etiology of these multifactorial pathologies is not completely known. The available therapeutic approaches can cause temporary relief of symptoms but cannot slow down their progression or cure them. Life-changing therapeutic solutions are urgently needed, as the number of people suffering from these pathologies has been increasing quickly over the last few decades. Several targets are being studied, and innovative approaches are being pursued to find new therapeutic options. This overview is focused on the most recent information regarding the paradigm of using multitarget compounds to treat both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.This paper reports an unprecedented trifunctionalization of tertiary enaminones for the synthesis phosphoryl nitriles by the reactions of enaminones with diarylphosphine oxides and trimethylsilyl cyanide (TMSCN) without the use of any metal reagent. Elenbecestat Employing tetrabutyl ammonium hydroxide (TBAH) as the catalyst (0.2 equiv) enables discrete cyanophosphonation. On the other hand, selective proximal cyanophosphonation has been realized in the presence of acetic acid only (AcOH).The dengue virus protease (DENV-PR) represents an attractive target for counteracting DENV infections. It is generally assumed that DENV-PR can exist in an open and a closed conformation and that active site directed ligands stabilize the closed state. While crystal structures of both the open and the closed conformation were successfully resolved, information about the prevalence of these conformations in solution remains elusive. Herein, we address the question of whether there is an equilibrium between different conformations in solution which can be influenced by addition of a competitive inhibitor. To this end, DENV-PR was statistically labeled by two dye molecules constituting a FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) couple. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and photon-burst detection were employed to examine FRET pair labeled DENV-PRs freely diffusing in solution. The measurements were performed with two double mutants and with two dye couples. The data provide strong evidence that an equilibrium of at least two conformations of DENV-PR exists in solution. The competitive inhibitor stabilizes the closed state. Because the open and closed conformations appear to coexist in solution, our results support the picture of a conformational selection rather than that of an induced fit mechanism with respect to the inhibitor-induced formation of the closed state.To study the electronic structures and properties of [Crn(L)4Cl2] (n = 3, L = dpa di(2-pyridyl)amido; n = 5, L = tpda tripyridyldiamido; n = 7, L = teptra tetrapyridyltriamine) metal string complexes, the BP86 method was used by considering the influence of the electric field (EF) applied parallel to the metal axis. As the EF increases, the migration of more positively charged Crodd is more significant than that of Creven, which results in alternating long-short Cr-Cr bonds. This happens because of the natural charges on the Crodd of 1-3, which are more electropositive than those on Creven. The electrons are pulled to the Cr and Cl(r) atoms at the high-potential side from Cl(l) at the low-potential side by the EF, which leads to asymmetrical FMOs. After the critical electric field (Ec), the configuration turns into a remarkably asymmetric one with alternating Cr-Cr quadruple bonds and weak interactions. The electrons are transferred from equatorial ligands (L) to metal chains. In the meantime, the asymmetry of the FMOs increases and the delocalization is further reduced, which affects the conductivity. Especially for [Cr7(teptra)4Cl2], the delocalized electrons of HOMO are completely transformed into a localized model after the critical electric field. It is observed that this supports the electric switching phenomenon ascribed to the conformations of delocalized and localized electrons. In addition, the longer the length of the metal chain, the smaller the Ec and the easier is for the complexes to be polarized by the EF.Photooxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produces secondary organic aerosol (SOA) and light-absorbing brown carbon (BrC) via multiple reaction steps/pathways, reflecting significant chemical complexity relevant to gaseous oxidation and subsequent gas-to-particle conversion. Toluene is an important VOC under urban conditions, but the fundamental chemical mechanism leading to SOA formation remains uncertain. Here, we elucidate multigeneration SOA production from toluene by simultaneously tracking the evolutions of gas-phase oxidation and aerosol formation in a reaction chamber. Large size increase and browning of monodisperse sub-micrometer seed particles occur shortly after initiating oxidation by hydroxyl radical (OH) at 10-90% relative humidity (RH). The evolution in gaseous products and aerosol properties (size/density/optical properties) and chemical speciation of aerosol-phase products indicate that the aerosol growth and browning result from earlier generation products consisting dominantly of dicarbonyl and carboxylic functional groups. While volatile dicarbonyls engage in aqueous reactions to yield nonvolatile oligomers and light-absorbing nitrogen heterocycles/heterochains (in the presence of NH3) at high RH, organic acids contribute to aerosol carboxylates via ionic dissociation or acid-base reaction in a wide RH range. We conclude that toluene contributes importantly to SOA/BrC formation from dicarbonyls and organic acids because of their prompt and high yields from photooxidation and unique functionalities for participation in aerosol-phase reactions.Photothermal/electrothermal advanced functional form-stable phase change materials (FSPCMs) can efficiently make use of solar energy and electrical energy by using supporting materials to encapsulate phase change materials. Herein, a novel low-cost integrated supporting material, denoted PDVB-12/PPy NTs, is quickly constructed via wrapping the polypyrrole (PPy) on the mesoporous polydivinylbenzene nanotubes (PDVB-12 NTs) through a fast oxidative initiation method. PDVB-12/PPy NTs exhibits good loading capacity (72.9 wt %) for industrial paraffin wax (IPW) due to the large specific surface area, and the resulting FSPCM composite (IPW@PDVB-12/PPy) exhibits a large latent heat of fusion (145.7 J/g), high thermal stability, and excellent shape stability. In addition, PPy imparts the IPW@PDVB-12/PPy composite with high electrical conductivity (55.6 S m-1) and high photoabsorption ability (whole visible light band). The energy stored in the IPW@PDVB-12/PPy composite could be triggered and released under relatively low voltages (2.5 V) with electrothermal energy conversion efficiency (89.6%) or solar radiation (100 mW cm-2) with photothermal energy conversion efficiency (85.2%). This study provides a low-cost and fast method for large-scale fabrication of supporting materials, which can be a good candidate in energy storage applications.Noncovalent intermolecular interactions are very important in many research areas. Therefore, it is vital to understand the extent to which approximate density functionals give a proper description of noncovalent interactions. Previous research has demonstrated that some approximate density functionals can predict usefully accurate interaction energies for many noncovalent systems; however, most of that work is limited to small and moderate-sized molecules. Very recently though, accurate benchmarks have become available for some very large molecules. The present work applies 21 approximate density functionals to compute the binding energies of seven large molecular systems that have a number of atoms ranging from 200 to 910. The results are judged by comparison to the recently published CIM-DLPNO-CCSD(T) results, which are assumed to provide a reliable benchmark. The five most accurate methods among those tested are found to be PW6B95-D4, PW6B95-D3(BJ), revM11, M06-L, and MN15.
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