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To demonstrate the feasibility of mapping cerebral perfusion metrics with BOLD MRI during modulation of pulmonary venous oxygen saturation.

A gas blender with a sequential gas delivery breathing circuit was used to implement rapid isocapnic changes in the partial pressure of oxygen of the arterial blood. Partial pressure of oxygen was initially lowered to a baseline of 40 mmHg. It was then rapidly raised to 95 mmHg for 20 s before rapidly returning to baseline. The induced cerebral changes in deoxyhemoglobin concentration were tracked over time using BOLD MRI in 6 healthy subjects and 1 patient with cerebral steno-occlusive disease. BOLD signal change, contrast-to-noise ratio, and time delay metrics were calculated. Perfusion metrics such as mean transit time, relative cerebral blood volume, and relative cerebral blood flow were calculated using a parametrized method with a mono-exponential residue function. An arterial input function from within the middle cerebral artery was used to scale relative cerebral blood volume and calculate absolute cerebral blood volume and cerebral blood flow.

In normal subjects, average gray and white matter were BOLD change = 6.3 ± 1.2% and 2.5 ± 0.6%, contrast-to-noise ratio = 4.3 ± 1.3 and 2.6 ± 0.7, time delay = 2.3 ± 0.6 s and 3.6 ± 0.7 s, mean transit time = 3.9 ± 0.6 s and 5.5 ± 0.6 s, relative cerebral blood volume = 3.7 ± 0.9 and 1.6 ± 0.4, relative cerebral blood flow = 70.1 ± 8.3 and 20.6 ± 4.0, cerebral blood flow volume = 4.1 ± 0.9 mL/100 g and 1.8 ± 0.5 mL/100 g, and cerebral blood flow = 97.2 ± 18.7 mL/100 g/min and 28.7 ± 5.9 mL/100 g/min.

This study demonstrates that induced abrupt changes in deoxyhemoglobin can function as a noninvasive vascular contrast agent that may be used for cerebral perfusion imaging.
This study demonstrates that induced abrupt changes in deoxyhemoglobin can function as a noninvasive vascular contrast agent that may be used for cerebral perfusion imaging.
To investigate the effect of disease modifying therapies on immune response to SARS-CoV2 vaccines in people with multiple sclerosis.

473 people with multiple sclerosis provided one or more dried blood spot samples. Information about COVID-19 and vaccine history, medical and drug history were extracted from questionnaires and medical records. Dried blood spots were eluted and tested for antibodies to SARS-CoV2. selleck inhibitor Antibody titres were partitioned into tertiles with people on no disease modifying therapy as a reference. We calculated the odds ratio of seroconversion (univariate logistic regression) and compared quantitative vaccine response (Kruskal Wallis) following SARS-CoV2 vaccine according to disease modifying therapy. We used regression modelling to explore the effect of vaccine timing, treatment duration, age, vaccine type and lymphocyte count on vaccine response.

Compared to no disease modifying therapy, the use of anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies (odds ratio 0.03; 95% confidence interval 0.01-0.06, p this patient group. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.The accuracy of correlation energy recovered by coupled cluster single-, double-, and perturbative triple-excitations, CCSD(T), has led to the method being considered the gold standard of computational chemistry. The application of CCSD(T) has been limited to medium-sized molecular systems due to its steep scaling with molecular size. The recent development of alternative domain-based local pair natural orbital coupled-cluster method, DLPNO-CCSD(T), has significantly broadened the range of chemical systems to which CCSD(T) level calculations can be applied. Condensed systems such as ionic liquids (ILs) have a large contribution from London dispersion forces of up to 150 kJ mol-1 in large-scale clusters. Ionic liquids show appreciable charge transfer effects that result in the increased valence orbital delocalization over the entire ionic network, raising the question whether the application of methods based on localized orbitals is reliable for these semi-Coulombic materials. Here the performance of DLPNO-CCSD(T) is validated for the prediction of correlation interaction energies of two data sets incorporating single-ion pairs of protic and aprotic ILs. DLPNO-CCSD(T) produced results within chemical accuracy with tight parameter settings and a non-iterative treatment of triple excitations. To achieve spectroscopic accuracy of 1 kJ mol-1 , especially for hydrogen-bonded ILs and those containing halides, the DLPNO settings had to be increased by two orders of magnitude and include the iterative treatment of triple excitations, resulting in a 2.5-fold increase in computational cost. Two new sets of parameters are put forward to produce the performance of DLPNO-CCSD(T) within chemical and spectroscopic accuracy.Pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatocytes differentiated in monolayer culture are known to have more foetal than adult hepatocyte characteristics. If numerous studies tend to show that this immature phenotype might not necessarily be an obstacle to their use in transplantation, other applications such as drug screening, toxicological studies or bioartificial livers are reliant on hepatocyte functionality and require full differentiation of hepatocytes. New technologies have been used to improve the differentiation process in recent years, usually evaluated by measuring the albumin production and CYP450 activity. Here we used the complex production and most importantly the activity of the coagulation factor IX (FIX) produced by mature hepatocytes to assess the differentiation of Hemophilia B patient's induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in both monolayer culture and organoids. Indeed, Hemophilia B (HB) is an X-linked monogenic disease due to an impaired activity of FIX synthesized by hepatocytes in the liver. We have developed an in vitro model of HB hepatocytes using iPSCs generated from fibroblasts of a severe HB patient. We used CRISPR/Cas9 technology to target the genomic insertion of an F9 mini-gene bearing the Padua mutation to enhance FIX activity. Non-corrected and corrected iPSCs were differentiated into hepatocytes under both 2D and 3D differentiation protocols and deciphered the production of active FIX in vitro. Functional FIX, whose post-translational modifications only occur in fully mature hepatocytes, was only produced in corrected iPSCs differentiated in organoids. Finally, we assessed the therapeutic efficacy of this approach in vivo using a mouse model of HB. Immunohistochemistry analyses indicated a good cell engraftment and the FIX activity detected in the plasma of transplanted animals confirmed rescue of the bleeding phenotype.
The Mapuche are a minority group living in small communities in southern Chile. Due to many variables, such as poverty and cultural factors, they are susceptible to inequalities in education and healthcare.

To describe nurse educators' experiences of caring for Mapuche people in primary care centers in Chile.

A descriptive qualitative study was performed with nine female nurse educators who supervised nursing students in clinical placement. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews. Triangulation was achieved through consensus among the researchers.

The analysis yielded two themes Cultural sensitivity and Humanisation of care. Nurse educators respect Mapuche beliefs and practices about health and treatment and adapt clinical interventions accordingly. Nurse educators are committed to integrate Mapuche spiritual and cultural needs into the biomedical model, aiming to build a genuine person-centered relationship with patients and to promote transcultural nursing models with students.

Culturally competent professionals are needed to train nurses about the demands of a globalized and culturally diverse world. Training is required in both humanized care competencies and cross-cultural nursing. Improving cultural competence among nurses and nurse educators would improve patients' health outcomes and would allow preventative intervention, therefore reducing treatment failures and further complications.
Culturally competent professionals are needed to train nurses about the demands of a globalized and culturally diverse world. Training is required in both humanized care competencies and cross-cultural nursing. Improving cultural competence among nurses and nurse educators would improve patients' health outcomes and would allow preventative intervention, therefore reducing treatment failures and further complications.Liver disease, occurring during pediatric or adult age, is often of undetermined cause. Some cases are probably related to undiagnosed inherited metabolic disorders. Hepatic disorders associated with fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase deficiency, a gluconeogenesis defect, are not reported in the literature. These symptoms are mainly described during acute crises, and many reports don't mention them because hypoglycemia and hyperlactatemia are more frequently in the forefront. Herein, the liver manifestations of eighteen patients affected with fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase deficiency are described and the corresponding literature is reviewed. Interestingly, all eighteen patients had liver abnormalities either during follow-up (hepatomegaly (n=8/18), elevation of transaminases (n=6/15), bright liver (n=7/11)) or during acute crises (hepatomegaly (n=10/17), elevation of transaminases (n=13/16), acute liver failure (n=6/14), bright liver (n=4/14)). Initial reports described cases of liver steatosis, when liver biopsy was necessary to confirm the diagnosis by an enzymatic study. There is no clear pathophysiological basis for this fatty liver disease but we postulate that endoplasmic reticulum stress and de novo lipogenesis activation could be key factors, as observed in FBP1 knockout mice. Liver steatosis may expose patients to severe long-term liver complications. As hypoglycemia becomes less frequent with age, most adult patients are no longer monitored by hepatologist. Signs of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase deficiency may be subtle and can be missed in childhood. We suggest that fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase deficiency should be considered as an etiology of hepatic steatosis, and a liver monitoring protocol should be set up for these patients, during lifelong follow-up. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.The semiparametric accelerated failure time (AFT) model linearly relates the logarithm of the failure time to a set of covariates, while leaving the error distribution unspecified. This model has been widely investigated in survival literature due to its simple interpretation and relationship with linear models. However, there has been much less focus on developing AFT-type linear regression methods for analyzing competing risks data, in which patients can potentially experience one of multiple failure causes. In this article, we propose a simple least-squares (LS) linear regression model for a cause-specific subdistribution function, where the conventional LS equation is modified to account for data incompleteness under competing risks. The proposed estimators are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal with consistent estimation of the variance-covariance matrix. We further extend the proposed methodology to risk prediction and analysis under clustered competing risks scenario. Simulation studies suggest that the proposed method provides rapid and valid statistical inferences and predictions.
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