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RESULTS Of 42 ofloxacin-resistant M. tuberculosis isolates, area under the ROC curve was highest for predominant variant allele frequency, so that measure was used to evaluate optimal mutation detection thresholds. Areas under the ROC curve for 8%, 2.5%, and 0.8% thresholds were 0.8452, 0.9286, and 0.9069, respectively. Sensitivity and specificity were (69%,100%) for 8%; (86%,100%) for 2.5%;(91%,91%) for 0.8%. The sensitivity of the 2.5% and 0.8% thresholds were significantly higher than the 8% threshold(P=0.016 and P=0.004, respectively) but not significantly different between one another(P=0.5). CONCLUSIONS A predominant mutation allele frequency threshold of 2.5% had the highest area under the ROC curve for detecting DNA gyrase mutations that confer ofloxacin resistance, and was therefore the optimal threshold. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, e-mail [email protected] QUESTION What is the standpoint of an international expert panel on ovarian tissue cryopreservation (OTC) in young females with Turner syndrome (TS)? SUMMARY ANSWER The expert panel states that OTC should be offered to young females with TS, but under strict conditions only. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY OTC is already an option for preserving the fertility of young females at risk of iatrogenic primary ovarian insufficiency (POI). Offering OTC to females with a genetic cause of POI could be the next step. One of the most common genetic disorders related to POI is TS. Due to an early depletion of the ovarian reserve, most females with TS are confronted with infertility before reaching adulthood. However, before offering OTC as an experimental fertility preservation option to young females with TS, medical and ethical concerns need to be addressed. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION A three-round ethical Delphi study was conducted to systematically discuss whether the expected benefits exceed the expected negative constandpoint is the first step in the global acceptance of OTC in females with TS. Future collaborative research with a focus on efficacy and safety and long-term follow-up is urgently needed. Furthermore, we recommend an international register for fertility preservation procedures in females with TS. STUDY FUNDING/COMPETING INTEREST(S) Unconditional funding (A16-1395) was received from Merck B.V., The Netherlands. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail [email protected] To describe the development, implementation and requirements of laboratory information system (LIS) functionality to manage test ordering, registration, sample flow, and result reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic. CONTEXT AND SETTING Our large (>12,000,000 tests/year) academic hospital laboratory is the Belgian National Reference Center (NRC) for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testing. We performed a moving total of > 25,000 SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests in parallel to standard routine testing since the start of the outbreak. A LIS implementation team dedicated to develop tools to remove the bottlenecks, primarily situated in the pre- and post-analytical phase, was established early in the crisis. RESULTS We outline the design, implementation and requirements of LIS functionality related to managing increased test demand during the COVID-19 crisis, including tools for test ordering, standardized order sets integrated into a computerized provider order entry module, notifications on shipping requirements, automated triaging based on digital metadata forms, and the establishment of databases with contact details of other laboratories and primary care physicians to enable automated reporting. We also describe our approach to data mining and reporting of actionable daily summary statistics to governing bodies and other policymakers. DISCUSSION Rapidly developed, agile extendable LIS functionality and its meaningful use alleviates the administrative burden on laboratory personnel and improves turn-around-time of SARS-CoV-2 testing. It will be important to maintain an environment that is conducive for the rapid adoption of meaningful LIS tools post-COVID crisis. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association.The incidence of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) with concomitant Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is increasing. Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is a cytokine previously reported to be elevated in this condition. Evidence from multiple human malignancies showed IL-10 participated in tumor immunity and exhibited therapeutic potential. The aim of this study is to investigate whether IL-10 interferes tumor immunity in PTC with concomitant HT. Expression of IL-10 and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class Ⅰ were compared on PTC tissues with or without concomitant HT. PTC cell lines K1 and TPC-1 were stimulated with IL-10 and analyzed for MHC class Ⅰ expression afterwards. T cell activation, production of Interleukin-2 (IL-2) and IFN-γ and programmed death-1 (PD-1) expression were assessed by coculture of donor peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) with IL-10 pretreated PTC cells. Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression was measured in PTC tissues and IL-10 pretreated cells of K1 and TPC-1. Increased level of IL-10 and MHC class Ⅰ were observed in PTC with concomitant HT. IL-10 stimulation increased MHC class Ⅰ expression of PTC cells in vitro. Coculture of PBLs with IL-10 pretreated PTC cells enhanced T cell activation (%CD25+ of CD3+T cells) and increased IL-2 production along with decreased IFN-γ secretion and PD-1 expression. Litronesib Reduced PD-L1 expression was seen in PTC+HT tissue samples and IL-10 stimulated PTC cell lines. Elevated IL-10 expression in PTC with concomitant HT restores MHC class Ⅰ expression and interferes tumor immunity. The potential mechanism of IL-10 in tumor immunity needs further investigation. © Endocrine Society 2020.Primary cilia play critical roles in development and disease. Their assembly and disassembly are tightly coupled to cell cycle progression. Here, we present data identifying KIF14 as a regulator of cilia formation and Hedgehog (HH) signaling. We show that RNAi depletion of KIF14 specifically leads to defects in ciliogenesis and basal body (BB) biogenesis, as its absence hampers the efficiency of primary cilium formation and the dynamics of primary cilium elongation, and disrupts the localization of the distal appendage proteins SCLT1 and FBF1 and components of the IFT-B complex. We identify deregulated Aurora A activity as a mechanism contributing to the primary cilium and BB formation defects seen after KIF14 depletion. In addition, we show that primary cilia in KIF14-depleted cells are defective in response to HH pathway activation, independently of the effects of Aurora A. In sum, our data point to KIF14 as a critical node connecting cell cycle machinery, effective ciliogenesis, and HH signaling. © 2020 Pejskova et al.Mutations in the channel protein PKD2 cause autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, but the function of PKD2 in cilia remains unclear. Here, we show that PKD2 targets and anchors mastigonemes, filamentous polymers of the glycoprotein MST1, to the extracellular surface of Chlamydomonas cilia. PKD2-mastigoneme complexes physically connect to the axonemal doublets 4 and 8, positioning them perpendicular to the plane of ciliary beating. pkd2 mutant cilia lack mastigonemes, and mutant cells swim with reduced velocity, indicating a motility-related function of the PKD2-mastigoneme complex. Association with both the axoneme and extracellular structures supports a mechanosensory role of Chlamydomonas PKD2. We propose that PKD2-mastigoneme arrays, on opposing sides of the cilium, could perceive forces during ciliary beating and transfer these signals to locally regulate the response of the axoneme. © 2020 Liu et al.BACKGROUND Frailty is a strong predictor of adverse outcomes. However, longitudinal drivers of frailty are not well understood. This study aimed at investigating the longitudinal trajectories of a frailty index (FI) from adulthood to late life and identifying the factors associated with the level and rate of change in FI. METHODS An age-based latent growth curve analysis was performed in the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging (N=1,842; aged 29-102 years) using data from up to 15 measurement waves across 27 years. A 42-item FI was used to measure frailty at each wave. RESULTS A bilinear, two-slope model with a turning point at age 65 best described the age-related change in FI, showing that the increase in frailty was more than twice as fast after age 65. Underweight, obesity, female sex, overweight, being separated from one's co-twin during childhood, smoking, poor social support and low physical activity were associated with a higher FI at age 65, with underweight having the largest effect size. When tested as time-varying covariates, underweight and higher social support were associated with a steeper increase in FI before age 65, whereas overweight and obesity were associated with less steep increase in FI after age 65. CONCLUSIONS Factors associated with the level and rate of change in frailty are largely actionable and could provide targets for intervention. As deviations from normal weight showed the strongest associations with frailty, future public health programs could benefit from monitoring of individuals with abnormal BMI, especially those who are underweight. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.MOTIVATION Peptide is a promising candidate for therapeutic and diagnostic development due to its great physiological versatility and structural simplicity. Thus, identifying therapeutic peptides and investigating their properties are fundamentally important. As an inexpensive and fast approach, machine learning based predictors have shown their strength in therapeutic peptide identification due to excellences in massive data processing. To date, no reported therapeutic peptide predictor can perform high quality generic prediction and informative physicochemical properties identification simultaneously. RESULTS In this work, Physicochemical Property based Therapeutic Peptide Predictor (PPTPP), a Random Forest based prediction method was presented to address this issue. A novel feature encoding and learning scheme were initiated to produce and rank physicochemical property related features. Besides being capable of predicting multiple therapeutics peptides with high comparability to established predictors, the presented method is also able to identify peptides' informative physicochemical properties. Results presented in this work not only illustrated the soundness of its working capacity but also demonstrated its potential for investigating other therapeutic peptides. AVAILABILITY https//github.com/YPZ858/PPTPP. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. © The Author(s) (2020). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email [email protected].
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