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The anti-resorptive properties of bisphosphonates have been explored to manage several conditions that traditionally have required a surgical solution. In osteonecrosis, their use is predicated on the principle that bone collapse occurs during the revascularisation phase of the disease. If the associated resorptive activity were modulated, the resultant preserved joint architecture may improve clinical outcome and reduce the need for joint replacement. Pre-clinical and small-scale clinical studies have given non-conclusive support for this principle. Adequately powered clinical trials with relevant long-term endpoints are still required to firmly clarify the clinical efficacy of this treatment. Several clinical studies have shown that bisphosphonates can reduce periprosthetic bone loss and, in some situations, enhance implant fixation in the early period after joint replacement. This may be advantageous in settings where osseointegration is problematic. However, the ultimate goals of their use in joint replacal analogue scale pain scores, but an increase in mild adverse events.The early arthritis population remains a treatment challenge due to the specifics of their disease (diffuse chondrosis rather than focal defect, frequent associated morbidities such as instability or meniscal deficiency), and where they are in life (young, active, working). Too young with "not enough damage" for arthroplasty, but frequently unresponsive to conservative care, they are in the midst of life, yet functionally quite limited. The next generation of non-arthroplasty implants are being investigated to potentially bridge this treatment gap and provide relief for the every growing number of young arthritics.The ability of climbing plants to grow upward along others to reach canopy for photosynthesis is hypothesized as a key innovation in flowering plants. Cucurbitaceae, a family containing ∼1000 species and many important crops, are mostly climbers and have characteristic tendrils and pepo fruits. Here, we present 127 newly sequenced transcriptomes and genomes along with other datasets for a total of 136 cucurbits representing all tribes to establish a robust Cucurbitaceae phylogeny containing eight highly resolved major clades. We analyzed whole genome duplication (WGD), diversification dynamics and ancestral morphologies, and found that after early genome duplication event(s), a burst of diversification and morphological innovations in flower, fruit and root characters occurred under the climate optimum in the Early Eocene. Species radiation under Mid-Eocene Climatic Optimum also coincided with several morphological changes shared by 80% of cucurbits. We found that the cucurbit-specific tendril identity gene TEN originated from a paleo-polyploidization at the origin of the family. Our results support the hypothesis that cucurbit diversifications were probably driven by increased genetic diversity following polyploidizations and novel state of traits under paleo-climate upheavals. This study provides a phylogenetic framework and new insights into morphological and genomic changes facilitating the adaptive evolution of Cucurbitaceae.Non-conventional peptides (NCPs), which include small open reading frame-encoded peptides, play critical roles in fundamental biological processes. Here we developed an integrated peptidogenomic pipeline using high-throughput mass spectra to probe a customized six-frame translation database and applied it to large-scale identification of NCPs in plants. Altogether, 1,993 and 1,860 NCPs were unambiguously identified in maize and Arabidopsis, respectively. The NCPs showed distinct characteristics compared to conventional peptides (CPs) and were derived from introns, 3'UTRs, 5'UTRs, junctions and intergenic regions. These results revealed that translation events in unannotated transcripts occurred more broadly than previously thought. In addition, maize NCPs were found to be enriched within regions associated with phenotypic variations and domestication selection, indicating their potential function in plant genetic regulations of complex traits and evolution. Summarily, this study provides an unbiased and global view of plant NCPs. The identification of large-scale NCPs in both monocot and dicot plants reveals that a much larger portion of the plant genome can be translated to biologically functional molecules, which has important implications in functional genomic studies. The present study also provides a useful resource for the characterization of more hidden NCPs in other plants.Background Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a frequent cause of death and morbidity. A few studies suggest that clot burden in pulmonary artery bed is related to PE patients' survival, but the impact of concomitant deep venous thrombosis and/or thrombophlebitis (DVT) on short-term survival of PE patients remains unclear. Thus, we aimed to investigate the impact of DVT on adverse outcomes in PE patients. Methods Patients of the nationwide inpatient sample with PE (ICD-code I26) were stratified for DVT (ICD-code I80) and compared for patient characteristics, risk stratification markers, treatments and outcomes. PD 0332991 ic50 Impact of concomitant DVT on adverse in-hospital outcomes was tested. Results Overall, 346,586 PE patients (53.3% females) were included in this analysis. Among these, in 126,477 (36.5%) DVT was coded. PE patients with DVT were younger, less often of female sex and VTE risk-factors (surgery, cancer) as well as cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases were less prevalent compared with isolated PE. PE patients with DVT showed a significant better survival (5.4% vs. 20.2%, P less then .001) and lower adverse in-hospital event rate (9.7% vs. 27.4%, P less then .001) compared to patients with isolated PE. Lower risk for in-hospital mortality (OR 0.238 [95%CI 0.232-0.245], P less then .001) and adverse in-hospital events (OR 0.302 [95%CI 0.295-0.309], P less then .001) were respectively independent of age, gender, comorbidities and reperfusion-treatments. Conclusions Concomitant DVT affects survival of PE patients. Patients with an isolated PE had higher rate of in-hospital mortality and adverse in-hospital events. Our data suggest, that peripheral thrombus burden in PE with concomitant DVT might be less harmful in comparison to isolated PE with a probably larger thrombus burden.Aortoiliac endarterectomy was the standard treatment for aortoiliac occlusive disease prior to the availability of prosthetic graft material for aorto-bifemoral bypass, although the number of patients appropriate for this repair continues to diminish in the endovascular era. Patients with focal aortoiliac disease are often treated with bilateral "kissing" iliac stents through an endovascular approach. However, in patients with eccentric plaque morphology or smaller caliber vessels, the risk of distal embolization and vessel rupture is not insignificant. On the other hand, if the disease is localized to the distal aortic bifurcation, an open aorto-bifemoral bypass may be excessive and incur additional morbidity. Our case report reviews a 60-year-old female who presented with lifestyle-limiting claudication from an isolated aortoiliac atherosclerotic plaque who we proceeded with an open aortoiliac endarterectomy.Hantavirus (HV), a pathogen of animal infectious diseases that poses a threat to humans, has attracted extensive attention. Clinically, HV can cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), between which HFRS is mostly in Eurasia, and HPS is mostly in the Americas. This paper reviews the research progress of small-molecule inhibitors of HV.The spread of COVID-19 is accelerating. At present, there is no specific antiviral drugs for COVID-19 outbreak. This is a multicenter retrospective cohort study of patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection pneumonia from 3 hospitals in Hubei and Guangdong province, 141 adults (aged ≥18 years) without ventilation were included. Combined group patients were given Arbidol and IFN-α2b, monotherapy group patients inhaled IFN-α2b for 10-14 days. Of 141 COVID-19 patients, baseline clinical and laboratory characteristics were similar between combined group and monotherapy group, that 30% of the patients leucocytes counts were below the normal range and 36.4% of the patients experienced lymphocytopenia. The duration of viral RNA of respiratory tract in the monotherapy group was not longer than that in the combined therapy group. There was no significant differences between two groups. The absorption of pneumonia in the combined group was faster than that in the monotherapy group. We inferred that Arbidol/IFN - 2b therapy can be used as an effective method to improve the COVID-19 pneumonia of mild patients, although it helpless with accelerating the virus clearance. These results should be verified in a larger prospective randomized environment.The association between white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and amyloid accumulation over time in cognitively normal, amyloid-negative elderly people remains largely unexplored. link2 In order to study whether baseline WMH were associated with longitudinal subthreshold amyloid accumulation, 159 cognitively normal participants from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative who were amyloid-negative at baseline were examined. All the participants underwent a T1 and a Fluid-Attenuated Inversion Recovery MRI scan at baseline. Amyloid PET imaging was performed at baseline and follow-up visits in 2-year intervals for up to 8 years. link3 Partial volume correction was applied for quantifying cortical Standardised Uptake Value Ratios (SUVR). The associations between global and regional WMH burden and amyloid accumulation were assessed using linear mixed models adjusted by demographic characteristics and baseline SUVR. Partial volume correction increased the measured annual rate of change (+2.4%) compared to that obtained from non-corrected data (+0.5%). There were no significant correlations between baseline WMHs and baseline subthreshold cortical amyloid uptake. In a longitudinal analysis, increased baseline cortical SUVR and increased baseline burden of global (p = 0.006), frontal (p = 0.006), and parietal WMH (p = 0.003) were associated with faster amyloid accumulation. WMH-related amyloid accumulation occurred in parietal, frontal, and, to a lesser extent, cingulate cortices. These results remained unchanged after a sensitivity analysis excluding participants with the highest cortical SUVRs. This is the first study to identify a specific spatial distribution of WMH which is associated with future amyloid accumulation in cognitively normal elderly subjects without PET-detectable amyloid pathology. These findings may have important implications in prevention trials for the early identification of amyloid accumulation.Background Bilateral cyclic high frequency deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus (ANT) reduces the seizure count in a subset of patients with epilepsy. Detecting stimulation-induced alterations of pathological brain networks may help to unravel the underlying physiological mechanisms related to effective stimulation delivery and optimize target engagement. Methods We acquired 64-channel electroencephalography during ten ANT-DBS cycles (145Hz, 90μs, 3-5V) of 1-minute ON followed by 5-minutes OFF stimulation to detect changes in cortical activity related to seizure reduction. The study included 14 subjects (three responders, four non-responders, and seven healthy controls). Mixed-model ANOVA tests were used to compare differences in cortical activity between subgroups both ON and OFF stimulation, while investigating frequency-specific effects for the seizure onset zones. Results ANT-DBS had a widespread desynchronization effect on cortical theta and alpha band activity in responders, but not in non-responders.
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