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001), while LA volume at end-systole was found higher in males (males 36.25 ± 10.03 mL vs. females 32.78 ± 10.27 mL). With increasing age, there was a weak but significant decrease in normalized LA transverse diameter (two-chamber view) at end- systolic (r = -0.25, P  less then  0.001). The normalized RA volume at end-systole and RVOT diameter showed significant decrease with advancing age (r = -0.22, P = 0.002; r = -0.34, P  less then  0.001). The indexed left and right ventricular volumes were mostly smaller with advancing age. The LA longitudinal parameters correlated significantly with LA area measured in the two-chamber view at end-systole (r = 0.78, P  less then  0.001). DATA CONCLUSION Reference values for the morphological parameters of the intracardiac structure by sex and age distribution are provided in a Chinese population. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 2 TECHNICAL EFFICACY Stage 5. see more © 2020 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.Active antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is a potentially devastating complication and consistently effective treatment remains elusive. We hypothesized that the reversal of acute AMR requires rapid elimination of antibody-secreting plasma cells (PC) with a proteasome inhibitor, bortezomib, followed by the sustained inhibition of PC generation with CTLA4-Ig or belatacept (B/B). We show in mice that B/B therapy selectively depleted mature PC producing donor-specific antibodies (DSA) and reduced DSA, when administered after primary and secondary DSA responses had been established. A pilot investigation was initiated to treat 6 consecutive patients with active AMR with B/B. Compassionate use for the first patient after his 3rd kidney transplant, who developed early, severe acute AMR that did not respond to steroids, plasmapheresis and intravenous immunoglobulin. B/B treatment resulted in a rapid reversal of AMR, leading us to treat five additional patients who also resolved their acute AMR episode and had sustained disappearance of circulating DSA for ≤ 30 months. This study provides a proof-of-principle demonstration that mouse models can identify mechanistically rational therapies for the clinic. Follow-up investigations with a more stringent clinical design are warranted to test whether B/B improves on the standard of care for the treatment of acute AMR. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.PURPOSE Phospholipids are key constituents of cell membranes and serve vital functions in the regulation of cellular processes; thus, a method for in vivo detection and characterization could be valuable for detecting changes in cell membranes that are consequences of either normal or pathological processes. Here, we describe a new method to map the distribution of partially restricted phospholipids in tissues. METHODS The phospholipids were measured by signal changes caused by relayed nuclear Overhauser enhancement-mediated CEST between the phospholipid Cho headgroup methyl protons and water at around -1.6 ppm from the water resonance. The biophysical basis of this effect was examined by controlled manipulation of head group, chain length, temperature, degree of saturation, and presence of cholesterol. Additional experiments were performed on animal tumor models to evaluate potential applications of this novel signal while correcting for confounding contributions. RESULTS Negative relayed nuclear Overhauser dips in Z-spectra were measured from reconstituted Cho phospholipids with cholesterol but not for other Cho-containing metabolites or proteins. Significant contrast was found between tumor and contralateral normal tissue signals in animals when comparing both the measured saturation transfer signal and a more specific imaging metric. CONCLUSION We demonstrated specific relayed nuclear Overhauser effects in partially restricted phospholipid phantoms and similar effects in solid brain tumors after correcting for confounding signal contributions, suggesting possible translational applications of this novel molecular imaging method, which we name restricted phospholipid transfer. © 2020 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.Certain hydrolases preferentially catalyze acyl transfer over hydrolysis in an aqueous environment. However, molecular and structural reasons for this phenomenon are still unclear. Here we provide evidence that acyltransferase activity in esterases highly correlates with the hydrophobicity of the substrate-binding pocket. A hydrophobicity scoring system developed in this work allows accurate prediction of promiscuous acyltransferase activity solely from the amino acid sequence of the cap domain. This concept was experimentally verified by systematic investigation of several homologous esterases, leading to the discovery of five novel promiscuous acyltransferases. We also developed a simple, yet versatile, colorimetric assay for rapid characterization of novel acyltransferases. This study demonstrates that promiscuous acyltransferase activity is not as rare as previously thought and provides access to a vast number of novel acyltransferases with diverse substrate specificities and potential applications. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.AIMS To describe a pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) isolated and associated with game therapy (PFMT + GT) for women facing mixed urinary incontinence (MUI) during climacteric period. METHODS To standardize a randomized controlled clinical trial intervention, a protocol was created, in an attempt to decrease women's symptomatology generated by MUI, through pelvic floor and abdomino-loin-pelvic muscles strength, and endurance. This study protocol will be composed of 32 volunteers, divided into two groups of 16. They will perform PFMT isolated or PFMT + GT, twice a week during 8 weeks. Interventions will last 40 minutes and will be divided into warming (5 minutes), training (30 minutes), and 5 minutes will be composed of resting time between exercises (1 minute each). Isolated PFMT sessions will be performed through four modalities of exercises diaphragmatic, bridge, abdominal (plank), and pelvic mobility. PFMT + GT training will be carried out by using Wii Fit Plus games, such as Lotus Focus, Penguin Slide, Basic Step, and Hula Hoop from Wii equipment. Assessments will occur before, after, and 1 month after interventions. Vaginal manometry, 1-hour Pad Test, International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Short Form (ICIQ-SF), and Patient Global Intervention (PGI) will be used to evaluate the sample. CONCLUSIONS It is expected greater increase on pelvic floor muscle (PFM) strength, endurance, vaginal pressure for PFMT + GG. Moreover, it is supposed that PFMT + GT volunteers present better treatment adherence due to games motivational inclusion. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Reconstruction of soft-tissue defects in the foot weight-bearing area should encompass sensate and robust skin. Regarding forefoot defects, distally based medial plantar artery (MPA) flap is an ideal option. However, considering variation of the terminal branches of the MPA, reverse flow flaps can be unreliable with an increasing risk of venous congestion or insufficient arterial flow. In this report, we present a case of the use of reverse flow MPA flaps with dual flow vascularization. The patient was a 37-year-old female who presented a 7 × 3 cm soft-tissue defect of the right forefoot after wide local excision following melanoma. Reconstruction happened with a perforator distally based bipedicled flap (8 × 4 cm) on the MPA though keeping an enhanced vascularization through both superficial (sMPA) and deep (dMPA) medial plantar arteries. Donor site was closed with skin graft. Patient was discharged from hospital at postoperative Day 10 and healed uneventfully with progressive start walk was possible again. A full weight bearing with normal shoes was possible after 8 weeks. Good healing and no functional impairment were present after 9 months of follow-up. We believe this dual vascularization concept may be adopted when possible to improve the overall circulation of the flap and to prevent risks of vascular insufficiency or vein congestion. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.The attempts towards enzyme mimics to design simple, stable and efficient non-protein systems for achieving the performance of natural enzymes, especially attractive to realize highly specific cancer diagnosis and treatment, have become an emerging field in recent years. The features of enzyme mimics highlight the pivotal importance of active site components and also the supported network environment for integrating and stabilizing them. Herein, the metal cross-linked polymeric nanogels (MPGs) system has been prepared based on the transition metal Fe (II) ion-coordinate biocompatible acryloyl-lysine polymer brush by the proposed enzyme-catalyzed atomic transfer radical polymerization (ATRPase) method. The monoatomic and highly dispersed Fe ions in MPGs can both serve as the efficient cross-linkers of gel network, and interestedly also the vital active center of multienzyme mimic of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and peroxidase (POD) activity. The superior catalytic activity and thermal stability compared with conventional Fe-based nanozymes, the molecular enzyme mimics and natural peroxidases have been conducted. Studies on both cells and animals verify that the efficient reactive oxygen species (ROS)-responsive bio-fluorescence imaging can be successfully realized based on the tandem catalysis of mimetic activities of MPGs. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.PURPOSE To learn bone shape features from spherical bone map of knee MRI images using established convolutional neural networks (CNN) and use these features to diagnose and predict osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS A bone segmentation model was trained on 25 manually annotated 3D MRI volumes to segment the femur, tibia, and patella from 47 078 3D MRI volumes. Each bone segmentation was converted to a 3D point cloud and transformed into spherical coordinates. Different fusion strategies were performed to merge spherical maps obtained by each bone. A total of 41 822 merged spherical maps with corresponding Kellgren-Lawrence grades for radiographic OA were used to train a CNN classifier model to diagnose OA using bone shape learned features. Several OA Diagnosis models were tested and the weights for each trained model were transferred to the OA Incidence models. The OA incidence task consisted of predicting OA from a healthy scan within a range of eight time points, from 1 y to 8 y. The validation performance was compared and the test set performance was reported. RESULTS The OA Diagnosis model had an area-under-the-curve (AUC) of 0.905 on the test set with a sensitivity and specificity of 0.815 and 0.839. The OA Incidence models had an AUC ranging from 0.841 to 0.646 on the test set for the range from 1 y to 8 y. CONCLUSION Bone shape was successfully used as a predictive imaging biomarker for OA. This approach is novel in the field of deep learning applications for musculoskeletal imaging and can be expanded to other OA biomarkers. © 2020 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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