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RATIONALE The cardiac sodium channel NaV1.5, encoded by SCN5A, produces the rapidly inactivating depolarizing current INa that is responsible for the initiation and propagation of the cardiac action potential. Acquired and inherited dysfunction of NaV1.5 results in either decreased peak INa or increased residual late INa (INa,L), leading to tachy/bradyarrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Previous studies have shown that increased cellular NAD+ and NAD+/NADH ratio increase INa through suppression of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species and PKC-mediated NaV1.5 phosphorylation. In addition, NAD+-dependent deacetylation of NaV1.5 at K1479 by Sirtuin 1 increases NaV1.5 membrane trafficking and INa. The role of NAD+ precursors in modulating INa remains unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine whether and by which mechanisms the NAD+ precursors nicotinamide riboside (NR) and nicotinamide (NAM) affect peak INa and INa,Lin vitro and cardiac electrophysiology in vivo. METHODS AND RESULTS The effects of NAD+ precursors on the iple mechanisms. NR increases INa, decreases INa,L, and warrants further investigation as a potential therapy for arrhythmic disorders caused by NaV1.5 deficiency and/or dysfunction. Cardiovascular disease is a pressing health problem with significant global health, societal, and financial burdens. Understanding the molecular basis of polygenic cardiac pathology is thus essential to devising novel approaches for management and treatment. Recent identification of uncharacterized regulatory functions for a class of nuclear envelope proteins called nucleoporins offers the opportunity to understand novel putative mechanisms of cardiac disease development and progression. Consistent reports of nucleoporin deregulation associated with ischemic and dilated cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias and valvular disorders suggests that nucleoporin impairment may be a significant but understudied variable in cardiopathologic disorders. This review discusses and converges existing literature regarding nuclear pore complex proteins and their association with cardiac pathologies, and proposes a role for nucleoporins as facilitators of cardiac disease. Trade-offs between dispersal and reproduction are known to be important drivers of population dynamics, but their direct influence on the spreading speed of a population is not well understood. Using integrodifference equations, we develop a model that incorporates a dispersal-reproduction trade-off which allows for a variety of different shaped trade-off curves. We show there is a unique reproductive-dispersal allocation that gives the largest value for the spreading speed and calculate the sensitivities of the reproduction, dispersal, and trade-off shape parameters. Uncertainty in the model parameters affects the expected spread of the population and we calculate the optimal allocation of resources to dispersal that maximizes the expected spreading speed. Higher allocation to dispersal arises from uncertainty in the reproduction parameter or the shape of the reproduction trade-off curve. Lower allocation to dispersal arises from uncertainty in the shape of the dispersal trade-off curve, but does not come from uncertainty in the dispersal parameter. Our findings give insight into how parameter sensitivity and uncertainty influence the spreading speed of a population with a dispersal-reproduction trade-off. Apolipophorin III (apoLp-III) is a model insect apolipoprotein to study structure-function relationships of exchangeable apolipoproteins. The protein associates with lipoproteins to aid in the transport of neutral lipids, and also interacts with the bacterial membrane. To better understand a potential role as an antimicrobial protein, the binding interaction of apoLp-III from Locust migratoria and Galleria mellonella with phosphatidylglycerol and lipopolysaccharides was analyzed. ApoLp-III from either species induced a robust release of calcein from phosphatidylglycerol vesicles, but was ineffective for phosphatidylcholine vesicles with comparable side-chain architecture. Acetylation of L. migratoria apoLp-III lysine residues greatly reduced the calcein release from phosphatidylglycerol vesicles, indicating a critical role of lysine side-chains in phosphatidylglycerol vesicles interaction. Isothermal calorimetry provided Kd values of 0.26 μM (L. migratoria) and 0.50 μM (G. mellonella) for binding to dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol vesicles, which is an order of magnitude stronger compared to zwitterionic vesicles. A strong preference of apoLp-III for dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol vesicles was also observed with differential scanning calorimetry with a concentration dependent shift in the lipid phase transition temperature. Native PAGE analysis showed that LPS binding was significantly weaker for L. migratoria apoLp-III. This difference was confirmed by fluorescence titration analysis of L. migratoria apoLp-III, and acetylation of the apolipoprotein did not affect LPS binding. Taken together, the results indicate that apoLp-III phosphatidylglycerol interaction may follow a detergent model with an important electrostatic binding component. Since lipopolysaccharide binding was not affected by neutralization of apoLp-III lysine-side chains, the binding interaction may be distinctly different from that of phosphatidylglycerol. V.BACKGROUND Postoperative hematoma and venous congestion after free tissue transfer may occur independently or concurrently. We aimed to explore the association between these two events. METHODS All free flap reconstructions for head and neck (HN) and breast from a single institution between 2004 and 2014 were retrospectively reviewed for reoperation for venous congestion and/or hematoma. RESULTS There were 2985 free flap cases for HN reconstruction and 2345 cases for breast reconstruction. In HN, 100 patients developed a hematoma (3.4%) and 84 patients developed venous congestion (2.8%). The prevalence of hematoma was 17.8% and 2.9% in the presence and absence of congestion, respectively (p less then 0.001). signaling pathway Among the 15 patients who had both hematoma and venous congestion were separate events that occurred from 1 to 9 days apart in 8 patients. Hematoma caused the compression of the pedicle vein in 4 patients, while venous congestion possibly caused hematoma in 3 patients. In breast, 56 patients developed a hematoma (2.
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