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The use of animal models to predict the response to new therapies in humans is a vexing issue in nephrology. Unlike patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), few rodent models develop a progressive decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) so that experimental studies frequently report a reduction in proteinuria as the primary efficacy outcome. Moreover, while humans present with established kidney disease that continues to progress, many experimental studies investigate therapies in the prevention rather than in a therapeutic setting.

We used the remnant kidney (subtotal nephrectomy [SNX]) rat model that develops a decline in GFR in conjunction with heavy proteinuria and hypertension along with the histological hallmarks of CKD in humans, glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis. Using agents that had been shown to improve GFR as well as proteinuria in the prevention setting, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition with enalapril and SIRT1 activation with SRT3025, treatment was initiated 6 weeks after SNX.

While enalapril reduced blood pressure, proteinuria and histological injury, it did not improve GFR, as measured by inulin clearance. SRT3025 improved neither GFR nor structural damage despite a reduction in proteinuria.

These findings demonstrate that neither a reduction in proteinuria nor a reversal of structural damage in the kidney will necessarily translate to a restoration of kidney function.
These findings demonstrate that neither a reduction in proteinuria nor a reversal of structural damage in the kidney will necessarily translate to a restoration of kidney function.
The aim of this work is to shed light on the issue of reproducibility in MR image reconstruction in the context of a challenge. Participants had to recreate the results of "Advances in sensitivity encoding with arbitrary k-space trajectories" by Pruessmann et al. METHODS The task of the challenge was to reconstruct radially acquired multicoil k-space data (brain/heart) following the method in the original paper, reproducing its key figures. Results were compared to consolidated reference implementations created after the challenge, accounting for the two most common programming languages used in the submissions (Matlab/Python).

Visually, differences between submissions were small. Pixel-wise differences originated from image orientation, assumed field-of-view, or resolution. Pevonedistat in vivo The reference implementations were in good agreement, both visually and in terms of image similarity metrics.

While the description level of the published algorithm enabled participants to reproduce CG-SENSE in general, details of tt the data lead to further differences, emphasizing the importance of sufficient metadata accompanying open datasets. Defining reproducibility quantitatively turned out to be nontrivial for this image reconstruction challenge, in the absence of ground-truth results. Typical similarity measures like NMSE of SSIM were misled by image intensity scaling and outlier pixels. Thus, to facilitate reproducibility, researchers are encouraged to publish code and data alongside the original paper. Future methodological papers on MR image reconstruction might benefit from the consolidated reference implementations of CG-SENSE presented here, as a benchmark for methods comparison.
The purpose of this study was to investigate hyperpolarization and in vivo imaging of [
N]carnitine, a novel endogenous MRI probe with long signal lifetime.

L-[
N]carnitine-d
was hyperpolarized by the method of dynamic nuclear polarization followed by rapid dissolution. The T
signal lifetimes were estimated in aqueous solution and in vivo following intravenous injection in rats, using a custom-built dual-tuned
N/
H RF coil at 4.7 T.
N chemical shift imaging and
N fast spin-echo images of rat abdomen were acquired 3 minutes after [
N]carnitine injection.

Estimated T
times of [
N]carnitine at 4.7 T were 210 seconds (in H
O) and 160 seconds (in vivo), with an estimated polarization level of 10%. Remarkably, the [
N]carnitine coherence was detectable in rat abdomen for 5 minutes after injection for the nonlocalized acquisition. No downstream metabolites were detected on localized or nonlocalized
N spectra. Diffuse liver enhancement was detected on
N fast spin-echo imaging 3 minutes after injection, with mean hepatic SNR of 18 ± 5 at a spatial resolution of 4 × 4 mm.

This study showed the feasibility of hyperpolarizing and imaging the biodistribution of HP [
N]carnitine.
This study showed the feasibility of hyperpolarizing and imaging the biodistribution of HP [15 N]carnitine.The present study compared the quality of sperm collected by artificial vagina or pharmacologically induced ejaculation from a 10-year-old thoroughbred stallion with seminal vesiculitis. The pharmacological protocol involved intravenous administration of detomidine (0.01 mg/kg) and oxytocin (20 IU) and successfully induced ejaculation in all attempts of semen collection. Sperm motility, plasma membrane and acrosome integrity (PMAI), reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) percentage, and bacterial profiles of fresh and cooled semen (5°C for 24 hr) were evaluated. Semen obtained by the pharmacological method presented reduced seminal volume, decreased PMN percentage and superior sperm motility in cooled samples. Moreover, higher PMAI and lower ROS levels were observed in semen collected by the pharmacological method. Therefore, pharmacologically induced ejaculation is an alternative to obtain semen with minimal contamination and with sperm of superior quality and longevity from stallions with seminal vesiculitis.
Metformin is the only oral therapy for youth with type 2 diabetes, but up to 50% require additional agents within 2 years of diagnosis. Extended-release (XR) metformin formulations may improve adherence and tolerability-important mediators of treatment response-but data in youth is lacking. To evaluate rates of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in patients treated with metformin (SR and XR) and the change in GI symptoms after changes in metformin therapy.

Retrospective chart review of youth with Type 2 or prediabetes seen in a multidisciplinary clinic during 2016-2019.

Of 488 eligible patients, 41.4% and 21.1% were taking metformin SR and XR respectively, with most (58%, n = 178/305) taking a total daily dose of ≥1500 mg/day. Those not on metformin tended to be younger, leaner, and had lower HbA1cs than those taking metformin, p < 0.05. Thirty percentage of patients described GI symptoms, most commonly, abdominal pain and diarrhea. There was no difference in GI symptoms in those on SR versus XR (18.3% vs.
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