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7% vs. 41.9%, p=0.007; and median hospital stay (day) 21 vs. 27, p=0.005. The subsequent 142 patients showed 92% (131/142) applicability of EDR and 5.6% (8/142) incidence of CR-POPF. CONCLUSIONS Our new criteria for EDR, without DFA, enabled ≥90% applicability of EDR and reduced CR-POPF. SP-2577 research buy This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Telomeric repeat-containing RNA (TERRA) is closely involved in the regulation of telomere length, which plays critical role in tumorigenesis. However, the biological significance of TERRA in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remained largely unknown. In this study, we found that HCC cells exhibited a frequent downregulation of TERRA and its positive regulator TTAGGG repeat binding factor-1 (TRF1), whereas the negative regulator TTAGGG repeat binding factor-1 (TRF2) was upregulated. TERRA, TRF1 and TRF2 contributed to poor prognosis of HCC patients. Importantly, we found that the downregulation of TERRA significantly promoted HCC cell growth and metastasis in vitro and in vivo. While, the upregulation of TERRA exhibited an opposite effect. Mechanistically, downregulation of TERRA significantly increased the telomerase activity and promoted the telomere elongation. Moreover, the inhibitory effects of TERRA overexpression on the growth and metastasis of HCC cells were reversed by treatment with TA-65 that activates telomerase activity. In contrast, the pro-tumor effect of TERRA downregulation was reversed by treatment with TMPyP4 that inhibits telomerase activity. Our findings demonstrate that TERRA plays a critical role in HCC cell growth and metastasis, indicating that TERRA is a potential therapeutic target for HCC. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.The 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been spreading worldwide at an alarming rate. Health-care workers have been confronted with the challenge of not only treating patients with the virus, but also managing the disruption of health-care services caused by COVID-19. In anticipation of outbreak, clinic sessions and operation theater lists have been actively cut back since February 2020 to reduce hospital admissions and clinic attendances. This has severely disrupted health-care services, leading to accumulating clinic caseload and substantial delays for operations. The head and neck cancer service has been faced with the difficult task of managing the balance between infection risk to health-care providers and the risk of disease progression from prolonged waiting times. We share our experience in Hong Kong on the mitigation of head and neck cancer service disruption through telehealth and multi-institution collaboration. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.The current state of the art of the use of crosslinked organic polymers, both insoluble (resins or gels) and soluble (micro- and nanogels), as aid for the low-temperature preparation of stable metal oxide nanoparticles or nanostructured metal oxides is reviewed herein. Synthetic strategies for inorganic oxide nanomaterials of this kind can greatly benefit from the use of crosslinked polymers, which may act as scaffolds/exotemplates during inorganic nanoparticle synthesis or as stabilizers following postsynthetic modification of the nanoparticles. Furthermore, the peculiar properties of the organic crosslinked polymers add to those of the inorganic oxide nanoparticles, producing materials with combined properties. The potential applications of such highly promising composite nanomaterials will be also briefly sketched. p margin-bottom 0.25cm; direction ltr; color #000000; line-height 115%; text-align justify; orphans 2; widows 2; background transparent p.western font-family "Times New Roman", serif; font-size 12pt; so-language it-IT p.cjk font-family "SimSun", ""; font-size 12pt; so-language zh-CN p.ctl font-family "Times New Roman"; font-size 12pt; so-language ar-SA avisited color #800000; text-decoration underline alink color #0000ff; text-decoration underline . © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.OBJECTIVE To summarize measures for prevention and control of the 2019 novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) in the department of kidney transplantation. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of outpatients and inpatients in the department of kidney transplantation from January 20, 2020 to March 1, 2020, and followed up the in-home kidney transplant recipients and those waiting for kidney transplantation through the Internet platform. Our department had formulated detailed prevention and control measures, mainly including kidney transplant outpatient management, kidney transplantation ward management, management of kidney transplant surgery, dialysis management of patients waiting for kidney transplantation, personal protection of medical staff, follow-up management of discharged patients after kidney transplantation, etc. RESULTS During the epidemic period, there were no COVID-19 among 68 outpatient examined kidney transplant recipients, 32 hospitalized kidney transplant recipients, 19 patients waiting for kidney transplantation in hospital and 30 medical staff. There were no COVID-19 in the follow-up of 160 recipients after kidney transplantation and 60 patients waiting for kidney transplantation. CONCLUSION During the epidemic period, we implemented strict prevention and control measures and adjusted working methods and procedures to ensure the safe and orderly work of the department. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Engineering polyketide synthase (PKS) pathways that efficiently produce new metabolites requires an understanding of substrate selectivity, flexibility, and sites of failure during chain elongation, processing and termination. Growing evidence indicates that the thioesterase (TE) domain is a significant bottleneck within engineered modular PKS systems. Accordingly, we created a series of hybrid PKS modules bearing exchanged TE domains from heterologous pathways, and challenged them in vitro with both native and non-native full-length synthetic polyketide substrates. Reactions pairing wildtype PKS modules with non-native substrates predominantly resulted in poor conversions to anticipated macrolactones. Likewise, product formation with native substrates and hybrid PKS modules bearing non-cognate TE domains was severely reduced or undetectable. In contrast, non-native substrates were accepted, processed and cyclized by most hybrid modules if the engineered PKS contained a substrate compatible TE, directly implicating this domain as the major catalytic gatekeeper.
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