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Epigenetically-regulated RPN2 gene impacts lymphocyte initial and it is involved in pathogenesis regarding rheumatoid arthritis.
Numbsense is a phenomenon, wherein patients can correctly respond to somatosensory stimuli at a higher rate than expected by chance, but cannot perceive the same stimuli consciously. Previously, numbsense has been reported in tactile localization of stimuli on the patient's own body. Here, we describe a patient with numbsense that involved touched objects. The patient could not recognize the majority of somatosensory stimuli after left parietal infarction, but could correctly select shape, texture, and object stimuli more frequently than expected by chance.
Clinical image pairs provide the most realistic test data for image registration evaluation. However, the optimal registration is unknown. Using combinatorial rigid registration optimization (CORRO) we demonstrate a method to estimate the optimal alignment for rigid-registration of clinical image pairs.

Expert selected landmark pairs were selected for each CT/CBCT image pair for six cases representing head and neck, thoracic, and pelvic anatomic regions. Combination subsets of a k number of landmark pairs (k-combination set) were generated without repeat to form a large set of k-combination sets (k-set) for k=4,8,12. The rigid transformation between the image pairs was calculated for each k-combination set. The mean and standard deviation of these transformations were used to derive final registration for each k-set.

The standard deviation of registration output decreased as the k-size increased for all cases. The joint entropy evaluated for each k-set of each case was smaller than those from two commernt for rigid-registration of clinical image pairs using a large set landmark point. The results for the rigid-body registration have been shown to be comparable to results from commercially available algorithms for all six cases. CORRO can serve as an excellent tool that can be used to test and validate rigid registration algorithms.Biogenic metal/metalloid nanoparticles of microbial origin retain a functional biomolecular capping layer that confers structural stability. Little is known about the composition of such capping material. In this study, selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) synthesized by five different bacterial strains underwent comparative analysis with newly proposed protocols for quantifying the concentration of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids present in capping layers. SeNPs were therefore treated with two different detergents to remove portions of the surrounding caps in order to assess the resulting effects. Capping material quantification was carried out along with the measure of parameters such as hydrodynamic diameter, polydispersity and surface charge. SeNPs from the five strains showed differences in their distinct biomolecule ratios. On the other hand, structural changes in the nanoparticles induced by detergents did not correlate with the amounts of capping matrix removed. Thus, the present investigation suggests a hypothesis to describe capping layer composition of the bacterial SeNPs some biomolecules are bound more strongly than others to the core metalloid matrix, so that the diverse capping layer components differentially contribute to the overall structural characteristics of the nanoparticles. Furthermore, the application of the approach here in combining quantification of cap-associated biomolecules with the measurement of structural integrity-related parameters can give the biogenic nanomaterial field useful information to construct a data bank on biogenically synthesized nanostructures.
The present study aimed at providing some epidemiological evidences to assess the association of paternal smoking with the risk of neural tube defects (NTDs) and its specific subtypes in offspring, and explore the possible dose-response relationship between paternal smoking and risk of NTDs.

English and Chinese databases were systematically searched from 1984 to May 2020. Either a fixed- or a random-effects model was used to calculate the overall combined risk estimates. We also examined the dose-response relationship between parental smoking and risk of NTDs in offspring. Subgroup analyses and sensitivity analyses were conducted to explore possible sources of heterogeneity.

A total of 10 case-control studies involving 2,593 cases of NTDs and 45,100 controls were included for analysis. Findings from our study showed that paternal smoking was significantly associated with risk of total NTDs (odds ratio [OR] = 1.68; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.48-1.92) and two subtypes including anencephaly (OR = 1.41; 95% CI 1.06-1.86) and encephaloceles (OR = 2.90; 95% CI 1.00-8.41). Additionally, a linear dose-response relationship between paternal smoking and risk of NTDs was observed, which indicated that the risk of NTDs in offspring was significantly increased by 45% (OR = 1.45, 95% CI 1.14-1.84) for each increment of half a pack of cigarettes per day. Sensitivity analyses yielded consistent results. No evidence of publication bias was found.

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Paternal smoking is significantly associated with the risk of NTDs in offspring. Therefore, it should be recommended that fathers quit smoking before pregnancy to prevent NTDs in offspring.
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) are an attractive tool for treatment of diabetic cardiomyopathy. Syndecan-2/CD362 has been identified as a functional marker for MSC isolation. Imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) allows for the characterization of therapeutic responses in the left ventricle. This study aims to investigate whether IMS can assess the therapeutic effect of CD362
-selected MSC on early onset experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy.

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wild type (WT), CD362
, or CD362
MSC are intravenously injected into db/db mice. Four weeks later, mice are hemodynamically characterized and subsequently sacrificed for IMS combined with bottom-up mass spectrometry, and isoform and phosphorylation analyses of cardiac titin.

Overall alterations of the cardiac proteome signatures, especially titin, are observed in db/db compared to control mice. Interestingly, only CD362
MSC can overcome the reduced titin intensity distribution and shifts the isoform ratio toward the more compliant N2BA form. In contrast, WT and CD362
MSCs improve all-titin phosphorylation and protein kinase G activity, which is reflected in an improvement in diastolic performance.
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