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From the calculations of the risk of contracting cancer throughout life (LCR), in the case of adults, the US EPA limits were not complied in the industrial and urban areas and in both fractions of PM. From the evaluation of the burden of disease (EBD), the calculated relative risks of mortality were very similar for the studied districts, being the relative risk in La Plata slightly lower, about 3-5%, than those in Berisso and Ensenada.Groundwater is considered as the main source for supplying the public drinking water in many countries and regions; however, pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and artificial sweeteners (ASs) found in groundwater can exert harmful effects on human health and aquatic ecosystems, and therefore, they are of persistent concern. The recent data on the occurrence of a series of PPCPs (including antibiotics, excitants and lipid regulators) and ASs often detected in groundwater are reviewed, in which the PPCPs and ASs occur in groundwater at the concentration from several nanograms to several micrograms per litre. In addition, the spatio-temporal distribution characteristics of PPCPs and ASs are discussed and the main sources and possibly pollution pathways of PPCPs and ASs in groundwater are summarised and analysed. Additionally, the adsorption, migration and degradation of PPCPs and ASs in underground environments are evaluated. Due to the long residence time in groundwater, pollutants are likely to threaten the freshwater body for decades under certain conditions. Therefore, according to the current level of pollution, it is necessary to improve and enhance the supervision on PPCP and AS pollutants and prevent and control groundwater pollution.
The Short-Form Six-Dimension version 2 (SF-6Dv2) is the newest preference-based instrument for estimation of quality adjusted life-years (QALYs). The aim of this study is to evaluate the validity and reliability of the SF-6Dv2 in an Iranian breast cancer population.

The SF-6Dv2 and FACT-B instruments were completed for 416 patients who were recruited from the largest academic center for cancer patients in Iran. The ceiling effects are computed as the proportion of participants reporting no problems in SF-6Dv2 index. Construct validity was evaluated using convergent validity, discriminant validity, and known-groups validity. Reliability was assessed using intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) and Cohen's kappa value.

The ceiling effects of the SF-6Dv2 was 2.16%. Higher scores of all subscales of the FACT-B were associated with patients who reported no problems in each of the SF-6Dv2 dimensions. The correlation between SF-6Dv2 dimensions and FACT-B subscales varied from 0.109 between the role limitation of the SF-6Dv2 and the SWB subscale of the FACT-B to 0.665 between the pain dimension of SF-6Dv2 and the PWB of FACT-B. The lower mean score of SF-6Dv2 was associated with patients with older age, higher education level, more severe current treatment status, and more severe cancer stage status. ICC for the SF-6Dv2 index scores was 0.66, and Kappa values varied from 0.33 for mobility to 0.66 for mental health dimensions.

The validity and reliability of the SF-6Dv2 were satisfaction in a breast cancer population and it can be employed in clinical practice or research.
The validity and reliability of the SF-6Dv2 were satisfaction in a breast cancer population and it can be employed in clinical practice or research.Translating successful preclinical research in neurodegenerative diseases into clinical practice has been difficult. The preclinical disease models used for testing new drugs not always appear predictive of the effects of the agents in the human disease state. Human induced pluripotent stem cells, obtained by reprogramming of adult somatic cells, represent a powerful system to study the molecular mechanisms of the disease onset and pathogenesis. However, these cells require a long time to differentiate into functional neural cells and the resetting of epigenetic information during reprogramming, might miss the information imparted by age. On the contrary, the direct conversion of somatic cells to neuronal cells is much faster and more efficient, it is safer for cell therapy and allows to preserve the signatures of donors' age. Direct reprogramming can be induced by lineage-specific transcription factors or chemical cocktails and represents a powerful tool for modeling neurological diseases and for regenerative medicine. In this Commentary we present and discuss strength and weakness of several strategies for the direct cellular reprogramming from somatic cells to generate human brain cells which maintain age-related features. In particular, we describe and discuss chemical strategy for cellular reprogramming as it represents a valuable tool for many applications such as aged brain modeling, drug screening and personalized medicine.
Histidine (His) undergoes light-induced reactions such as oxidation, crosslinking and addition. These reactions are initiated by singlet oxygen (
O
) to generate His photo-oxidation products, which are subject to nucleophilic attack by a non-oxidized His residue from another protein or by nucleophilic buffer components such as Tris and His. This report aims to identify light-induced His-adducts to a monoclonal antibody (mAb-1) due to the reaction of His molecules in the buffer with the photooxidized His residues under ICH light conditions. Since polysorbate-20 (PS-20) is a commonly used excipient in biotherapeutics formulation, it is also important to study the impact of PS-20 concentration on protein photostability.

We identified and characterized light-induced His-adducts of mAb-1 by LC-MS/MS. FIIN-2 purchase We showed that the levels of light-induced His-adducts generally correlate with the solvent accessibility of His residues in the protein. In addition, the presence of PS-20 at concentrations commonly used in protein drug formulations can significantly increase the levels of light-induced His-adducts.

Since His residues are present in a conserved region in the Fc domain, and may be present in the complementarity-determining region (CDR), the impact on the biological functions of the His-adducts observed here should be further studied to evaluate the risk of their presence.
Since His residues are present in a conserved region in the Fc domain, and may be present in the complementarity-determining region (CDR), the impact on the biological functions of the His-adducts observed here should be further studied to evaluate the risk of their presence.
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