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5%) egg-OIT participants (p=0.009). In the BE reactive comparator group, 7 of 39 (17.9%) participants achieved SU. More BE tolerant participants withdrew from BE versus egg OIT (29.6% versus 13%). Dosing symptom frequency in BE tolerant participants was similar with BE and egg OIT, but more frequent in BE reactive participants. Egg white-specific IgE, skin testing and basophil activation decreased similarly after BE and egg OIT. Conclusion Among children allergic to unbaked egg but tolerant to BE, those treated with egg OIT were significantly more likely to achieve SU compared to children ingesting BE.Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may originate in early life and share disease mechanisms with asthma-like symptoms in early childhood. This remains unexplored due to the lack of long-term prospective studies from infancy to the onset of COPD. Objective We aimed to investigate the relationship between asthma-like symptoms in young children and development of COPD. Methods In a population-based cohort of women giving birth at the central hospital in Copenhagen during 1959-1961 we investigated data from 3,290 mother-child pairs, who attended examinations during pregnancy and ages 1, 3 and 6 years. COPD was assessed from the Danish national registries on hospitalizations and prescription medication since 1994. A subgroup of 930 individuals underwent spirometry testing at age 50. Results One in four of the 3,290 children had a history of asthma-like symptoms in early childhood. The adjusted hazard ratio for hospitalization for COPD was 1.88 [95% CI, 1.32; 2.68] and the odds ratio for prescription of long-acting muscarinic antagonists was 2.27 [95% CI,1.38; 3.70]. Asthma-like symptoms in early childhood were also associated with reduced %predicted FEV1 and FEV1/FVC-ratio at age 50 (-3.36% [-5.47; -1.24] and -1.28 [-2.17; -0.38]), respectively, and with COPD defined according to GOLD stage>1, odds ratio 1.96 [1.13; 3.34]. Conclusion This 60 year prospective follow-up of a mother-child cohort demonstrated a doubled risk for COPD from childhood asthma-like symptoms.Boscalid is a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor fungicide commonly used to control a range of plant pathogens. Although it is one of the most common fungicides in the aquatic environment, the potential adverse effects of boscalid on freshwater invertebrates still remain unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the toxicity of boscalid on Daphnia magna (D. magna) and provide new information to assess the eco-toxicity of the boscalid on aquatic invertebrates. The effects of boscalid on malondialdehyde (MDA) level, activities of antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione S-transferase (GST) and the mRNA level of genes associated with antioxidant system (sod, cat, and gst) and detoxification (cytochrome P450 4 (cyp4) and nuclear respiratory factor 1 (nrf1)) were determined after 48 h treatment. The effect of boscalid on reproduction and development of D. magna was evaluated by a 21-d-chronic toxicity test. Boscalid dose-dependently altered activities of SOD, CAT, and GST and led to lipid peroxidation during acute exposure in D. magna. Exposure to 5 and 10 mg/L boscalid also significantly decreased gene expression of sod, gst, cyp4 and nrf1 but increased cat gene expression. Furthermore, chronic toxicity results showed that exposure to boscalid decreased molting frequency, number of neonates per Daphnia, and the number of broods per female as compared to the control groups. The above results indicated that boscalid had significant negative impacts on D. magna, and information present here helps to evaluate the eco-toxicity caused by boscalid on aquatic invertebrates.Hemispheric asymmetries in arithmetic have been hypothesized based on neuropsychological, developmental, and neuroimaging work. However, it has been challenging to separate asymmetries related to arithmetic specifically, from those associated general cognitive or linguistic processes. Here we attempt to experimentally isolate the processing of numerical meaning in arithmetic problems from language and memory retrieval by employing novel non-symbolic addition problems, where participants estimated the sum of two dot arrays and judged whether a probe dot array was the correct sum of the first two arrays. Furthermore, we experimentally manipulated which hemisphere receive the probe array first using a visual half-field paradigm while recording event-related potentials (ERP). We find that neural sensitivity to numerical meaning in arithmetic arises under left but not right visual field presentation during early and middle portions of the late positive complex (LPC, 400-800 ms). Furthermore, we find that subsequent accuracy for judgements of whether the probe is the correct sum is better under right visual field presentation than left, suggesting a left hemisphere advantage for integrating information for categorization or decision making related to arithmetic. Finally, neural signatures of operational momentum, or differential sensitivity to whether the probe was greater or less than the sum, occurred at a later portion of the LPC (800-1000 ms) and regardless of visual field of presentation, suggesting a temporal and functional dissociation between magnitude and ordinal processing in arithmetic. NS105 Together these results provide novel evidence for differences in timing and hemispheric lateralization for several cognitive processes involved in arithmetic thinking.Uncertainty about the emotional impact of future events is a common part of everyday life. However, relatively little is known about whether the level of uncertainty about the affective nature of an upcoming visual image influences anticipatory neurocognitive processes. To investigate this, participants viewed a series of negative and neutral pictures, which were preceded by abstract anticipatory cues. Neural activity was measured using event-related potentials (ERPs). In the 'uncertain' cue condition, the cue could be followed by either a negative or a neutral picture with equal probability; in the 'fairly uncertain' condition the cue was followed by a negative picture on 70% of trials, and by a neutral picture on 30% of trials. In the 'certain' condition, the cue was always followed by a negative picture. For the P200 component, reflecting early stages of selective attention, there was no amplitude difference between cue conditions. At later stages of processing, the early posterior negativity (EPN) amplitude was enhanced for cues indicating a greater level of certainty, and the late positive potential (LPP) amplitude was greater for certain, compared to fairly uncertain and uncertain cues.
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