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Of all the women who seroconverted, four reported an HIV negative primary partner, while one reported an unknown partner status. None of the participants reported condom use during pregnancy. Two of the seroconverters vertically transmitted HIV to their babies. The results did not suggest a clear pattern of seroconversion during ANC and PNC. Conclusions The low rates of seroconversion suggest that testing pregnant women multiple times during ANC and PNC may not be cost effective, but a follow-up test during birth may be protective of the newborn.Naturally growing vegetation often suffers from the effects of drought. There exists a vast number of drought indices (DI's) to assess the impact of drought on the growth of crops and naturally occurring vegetation. However, assessing the fitness of these indices for large areas with variable vegetation cover is often problematic because of the absence of adequate spatial information. In this study, we compared six DI's to NDVI (the normalized difference vegetation index), a common indicator of vegetation occurrence and health based on satellite-acquired reflectance data. The study area covers an aridity gradient from forests to deserts along a 2,400-km-long section across the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. On an annual timescale, standardized precipitation index (SPI) was the most appropriate in assessing drought in steppes and deserts. On a seasonal timescale, the self-calibrated Palmer drought severity index (scPDSI) displayed the greatest sensitivity during the summer, but not during the other seasons. On a monthly timescale, scPDSI demonstrated the greatest sensitivity to the various vegetation zones (i.e., forests, steppes, and deserts) in June and July. Further analysis indicated that summer drought had a lag-effect on vegetation growth, which varied from one to six months according to the specific vegetation cover. The mixed response of DI's to NDVI and the lag-effect in transitional vegetation on annual, seasonal, and monthly timescales were ascribed to differences in DI definition and the dominant plant species within the transitional cover. The current study has the potential to inform the drafting of selection criteria of DI's for the study of drought-related impact on naturally growing vegetation at timescales from month to year.Introduction The liver is well known for its enormous regenerative capacity. If the hepatocytes are compromised the reserve stem cells can regrow the lost tissue by means of oval cells differentiating into hepatocytes. We were curious whether this standby system was able to compensate for ontogenic liver growth arrested by 2-acetylaminofluorene (AAF) treatment or if it can be influenced by cholic acid, known to promote liver growth in several reactions. Methods (i) Four weeks-old (60-70g) male F344 rats were kept on standard chow and treated with solvent only, (ii) others were kept on 0,2% cholic acid (CA) enriched diet, (iii) treated with AAF, or (iiii) given a combination of CA diet and AAF treatment (AAF/CA). The proliferative response of epithelial cells was characterized by pulse bromodeoxyuridine labelling. The relative gene expression levels of senescence-related factors and bile acid receptors were determined by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis. Results AAF administration efficiently inhibited the physiological proliferation of hepatocytes in young, male F344 rats after weaning. The activation of stem cells was indicated by the increased proliferation of periportal biliary/oval cells (B/OC). If the rats were fed additionally by cholic acid enriched diet, typical oval cell reaction emerged, subsequently the oval cells differentiated into hepatocytes restituting liver growth. This reaction was mediated by increased production of HGF, IL-6 and SCF by the damaged liver. Moreover, upregulation of FXR expression on B/OC made them competent for bile acids. Our results indicate that endogenous, autocrine mechanisms involved in liver ontogeny are also able to activate the backup regenerative machinery of stem cells.Background The Argentinian pouched lamprey, classified as Petromyzon macrostomus Burmeister, 1868 was first described in 1867 in De La Plata River, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and subsequently recorded in several rivers from Patagonia. Since its original description, the validity of P. macrostomus was questioned by several ichthyologists and 36 years after its original discovery it was considered a junior synonym of Geotria australis Gray, 1851. Etomoxir For a long time, the taxonomic status of G. australis has been uncertain, largely due to the misinterpretations of the morphological alterations that occur during sexual maturation, including the arrangement of teeth, size and position of fins and cloaca, and the development of an exceptionally large gular pouch in males. In this study, the taxonomic status of Geotria from across the "species" range was evaluated using both molecular analysis and examination of morphological characteristics. Methodology/principal findings Phylogenetic and species delimitation analysesn the south-west Atlantic coast of South America, should be named as Geotria macrostoma (Burmeister, 1868) and not as G. australis Gray 1851, returning to its earliest valid designation in Argentina. Geotria macrostoma can now be considered as the single lamprey species inhabiting Argentinian Patagonia, with distinct local adaptations and evolutionary potential. It is essential that this distinctiveness is recognized in order to guide future conservation and management actions against imminent threats posed by human actions in the major basins of Patagonia.White matter abnormalities are well-established in adult patients with psychosis. Less is known about abnormalities in the rarely occurring adolescent early onset psychosis (EOP). In particular, whether antipsychotic medication might impact white matter microstructure is not known. Using 3T diffusion weighted imaging, we investigated differences in white matter microstructure and the impact of antipsychotic medication status in medicated (n = 11) and unmedicated (n = 11) EOP patients relative to healthy controls (n = 33), aged between 12-18 years. Using Tract-based Spatial Statistics, we calculate case-control differences in scalar diffusion measures, i.e. fractional anisotropy (FA), axial diffusion (AD) and radial diffusion (RD), and investigated their association with antipsychotic medication in patients. We found significantly lower FA in the left genu of the corpus callosum, the left anterior corona radiata (ACR) and the right superior longitudinal fasciculus in EOP patients relative to healthy controls. AD values were also lower in the left ACR, largely overlapping with the FA findings.
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