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Connection between personality on severity of sepsis.
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) represent the leading causes for casualties among civilians and soldiers in the present war (including counter-terrorism). Traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by IEDs results in different degrees of impairment of cognition and behavior, but the exact brain pathophysiological mechanism following exposure to blast has not been clearly investigated. Here, we sought to establish a rat model of closed-head blast injury using compressed gas to deliver a single blast only to the brain without systemic injuries. The cognitive functions of these bTBI models were assessed by Morris Water Maze test (MWM test). The HE staining, flow cytometry, ELISA and Western Blotting were used to measure the effects of shock wave on general histology, regulatory T (Treg) cells percentage, inflammatory reactions, the expression and phosphorylation level of tau, respectively. In addition, the brain water content and 24 -h mortality were also assessed. As the distance from the blast source increased, tjury. In addition, blast lead to an increase of brain edema at 24 h and 3d after blast injury. However, no obvious alterations in brain gross pathology were found acutely in the blast-exposed rats. In conclusion, we established a rat model of simple craniocerebral blast injury characterized by impairment of cognitive function, Thr205 phosphorylation of tau, decreased Treg cells and increased inflammatory reactions and brain edema. We expect this model may help clarify the underlying mechanism after blast injury and possibly serve as a useful animal model in the development of novel therapeutic and diagnostic approaches. The microsporidium Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) is considered as an emerging pathogen threating the shrimp industry worldwide. It is an intracellular parasite that has been associated with retarded growth syndrome and white feces syndrome in shrimp. Although the impact of EHP to the shrimp industry is well known, many aspects of host-pathogen interactions are not well understood. A major limitation in the study of EHP is the lack of a reliable method to produce large quantities of inoculum rapidly and reproducibly. The present study was designed to compare different challenge methods including intramuscular injection, oral administration, co-habitation, hepatopancreas (HP) injection and reverse gavage. The results showed that the HP injection and the reverse gavage are two promising methods to infect shrimp rapidly and generate inoculum in a reproducible manner starting with a limited amount of inoculum. Therefore, the HP injection and reverse gavage were chosen for a scale-up study. Histopathology results showed that EHP proliferated in the epithelial cells of the HP in shrimp challenged via direct injection of inoculum into HP and reverse gavage treatments. In accordance with the histopathology results, the qPCR data showed that EHP loads in the challenged shrimp increased significantly with the HP injection and reverse gavage methods. Furthermore, the histopathological and quantification results indicate that HP injection and reverse gavage are two novel methods that can be used in EHP-challenge studies and for rapidly generating viable EHP inoculum. Vip3Aa protein is produced by Bacillus thuringiensis during vegetative growth and displays high toxicity against a wide range of lepidopteran insect larvae such as Spodoptera exigua and Spodoptera frugiperda, both important insect pests worldwide. Vip3Aa protein is synthesized as a protoxin (proVip3Aa) and becomes activated by digestion with either trypsin or insect gut proteases. The activated Vip3Aa protein (actVip3Aa) binds to a specific receptor in the brush border epithelial midgut cells, causing cell death via apoptosis, possibly induced by its pore-forming activity. Here we investigated the actVip3Aa intracellular localization to explain the molecular mechanism leading to the cytotoxicity of Vip3Aa toxin. The Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) cell line was incubated with fluorescently labeled Vip3Aa, namely Alexa488-actVip3Aa, and the intracellular localization was analyzed through a laser scanning confocal microscope. The Alexa488-actVip3Aa was internalized into the Sf9 cells. Immunofluorescence detection demonstrated that Alexa488-actVip3Aa did not colocalize with early endosomes which is usually implicated in clathrin-mediated endocytosis, suggesting that the actVip3Aa does not use clathrin-dependent endocytosis to transport into the cytosol. Intracellular visualization also shows that actVip3Aa does not directly target to mitochondria upon entry into the cytosol. Following internalization, actVip3Aa causes cell division disruption that subsequently could trigger cell death via apoptosis. We combined matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) along with sequencing of the B locus intergenic region (Bloc) to assess the diversity of Brazilian species within the anamorphic genus Beauveria. A total of 121 strains maintained in a government-owned culture collection and isolated from a range of hosts/substrates over a long time span (1981-2015) were assessed. Strains were collected in five of six Brazilian biomes, mostly in the Atlantic Forest (42.2%) and Cerrado (29.8%), primarily from insect pests of crops. All strains were subjected to MS, and those not accurately identified by this technique were genomically analyzed. Among the outcomes of this study, four taxa from the genus Beauveria were recognized, with the great majority of strains belonging to B. Selleckchem ZLN005 bassiana s.str. (93.4%), followed by B. caledonica (2.5%), B. pseudobassiana (2.5%) and B. amorpha (1.6%). B. bassiana s.str. was found in all biomes and isolated from a wide range of hosts/substrates. Due to low numbers, associations of the remaining Beauveria species with specific hosts or habitats/biomes were not clear, except that all three B. caledonica strains were found only in the Cerrado biome and were associated with adults of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Col.Curculionidae). B. pseudobassiana is reported for the first time on the South American continent, in a subtropical region and from two insect orders not yet associated with this taxon. We also showed that some strains previously ascribed to B. brongniartii were misidentifications. The biodiversity of Beauveria analyzed in our study was comparatively low. The geographic origins of strains used in our study were biased towards biomes with intense human interventions. Future surveys on more conserved, less environmentally disturbed biomes, such as Caatinga, Pampa, Pantanal, and Amazon are needed for a more comprehensive picture of the diversity of Beauveria and related genera in Brazil.
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