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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition often associated with difficulty in emotion regulation, including reappraising negative emotions. This study assessed neural mechanisms associated with emotion regulation in veterans prior to and following treatment for PTSD. Participants with PTSD and combat exposed controls (CC) completed diagnostic evaluation and underwent fMRI scanning while completing Emotion Regulation Task (ERT) and Emotional Faces Assessment Task (EFAT). Participants with PTSD were randomly assigned to Prolonged Exposure plus placebo (PE+PLB), Sertraline plus enhanced medication management (SERT+EMM), or PE plus SERT (PE+SERT) and repeated diagnostic evaluation and MRI scanning following treatment. The amygdala, dmPFC, and dlPFC were examined as regions of interest. On ERT, veterans with PTSD showed significantly less dmPFC activation than CCs during reappraisal vs emotional maintenance. Within the PTSD group, results demonstrated a significant association between less activation in the dmPFC during emotion reappraisal vs maintenance trials before treatment and greater reductions in symptoms from pre- to post-treatment. During the EFAT, there were no group differences between participants with PTSD and CCs in brain activation, and no relationships between brain function and PTSD symptoms. These findings suggest that less emotional reactivity might potentially reflect less need for recruitment of prefrontal regions when reappraising negative emotion, and is an individual factor associated with better treatment outcome. OBJECTIVE Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is valuable for guiding resective surgery in patients with epilepsy. Ulonivirine However, its value for minimally invasive treatment is still unknown. This study aims to evaluate the value of MEG for stereo-electroencephalogram (EEG)-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation (SEEG-guided RF-TC) in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-negative epilepsies. METHODS An observational cohort study was performed and 19 MRI-negative patients who underwent SEEG-guided RF-TC in our epilepsy center were included. In addition, 16 MRI-positive patients were included as a reference group. Semiology, electrophysiology, and imaging information were collected. To evaluate the value of locating the MEG cluster, the proportion of the RF-TC contacts located in the MEG cluster out of all contacts used to perform RF-TC in each patient was calculated. All patients underwent the standard SEEG-guided RF-TC procedure and were followed up after the treatment. RESULTS Nineteen MRI-negative patients were divided intoed RF-TC, which leads to better outcomes. This work describes the screening of twenty three per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in twenty five paper and board (P/B) packaging materials and their migration to several food simulants (50% ethanol, 95% ethanol and Tenax®) at different conditions of time and temperature. A different migration pattern depending on the carbon chain length was observed; while short carbon chain PFASs tend to migrate more to 50% ethanol than to 95% ethanol, long chain PFASs showed the opposite trend. On the other hand, very low migration percentages of all PFASs to Tenax® were found. Finally, migration of 9 PFASs into real foods (cereals, rice and infant milk powder) for 6 months was quantified and compared with the results obtained with the simulants. As a result, significant underestimations of the PFASs migration to foodstuffs were obtained using Tenax®, especially for short carbon chain PFASs and milk powder. Pyrocatechol violet impregnated magnetic graphene oxide hybrid material (PV-MGO) was prepared as magnetic solid phase microextraction for separation and preconcentration of copper before its determination by flame atomic absorption spectrometry. PV-MGO hybrid material was characterized using field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM, SEM-Mapping), scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman spectroscopy. Effects of various parameters such as pH, eluent type, vortex time, amount of magnetic adsorbent were investigated. Under the optimized conditions the MSPE-FAAS procedure presents limit of detection (LOD) of 4.0 μg L-1, limit of quantification (LOQ) of 13.3 μg L-1, preconcentration factor of 20 and relative standard deviation (RSD) 4.93%. The accuracy of the method was confirmed by the analysis of the certified reference materials (NCS ZC73032 Celery, CRM025-050 metals on soil, TMDA-64.2 fortified water) and addition-recovery tests. The present method was successfully applied to water, black tea and diet supplements. An inexpensive and environmental friendly electrochemical sensor based on a glassy carbon electrode (GC) modified with graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and Nafion (NF) has been developed for the determination of Cd(II) and Pb(II) in bivalve mollusks using square wave anodic stripping voltammetry (SWASV). GQDs were characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy, fluorescence and transmission electronic microscopy (TEM). The modified electrode was evaluated by cyclic voltammetry, scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). A linearity of 20-200 μg L-1 was found, with a limit of detection (LOD) of 11.30 μg L-1 for Cd(II) and 8.49 μg L-1 for Pb(II). The proposed methodology was validated with a certified reference material TMDA-64.2. The reproducibility of GC/GQDs-NF for both species had an RSD of less than 10%. The results were compared with ICP-OES. The method was applied in the determination of Cd(II) and Pb(II) in bivalve mollusks samples with excellent results. This work investigated the interaction between cyclodextrins and pullulanase to provide insight into the production and application of cyclodextrins. Enzyme activity and kinetic assays showed that α-cyclodextrin (α-CD), β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and γ-cyclodextrin (γ-CD) inhibited pullulanase in a competitive manner. Circular dichroism spectra and fluorescence spectroscopy suggested the formation of cyclodextrin and pullulanase complexes. According to ITC assays and molecular docking results, compared with α-CD and γ-CD, β-CD had the strongest affinity for pullulanase because of its appropriate cavity geometric dimensions. In addition, cyclodextrins interacted with pullulanase through hydrogen bonds, van der Waals force and hydrophobic interactions, the latter of which were verified as the major driving force. Phenylalanine 476 was the key amino acid residue in pullulanase for cyclodextrin recognition and binding.
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