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Over the years, the focus of infectious diseases in many African countries has been mainly on viral, bacterial and parasitic infections. Serious fungal infections (SFIs) with comparable morbidity rate in these countries remain neglected.

To estimate the burden of SFI in Togo and to stimulate efforts for improved attention.

Literature was thoroughly searched for epidemiological data on SFI in Togo. Incidence and/or prevalence of SFI was estimated using socio-demographics, health system's information, risk-groups data and SFI rates obtained from national and international studies.

About 5.29% of the 7,265,286 Togolese population is estimated to suffer from SFI annually. Among HIV patients, 1,342, 1,650 and 330 may develop cryptococcal meningitis, Pneumocystis pneumonia and disseminated histoplasmosis respectively per year. Oral and oesophageal candidiasis may annually affect 19,800 and 7,535 persons, respectively, living with HIV. Estimated incidence of invasive aspergillosis (IA) was 283 cases. Prevalegal infections in Togo.Metal phosphorus-based nanomaterials (Metal-P NMs) including metal phosphate nanomaterials, metal phosphide nanomaterials, and metal-black phosphorus (Metal-BP) nanocomposite are widely used in the field of biomedicine owing to their excellent physical and chemical properties, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. In recent years, metal phosphate nanomaterials and Metal-BP nanocomposite acted as medicine delivery system have made breakthroughs in tumor diagnosis including magnetic resonance imaging, fluorescence imaging, photoacoustic imaging, nuclear imaging, and therapies including chemotherapy, gene therapy, photothermal therapy, photodynamic therapy, and radiation therapy. Metal phosphate nanomaterials have good biodegradability, especially calcium-based metal phosphate nanomaterials can be dissolved into nontoxic ions and participate in the metabolisms of normal organs. Compared with metal phosphate nanomaterials, metal phosphide nanomaterials have excellent optical, magnetic, and catalytic properties, which can be used as multifunctional diagnostic nanoplatforms and therapeutic agents for chemodynamic therapy, photothermal therapy, or immunotherapy. The latest developments in Metal-P NMs, covering the range of preparation methods and biological applications, such as serving as drug carriers, tumor diagnosis, and therapy, are focused. All in all, the current trends, key issues, future prospects and challenges of Metal-P NMs are concluded and discussed, which are important for the development of this research field and shining more lights on this direction.
A common dilemma rarely mentioned during doctoral training is career/family balance-especially the timing of children. This dilemma extends to professional anthropologists and includes questions surrounding the benefits and challenges of taking children to the field. We analyzed survey data from tenure-track and tenured anthropologists to determine if fieldwork in general and fieldwork with or without their children on site impacts career/family balance. We hypothesized that having children and the burden of fieldwork puts more strain on women than on men in anthropology.

We compared 297 tenure-track and tenured anthropologists by gender, tenure status, and mean annual time spent conducting fieldwork using survey data collected for the Family and the Field study. Analysis was conducted using a combination of hierarchical multivariate analysis of variance and regression to analyze the differing factors affecting various groups.

The primary differences in career/family balance occurred between tenure-track and tenured anthropologists, not women and men, and that fieldwork requirements do not necessarily make achieving personal balance harder for anthropologists than other academics.

The need to conduct fieldwork may dissuade some people with or planning to have children from becoming anthropologists. However, upon obtaining tenure-track positions, the burdens impacting "balance" taper off and become less stressful. We offer policy suggestions for buffering stress related to career/family balance that may negatively impact decisions to pursue or continue in anthropology as a career.
The need to conduct fieldwork may dissuade some people with or planning to have children from becoming anthropologists. However, upon obtaining tenure-track positions, the burdens impacting "balance" taper off and become less stressful. We offer policy suggestions for buffering stress related to career/family balance that may negatively impact decisions to pursue or continue in anthropology as a career.On the basis of cyclotrixylohydroquinoylene (CTX), a novel water-soluble phospholate-based CTX derivative (WPCTX) was prepared with facile synthetic procedure and satisfying yield. Several model guest molecules were selected to investigate WPCTX's host-guest properties. Based on the study of the host and model guest complexation, a tetraphenylethylene derivative from model guest was employed as a guest molecule (G) to form WPCTX⊃G nanoparticles (NPs) with WPCTX through further supramolecular self-assembly in water. Moreover, a hydrophobic fluorescent dye, Eosin Y(ESY) or Nile red (NiR), was encapsulated in WPCTX⊃G NPs to construct two types of artificial light-harvesting systems. Their high antenna effect demonstrated such NPs successfully mimicked light-harvesting systems in nature.A phosphine-catalyzed approach to pyrrolines has been developed that involves two mechanistically unlinked catalytic processes. The first involves the redox isomerization of amino crotonates to provide access to aliphatic tosyl imines, which then engage in a (3+2) annulation with various allenoates. The reaction shows generality, with 24 examples established, along with a low yielding and moderately enantioselective variant. Mechanistic studies indicate that the viability of the process is linked to the selection of catalysts with similar propensity to add to the two coupling partners.The prevalence of persistent hyperglycaemia during diabetes, impair antioxidant defence system and generate reactive oxygen species, which majorly contribute to its progression and associated complications. Phytochemicals were suggested to scavenge-free radicals and exert antioxidant effects required to improve insulin sensitivity and reduce the occurrence of diabetes-associated complications. We hypothesise that a phenolic phytochemical p-coumaric can reduce diabetes-induced oxidative stress and improve diabetes-associated nephropathy in rats. The aim of this study is to analyse the protective effects of p-coumaric acid against diabetes-induced oxidative stress and nephropathy in high-fat diet-induced diabetic rats. The oral feeding of p-coumaric acid (20 mg/kg for 12 weeks) was found to significantly decrease the elevated levels of blood glucose in high-fat diet-induced type 2 diabetic rats. p-Coumaric acid treatment also decreases the kidney weight whilst increasing the total body weight of diabetic rats. Furthermore whilst evaluation of the different renal functioning tests, p-coumaric acid significantly improves histopathological changes and the levels of urea, creatinine and uric acid in serum of diabetic rats, which was otherwise elevated under diabetic conditions. Our results also highlight that p-coumaric acid is an efficient compound with antioxidant properties and improves the diabetes-induced change in lipid peroxidation and activities of antioxidant enzymes catalase, glutathione-S-transferase and superoxide dismutase. p-Coumaric acid thus possesses the potential to prevent diabetic nephropathy by reducing oxidative stress and can thus serve as a potential drug target for pharmaceutical companies.Bioprinting, within the emerging field of biofabrication, aims at the fabrication of functional biomimetic constructs. Different 3D bioprinting techniques have been adapted to bioprint cell-laden bioinks. However, single-material bioprinting techniques oftentimes fail to reproduce the complex compositions and diversity of native tissues. Multi-material bioprinting as an emerging approach enables the fabrication of heterogeneous multi-cellular constructs that replicate their host microenvironments better than single-material approaches. SodiumPyruvate Here, bioprinting modalities are reviewed, their being adapted to multi-material bioprinting is discussed, and their advantages and challenges, encompassing both custom-designed and commercially available technologies are analyzed. A perspective of how multi-material bioprinting opens up new opportunities for tissue engineering, tissue model engineering, therapeutics development, and personalized medicine is offered.Two series comprising 20 novel benzenesulfonamides bearing thioureido-linked pyrazole 8 and amino-1,2,4-thiadiazole 10 were synthesized and assayed as human carbonic anhydrase (hCA) inhibitors against isoforms I and II as well as the tumor-associated isoforms IX and XII. Molecular modeling studies of some potent derivatives (8a, 8c, 10a, and 10c) were also performed against isoforms hCA I, II, and XII. Both the promising series of compounds were synthesized by using commercially available mtethyl ketones and sulfanilamide as the starting materials. Interestingly, this paper also reports a novel methodology for the synthesis of amino-1,2,4-thiadiazoles 10 using 3-amino isoxazoles and 4-isothiocyanatobenzenesulfonamide as reactants. The activity profile of all the newly synthesized compounds reveals that amino-linked 1,2,4-thiadiazoles 10 were better inhibitors of the cytosolic isoform, hCA I, as compared to thioureido-linked pyrazoles 8. Further, hCA II was strongly inhibited by nearly all the newly synthesized sulfonamides, while all the compounds were less effective as hCA IX and XII inhibitors compared to the standard drug acetazolamide. However, in terms of selectivity, compound 8e was found to be the most selective inhibitor of hCA II, which is the isoform associated with glaucoma, edema, altitude sickness, and epilepsy.
Glucosylceramidase (GBA) mutations are considered the most common genetic risk factors for developing Parkinson's disease (PD).

We aimed to assess, at different time points, the integrity of brain striatal and extra-striatal dopamine pathways and clinical phenotype of a group of PD subjects bearing heterozygous GBA mutations (GBA-PD), compared with a group of idiopathic PD patients (iPD) stratified by age at disease onset. A longitudinal approach was adopted to evaluate the progression over time for clinical and
I-FP-CIT SPECT imaging features.

We considered 46 GBA-PD patients and 339 iPD patients, subdivided into two groups according to age at PD onset (n=58 < 50 years and n=281 > 50 years). We measured differences in the occurrence/severity/progression of motor and non-motor features,
I-FP-CIT standard uptake value ratios (SUVr) in striatal and extra-striatal regions, and global cognitive deterioration over time in a subset of 168 cases with available follow-up.

At baseline, the GBA-PD cohort showed more severe motor and cognitive deficits than the early-iPD cohort. The
I-FP-CIT SUVr reduction in the striatal and the extra-striatal regions was more marked in the GBA-PD than the early- and late-iPD cohorts. Both GBA-PD and late-iPD patients had a significant annual deterioration in their global cognitive performance, while the early-iPD group showed global cognitive stability over time. At follow-up, the iPD cohorts became similar to the GBA-PD group in
I-FP-CIT SUVr reduction.

These new findings support the hypothesis of a biological role of GBA mutations in accelerating the early neurodegenerative processes in PD, leading to the malignant clinical phenotype. © 2021 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
These new findings support the hypothesis of a biological role of GBA mutations in accelerating the early neurodegenerative processes in PD, leading to the malignant clinical phenotype. © 2021 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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