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We also confirmed that producing PHB did not negatively affect lycopene biosynthesis in the E. coli strains and collected data suggesting that PHB titer and lycopene titer were positively correlated when the cells were engineered to co-produce them. The biopolymers that encapsulated hydrophobic molecules could have many useful applications, especially in controlled release because the polymers are biodegradable, and the encapsulated products would be released during the polymer degradation. The relationship among genetic diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi and clinical forms of Chagas disease remain elusive. In order to assess the possible association between different T. cruzi Discrete Typing Units (DTUs) and the clinical pictures of the disease, 205 chronic patients from Salta province, Argentina, were analysed. One hundred and twenty-two of these patients were clinically categorized as cardiac 38.5% (47/122), digestive 15% (18/122), cardio-digestive 16% (20/122) and asymptomatic 30% (37/122). From each patient, blood samples were taken for both, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) targeting kDNA and blood culture analyses. The presence of T. cruzi kDNA was detected in 43% (88/205) of the patients. T. cruzi DTUs were identified in 74% (65/88) of the kDNA positive patients by PCR-hybridization using specific probes. We detected the presence of DTUs TcI, TcII, TcV and TcVI. Single infections (i.e. presence of only one DTU in the sample) were detected in 38.64% of the samples (34/88), while mixed infections were 35.23% (31/88). TcV was the most prevalent DTU (60.3%- 53/88). The association analyses showed, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, that TcV and TcVI were associated with the digestive form of Chagas Disease (Fisher p = .0001). V.Cadmium is a common heavy metal pollutant. Previous studies have found that long-term cadmium exposure can cause damage to multiple organs/systems in humans and experimental animals; however, there are few studies that elucidate its effects on offspring development, discuss whether it can be transmitted to offspring from the parent, and debate whether it affects the functional development of the thyroid hormone system in offsprings. In this study, sexually mature zebrafish were exposed to different concentrations of cadmium chloride (0.01 μmol/L, 0.1 μmol/L, and 1 μmol/L) to study reproductive toxicity. It was found that parental zebrafish exposed to 1 μmol/L of cadmium chloride produced offsprings with different degrees of malformation. At 5 days post-fertilization (dpf), the levels of 3,5,3'-triiododenosine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) in the zebrafish were decreased. At 10 dpf, the T4 and T3 levels in the zebrafish of the offspring were significantly reduced. At the same time, the expression of thyroid receptor (trα and trβ) genes in five dpf larvae was significantly up-regulated in the 1 μmol/L treatment group relative to the control group. The mRNAs of thyroid hormone synthesis and metabolism-related genes (tshβ, dio1, dio2, ugt1ab, and ttr) were significantly up-regulated in the 0.1 μmol/L and 1 μmol/L treatment groups. This study demonstrates that parental cadmium chloride exposure produces reproductive toxicity in zebrafish and that the effects can be transferred from the parent to the offspring, resulting in developmental toxicity in the thyroid endocrine system. Previous studies have demonstrated that Zearalenone (ZEA) affects not only maternal reproductive function but also that of the offspring. However, the transgenerational toxic effects of ZEA on the spermatogonia of male F1 mice are not clear. The present study was thus designed to determine whether the fertility of male F1 mice was affected following exposure of F0 pregnant mice to ZEA. In present study, 32 pregnant female mice were divided into 4 groups and exposed to ZEA of 0, 2.5 and 5.0 mg/kg, respectively, and the testis development and reproductive performance of 96 male F1 mice were analyzed. The results demonstrated that the F0 pregnant mice treated with ZEA resulted in increased anogenital distances in the newborn male F1 mice. Moreover, ZEA caused abnormal vacuole structures and loose connections in the testes of male F1 offspring, compared with the controls. Further ultramicrostructural analysis showed that the mitochondria appeared to be vacuolated with ablated membranes and cristae, and this was accompanied by the presence of large lipid droplets in the spermatogonia. Further, the semen quality and sperm counts declined significantly, and increased malformation rates and decreased testosterone levels were observed in the male F1 offspring from experimental groups. Our results reveal the toxic effects of ZEA on F0 pregnant mice is transgenerational, and affects the fertility of male F1 mice by damaging the spermatogonial cells. This offers a new viewpoint of ZEA-induced reproductive toxicity in male animals and provides a new potential direction for the treatment and prevention of ZEA-induced cytotoxicity. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate a modification of the classical Burch procedure, called "Laparoscopic TOT - like Burch colposuspencion". The technique does not involve any type of prothesis placement and it is an alternative for the patients with stress urinary incontinence in a future without meshes. Describing and standardising the procedure in different steps makes the surgery reproducible for the gynecologists and safe for the patients. DESIGN Step-by-step educational video, underlining and focusing on the main anatomical landmark SETTING A university tertiary care hospital INTERVENTIONS The patient is set under general anaesthesia and in lithotomy position. The distinct steps of the procedure are performed as followed Step 1 Installation. Two 10 mm trocars are positioned in the midline and two 5 mm trocars - in the suprapubic region. The recommended intraabdominal pressure is 6-8 mmHg and excessive Trendelenburg is not needed. Step 2 Entry in the Retzius space. The median umbilical ligament and the vesicolumbilstress urinary incontinence, with low rates of dysuric symptoms and represents a valuable alternative for the gynecologists in a future without meshes. The existing information supports the use of this material as described in this safety assessment. Cinnamyl alcohol was evaluated for genotoxicity, repeated dose toxicity, developmental toxicity, reproductive toxicity, local respiratory toxicity, phototoxicity, skin sensitization, and environmental safety. Data show that cinnamyl alcohol is not genotoxic. Data on read-across analog cinnamaldehyde (CAS # 104-55-2) provide a calculated margin of exposure (MOE) >100 for the repeated dose and local respiratory toxicity endpoints. The developmental and reproductive toxicity endpoint was evaluated using the threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) for a Cramer Class I material, and the exposure to cinnamyl alcohol is below the TTC (0.03 mg/kg/day). Data provided a No Expected Sensitization Induction Level (NESIL) of 2900 μg/cm2 for the skin sensitization endpoint. The phototoxicity/photoallergenicity endpoints were evaluated based on UV spectra; cinnamyl alcohol is not expected to be phototoxic/photoallergenic. The environmental endpoints were evaluated; cinnamyl alcohol was found not to be persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) as per the International Fragrance Association (IFRA) Environmental Standards, and its risk quotients, based on its current volume of use in Europe and North America (i.e., Predicted Environmental Concentration/Predicted No Effect Concentration [PEC/PNEC]), are less then 1. OBJECTIVE Outpatient clinics lack infrastructure to easily measure and understand patient wait times. Our objective was to design a low-cost, portable passive real time locating system within an outpatient clinic setting to measure patient wait times and patient-provider interactions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Direct observation was used to determine workflow in an outpatient glaucoma clinic at the University of Michigan. We used off-the shelf, antenna-integrated ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID readers (ThingMagic, Astra-Ex, Woburn, MA) and UHF re-useable passive RFID tags (Zebra Impinj Monza 4QT, Seattle, WA). We designed a custom RFID management application in the Java programming language that was equipped with 'live' device administration to collect time and location data from patients and providers. These hardware choices enabled low cost system installation. Hidden Markov Modeling (HMM) was used to smooth patient and provider location data. Location data were validated against direct observations and EHR evaluation. RESULTS The HMM smoothed RFID system data accurately predicted patient location 80.6% of the time and provider location 79.1% of the time, compared to direct observation locations, an improvement over the raw RFID location data (65.0% and 77.9% accurate, respectively). Patient process time was on average 42.8 min (SD = 27.5) and wait time was 47.9 min (SD = 33.1). The installation and recurring capital costs of the system are approximately 10% of available commercially-supplied patient/provider tracking systems. DISCUSSION Passive RFID time study systems can enable real-time localization of people in clinic, facilitating continuous capture of patient wait times and patient-provider interactions. The system must be tailored to the clinic to accurately reflect patient and provider movement. CONCLUSIONS Capturing wait time data continuously and passively can empower continuous clinical quality improvement initiatives to enhance the patient experience. Psychological stress turns out to be increasingly severe among teenagers and has imposed numerous physical and mental issues on them. The earlier the stress is detected, the better it can be effectively managed and alleviated. Smart phones, having taken up an integral part of our daily lives, can act as a way to monitor and collect people's daily behaviors and help people manage stress. In the present study, a Multi-modal Interactive Fusion Method (MIFM) was proposed to detect psychological stress from three types of data (namely, texts, images, sleep and exercise data) harvested using a self-developed mobile app termed as Happort. The method characterized the associations between each two modalities and calculated the contribution of each modality via two attention mechanisms. As revealed from our experimental results, fusing multi-modalities for stress detection exhibits consistently higher performance than using single-modality. With the rise of deep learning, several recent studies on deep learning-based methods for electronic health records (EHR) successfully address real-world clinical challenges by utilizing effective representations of medical entities. However, existing EHR representation learning methods that focus on only diagnosis codes have limited clinical value, because such structured codes cannot concretely describe patients' medical conditions, and furthermore, some of the codes assigned to patients contain errors and inconsistency; this is one of the well-known caveats in the EHR. To overcome this limitation, in this paper, we fuse more detailed and accurate information in the form of natural language provided by unstructured clinical data sources (i.e., clinical notes). We propose HORDE, a unified graph representation learning framework to embed heterogeneous medical entities into a harmonized space for further downstream analyses as well as robustness to inconsistency in structured codes. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that HORDE significantly improves the performances of conventional clinical tasks such as subsequent code prediction and patient severity classification compared to existing methods, and also show the promising results of a novel EHR analysis about the consistency of each diagnosis code assignment.
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