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'NB' was significantly affected by leaf heat damages only in fruit yield while 'CY' was in fruit set, number and yield. 'NB' showed fast recovery after heat stress compared to 'CY'. These results suggest that constant photosynthetic rate via increased transpiration rate as well as high proline content in heat stress condition confer faster recovery from heat damage of heat-tolerant cultivars in seedlings stages.E/D163 polymorphism of dog prion protein (PrP) has been recently proposed as the variant responsible for canid prion resistance. To further investigate the protective role of this variant against prion replication, the transgenic mouse model OvPrP-Tg532 expressing sheep/goat PrP carrying the substitution D162 (equivalent to D163 position of dog PrP) was generated and intracranially inoculated with a broad collection of small ruminant prion strains. OvPrP-Tg532 mice showed resistance to classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from sheep and some classical scrapie isolates from sheep and goat but were susceptible to ovine atypical L-BSE and numerous classical scrapie isolates. Strikingly, some of these classical scrapie isolates showed a shift in their prion strain properties. These results suggest that other PrP residues apart from E/D163 variant of dog PrP or factors distinct than PrP may participate in prion resistance of canids and that different factors may be required for D162 sheep PrP to provide effective protection to sheep against ruminant prions.Many state-of-the-art researches focus on predicting infection scale or threshold in infectious diseases or rumor and give the vaccination strategies correspondingly. In these works, most of them assume that the infection probability and initially infected individuals are known at the very beginning. Generally, infectious diseases or rumor has been spreading for some time when it is noticed. How to predict which individuals will be infected in the future only by knowing the current snapshot becomes a key issue in infectious diseases or rumor control. In this report, a prediction model based on snapshot is presented to predict the potentially infected individuals in the future, not just the macro scale of infection. Experimental results on synthetic and real networks demonstrate that the infected individuals predicted by the model have good consistency with the actual infected ones based on simulations.Retinoids play a pivotal role in adrenal development and differentiation. MLN7243 mw Recent clinical trials revealed therapeutic potential of both all-trans and 9-cis retinoic acid in patients with cortisol excess due to a pituitary ACTH-secreting adenoma and indicated that retinoids might act also on the adrenal. Aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of 9-cis retinoic acid on adrenals from patients with ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome. Adrenal specimens from six patients with Cushing's disease were incubated with 10 nM-1 µM 9-cis retinoic acid with and without 10 nM ACTH. Cortisol secretion was measured by immunoassay and expression of genes involved in steroidogenesis as well as retinoic acid action were evaluated by real-time RT-PCR. Incubation with 10-100 nM 9-cis retinoic acid increased spontaneous cortisol secretion and expression of STAR and CYP17A. On the other hand, in wells treated with ACTH, 9-cis retinoic acid markedly diminished ACTH receptor upregulation and no stimulatory effect on cortisol secretion or steroidogenic enzyme synthesis was observed. ACTH itself increased ligand-induced retinoic acid receptor expression, possibly enhancing sensitivity to retinoic acid. Our findings indicate that the effect of 9-cis retinoic acid in presence of ACTH is distinct from unchallenged wells and support the hypothesis of a direct adrenal action in patients with Cushing's disease.The plastic deformation behavior of single crystals of two transition-metal diborides, ZrB2 and TiB2 with the AlB2 structure has been investigated at room temperature as a function of crystal orientation and specimen size by micropillar compression tests. Although plastic flow is not observed at all for their bulk single crystals at room temperature, plastic flow is successfully observed at room temperature by the operation of slip on 1[Formula see text]00 slip in TiB2. The identified operative slip systems and their CRSS values are discussed in comparison with those identified in the corresponding bulk single crystals at high temperatures and those inferred from micro-hardness anisotropy in the early studies.Management of soil micronutrients for better crop production needs a sound understanding of their status and causes of variability. This is more relevant for acid soils of the mountain ecosystem of Eastern Himalaya (Northeast India). We assessed the status, and the effect of land uses along altitudinal gradients (14 to 4090 masl) on soil properties and micronutrient concentrations (DTPA extractable Fe, Mn, Cu, and Zn) across the region. Soils varied widely in micronutrient concentrations Fe from 0.665 to 257.1 mg kg-1 while Mn, Cu, and Zn from traces to 93.4, 17.1, and 34.2 mg kg-1, respectively. On conversion of evergreen forests (EF) to upland agriculture (Shifting-SC and Settled-SA) and plantation (PH), Mn, Cu, and Zn concentrations decreased significantly from 30.5, 1.74, and 2.13 mg kg-1 to 6.44-17.8, 0.68-0.81, and 1.06-1.42 mg kg-1, respectively. Grassland (GL) and lowland paddy (LP) had comparable Fe, Mn, and Cu concentrations (except Zn). Degradation of EF to scrubland (SL) recorded the lowest Mn (5.91 mg kg-1), Cu (0.59 mg kg-1), and Zn (0.68 mg kg-1) concentrations. Fe concentration was however increased in degraded SL (+ 73%) over EF (48.7 mg kg-1). The distribution of micronutrients among the land uses was inconsistent and followed the order (i) Fe SL > PH > LP > EF > GL > SC > SA, (ii) Mn EF > GL > LP > PH > SC > SA > SL; (iii) Cu EF > GL > LP > SC > SA = PH > SL; and (iv) Zn GL > EF > LP > SC > SA > PH > SL. Four micronutrients responded differently and followed a non-linear, 6th-order polynomial trend along the altitudinal gradients ( 4000 masl. The variability (54-64%) in soil micronutrients was mainly controlled by three key soil properties acidity, clay, and organic carbon contents. Thus, altitude-specific land-use management holds significance in the distribution of available soil micronutrients in hilly ecosystems.Scrub typhus is a major acute febrile disease in the Asia-Pacific region. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the clinical usefulness of real-time PCR (Q-PCR) of 16S rRNA for the diagnosis of scrub typhus. We examined blood specimens from 148 adult patients who were confirmed to have scrub typhus from September 2008 to December 2009. Among the 148 scrub typhus patients, 36 patients were treated with antibiotics before admission. To evaluate the clinical usefulness of 16S rRNA Q-PCR, we compared its diagnostic accuracy to the accuracy of the following methods nested PCR (N-PCR) targeting the gene encoding the 56-kDa protein, Q-PCR targeting the gene encoding the 47-kDa protein, and conventional PCR (C-PCR), targeting the 16S rRNA gene. According to 16S rRNA Q-PCR and 47-kDa Q-PCR, the mild group had copy numbers of 234.4 ± 261.9 and 130.5 ± 128.3, whereas the severe group had copy numbers of 584.4 ± 911.4 and 244.7 ± 210.9, respectively. In both tests, the mean copy numbers were significantly greater in the severe group (P = 0.037 and P = 0.035). 16S rRNA Q-PCR detected Orientia tsutsugamushi infections with a sensitivity of 91.9% (95% CI 86.3-95.7), and 56-kDa N-PCR, 47-kDa Q-PCR, and 16S rRNA C-PCR exhibited lower sensitivities of 81.1% (95% CI 73.8-87.0), 74.3% (95% CI 66.5-81.1), and 87.8% (95% CI 81.5-92.6), respectively, for all 148 patients. In addition, 16S rRNA Q-PCR exhibited a sensitivity of 99.1% (95% CI 95.1-100.0) in the 112 patients who were not treated with antibiotics before admission. 16S rRNA Q-PCR is clinically useful for the rapid diagnosis of scrub typhus and is more accurate than the 56-kDa N-PCR, 47-kDa Q-PCR, and 16S C-PCR methods.Treatment of children with refractory immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is challenging and poorly established. We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of 87 patients under the age of 16 years who were diagnosed with ITP from April 1998 to March 2017 in our institution. Refractory ITP was defined as a platelet count of  less then  50 × 109/L at 14 days after receiving intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and prednisolone. We presumed that there was a pathophysiological overlap between refractory ITP and refractory thrombocytopenia (RT) a subtype of refractory cytopenia of childhood (RCC). Immunosuppressive therapies including anti-thymocyte globulin and cyclosporine (CsA) have been adopted for children with RCC in Japan. Thus, from 2009 onwards, we changed the diagnosis from refractory ITP to RT and introduced CsA for refractory ITP/RT. Nine of 42 patients developed refractory ITP in the 1998-2008 group, who received conventional treatments such as IVIG and steroid therapy. Eight of 45 patients developed refractory ITP in the 2009-2017 group, who received CsA with or without IVIG therapy. The response rate at three years after diagnosis was significantly higher in the 2009-2017 group (98%) than in the 1998-2008 group (83%) (p = 0.019). In conclusion, our strategy of introducing CsA for refractory ITP/RT contributed to better outcomes.We aimed to explore and compare new insights on the pharmacological potential of Oliveria decumbence essential oil (OEO) and its main components highlighting their antioxidant activity in-vitro, in-vivo, and in-silico and also cytotoxic effects of OEO against A549 lung cancer cells. At first, based on GC-MS analysis, thymol, carvacrol, p-cymene, and γ-terpinene were introduced as basic ingredients of OEO and their in-vitro antioxidant capacity was considered by standard methods. Collectively, OEO exhibited strong antioxidant properties even more than its components. In LPS-stimulated macrophages treated with OEO, the reduction of ROS (Reactive-oxygen-species) and NO (nitric-oxide) and down-regulation of iNOS (inducible nitric-oxide-synthase) and NOX (NADPH-oxidase) mRNA expression was observed and compared with that of OEO components. According to the results, OEO, thymol, and carvacrol exhibited the highest radical scavenging potency compared to p-cymene, and γ-terpinene. In-silico Molecular-Docking and Molecular-Dynamics simulation indicated that thymol and carvacrol but no p-cymene and γ-terpinene may establish coordinative bonds in iNOS active site and thereby inhibit iNOS. However, they did not show any evidence for NOX inhibition. In the following, MTT assay showed that OEO induces cytotoxicity in A549 cancer cells despite having a limited effect on L929 normal cells. Apoptotic death and its dependence on caspase-3 activity and Bax/Bcl2 ratio in OEO-treated cells were established by fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, colorimetric assay, and western blot analysis. Additionally, flow cytometry studies demonstrated increased levels of ROS in OEO-treated cells. Therefore, OEO, despite showing antioxidant properties, induces apoptosis in cancer cells by increasing ROS levels. Collectively, our results provided new insight into the usage of OEO and main components, thymol, and carvacrol, into the development of novel antioxidant and anti-cancer agents.
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