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This short report illustrates the difficult diagnostic work-up of a presumably radiation-associated STS, as these neoplasms lack characteristic morphological and immunohistochemical features. In our case, the suggested diagnosis may have pointed against another course of radiotherapy in an already irradiation-harmed region. Therefore, a relatively low latency period between surgery, radiotherapy, and diagnosis of another STS should not automatically point towards recurrence and may prompt further in-depth investigation.Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiological agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), produces protean manifestations and causes indiscriminate havoc in multiple organ systems. This rapid and vast production of proinflammatory cytokines contributes to a condition termed cytokine storm. A 35-year-old, otherwise healthy, employed, male patient was tested positive for COVID-19. He was admitted to the hospital on disease day 10 due to retarded verbal reactions and progressive delirium. On account of these conditions and the need for noninvasive/invasive ventilation, a combination treatment with baricitinib and remdesivir in conjunction with standard of care was initiated. The cytokine storm was rapidly blocked, leading to a vast pulmonary recovery with retarded recovery of the central nervous system. We conclude that the rapid blockade of the COVID-19-induced cytokine storm should be considered of avail as a principle of careful decision-making for effective recovery.
Acute viral myositis (AVM) may be triggered by influenzaA/B, enteroviruses and other viruses. Severe complications including rhabdomyolysis regularly lead to acute kidney injury (AKI). The aim of this short report was to discuss management and differential diagnosis of massive creatine kinase (CK) elevation.

Herein, we report on a19-year-old Austrian male of African descent with ahistory of respiratory tract infections and whole-body pain. He further developed acute viral myositis and massive CK elevation up to 440,000 IU/L but without any signs of AKI. A literature search relating AVM, management and differential diagnosis of rhabdomyolysis was conducted in PubMed and UptoDate.

Afull panel of serological and autoimmune blood work-up including testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis, influenzaA/B, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and autoantibodies against various extractable nuclear antigens (ENA) did not reveal evidence for viral originators or autoimmune diseases. This case indicates that in acute viral myositis associated with extreme CK elevation (>400,000 IU/L) AKI might be completely absent. Potential causes for this clinical phenotype, differential diagnosis and management are discussed.
400,000 IU/L) AKI might be completely absent. Potential causes for this clinical phenotype, differential diagnosis and management are discussed.
The preferred treatment for malignant bone and soft tissue tumors is limb salvage surgery; the Toronto extremity salvage score (TESS) is commonly used to measure physical functioning of the affected extremity. The aims of this study were to translate and culturally adapt the German version of the TESS, as well as to explore its convergent reliability, validity and re-test reliability.

Patients (n = 50) 32 lower extremity (LE) and 18upper extremity (UE) were asked to fill out the German TESS two times (t1 clinical visit, t2 regular email) and the SF-36 once.

The TESS questionnaires were translated from English into German, back translated into English, and culturally adapted. The reliability was assessed with Cronbach's alpha(α). The validity was measured with the SF-36 physical component score and TESS using the Spearman rank correlation coefficient(r). Furthermore, the test-retest reliability was calculated with the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC).

Internal consistency for both questionnaires was excellent (LE t1 α = 0.924, t2 α = 0.952; UE t1 α = 0.957, t2 α = 0.898). Astatistically significant correlation was found between the SF-36 physical component scale and the German TESS (LE r = 0.741, UE r = 0.713). The ICC between baseline (t1) and re-test (t2) was 0.952 and 0.871 for the lower and upper extremities, respectively.

Initial evidence demonstrated that the German TESS is avalid and reliable instrument for use with patients after surgical treatment of malignant bone or soft tissue sarcoma.
Initial evidence demonstrated that the German TESS is a valid and reliable instrument for use with patients after surgical treatment of malignant bone or soft tissue sarcoma.The commonly occurring metaphors and models of the doctor-patient relationship can be divided into three clusters, depending on what distribution of power they represent in the paternalist cluster, power resides with the physician; in the consumer model, power resides with the patient; in the partnership model, power is distributed equally between doctor and patient. Often, this tripartite division is accepted as an exhaustive typology of doctor-patient relationships. The main objective of this paper is to challenge this idea by introducing a fourth possibility and distribution of power, namely, the distribution in which power resides with neither doctor nor patient. This equality in powerlessness-the hallmark of "the age of bureaucratic parsimony"-is the point of departure for a qualitatively new doctor-patient relationship, which is best described in terms of solidarity between comrades. This paper specifies the characteristics of this specific type of solidarity and illustrates it with a case study of how Swedish doctors and patients interrelate in the sickness certification practice.Nanoparticles have excellent catalytic, adsorptive, and reactive properties, which led to their application for wastewater treatment. The current study focuses on silver nanoparticle synthesis using neem leaf and banana peel extract and its application as an antimicrobial and dye degrading agent for wastewater treatment. The use of these extracts led to a rapid, simple, and environment-friendly method for the biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). UV-Vis spectroscopy showed absorption bands at 473 and 423 nm for AgNPs synthesized from neem leaf and banana peel extracts, respectively. The AgNPs were further characterized using XRD, FTIR, ESEM, EDX, and DLS methods. XRD data confirmed the crystalline nature of the synthesized AgNPs. ESEM images revealed the synthesized nanoparticles were spherical. From DLS analysis the average diameter of the AgNPs was found to be 168.7 nm from banana peel and 206.4 nm from neem leaf extract. Antibacterial activity of synthesized nanoparticles at 0.025 mg/ml concentration was tested against Escherichia coli (E.coli), Bacillus subtilis (B.subtilis), Staphylococcus aureus (S.aureus), and Klebsiella sp. using disk diffusion method and the zone of inhibitions observed were 10-13, 3-4, 2-3, and 1-3 nm respectively. 99% degradation of model dye malachite green was observed using banana peels-derived nanoparticles at a concentration of 0.06 mg/ml within 4.5 h. This study provides an eco-friendly and economic approach to AgNP synthesis and its potential application in the removal of hazardous dye from wastewater.The human prolactin antagonist Δ1-11-G129R-hPRL is a 21.9 kDa recombinant protein with 188 amino acids that downregulates the proliferation of a variety of cells expressing prolactin receptors. Proteasome inhibitor Periplasmic expression of recombinant proteins in E. coli has been considered an option for obtaining a soluble and correctly folded protein, as an alternative to cytoplasmic production. The aim of this work was, therefore, to synthesize for the first time, the Δ1-11-G129R-hPRL antagonist, testing different activation temperatures and purifying it by classical chromatographic techniques. E. coli BL21(DE3) strain was transformed with a plasmid based on the pET25b( +) vector, DsbA signal sequence and the antagonist cDNA sequence. Different doses of IPTG were added, activating under different temperatures, and extracting the periplasmic fluid via osmotic shock. The best conditions were achieved by activating at 35 °C for 5 h using 0.4 mM IPTG, which gave a specific expression of 0.157 ± 0.015 μg/mL/A600 at a final optical density of 3.43 ± 0.13 A600. Purification was carried out by nickel-affinity chromatography followed by size-exclusion chromatography, quantification being performed via high-performance size-exclusion chromatography (HPSEC). The prolactin antagonist was characterized by SDS-PAGE, Western blotting, reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) and MALDI-TOF-MS. The final product presented > 95% purity and its antagonistic effects were evaluated in vitro in view of potential clinical applications, including inhibition of the proliferation of cancer cells overexpressing the prolactin receptor and specific antidiabetic properties, taking also advantage of the fact that this antagonist was obtained in a soluble and correctly folded form and without an initial methionine.Positive-stranded RNA viruses usually remodel the host endomembrane system to form virus-induced intracellular vesicles for replication during infections. The genus Potyvirus of the family Potyviridae represents the largest number of positive single-stranded RNA viruses, and its members cause great damage to crop production worldwide. Although potyviruses have a wide host range, each potyvirus infects a relatively limited number of host species. Phylogenesis and host range analysis can divide potyviruses into monocot-infecting and dicot-infecting groups, suggesting that they differ in their infection mechanisms, probably during replication. Comprehensive studies on the model dicot-infecting turnip mosaic virus have shown that the 6K2-induced replication vesicles are derived from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and subsequently target chloroplasts for viral genome replication. However, the replication site of monocot-infecting potyviruses is unknown. In this study, we show that the precursor 6K2-VPg-Pro polyproteins of dicot-infecting potyviruses and monocot-infecting potyviruses cluster phylogenetically in two separate groups. With a typical gramineae-infecting potyvirus-sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV)-we found that replicative double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) forms aggregates in the cytoplasm but does not associate with chloroplasts. SCMV 6K2-VPg-Pro-induced vesicles colocalize with replicative dsRNA. Moreover, SCMV 6K2-VPg-Pro-induced structures target multiple intracellular organelles, including the ER, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, and peroxisomes, and have no evident association with chloroplasts.
HER2-positive breast cancer patients benefit from HER2-targeted therapies, among which the most commonly used is trastuzumab. However, acquired resistance typically happens within one year. The cellular heterogeneity of it is less clear.

Here we generated trastuzumab-resistant cells in two HER2-positive breast cancer cell lines, SK-BR-3 and BT-474. Cells at different time points during the resistance induction were examined by exome sequencing to study changes of genomic alterations over time. Single cell-targeted sequencing was also used to identify resistance-associated concurrent mutations.

We found a rapid increase of copy number variation (CNV) regions and gradual accumulation of single nucleotide variations (SNVs). On the pathway level, non-synonymous SNVs for SK-BR-3 cells were enriched in the MAPK signaling pathway, while for BT-474 cells they were enriched in mTOR and PI3K-Akt signaling pathways. However, all of the three signaling pathways were in the downstream of the HER2 kinase. Putative trastuzumab-resistance-associated SNVs included AIFM1 P548L and ERBB2 M833R in SK-BR-3 cells, and ADAMTS19 V451L,OR5M9 D230N, COL9A1 R627T, andITGA7 H911Q in BT-474 cells.
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