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BACKGROUND We propose a technical variation of the minimally invasive suture suspension facelift. METHODS A novel variation of the minimally invasive facelift is proposed. The technique consists of two components. The anterior component addresses aging of the midface by anchoring the SMAS on to the sturdy retroauricular supra-helical deep temporal fascia using approximately 6-8 passes of a 4/0 Mersilene suture. The posterior component addresses cervical aging by securing the posterior edge of the platysma onto the sturdy mastoid fascia, using multiple loops of a 4/0 Mersilene suture. This technique was performed on 100 consecutive patients between 2005 and 2010. RESULTS The technique was found to be safe due to the plane of dissection remaining superficial to the parotid gland in the anterior component. There were no instances of facial nerve injury or sensory disturbance. None of the patients required a secondary procedure within the first 18 months following the procedure. CONCLUSIONS This technique offers a safe and effective option for patients who seek a facelift, especially in combination with other procedures. It is envisaged that the use of multiple loops of suture to anchor mobile tissue onto fixed sturdy fascia will contribute to the longevity of the results. The limited skin undermining also makes this procedure a better choice for smokers. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.The mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) is the ion channel that mediates Ca2+ uptake in mitochondria. Inhibitors of the MCU are valuable as potential therapeutic agents and tools to study mitochondrial Ca2+ . The best-known inhibitor of the MCU is the ruthenium compound Ru360. Although this compound is effective in permeabilized cells, it does not work in intact biological systems. We have recently reported the synthesis and characterization of Ru265, a complex that selectively inhibits the MCU in intact cells. Here, the physical and biological properties of Ru265 and Ru360 are described in detail. Using atomic absorption spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence imaging, we show that Ru265 is transported by organic cation transporter 3 (OCT3) and taken up more effectively than Ru360. As an explanation for the poor cell uptake of Ru360, we show that Ru360 is deactivated by biological reductants. These data highlight how structural modifications in metal complexes can have profound effects on their biological activities. © 2020 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Coffee brewing produces spent coffee grounds as waste; few studies have investigated the health benefits of these grounds. This study investigated responses to spent coffee grounds in a diet-induced rat model of metabolic syndrome. Male Wistar rats aged 8-9 weeks were fed either corn starch-rich diet or high-carbohydrate, high-fat diet for 16 weeks, which were supplemented with 5% spent coffee grounds during the last 8 weeks. Rats fed non-supplemented diets were used as controls. High-carbohydrate, high-fat diet-fed rats developed metabolic syndrome including abdominal obesity, impaired glucose tolerance, dyslipidemia, and cardiovascular and liver damage. Body weight, abdominal fat, total body fat mass, systolic blood pressure, and concentrations of plasma triglycerides and non-esterified fatty acids were reduced by spent coffee grounds along with improved glucose tolerance and structure and function of heart and liver. Spent coffee grounds increased the diversity of the gut microbiota and decreased the ratio of Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes. Changes in gut microbiota correlated with the reduction in obesity and improvement in glucose tolerance and systolic blood pressure. These findings indicate that intervention with spent coffee grounds may be useful for managing obesity and metabolic syndrome by altering the gut microbiota, thus increasing the value of this food waste. © 2020 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.Dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) are considered a remarkable source for the regeneration of dental pulp tissues, but their therapeutic effectiveness remains limited, especially in elderly people. Previous studies found that senescence has a negative effect on the proliferation and differentiation potential of DPSCs. Moreover, numerous long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) and messenger RNA were significantly differentially regulated in DPSCs from young and elderly donors. However, the changes in DPSCs protein during senescence have not been addressed. In this study, differences in DPSC protein expression profiles and coexpression of protein and lncRNA were analyzed using proteomics and bioinformatics. The results showed 75 upregulated proteins and 69 downregulated proteins in DPSCs from elderly donors. Vasopressin-regulated water reabsorption, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and protein export were the top four functional pathways associated with DPSCs. High mobility group N1 (HMGN1), HMGN2, UCHL1, and the famential of DPSCs. Our study revealed candidate proteins that might be related to DPSCs senescence and provided information to elucidate the mechanism of the biological changes in DPSCs' aging. Moreover, FAM96B was demonstrated to play an important role in suppressing DPSCs senescence and promoting osteogenic differentiation and proliferation. © 2020 International Federation for Cell Biology.We report here the formation of two water-soluble hexa-nuclear interlocked cages by multicomponent self-assembly of a flexible triimidazole donor (L1) and a rigid tripyridyl donor (L2) based on triazine core in combination with 90° cis-blocked Pd(II) and Pt(II) acceptors. Formation of interlocked systems having composition of M6(L1)2(L2)2 becomes feasible via cavity induced self-recognition of two similar units having composition of M3(L1)(L2). Self-sorting of two independently prepared cages of [M3(L1)2] and [M4(L2)6] in aqueous medium leads to the formation of interlocked systems and their formation was monitored by time dependent 1H NMR. Self-recognition of L1 by [M6(L2)4] or L2 by [M3(L1)2] leads to the formation of interlocked system as confirmed from 1H NMR titrations of L1 with cages M6(L2)4 and L2 with M3(L1)2, respectively. Both the interlocked cages of Pd and Pt are highly stable and formation of either system is equally probable as observed from the treatments of Pd3(L1)2 with Pt6(L2)4 or Pt3(L1)2 with Pd6(L2)4 which lead to the formation of two different self-assembled homo-metallic interlocked cages [Pt6(L1)2(L2)2 + Pd6(L1)2(L2)2] instead of forming any other hetero-metallic assemblies. Formation of interlocked cages is dependent on the steric bulk of the diamine ligand bound to metal acceptors. N-alkyl substituted blocking amine prefers non-interlocked cage instead of interlocked analogue. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.BACKGROUND Current methods to predict height and growth failure are imprecise. MRI measures of physeal cartilage are promising biomarkers for growth. PURPOSE In the physis, to assess how 3D MRI volume measurements, and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measurements (tract volume and length) correlate with growth parameters and detect differences in growth. We compared patients exposed to cis-retinoic acid, which causes physeal damage and growth failure, with normal subjects. STUDY TYPE Case-control. POPULATION Twenty pediatric neuroblastoma survivors treated with cis-retinoic acid and 20 age- and sex-matched controls. FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE 3T; DTI and 3D double-echo steady-state (DESS) sequences. ASSESSMENT On distal femoral MR studies, physeal 3D volume and DTI tract measurements were calculated and compared to height. STATISTICAL TESTS We used partial Spearman correlation, analysis of covariance, logistic regression, Wald test, and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). RESULTS The height percentile cgnetic Resonance in Medicine.Invasive breast cancer constitutes a heterogeneous group of tumors. They comprise various histological types that differ in clinical presentation, imaging features, histopathological characteristics, biomarker profiles, prognostic and predictive parameters. The current classification of invasive breast cancer is based primarily on histopathological features. Invasive carcinoma of no special type accounts for the majority, with some rare entities also being described. With recent research and advances, there are emerging concepts, including new genetic insights of invasive breast cancer and the role of the stromal microenvironment. With greater understanding of the pathogenesis of invasive breast cancer, changes based on the correlation of histologic and genetic findings have been incorporated in the latest World Health Organization classification of breast tumors. Medullary carcinomas are subsumed as invasive carcinoma of no special type with basal-like and medullary features, regarded as part of the spectrum of tumor infiltrating lymphocyte-rich breast cancers. Tall cell carcinoma with reversed polarity is proposed as a distinct entity in recognition of unique IDH2 mutations. This article reviews conventional prognostic parameters, new histological entities, and updates on breast cancer classification, with inclusion of some genetic insights into breast cancer and the role of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes. © 2020 Japanese Society of Pathology and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.The structures and solid-state dynamics of the supramolecular salts of general formula [(12-crown-4) 2 ∙DABCOH 2 ](X) 2 (where X=BF 4 , ClO 4 ) have been investigated as a function of temperature (from 100 K to 360 K) and pressure (up to 3.4 GPa), through the combination of variable temperature and variable pressure XRD techniques and variable temperature solid-state NMR spectroscopy. The two salts are isomorphous and crystallize in the enantiomeric space groups P3 2 2 1 and P3 1 2 1 . All building blocks composing the supramolecular complex display dynamic processes at ambient temperature and pressure. It has been demonstrated that the motion of the crown ethers is maintained on lowering the temperature (down to 100 K) or on increasing the pressure (up to 1.5 GPa) thanks to the correlation between neighboring molecules that mesh and rotate in a concerted manner similarly to spiral gears. Above 1.55 GPa, a collapse-type transition to a lower-symmetry ordered structure, not attainable at a temperature of 100K, takes place, proving, thus, that the pressure acts like the means to couple and decouple the gears. The relationship between temperature and pressure effects on molecular motion in the solid state has also been discussed. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Microglia in the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH) respond to inflammatory stimuli and metabolic perturbations to mediate body composition. This concept is well studied in the context of high fat diet induced obesity (HFDO), yet has not been investigated in the context of cachexia, a devastating metabolic syndrome characterized by anorexia, fatigue, and muscle catabolism. We show that microglia accumulate specifically in the MBH early in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)-associated cachexia and assume an activated morphology. Blasticidin S inhibitor Furthermore, we observe astrogliosis in the MBH and hippocampus concurrent with cachexia initiation. We next show that circulating immune cells resembling macrophages infiltrate the MBH. PDAC-derived factors induced microglia to express a transcriptional profile in vitro that was distinct from that induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Microglia depletion through CSF1-R antagonism resulted in accelerated cachexia onset and increased anorexia, fatigue, and muscle catabolism during PDAC. This corresponded with increased hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activation.
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