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There is a knowledge gap about how equine medial femoral condyle (MFC) subchondral radiolucencies (SR) arise and evolve. Osteoclasts are believed to have a role, but have not been studied in situ.
To measure and compare osteoclast density and the percentage of chondroclasts in healthy and MFC SR specimens from juvenile Thoroughbreds.
Cadaveric study.
Medial femoral condyles from a tissue bank of equine stifles were studied. Inclusion criteria were MFCs (≤8 months old) with a computed tomography SR lesion and histological focal failure of endochondral ossification (L group). Contralateral, lesion-free, MFCs were a control group (CC). Osteochondral slabs were cut through the lesion (L), a healthy site immediately caudal to the lesion, (internal control; IC) and the contralateral, site - matched controls (CC). Histological sections were immunostained with Cathepsin K for osteoclast counting. Osteoclasts in contact with the growth cartilage (chondroclasts) were also counted. The sections were segmented inondral bone development, digesting both growth cartilage (chondroclasts) and bone, but the pathophysiology of early MFC SRs cannot be explained solely by an increased osteoclast presence in the subchondral bone.
We previously identified UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase (GNE) myopathy patients with sleep apnea and a past history of thrombocytopenia, but without disease-specific cardiac involvement. This study aimed to clarify the occurrence, severity, and serial changes of these complications.
Thirty-three genetically confirmed GNE myopathy patients who participated in a 5-y longitudinal observational history study underwent platelet count and platelet-associated immunoglobulin G (PA-IgG) measurements, a sleep study, and electrocardiography (ECG), Holter ECG, and echocardiogram examinations.
Among the 33 patients, three had low platelet counts and 17 out of 26 were PA-IgG positive. No patient exhibited bleeding tendencies, and 3 out of 28 had low platelet counts. Muscle weakness was more pronounced, and summed MMT and grip power significantly lower, in PA-IgG-positive patients than in PA-IgG-negative patients. Of 19 patients, 7, 4, and 3 who underwent a sleep study had mild, moderate, and severe sleep apnea, complication.The number of hospitalisations due to an anaphylactic reaction to food is continuously increasing. Therefore, there is an urgent need to seek effective therapy. Currently, the only way to treat food allergies is to avoid allergens and to administer intramuscular adrenaline if an accidental allergen intake occurs. The only causal therapeutic strategy is specific oral immunotherapy. An increasing amount of data confirms this therapy's effectiveness and safety, but the results remain inconclusive due to the lack of long-term follow-up. In this state-of-the-art review, we briefly summarise the latest placebo-controlled randomised controlled trials on oral immunotherapy (OIT) to treat food allergy. During the paper's review, we asked the following questions does the therapy permanently increase the amount of allergen consumed without symptoms? Does it significantly increase or decrease the occurrence of severe systemic reactions - requiring the administration of adrenaline or hospitalisation? Many authors describe outcomes such as an increase in the amount of allergen that can be safely ingested; however, significant clinical benefits such as decreased hospitalisations or anaphylaxis incidence are rarely included in the results. To date, there is no unified protocol of therapy, which makes comparisons between studies difficult because of significant differences in types, doses, and routes of administration of the allergen, timeline for up-dosing and maintenance, duration of the therapy, and primary outcomes of OIT.
Many university students have unhealthy dietary intakes. The food environment on university campuses is a potentially important contributor to students' diet. This study aimed to describe on-campus food purchasing behaviours; satisfaction with the cost and availability of foods and beverages on-campus; and preferences for the on-campus food environment, in a sample of Australian university students.
An online cross-sectional survey of 409 students at the [blinded for peer review] was conducted in 2017-2018. The survey assessed on-campus purchasing behaviours (frequency of purchase and expenditure), satisfaction with the cost and availability of foods, preferences for the on-campus food environment, and socio-demographics (e.g. age, domestic/international student). Results are reported as basic descriptive statistics.
The majority of students (94%) purchased food or beverages on-campus, with 59% purchasing at least once per week. Satisfaction with the availability of foods was low (35.8% satisfied with thould be key considerations of any future strategies aiming to improve university food environments.In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Tepolt et al. (2021) illustrate how the genetic architecture of adaptation and life history influence invasive success. A marvel of many invasive species is that they are incredibly successful despite evolutionary expectations that they will have low adaptive potential and suffer inbreeding depression due to initially small founding population sizes. Determining the combinations of eco-evolutionary factors that permit this apparent "genetic paradox of invasions" is an ongoing endeavour of invasive species research. Tepolt et al. study the European green crab in its invasive range on the North American west coast. Following a single introduction into California, this crab quickly spread across a wide latitude gradient, despite low diversity in the original founding population. Adaptation of this crab to clinal variation in temperature appeared largely driven by an inferred chromosomal inversion. This inversion exists as a balanced polymorphism in the European home range of green crabs and is associated with thermal tolerance. Tepolt et al. therefore demonstrate that adaptive evolution post-introduction need not be impeded by bottlenecks if variation at key parts of the genome is available and can be maintained in introduced populations. Moreover, Tepolt et al. show how chromosomal inversions acting as large-effect loci might facilitate rapid responses to selection in introduced populations.
The prevalence of food allergies (FA) in children increased rapidly at the turn of the century. The EuroPrevall study identified Germany as a country with very high prevalence of FA at that time. Using two large German birth cohorts, we provide an update of the status quo 10years later.
KUNO Kids and Ulm SPATZ Health studies are two ongoing prospective birth cohorts. Information on FA was obtained by questionnaires at birth and after 6, 12, and 24months. Univariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to investigate risk factors during pregnancy, birth, and early childhood.
In 1139 and 1006 children from KUNO Kids and SPATZ, the point prevalence of parent-reported FA symptoms at the ages of 1 and 2years was 13.2% (95% CI 11.2-15.2) and 13.9% (95% CI 11.5-17.2) in KUNO Kids. Doctor's diagnosed FA at 1 and 2years was 2.4% (95% CI 1.6-3.4) and 2.7% (95% CI 1.2-4.3) in KUNO Kids and 2.3% (95% CI 1.3-3.6) and 3% (95% CI 2.0-4.5) in SPATZ. Cow's milk and citrus fruits were most frequently suspected by parents to cause FA symptoms. Atopy in the child was associated with a higher frequency of FA at any time, whereas atopy in first-degree relatives was only associated with FA at year 1. Smoke exposure during pregnancy was a risk for FA at age 2.
The prevalence of food allergy seems to have plateaued in the last 10years in Germany. FA is often suspected by parents but only rarely diagnosed by oral food challenge. Risk factor analysis may help to establish personalized health approaches.
The prevalence of food allergy seems to have plateaued in the last 10 years in Germany. FA is often suspected by parents but only rarely diagnosed by oral food challenge. Risk factor analysis may help to establish personalized health approaches.Increasing soil salinization largely impacts crop yield worldwide. To deal with salinity stress, plants exhibit an array of responses, including root system architecture (RSA) remodeling. Here, we review recent progress in physiological, developmental and cellular mechanisms of root growth responses to salinity. Most recent research in modulation of root branching, root tropisms, as well as root cell wall modifications under salinity stress, is discussed in the context of the contribution of these responses to overall plant performance. We highlight the power of natural variation approaches revealing novel potential pathways responsible for differences in root salt stress responses. Together, these new findings promote our understanding of how salt shapes the root phenotype, which may provide potential avenues for engineering crops with better yield and survival in saline soils. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
To evaluate correlation and agreement between T2*-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (T2*-wMRI), acoustic radiation force impulse elastography (ARFI-e) measurement results of liver and plasma ferritin levels (PFLs) in children with β-thalassemia major (β-TM).
The study included 40 pediatric patients (aged 64-216 months; 14 girls, 26 boys) receiving blood transfusion and chelation therapy. Cysteine Protease inhibitor To detect the severity of liver iron overload (LIO) and concomitant parenchymal fibrosis, T2*-wMRI and ARFI-e measurements were performed from the right lobe segments. Student's t-test, Mann-Whitney U, ANOVA, Spearman's test and ICC were used for statistical analysis.
After the measurements of T2*-wMRI, patients were grouped as normal in 4 (10%), mild in 11 (27.5%), moderate in 21 (52.5%), and severe in 4 (10%) cases in terms of LIO. Combined moderate and severe groups had significantly higher ARFI-e and PFL values than the combination of other groups (p=.001, p=.040). The ARFI-e measurements of boys were found to be significantly higher than those of girls (p=.023). A strong negative correlation between T2*-wMRI and ARFI-e and a moderate negative correlation between T2*-wMRI and PFL were detected (p;r=0.001;-0.606, p;r=0.009; -0.407). A strong positive correlation was found between ARFI-e values and PFL (p;r=0.001; 0.659). The optimal cut-off value of ARFI-e to predict liver fibrosis because of moderate&severe LIO was determined to be 1.29 M/s (80% sensitivity and 88% specificity). A moderate agreement was observed between the T2*-wMRI and ARFI-e methods [ICC 0.680, 95% CI (0.470 to 0.817)].
Given the strong correlation and moderate agreement between ARFI-e and T2*-wMRI, ARFI -e could be used to monitor LIO in children with β-TM.
Given the strong correlation and moderate agreement between ARFI-e and T2*-wMRI, ARFI -e could be used to monitor LIO in children with β-TM.
To robustly segment retinal layers that are affected by complex variety of retinal diseases for optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) en face projection generation.
In this paper, we propose a robust retinal layer segmentation model to reduce the impact of multifarious abnormalities on model performance. OCTA vascular distribution that is regarded as the supplements of spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) structural information is introduced to improve the robustness of layer region encoding. To further reduce the sensitivity of region encoding to retinal abnormalities, we propose a multitask layer-wise refinement (MLR) module that can refine the initial layer region segmentation results layer-by-layer. Finally, we design a region-to-surface transformation (RtST) module without additional training parameters to convert the encoding layer regions to their corresponding layer surfaces. This transformation from layer regions to layer surfaces can remove the inaccurate segmentation regions, and the layer surfaces are easier to be used to protect the retinal layer natures than layer regions.
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