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BACKGROUND Recent studies report deficits in social cognition in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). Social cognitive skills such as empathy are important for adequate social and occupational functioning. Our objectives are (1) to examine whether empathy differs between individuals with MS and healthy controls, (2) to examine relations between empathy and cognitive, psychological and occupational functioning. METHODS 278 individuals with MS (relapsing-remitting subtype) and 128 healthy controls from the MS@Work study participated in this investigation. The participants completed questionnaires about demographics, cognitive, psychological and occupational functioning, and underwent neurological and neuropsychological examinations. Mann-Whitney U-tests were used to examine group differences in empathy. Pearson and Spearman rank correlation analyses were used to examine relations between empathy and the other measures. RESULTS Empathy did not differ between individuals with MS and healthy controls. In indis with MS and healthy controls. Within both investigated groups, higher empathy was weakly to moderately correlated with less symptoms of depression, higher agreeableness and better occupational functioning. We also found unique correlations for empathy within the investigated groups. Longitudinal studies are needed to further examine social cognition in relation to cognitive, psychological and occupational functioning in both individuals with MS and healthy controls. It would be particularly interesting to concurrently examine changes in the brain network involved with social cognition. According to the current 8th edition of the American Joint Committee of Cancer (AJCC), the T category of distal cholangiocarcinomas is classified based on the depth of invasion (DOI) (T1, 12 mm). In consideration of the discrepancies between previous studies about the prognostic significance, we aimed to validate the current AJCC T staging system of distal cholangiocarcinomas. DOI was measured using three different methods DOI1, DOI2, and DOI3. DOI1 was defined and stratified according to the AJCC 8th edition. DOI2 was measured as the distance from an imaginary curved line approximated along the distorted mucosal surface to the deepest invasive tumor cells. DOI3 was defined as the total tumor thickness. DOI2 and DOI3 were also divided into three categories using the same cut-off points as in the AJCC 8th edition. We compared these three DOI methods to the AJCC 7th edition as well. In contrast with the AJCC 7th edition, all three groups showed a correlation with patients' overall survival. Above all, the DOI2 group demonstrated the best significance in multivariate analysis. However, when the C indices were compared between these groups, differential significance proved to be negligible (DOI1 vs DOI2, p = 0.915; DOI2 vs DOI3, p = 0.057). Therefore, the measurement of DOI does not need to be rigorously and stringently performed. In conclusion, we showed that the current T classification system better correlates with the overall survival of patients with distal cholangiocarcinomas than the previous system. INTRODUCTION Respiratory distress is an uncommon clinical event after caesarean section and occurs due to pulmonary thromboembolism. Various causes of pulmonary thromboembolism are thrombophlebitis, ovarian venous thrombosis and mesenteric vein thrombosis. PRESENTATION OF CASE We report a case of 30 year old female who presented with respiratory distress after eight days of uneventful caesarian section. On emergency explorative laparotomy, small gut was found to be gangrenous, so resection of the segment was performed. On histopathological examination, there was ischaemic necrosis of bowel with presence of large thrombus in mesenteric vessel. On correlating radiological findings of pulmonary thromboembolism and mesenteric vessel thrombosis with bad obstetric history, a possibility of Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) was suggested in this case. Unfortunately, patient died the day following laparotomy so there was insufficient time to evaluate the patient for thrombophilic disorders. DISCUSSION Pregnancy and perpeurium are associated with higher risk of thrombosis as these are hypercoagulable states. Operative delivery and history of thrombophilia in previous pregnancies (APS) are other predisposing factors which lead to increased thrombotic state and pulmonary thromboembolism. CONCLUSION High index of suspicion for thrombophilic disorders is required in postpartum patients presenting with respiratory distress as prompt diagnosis and urgent intervention can save patient's life. Staurosporine OBJECTIVE Adjunctive fenfluramine hydrochloride, classically described as acting pharmacologically through a serotonergic mechanism, has demonstrated a unique and robust clinical response profile with regard to its magnitude, consistency, and durability of effect on seizure activity in patients with pharmacoresistant Dravet syndrome. Recent findings also support long-term improvements in executive functions (behavior, emotion, cognition) in these patients. The observed clinical profile is inconsistent with serotonergic activity alone, as other serotonergic medications have not been demonstrated to have these clinical effects. This study investigated a potential role for σ1 receptor activity in complementing fenfluramine's serotonergic pharmacology. METHODS Radioligand binding assays tested the affinity of fenfluramine for 47 receptors associated with seizures in the literature, including σ receptors. Cellular function assays tested fenfluramine and norfenfluramine (its major metabolite) activity at various retion of σ1 protein from BiP. Fenfluramine also showed dose-dependent antiamnesic effects against dizocilpine-induced learning deficits in spontaneous alternation and passive avoidance responses, which are models of σ1 activation. Moreover, low doses of fenfluramine synergistically potentiated the low-dose effect of PRE-084, confirming a positive modulatory effect at the σ1 receptor. Finally, all in vivo effects were blocked by the σ1 receptor antagonist NE-100. SIGNIFICANCE Fenfluramine demonstrated modulatory activity at σ1 receptors in vitro and in vivo in addition to its known serotonergic activity. These studies identify a possible new σ1 receptor mechanism underpinning fenfluramine's central nervous system effects, which may contribute to its antiseizure activity in Dravet syndrome and positive effects observed on executive functions in clinical studies. Diagnosing Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia with Misalignment of the Pulmonary Veins (ACD/MPV) based on a genetic alteration in the FOXF1 gene, is complicated by the poor understanding of the causal relation between FOXF1 variants and the ACD/MPV phenotype. Here, we report the generation of human iPSC lines from two ACD/MPV patients, each carrying a different heterozygous FOXF1 mutation, which enables disease modeling for further research on the effect of FOXF1 variants in vitro. The iPSC lines were generated from skin fibroblasts using the non-integrating Sendai virus. The lines expressed pluripotency genes, retained the heterozygous mutation and were capable of trilineage differentiation. Ferroptosis is a newly discovered form of non-apoptotic regulated cell death and is characterized by iron-dependent and lipid peroxidation. Due to the enhanced dependence on iron in cancer cells, induction of ferroptosis is becoming a promising therapeutic strategy. However, the precise underlying molecular mechanism and regulation process of ferroptosis remains largely unknown. In the present study, we demonstrate that the protein Frataxin (FXN) is a key regulator of ferroptosis by modulating iron homeostasis and mitochondrial function. Suppression of FXN expression specifically repressed the proliferation, destroyed mitochondrial morphology, impeded Fe-S cluster assembly and activated iron starvation stress. Moreover, suppression of FXN expression significantly enhanced erastin-induced cell death through accelerating free iron accumulation, lipid peroxidation and resulted in dramatic mitochondria morphological damage including enhanced fragmentation and vanished cristae. In addition, this type of cell death was confirmed to be ferroptosis, since it could be pharmacologically restored by ferroptotic inhibitor Fer-1 or GSH, but not by inhibitors of apoptosis, necrosis. Vice versa, enforced expression of FXN blocked iron starvation response and erastin-induced ferroptosis. More importantly, pharmacological or genetic blocking the signal of iron starvation could completely restore the resistance to ferroptosis in FXN knockdown cells and xenograft graft in vivo. This paper suggests that FXN is a novel ferroptosis modulator, as well as a potential provided target to improve the antitumor activity based on ferroptosis. Repair of DNA double-stranded breaks (DSBs) during lymphocyte development is essential for V(D)J recombination and forms the basis of immunoglobulin variable region diversity. Understanding of this process in lymphogenesis has historically been centered on the study of RAG1/2 recombinases and a set of classical non-homologous end-joining factors. Much less has been reported regarding the role of chromatin modifications on this process. Here, we show a role for the non-redundant histone H3 lysine methyltransferase, Setd2, and its modification of lysine-36 trimethylation (H3K36me3), in the processing and joining of DNA ends during V(D)J recombination. Loss leads to mis-repair of Rag-induced DNA DSBs, especially when combined with loss of Atm kinase activity. Furthermore, loss reduces immune repertoire and a severe block in lymphogenesis as well as causes post-mitotic neuronal apoptosis. Together, these studies are suggestive of an important role of Setd2/H3K36me3 in these two mammalian developmental processes that are influenced by double-stranded break repair. Missense mutations may affect proteostasis by destabilizing or over-stabilizing protein complexes and changing the pathway flux. Predicting the effects of stabilizing mutations on protein-protein interactions is notoriously difficult because existing experimental sets are skewed toward mutations reducing protein-protein binding affinity and many computational methods fail to correctly evaluate their effects. To address this issue, we developed a method MutaBind2, which estimates the impacts of single as well as multiple mutations on protein-protein interactions. MutaBind2 employs only seven features, and the most important of them describe interactions of proteins with the solvent, evolutionary conservation of the site, and thermodynamic stability of the complex and each monomer. This approach shows a distinct improvement especially in evaluating the effects of mutations increasing binding affinity. MutaBind2 can be used for finding disease driver mutations, designing stable protein complexes, and discovering new protein-protein interaction inhibitors. The design and development of specific recognition and sensing systems for biologically important anionic species has received growing attention in recent years, as they play significant roles in biology, pharmacy, and environmental sciences. Herein, a new supramolecular sensing probe L1 was developed for highly selective differentiation of nucleotides. L1 displayed extremely marked absorption and emission differentiation upon binding with nucleotide homologs of AMP, ADP, and ATP, due to the divergent spatial orientations of guests upon binding, which allowed for a naked-eye colorimetric differentiation for nucleotides. A differentiating mechanism was unambiguously rationalized by using various spectroscopic studies and theoretical calculations. Furthermore, we successfully demonstrated that L1 can be applied to the real-time monitoring of the enzyme-catalyzed phosphorylation/dephosphorylation processes and thus demonstrated an unprecedented visualizable strategy for selectively differentiating the structurally similar nucleotides and real-time monitoring of biological processes via fluorescent and colorimetric changes.