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In Italy, hepatitisC virus (HCV) elimination is achievable; however, barriers remain to achieving the World Health Organization's elimination targets, and have become more pronounced with the spread of COVID-19. Glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (G/P) is a direct-acting antiviral therapy for HCV, approved for 8-week treatment in patients without cirrhosis, and with compensated cirrhosis (CC). Lenalidomide molecular weight Previously, 12weeks of therapy was recommended for patients with CC. Shortened treatment may reduce the burden on healthcare resources, allowing more patients to be treated. This study presents the benefits that 8-week vs 12-week treatment with G/P may have in Italy.

A multicohort Markov model was used to assess the collective number of healthcare visits and time on treatment with 8-week vs 12-week G/P in the HCV-infected population of Italy from 2019 to 2030, using healthcare resource data from post-marketing observational studies of G/P. Increased treatment capacity and downstream clinical and economic benefits were also asent with G/P show that shorter treatment duration can lead to greater time and resource savings, both in terms of healthcare visits and downstream costs. These benefits have the potential to enable the treatment of more patients to overcome elimination barriers in Italy through programs aimed to engage and treat targeted HCV populations.

This study aimed to assess the technical success and overall complication rate of percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy (PRG) with single gastropexy using a separate tract from that used for tube placement.

From January 2014 to December 2018, 636 patients (469 men, 167 women; mean age 66.8 years; age range, 22-98 years) underwent PRG using single gastropexy at a tertiary center. Preprocedural computed tomography (CT) was recommended if there were no data on the location of the stomach on previous CT. After a single anchor was applied, the PRG tube was inserted through a separate tract from that used for tube placement. The technical success rate and major and minor complications were retrospectively reviewed. The number of patients and percentages were used as descriptive statistics for evaluating the complication rate.

The technical success rate of PRG with single gastropexy was 99.2% (631/636). There were 32 complications among the 631 procedures. There were 19 (3.0%) major complications, including peritonitis (n = 7), migration (n = 5), infection (n=4), malposition (n = 2), and bleeding (n = 1). There were 13 (2.1%) minor complications, including local infection (n = 11), malfunction (n = 1), and pneumoperitoneum (n = 1). The overall complication rate within 30 days of PRG placement was 4.1% (26/631).

PRG with single gastropexy using a separate tract from that used for tube placement is technically feasible with a low complication rate.

• Percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy with single gastropexy using a separate tract from that used for tube placement is technically feasible. • Complications including peritonitis and bleeding were comparatively low with the conventional technique.

• Percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy with single gastropexy using a separate tract from that used for tube placement is technically feasible. • Complications including peritonitis and bleeding were comparatively low with the conventional technique.

The classical effects of exogenous opioids, such as morphine, are predominantly mediated through μ-opioid receptors. The chronic use of morphine induces anxiety-like behavior causing functional changes in the mesolimbic dopaminergic system. The mixed μ/κ-agonist, nalbuphine, used either as an analgesic or as an adjuvant with morphine, produces different and opposite effects. However, whether nalbuphine can be used to antagonize morphine-induced anxiety and dopaminergic alterations is not fully known.

This study aimed to compare acute and chronic effects of nalbuphine on morphine-induced anxiety and dopaminergic alterations in rats.

Male adult Wistar albino rats were made opioid-dependent by administering increasing doses of morphine (5-25 mg/kg; i.p.; b.i.d.). Withdrawal was induced by naloxone (1 mg/kg, i.p.), 4 h after the last morphine injection. Anxiety-like behavior was measured using Activity Monitor (Coulbourn Instruments, Inc. USA). Thereafter, the animals were sacrificed and the brain dissected out and the level of cAMP and the transcriptional and translational expression of TH was measured. Nalbuphine was co-administered with morphine, acutely and chronically, at various doses (0.1, 0.3, 1.0, 3.0 mg/kg, i.p.).

Morphine-dependent rats showed a significant higher anxiety and cAMP levels and a significant decrease in the expression of TH. Co-administration of chronic doses of nalbuphine attenuates the higher anxiety, cAMP levels, and upregulates the TH expressions; however, the acute nalbuphine treatment does not attenuate the morphine-induced side effects.

Therefore, nalbuphine might have an important role in attenuating the anxiety and the effects of the dopaminergic pathway and may have potential in the treatment of opioid addiction.

Therefore, nalbuphine might have an important role in attenuating the anxiety and the effects of the dopaminergic pathway and may have potential in the treatment of opioid addiction.A novel Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated, non-motile, oval-rod-shaped and light pink to light tawny-pigmented bacterial strain (designated 1151T) were isolated from marine green algae obtained from the coastal seawater of Weihai, China. Strain 1151T was found to grow at 15-37 °C (optimum, 33 °C), pH 7.0-9.5 (optimum, 7.5-8.5) and in the presence of 1-6% (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 3%). Cells were oxidase-positive and catalase-positive. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain 1151T was a member of the genus Sulfitobacter and exhibited the hightest sequence similarity to Sulfitobacter indolifex DSM 14862T (96.6%), followed by the sequence similarity to Sulfitobacter aestuarii hydD52T (96.5%) and Sulfitobacter profundi SAORIC-263T (96.5%). The average nucleotide identity and digital DDH values between strain 1151T and Sulfitobacter indolifex DSM 14862T were 69.9% and 20.9%, respectively. The average amino acid identity between strain 1151T and Sulfitobacter pontiacus DSM 10014T (type strain of the type species) was 62.