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Vitamin C deficiency results in the clinical presentation of scurvy, a disease that is rare among the adolescent population. Individuals with unusual dietary habits, mental illness, or physical disability are more prone to develop scurvy. We present a case report of a previously healthy 16-year-old female presented to the hospital with a 12-month history of anorexia nervosa, restrictive subtype. She was admitted to the intensive care unit and transferred to a tertiary care pediatric eating disorder program for the treatment of extreme weight loss, cardiovascular instability, and refeeding syndrome. On examination, she had multiple tiny hyperpigmented perifollicular petechial papules on the lower abdomen, dorsum thighs, and extensor surfaces of the arms with corkscrew hairs on the abdomen. Dermatologic examination and laboratory investigations were consistent with a diagnosis of scurvy. The patient's vitamin C serum level was 21 μmol/L (.23 mg/dL; reference range 25-114 μmol/L [.28-1.28 mg/dL]). She was treated with ascorbic acid orally. Objective cutaneous findings improved within 4 weeks of supplementation, and after 6 weeks, repeat levels of vitamin C levels were 102 μmol/L (1.15 mg/dL). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of an adolescent female with anorexia nervosa and cutaneous manifestations of scurvy that resolved after the oral administration of vitamin C. Syllidae is an annelid family characterized by its complex life cycles involving some of the most outstanding annelid reproductive strategies. Syllid reproductive modes sometimes imply the modification of the posterior body to form independent reproductive units (schizogamy) or the development of swimming adults (epigamy). These modes of sexual reproduction have been studied for more than 150 years, and yet, little is known regarding their molecular background. Notably, while several studies during the last three decades have revealed details about molecular mechanisms involved in the reproduction of some few model annelids, studies focusing on syllids remain limited. Thus, we performed differential gene expression analyses of female, male, and non-reproducing individuals of Syllis prolifera (schizogamic) and Nudisyllis pulligera (epigamic), as representatives of two different reproductive strategies. For that, transcriptomes from specimens of three conditions (non-reproducing, male, female) were de novo assembled and annotated for S. prolifera and N. pulligera. We found rather similar gene expression profiles for female and non-reproducing individuals, while male gene expression is clearly different. RVX208 Although previous studies have suggested that femininity in syllids might require additional signalling, our analyses support a scenario, where masculinity may also involve several specific genetic processes. Patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) develop skeletal muscle weakness and cardiomyopathy. Validated skeletal muscle outcome measures are limited to ambulatory patients, but most DMD patients in cardiac trials are non-ambulatory. New objective functional assessments are needed. This study's objective was to assess the correlation and longitudinal change of two measures quantitative muscle testing (QMT) and accelerometry. Patients with DMD were prospectively enrolled and underwent QMT and wore wrist and ankle accelerometers for seven days at baseline, 1-, and 2-years. QMT measures were indexed to age. Accelerometer recordings were total vector magnitudes and awake vector magnitude. Correlations were assessed using a Spearman correlation, and longitudinal change was evaluated using a paired t-test or a Wilcoxon signed rank test. Forty-eight participants were included. QMT and accelerometry measures had a moderate or strong correlation, particularly indexed arm QMT with total wrist vector magnitude (rho=0.85, p less then 0.001), total indexed QMT with total wrist vector magnitude (rho=0.8, p less then 0.001) and indexed leg QMT with total ankle vector magnitude (rho=0.69, p less then 0.001). QMT and accelerometry measures declined significantly over time. Accelerometry correlates with QMT and indexed QMT in boys with DMD. A combination of QMT and accelerometry may provide a complementary assessment of skeletal muscle function in non-ambulatory boys with DMD. Effective chemotherapy for solid cancers is challenging due to a limitation in permeation that prevents anticancer drugs from reaching the center of the tumor, therefore unable to limit cancer cell growth. To circumvent this issue, we planned to apply the drugs directly at the center by first collapsing the outer structure. For this, we focused on cell-cell communication (CCC) between N-glycans and proteins at the tumor cell surface. Mature N-glycans establish CCC; however, CCC is hindered when numerous immature N-glycans are present at the cell surface. Inhibition of Golgi mannosidases (GMs) results in the transport of immature N-glycans to the cell surface. This can be employed to disrupt CCC. Here, we describe the molecular design and synthesis of an improved GM inhibitor with a non-sugar mimic scaffold that was screened from a compound library. The synthesized compounds were tested for enzyme inhibition ability and inhibition of spheroid formation using cell-based methods. Most of the compounds designed and synthesized exhibited GM inhibition at the cellular level. Of those, AR524 had higher inhibitory activity than a known GM inhibitor, kifunensine. Moreover, AR524 inhibited spheroid formation of human malignant cells at low concentration (10 µM), based on the disruption of CCC by GM inhibition. δ-tocotrienol (DT3), a member of vitamin E family, has been shown to have a potent radio-protective effect. However, its application as a radioprotectant is limited, at least in part, by its short plasma elimination half-life and low bioavailability. In an effort to increase the metabolic stability of DT3, a deuterium substituted DT3 derivative, d6-DT3, was designed and synthesized. d6-DT3 showed improved in vitro and in vivo metabolic stability compared to DT3. The unexpected lower potency of d6-DT3 in inducing granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) production in mouse revealed that the metabolite(s) of DT3 might play a major role in inducing G-CSF induction.