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05). VRSQ and SSQ scores significantly increased during the game with a fixed and moving background compared to baseline (p less then 0.05) and were significantly higher with use of the moving versus fixed background (p less then 0.05). This study demonstrated that playing an immersive virtual reality game with a moving background could negatively affect balance and cybersickness. These results will help to select game contents that can reduce side effects when applying VR HMD to various fields in the future.It is general acknowledged that genes play a vital role in the etiology of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The relationship between the genes involved in catecholamine (dopamine, noradrenaline)/serotonin transmissions and ADHD has been widely described in medical literature. A pathway-based study was conducted in this study to test the association of gene-gene interaction and the cumulative effect of genetic polymorphisms within the dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin neurotransmitter pathways with ADHD susceptibility. A case-control study was conducted among Chinese children, and 168 ADHD patients and 233 controls were recruited using a combination diagnosis according to the DSM-IV ADHD rating scale. Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis was conducted to explore the gene-gene interaction, and logistic regression modal was applied to estimate the polygenic risk of the potential multiple genetic variants. The results of CART analyses indicated that the children carrying the combination of ADRA2A rs553668GG/GA and SLC6A4 rs6354 GG/GT genotypes displayed a 6.15-fold increased risk of ADHD, compared to those with the combination of ADRA2A rs553668 AA and ANKK1 rs1800497 AA genotypes. The unfavorable alleles of ADRA2A rs553668 G, DRD2 rs1124491 G and SLC6A4 rs6354 G showed cumulative effects on ADHD, and the OR for ADHD may increase by 1.42 times when the number of unfavorable allele number increased by one. Those findings reveal the importance of the gene-gene interactions and polygenic effects of many common variants to ADHD susceptibility, even the effect of each variant is very small.Cerebral ischemia leads to neuronal cell death, causes neurological disorder and permanent disability. Chlorogenic acid has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-apoptotic properties. This study investigated the neuroprotective effects of chlorogenic acid against cerebral ischemia. Focal cerebral ischemia was induced in male adult rats via middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). selleck chemical Chlorogenic acid (30 mg/kg) or vehicle was injected in the intraperitoneal cavity 2 h after MCAO operation. Neurological behavior tests were performed 24 h after MCAO, brain edema and infarction were measured. Oxidative stress was assessed by investigating the levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and lipid peroxidation (LPO) levels. MCAO damage leaded to severe neurobehavioral deficits, increased ROS and LPO levels, and induced brain edema and infarction. MCAO damage caused histopathological damages and increased the number of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL)-positive cells in the cerebral cortex. However, chlorogenic acid treatment improved neurological behavioral deficits caused by MCAO and attenuated the increase in ROS and LPO levels. It also alleviated MCAO-induced brain edema, infarction, and histopathological lesion. Chlorogenic acid treatment attenuated the increase in the number of TUNEL-positive cells in the cerebral cortex of MCAO animals. We also investigated caspase proteins expression to elucidate the neuroprotective mechanism of chlorogenic acid. Caspase-3, caspase-7, and poly ADP-ribose polymerase expression levels were increased in the MCAO damaged cortex, while chlorogenic acid mitigated these increases. These results showed that MCAO injury leads to severe neurological damages and chlorogenic acid exerts neuroprotective effects by regulating oxidative stress and caspase proteins expressions. Thus, our findings suggest that chlorogenic acid acts as a potent neuroprotective agent by modulating the apoptotic-related proteins.Ibaraki virus (IBAV) is the pathogen associated with Ibaraki disease. In a previous study, we suggested that IBAV enters hamster lung (HmLu-1) cells via endocytosis and subsequently escapes into the cytoplasm upon endosomal acidification. However, it is unclear which of the endocytic pathways IBAV utilizes. In this study, we aimed to further elucidate the pathway of IBAV entry into host cells. We found that IBAV replication was not suppressed by inhibitors of clathrin-mediated or caveolin-mediated endocytosis but was markedly suppressed by 5-(N-ethyl-N-isopropyl) amiloride (EIPA) and cytochalasin D, both of which inhibit macropinocytosis. Monensin, which inhibits endosomal acidification, also suppressed IBAV replication. To assess the inhibitory effects of these reagents on endocytosis, dextran and transferrin were used as indicators of macropinocytosis and clathrin-mediated endocytic activity, respectively. Our data confirmed that EIPA and monensin inhibited dextran uptake, and cytochalasin D inhibited the uptake of both. Additionally, we confirmed that endosomal/lysosomal acidification was inhibited by monensin. These results suggest that the macropinocytosis pathway is the major route of IBAV entry and confirm that IBAV infection of HmLu-1 cells is dependent on endosomal acidification.Anophelinae is a widely dispersed Culicidae subfamily that may carry a unique virome. Here we herein report the set of viruses found in 323 salivary glands of 16 anopheline species sampled at Upper Pantanal, Chapada dos Guimarães National Park and Coxipó river basin, South Central Mato Grosso, Brazil, pooled (n = 11) and subjected to high throughput sequencing. Metagenomics revealed the presence of nine viral sequences belonging to novel viruses from seven viral families Purunga is a putative novel orbivirus sharing 74% and 65% aa identity, respectively, with the VP1 and VP3 segments of Changuinola serogroup, Jaracatiá flavivirus shares 60% amino-acid (aa) identity with Aedes flavivirus. Coxipó dielmovirus and Chapada dielmovirus shared 51% and 39% aa identity with Merida virus. Coloiado-orthomyxo like virus is 57.1-64.8% identical at aa level to Aedes albonnulatus orthomyxo-like virus. Mujica picorna-like virus shares 49% aa identity with Flen picorna-like virus and Chiquitos virus is 50% similar to Ista virus, both from Picornavirales order.