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Chemical warfare (CW) exposure could be fatal to military and civilians through skin contamination. Our work and others focus on investigating stratum corneum reservoir with less regards to skin appendageal routes including hair follicles. SMS 201-995 mouse Here, C-14 CW simulants (CWS) with specific activity of 0.1 mCi/ml were tested on abdominal and scalp human cadaver skin using flow-through diffusion system. Quantitative analysis of simulants in skin compartments were performed using scintillation counter. Scalp permeation of dipropylene glycol monomethyl ether (DPGME), diisopropyl methylphosphonate (DIMP) and methyl salicylate (MeS) exceed abdominal skin by 8%, 15%, and 6% (p value 0.05). The percentage of applied dose of MeS in scalp showed higher partitioning in stratum corneum and viable epidermis than abdominal skin (p value less then 0.05). In conclusion, human scalp showed greater total skin absorption than abdominal skin. This work points to a qualitative importance of high follicular density body regions in percutaneous penetration and suggests that transfollicular pathway might have a significant role in early stage permeation of chemical warfare simulants. However, the difference noticed here between scalp and abdominal skin could be attributed to regional variability in anatomy, physiology, and barrier characteristics.Sandelia bainsii is a range-restricted and highly threatened freshwater fish endemic to South Africa. Recent genetic evidence suggests that this species comprises three allopatrically distributed lineages that have been informally designated as Sandelia sp. "Kowie," Sandelia sp. "Keiskamma" and Sandelia sp. "Buffalo." As these lineages have only been recently identified and are likely to face a high risk of extinction because of restricted distributions, there is a critical need for generating ecological information to guide conservation prioritisation. The present study compared the historical and current distribution patterns, together with the habitat associations of Sandelia sp. "Kowie" in the Koonap and Kat rivers, tributaries of the Great Fish River. This study indicated that this lineage has been extirpated from one of the three localities in the Koonap River where it was historically abundant. In the Kat River, the current distribution of Sandelia sp. "Kowie" was comparable to its historical range, buntion measures to maintain this lineage's long-term adaptive potential.

Caffeine is extensively consumed as a psychostimulant drug, acting on A

and A

adenosine receptors blockade. Chronic exposure to caffeine during gestation and breast-feeding may be involved in infant rat's behavioral and biochemical alterations. Our goal was to evaluate the effect of chronic caffeine exposure during gestation and breast-feeding in the functionality of adenosine A

receptors in infant rats at P14. NTPDase and 5'-nucleotidase activities were also evaluated.

Mating of adult female Wistar rats was confirmed by presence of sperm in vaginal smears. Rats were divided into three groups on the first day of pregnancy (1) control tap water, (2) caffeine 0.3g/L until P14, and (3) washout caffeine caffeine was changed to tap water at P7. Evaluation of nociceptive response was performed at P14 using hot plate (HP) and tail-flick latency (TFL) tests. A

receptor involvement was assessed using caffeine agonist (CPA) and antagonist (DPCPX). Enzymatic activities assays were conducted in the spinal cord.

Gestational and breastfeeding exposure to caffeine (caffeine and washout groups) did not induce significant alterations in thermal nociceptive thresholds (HP and TF tests). Both caffeine groups did not show analgesic response induced by CPA when compared to the control group at P14, indicating chronic exposure to caffeine in the aforementioned periods inhibits the antinociceptive effects of the systemic A

receptor agonist administration. No effect was observed upon ectonucleotidase activities.

Our results demonstrate that chronic caffeine exposure in gestational and breastfeeding alters A1-mediated analgesic response in rats.

Our results demonstrate that chronic caffeine exposure in gestational and breastfeeding alters A1-mediated analgesic response in rats.Protein aggregation is one of the most critical processes affecting protein solubility in various contexts-from protein therapeutics formulation to protein diseases. In general, time-dependent changes in protein solubility are complex kinetically driven processes that often involve a triggering event that consists of a protein unfolding/misfolding followed by the assembling of aggregation-competent protein species. In this study, we have examined the relation between stability and time-dependent solubility of the recombinant human antibody light chain, hLC, which was found to form renal tubular casts in the multiple myeloma patient. To analyze the aggregation quantitatively, the hLC stability and protein solubility assays were performed in vitro at elevated temperatures. A differential acceleration of the processes at high temperatures enabled us to dissect observed kinetics of irreversible hLC unfolding and aggregation. We find that for hLC these processes have different molecularity and activation energy barriers. While the irreversible unfolding of hLC is a unimolecular step with a substantial activation energy barrier of 260 kJ/mol, the aggregation is rate-limited by the bimolecular reaction, which is characterized by a lower activation energy barrier of 40 kJ/mol. By the combination of experimental assays at different temperatures, different protein concentrations and kinetic modeling using ordinary differential equations, we were able to extrapolate time-dependent protein solubility to temperatures where both unfolding and aggregation processes are strongly kinetically coupled. Our study enables mechanism-based evaluation and interpretation of different physico-chemical factors contributing to the hLC unfolding and aggregation and their effect on the formation of extracellular protein deposits.

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, relapsing and debilitating inflammatory disease associated with profound morbidity.

In this multicentre study, we investigated the demographic and clinical features of HS, and determined risk factors of disease severity.

In total, 1221 patients diagnosed with HS from 29 centres were enrolled, and the medical records of each patient were reviewed.

The mean age of disease onset was 26.2±10.4years, and almost 70% (n=849) of patients were current or former smokers. Mean disease duration was 8.9±8.4years with a delay in diagnosis of 5.8±3.91years. Just over a fifth (21%; n=256) of patients had a family history of HS. The axillary, genital and neck regions were more frequently affected in men than in women, and the inframammary region was more frequently affected in women than in men (P<0.05 for all). Acne (40.8%), pilonidal sinus (23.6%) and diabetes mellitus (12.6%) were the most prevalent associated diseases. Of the various therapies used, antibiotics (76.4%) were most common followed by retinoids (41.