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Surgical removal of lateral or ventrolateral spinal intramedullary gliomas remains a challenge. For lateral or ventrolateral tumors, the dorsal root entry zone (DREZ) myelotomy (equivalent to dorsolateral sulcus approach) and the posterior midline myelotomy would require dissection of the posterolateral tract or posterior column tracts and cause neurologic dysfunction. In Video 1, we introduce a novel approach in which myelotomy was performed anterior to DREZ. The spinal cord was entered between the DREZ and dorsal spinocerebellar tracts, and the surgical path was posterior to the lateral corticospinal tract. Thus no important spinal cord tracts were damaged. The patients with intramedullary glioma depicted in this video had no new neurologic dysfunction postoperatively. This approach has also been reported in treating intramedullary cavernous malformations.1 Compared with the DREZ approach, myelotomy anterior to the DREZ has 2 advantages. First, the blood vessels anterior to DREZ are always sparser than the posterolateral sulcus. Second, the injury of the somatosensory tract and posterior horn of the spinal cord caused by the dorsolateral sulcus approach can be avoided. NEM inhibitor Special technique details for this approach are as follows 1) Myelotomy anterior to DREZ can be optional for selective cases of lateral or ventrolateral intramedullary tumor. 2) It is difficult for cervical intramedullary tumors because the cervical dorsal roots always cover the area of the anterior DREZ. 3) It is useful for a multisegment tumor to cut the dentate ligament. 4) Hemilaminectomy can be used in selective cases for this approach.Global change poses new challenges for pest management. Omnivorous predatory arthropods play an important role in pest management, yet their potential has not been fully explored. Not only do they consume prey, but their plant-feeding induces plant defences that decrease herbivores' performance, and increases production of volatiles that attract natural enemies. Growing evidence from different plant-arthropod systems indicates the generality of plant defence induction following omnivore plant-feeding. Furthermore, these responses appear to affect other organisms (e.g. plant viruses), altering multi-trophic interactions. Here, we review the dual role of omnivores (as predators and plant inducers), identify knowledge gaps and provide future perspectives to increase our understanding of omnivores' multiple functions, and how this can be applied to advance plant protection strategies.Life expectancy for long-term survivors of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT), defined as those living ≥5 years post-transplantation, is significantly lower compared with that of the age-matched general population despite a relatively low primary disease relapse rate at >2 years post-transplantation. Among several factors, patient sex is increasingly recognized as a prognostic indicator of long-term survival. We examined the influence of patient sex and donor-recipient sex matching on overall survival (OS) in a landmark analysis of long-term survivors. Using our institutional database supplemented with individual patient record review, we retrospectively investigated the relative influence of recipient sex and donor-recipient sex matching on outcomes of long-term survivors of alloHSCT between 1994 and 2014. Over this 20-year period, 247 met inclusion criteria for analysis; males and females had similar demographic and treatment characteristics. However, significantly more deaths afton literature. Increasing evidence suggests a biological basis for long-term sex-determined outcomes, possibly owing to differing rates or severity of cGVHD or sustained alloimmune tolerance in females. Larger studies are warranted to validate these retrospective clinical results.Haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplantation (haplo-HCT) with post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (PTCy) may be the sole available curative option for several hematologic malignancies. However, the best choice of conditioning regimen and graft source has not been established. This study was conducted to compare myeloablative conditioning (MAC) regimens with reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) regimens and peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) grafts with bone marrow (BM) grafts in the haplo-HCT setting with PTCy. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing MAC with RIC and PBSC with BM in the haplo-HCT. The search was conducted in PubMed and TRIALS on February 2, 2021, without a date limit. We excluded studies with >30% non-PTCy graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis and >30% nonmalignant diseases. We screened 570 abstracts from PubMed and TRIALS and selected 20 for full-text review and 17 for inclusion in the qualitative and quantitative analyses. For PBSC versus BM grafP = .002; nMAC = 2016; nRIC = 2790), but better PFS (HR, 0.86; P = .002; nMAC = 1929; nRIC = 2662). There were no differences between the 2 conditioning regimens in OS (HR, .95; P = .32; nMAC = 2123; nRIC = 3155), GRFS (HR, 0.97; P = .67; nMAC = 1182; nRIC = 1330), grade II-IV aGVHD (HR, 1.01; P = .81; nMAC = 2099; nRIC = 3090), or cGVHD (HR, 1.05; P = .44; nMAC=1929; nRIC = 2662). This analysis shows that the use of BM grafts is associated with comparable outcomes as seen with PBSC grafts despite a lower incidence of GVHD and a higher relapse rate. The use of MAC regimens is associated with improved PFS. These results suggest that for fit patients, MAC remains the optimal conditioning regimen in terms of mortality, and that the use of PBSC grafts may further decrease relapse risk and hasten engraftment, provided that further strategies can be incorporated to decrease GVHD. Prospective comparisons are awaited.The galectin family is a representative soluble lectin group, which is responsible for the modulation of various cell functions. Although the carbohydrate-binding specificity of galectins has been well-studied, the relationship between protein structure and specificity remains to be elucidated. We previously reported the characteristics of a Xenopus laevis skin galectin, xgalectin-Va, which had diverged from galectin-1. The carbohydrate selectivity of xgalectin-Va was different from that of human galectin-1 and xgalectin-Ib (a Xenopus laevis galectin-1 homolog). In this study, we clarified the key residues for this selectivity by site-directed mutagenesis. Substitution of two amino acids of xgalectin-Va, Val56Gly/Lys76Arg, greatly enhanced the binding ability to N-acetyllactosamine and conferred significant T-cell growth inhibition activity, although the wild type had no activity. These two residues, Gly54 and Arg74 in galectin-1, would cooperatively contribute to the N-acetyllactosamine recognition. The loop region between the S4 and S5 β-strands was involved in the binding to the TF-antigen disaccharide.