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BACKGROUND Flow modulation is the newest endovascular technique for treatment of cerebral aneurysms. OBJECTIVE To investigate changes in aneurysm treatment practice patterns in the USA. METHODS From the 2007 to 2016, the National Inpatient Sample databases, hospital discharges associated with unruptured aneurysms (UA), and/or ruptured aneurysms (RA) having undergone surgical clipping (SC) and/or endovascular treatments (EVT) were identified using the International Classification of Diseases codes. Patient demographics, hospital characteristics, and clinical outcomes were reviewed. Five year subgroup analyses was performed for treatment differences. RESULTS A total of 39 282 hospital discharges were identified with a significant increase in EVT (UA SC n=7847 vs EVT n=12 797, p less then 0.001; RA SC n=8108 vs EVT n=10 530, p less then 0.001). Hospitals in the South demonstrated the most significant EVT use regardless of aneurysm status (UA SC n=258.5±53.6 vs EVT n=480.7±155.8, p less then 0.001; RA SC n=285.6±54.3 vs EVT n=393.3±102.9, p=0.003). From 2007 to 2011, there was no significant difference in the mean number of cases for the treatment modalities (UA SC n=847.4±107.7 vs EVT n=11200.4±254.1, p=0.21; RA SC n=949.4±52.8 vs EVT n=10540.4±219.6, p=0.85). Comparatively, from 2012 to 2016, significantly more UA and RA were treated endovascularly (UA SC n=722.0±43.4 vs EVT n=14390.0±419.2, p less then 0.001; RA SC n=672.2±61.4 vs EVT n=10510.6±330.2, p=0.02). CONCLUSIONS As technological innovations continue to advance the neuroendovascular space, the standard of care for treatment of cerebral aneurysms is shifting further towards endovascular therapies over open surgical approaches in the USA. © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.It is becoming increasingly evident that reactive oxygen species (ROS) have critical roles as "second messengers" in cell signaling. In B cells, ROS can be generated either as a byproduct of mitochondrial respiration, as a result of the endoplasmic reticulum stress response induced by high production of Igs, or by the activation of NADPH oxidase (NOX) complexes. Having previously shown that costimulation of B cells via TLR 9 and the TLR-related receptor RP105 drives maturation of human peripheral blood B cells into Ig-producing cells, we aimed to study the role of ROS generated during this vital process. To this end, the ROS levels were either reduced by the NOX inhibitor VAS2870 or by the ROS scavenger N-acetyl cysteine (NAC). We revealed that TLR9/RP105-mediated stimulation of human B cells involved a rapid activation of NOX. Moreover, VAS2870 blocked the TLR9/RP105-induced B cell activation and thereby all Ig production. Importantly, we showed that ROS targeted by NAC was selectively required for IgG but not for IgM production. The endoplasmic reticulum stress response in the TLR9/RP105-stimulated cells was higher in IgG+ than in IgG- cells and was reduced by NAC in IgG+ cells only. Of note, we revealed that substantially higher levels of IgG than IgM were produced per cell and that IgG+ cells produced significantly higher ROS levels than IgG- cells. Taken together, our results imply that NAC-targeted ROS may be particularly important for sustaining the high Ig production in IgG+ B cells. Copyright © 2020 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc.TNFAIP8-like 2 (TIPE2) is a negative regulator of immune receptor signaling that maintains immune homeostasis. Dysregulated TIPE2 expression has been observed in several types of human immunological disorders. However, how TIPE2 expression is regulated remains to be determined. We report in this study that the SCFβ-TrCP E3 ubiquitin ligase regulates TIPE2 protein abundance by targeting it for ubiquitination and subsequent degradation via the 26S proteasome. Silencing of either cullin-1 or β-TrCP1 resulted in increased levels of TIPE2 in immune cells. TAK1 phosphorylated the Ser3 in the noncanonical degron motif of TIPE2 to trigger its interaction with β-TrCP for subsequent ubiquitination and degradation. Importantly, the amount of TIPE2 protein in immune cells determined the strength of TLR 4-induced signaling and downstream gene expression. Thus, our study has uncovered a mechanism by which SCFβ-TrCP E3 ubiquitin ligase regulates TLR responses. Copyright © 2020 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc.Mammalian CIITA isoforms are tightly regulated by independent promoters. These promotors are induced by IFN-γ through JAK-STAT signaling pathway. The induction of CIITA controls the expression of MHC class II (MHCII) and Ag presentation to the adaptive immune system. In the current study, to our knowledge, we first identified two independent promoters, p1 and p2, in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) that control the expression of the two variants of CIITA, CIITA variant 1 (CIITAv1), and CIITA variant 2 (CIITAv2), respectively. Epigenetic inhibitor Moreover, although IRF1 in an IFN-γ signaling pathway induced CIITAv2, which has two ISRE motifs in its promoter, CIITAv1 expression was not induced by this signal. Further, the transcription of MHCII DAB was controlled by IRF1 via two distinct mechanisms 1) the transcription of MHCII DAB was controlled by IRF1 indirectly through the two ISREs in p2; and 2) directly via the ISRE in MHCII DAB promoter. We also found that IRF1 associated with CIITAv1 and CIITAv2 via protein-protein interactions to synergistically drive the transcription of MHCII DAB. The IFN-γ-IRF1-CIITA-MHCII signaling cascade was functional in early life stages of CIITA-/- and IRF1-/- zebrafish. Our findings imply that the immune system develops early in fishes and that the IFN-γ signaling cascade-induced CIITA and MHCII DAB is conserved in teleost fishes and mammals. Copyright © 2020 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc.DNase 1-like 3 (DNase1L3), which belongs to DNase1 family, was originally identified as one of apoptosis- and necrosis-related endonucleases that fragmentate intranucleosomal DNA. A loss-of-function mutation has been reported in murine models of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and in familial SLE patients. These reports suggest DNase1L3 plays an important role in the prevention of developing SLE; however, expression and function of DNase1L3 in human immune systems have been largely unclarified. As previous reports showed DNase1L3 is expressed in hematopoietic organs, we first analyzed expression levels of DNase1L3 in each subset of human peripheral blood cells by quantitative real-time PCR. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells showed the highest expression levels of DNase1L3 mRNA among peripheral blood cells. IL-4 enhanced DNase1L3 expression in monocytes, monocyte-derived dendritic cells, and monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs), but not in T cells, B cells, or plasmacytoid dendritic cells. Together with IL-4, all-trans retinoic acid and apoptotic cells efficiently upregulated expression of DNalse1L3 in MDMs.