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Management of chordoma along the cranial-spinal axis is a major challenge for both skull base and spinal surgeons. Although chordoma remains a rare tumor, occurring in approximately 1 per 1 million individuals, its treatment poses several challenges. These tumors are generally poorly responsive to radiation and chemotherapy, leading to surgical resection as the mainstay of treatment. Due to anatomic constraints and unique challenges associated with each primary site of disease, gross total resection is often not feasible and is associated with high rates of morbidity. Additionally, chordoma is associated with high rates of recurrence due to the tumor's aggressive biologic features, and postoperative radiation is increasingly incorporated as a treatment option for these patients. Despite these challenges, modern-day surgical techniques in both skull base and spinal surgery have facilitated improved patient outcomes. For example, endoscopic endonasal techniques have become the mainstay in resection of skull bho specialize in the treatment of this challenging disease.Three-dimensional (3D) in vitro tumour spheroid experiments are an important tool for studying cancer progression and potential cancer drug therapies. Standard experiments involve growing and imaging spheroids to explore how different conditions lead to different rates of spheroid growth. These kinds of experiments, however, do not reveal any information about the spatial distribution of the cell cycle within the expanding spheroid. Since 2008, a new experimental technology called fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell cycle indicator (FUCCI) has enabled real-time in situ visualisation of the cell cycle progression. Observations of 3D tumour spheroids with FUCCI labelling reveal significant intratumoural structure, as the cell cycle status can vary with location. Although many mathematical models of tumour spheroid growth have been developed, none of the existing mathematical models are designed to interpret experimental observations with FUCCI labelling. In this work, we adapt the mathematical framework origiving boundary problem associated with the new mathematical model are available on GitHub. IU1 at https//github.com/wang-jin-mathbio/Jin2021.This study aimed to evaluate the effects of the inclusion of unsaturated fatty acid (UFA) sources on the nutrient intake, apparent digestibility, ruminal fermentation, and feeding behavior in diets for buffaloes. Four castrated Murrah buffaloes with approximately 24 months of age and an initial average body weight of 351 ± 15 kg were randomly assigned to a 4 × 4 Latin square experiment, containing the following diets (1) control (CON) control diet based on soybean meal and ground corn, (2) soybean oil (SO) dietary inclusion of 2.20% (DM basis), (3) whole raw soybean (WRS) dietary inclusion of 16.0%, and (4) calcium salts of FA (CSFA) dietary inclusion of 2.60%. There was an effect of diets in ether extract intake among buffaloes fed UFA and CON diets, and among buffaloes fed CSFA and WRS diets (P less then 0.05). Diets containing UFA sources provided higher EE digestibility (P less then 0.05). Buffaloes fed WRS had higher rumen pH values than animals fed the CSFA diet (P less then 0.05). Supplementation of UFA sources decreased the molar concentrations of short-chain fatty acids (P less then 0.05). Diets influenced the times spent in chewing, idling, and the rumination efficiencies of DM and NDF (P less then 0.05). The supplementation with WRS, SO, and CSFA does not negatively affect intake, digestion, ruminal metabolism, and feeding behavior. The WRS as a fat supplement source decreases dietary costs by replacing ground corn and soybean meal simultaneously compared to other fat sources used. Nevertheless, whole and raw soybean in buffaloes' diet can reduce chewing and rumination activity.In this paper, we propose a periodic reaction-diffusion model of Zika virus with seasonal and spatial heterogeneous structure in host and vector population. We introduce the basic reproduction ratio [Formula see text] for this model and show that the disease-free periodic solution is globally asymptotically stable if [Formula see text], while the system admits a globally asymptotically stable positive periodic solution if [Formula see text]. Numerically, we study the Zika transmission in Rio de Janeiro Municipality, Brazil, and investigate the effects of some model parameters on [Formula see text]. We find that the neglect of seasonality underestimates the value of [Formula see text] and the maximum carrying capacity affects the spread of Zika virus.

Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized the treatment landscape across multiple solid tumor types. In triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), clinical benefit for the addition of ICB to chemotherapy has been shown in both the metastatic and early stage disease settings. A minority of patients with TNBC will truly benefit from ICB, with many tumors unlikely to respond, and ICB can cause additional toxicities for patients to incur. In clinical practice, ICB-based regimens are emerging as standard-of-care treatment options in TNBC subpopulations. Atezolizumab in combination with nab-paclitaxel is recommended as first-line treatment for patients with PD-L1-positive metastatic TNBC. Clinical trials are needed to confirm this benefit and evaluate if additional biomarkers may allow for improved patient selection. Trials investigating ICB in early-stage breast cancer show promise for the benefit of combination ICB with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. However, longer follow-up is required before ICB can be consibtypes (such as tumor infiltrating lymphocytes) or RNA gene expression profiling to detect signatures suggestive of a T-cell-inflamed microenvironment. Detecting somatic mutations through tumor next-generation DNA sequencing may predict resistance mechanisms or suggest sensitivity to ICB monotherapy or in combination with other forms of systemic therapy. These biomarker platforms may allow for a more granular analysis of immune activity and should be further investigated in prospective studies with the aim of personalizing ICB-focused therapies in TNBC.