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Genital psoriasis (GenPs) has been traditionally considered a difficult to treat psoriasis area. Ixekizumab was the first biologic agent demonstrating efficacy and safety in a formal clinical trial on GenPs; however, real-life experiences are limited. To assess real-life effectiveness and safety of ixekizumab in the treatment of GenPs in a case series of patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. Adult patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis involving the genital area received subcutaneous ixekizumab. Evaluation of disease severity, clinical symptoms, and quality of life was performed at baseline, after 4, 16, and 24 weeks of treatment. Assessment tools were Static Physician's Global Assessment of Genitalia (sPGA-G), Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) score, Itch Numerical-Rating-Score (Itch-NRS), and Dermatology-Life-Quality-Index (DLQI). Adverse events were recorded. A total of 14 patients were treated with ixekizumab achieving consistent and significant reduction of disease and quality of life parameters, with a mean percentage reduction from baseline to week 24 of 91.4% for sPGA-G, 95.2% for PASI, 95.6% for Itch-NRS, and 93.7% for DLQI. Ixekizumab treatment was well tolerated. Ixekizumab significantly improved disease severity, itch, and quality of life with an acceptable safety profile in a real-life setting in adult patients affected by GenPs.Candidatus Dormibacterota is an uncultured bacterial phylum found predominantly in soil that is present in high abundances within cold desert soils. Here, we interrogate nine metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), including six new MAGs derived from soil metagenomes obtained from two eastern Antarctic sites. Phylogenomic and taxonomic analyses revealed these MAGs represent four genera and five species, representing two order-level clades within Ca. Dormibacterota. Metabolic reconstructions of these MAGs revealed the potential for aerobic metabolism, and versatile adaptations enabling persistence in the 'extreme' Antarctic environment. Primary amongst these adaptations were abilities to scavenge atmospheric H2 and CO as energy sources, as well as using the energy derived from H2 oxidation to fix atmospheric CO2 via the Calvin-Bassham-Benson cycle, using a RuBisCO type IE. We propose that these allow Ca. Dormibacterota to persist using H2 oxidation and grow using atmospheric chemosynthesis in terrestrial Antarctica. Fluorescence in situ hybridization revealed Ca. Dormibacterota to be coccoid cells, 0.3-1.4 μm in diameter, with some cells exhibiting the potential for a symbiotic or syntrophic lifestyle.Previously, the authors reported the utility of urinary vanin-1 as an early biomarker of kidney injury in spontaneously hypertensive rats and in humans. However, little is known about whether urinary vanin-1 can be used to predict the clinical outcome. This study aimed to evaluate the predictive power of urinary vanin-1 based on kidney function decline in hypertensive patients. The authors measured urinary vanin-1 in 147 patients at the baseline and examined its association with the incidence of ≥20% decline in the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) using the Cox regression analysis. The mean age of the patients averaged 72.9 ± 8.2 years, and 39% were women. Median (interquartile range) urinary vanin-1 was 0.33 (0-2.6) ng/mg Cr During a median follow-up of 12 months, 14 patients showed kidney function decline. A higher urinary vanin-1 level was associated with an increased risk of kidney function decline (hazard ratio, 9.87; 95% CI, 1.11-87.5) (p = .04) in the fully adjusted model. In conclusion, urinary vanin-1 is an independent risk factor for kidney function decline in hypertensive patients and it could be useful in clinical settings. The underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms warrant additional investigation.Rhizosphere microbial communities adapt their structural and functional compositions to water scarcity and have the potential to substantially mitigate drought stress of crops. To unlock this potential, it is crucial to understand community responses to drought in the complex interplay between soil properties, agricultural management and crop species. Two winter wheat cultivars, demanding and non-demanding, were exposed to drought stress in loamy Chernozem and sandy Luvisol soils under conventional or organic farming management. Structural and functional adaptations of the rhizosphere bacteria were assessed by 16S amplicon sequencing, the predicted abundance of drought-related functional genes in the bacterial community based on 16S amplicon sequences (Tax4Fun) and the activity potentials of extracellular enzymes involved in the carbon cycle. Bacterial community composition was strongly driven by drought and soil type. Selleck Ipatasertib Under drought conditions, Gram-positive phyla became relatively more abundant, but either less or more diverse in Luvisol and Chernozem soil respectively. Enzyme activities and functional gene abundances related to carbon degradation were increased under drought in the rhizosphere of the demanding wheat cultivar in organic farming. We demonstrate that soil type, farming system and wheat cultivar each constitute important factors during the structural and/or functional adaptation of rhizobacterial communities in response to drought.T-cell engagers are a class of oncology drugs which engage T-cells to initiate immune response against malignant cells. T-cell engagers have features that are unlike prior classes of oncology drugs (e.g., chemotherapies or targeted therapies), because (1) starting dose level often must be conservative due to immune-related side effects such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS); (2) dose level can usually be safely titrated higher as a result of subject's immune system adaptation after first exposure to lower dose; and (3) due to preventive management of CRS, these safety events rarely worsen to become dose limiting toxicities (DLTs). It is generally believed that for T-cell engagers the dose intensity of the starting dose and the peak dose intensity both correlate with improved efficacy. Existing dose finding methodologies are not designed to efficiently identify both the initial starting dose and peak dose intensity in a single trial. In this study, we propose a new trial design, dose intra-subject escalation to an event (DIETE) design, that can (1) estimate the maximum tolerated initial dose level (MTD1); and (2) incorporate systematic intra-subject dose-escalation to estimate the maximum tolerated dose level subsequent to adaptation induced by the initial dose level (MTD2) with a survival analysis approach.