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By incorporating the circadian rhythm into our model, we reveal that fAβ accumulation is crucially dependent on the regulation of the sleep-wake cycle, thereby indicating the importance of good sleep hygiene in averting AD onset. We also discuss potential intervention schemes to reduce fAβ accumulation in the brain by modification of the critical sAβ production rate.Clinical evidence suggests that poor persistence of chimeric antigen receptor-T cells (CAR-T) in patients limits therapeutic efficacy. Here, we designed a CAR with recyclable capability to promote in vivo persistence and to sustain antitumor activity. We showed that the engagement of tumor antigens induced rapid ubiquitination of CARs, causing CAR downmodulation followed by lysosomal degradation. Tamoxifen chemical structure Blocking CAR ubiquitination by mutating all lysines in the CAR cytoplasmic domain (CARKR) markedly repressed CAR downmodulation by inhibiting lysosomal degradation while enhancing recycling of internalized CARs back to the cell surface. Upon encountering tumor antigens, CARKR-T cells ameliorated the loss of surface CARs, which promoted their long-term killing capacity. Moreover, CARKR-T cells containing 4-1BB signaling domains displayed elevated endosomal 4-1BB signaling that enhanced oxidative phosphorylation and promoted memory T cell differentiation, leading to superior persistence in vivo. Collectively, our study provides a straightforward strategy to optimize CAR-T antitumor efficacy by redirecting CAR trafficking.The precise mechanism by which oral infection contributes to the pathogenesis of extra-oral diseases remains unclear. Here, we report that periodontal inflammation exacerbates gut inflammation in vivo. Periodontitis leads to expansion of oral pathobionts, including Klebsiella and Enterobacter species, in the oral cavity. Amassed oral pathobionts are ingested and translocate to the gut, where they activate the inflammasome in colonic mononuclear phagocytes, triggering inflammation. In parallel, periodontitis results in generation of oral pathobiont-reactive Th17 cells in the oral cavity. Oral pathobiont-reactive Th17 cells are imprinted with gut tropism and migrate to the inflamed gut. When in the gut, Th17 cells of oral origin can be activated by translocated oral pathobionts and cause development of colitis, but they are not activated by gut-resident microbes. Thus, oral inflammation, such as periodontitis, exacerbates gut inflammation by supplying the gut with both colitogenic pathobionts and pathogenic T cells.

Non-operative management of higher-grade renal injuries has gradually become accepted in pediatric circles following multiple studies over the past decade which showed good renal salvage rates. However, some children do fail this conservative approach and need interventions which are mostly minimally invasive. There is still paucity of studies on the functional outcomes in this unique subgroup of patients. In this study, we review our management and functional outcome of children with grade IV renal injury due to blunt trauma of abdomen managed with minimally invasive interventions (MII) in a tertiary referral center.

The present study seeks to summarize contemporary management of pediatric grade IV renal injury due to blunt trauma at our tertiary care center and to assess the functional outcomes in the subgroup who needed MII.

A retrospective review was performed on children≤18 years with abdominal blunt trauma managed at our tertiary care facility over the past 10 years (January 2008-January 2018) to ly improve these functional outcomes.

Pediatric extrarenal Wilms tumor (ERWT) is rare. The diversity of clinical characteristics makes diagnosis, treatment and judging the prognosis difficult. Long-term follow-up outcomes and the possible prognostic factors of ERWT are still insufficient.

To identify the characteristics, therapeutic strategies and long-term results of pediatric ERWT.

All children with ERWT in our institution were retrospectively reviewed. The National Wilms Tumor Study (NWTS) system was used to evaluate tumor grade.

Among the 876 patients with Wilms tumor in our institution between January 1986 and July 2018, 5 (0.57%) patients had ERWT. Of the 5 children with ERWT, the locations were the retroperitoneum in 3 patients (including 1 presacral) and the gubernaculum testis of an undescended testis and a duplicate sigmoid colon in 1 patient each. Two patients were stage II, and 3 patients were stage III. The three patients with larger tumor sizes had preoperative tumor rupture. In the long-term follow-up, ranging from 1.0 to 1ents with poor prognoses often require aggressive combination treatments, and more attention is needed in terms of the recurrence, metastases and fatality of ERWT.

ERWTs are rare tumors and can coassociate with congenital gastrointestinal and genitourinary system anomalies. The prognosis of ERWT is comparable to that of Wilms tumor located at normal anatomical sites.

ERWTs are rare tumors and can coassociate with congenital gastrointestinal and genitourinary system anomalies. The prognosis of ERWT is comparable to that of Wilms tumor located at normal anatomical sites.

To test the association between exposure to perinatal inflammation - i.e. clinical chorioamnionitis or early-onset neonatal infection - in preterm children without severe neonatal brain injury and neurodevelopmental outcome at 30 months of corrected age (CA).

Cross-sectional study from a French regional cohort of clinical follow-up (SEVE Network).

One hundred sixty-four surviving neonates without severe brain injury - namely, grade III and IV cerebral hemorrhage and cystic periventricular leukomalacia - and without late-onset neonatal inflammation exposure - namely, late-onset neonatal infection and necrotizing enterocolitis -, born at less than 33 weeks of gestational age from November 2011 to June 2015 and enrolled in the SEVE Network.

Global developmental quotient (DQ) score of the revised Brunet-Lézine scale and its four indices measured by the same neuropsychologist at 30 months of CA.

After multivariate analysis, exposure to perinatal inflammation was not found significantly associated with a modification of the global DQ score (coefficient -1.