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Aims were to assess 1.) whether odds for incident radiographic osteoarthritis (ROA) differ between men and women in regard to body mass index (BMI) and inflammatory magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers one and two years prior and 2.) whether presence of inflammation on MRI differs between normal-weight, and overweight/obese persons that develop ROA up to four years prior.

We studied 355 knees from the Osteoarthritis Initiative study that developed incident ROA and 355 matched controls. MRIs were read for effusion-synovitis and Hoffa-synovitis for up to four consecutive annual time points. Subjects were classified as normal-weight (BMI < 25), overweight (BMI ≥25/<30) or obese (BMI ≥30). Conditional logistic regression was used to assess odds of incident ROA for effusion-synovitis and Hoffa-synovitis at one and two years prior ROA incidence (i.e. "P-1" and "P-2") considering BMI category. Bivariate logistic regression was used to assess odds of inflammation for cases only.

178 (25.1%) participants were normal-weight, 283 (39.9%) overweight and 249 (35.1%) obese. At P-2 being overweight with Hoffa-synovitis (OR 3.26, 95%CI 1.39,7.65) or effusion-synovitis (3.56, 95%CI 1.45,8.75) was associated with greater odds of incident ROA in women. For those with incident ROA there were no increased odds of synovitis in the overweight/obese subgroup for most time points but increased odds for effusion-synovitis were observed at P-2 (OR 2.21, 95%CI 1.11,4.43).

Presence of inflammatory markers seems to play a role especially in overweight women while obese women have increased odds for ROA also in the absence of these markers.

Presence of inflammatory markers seems to play a role especially in overweight women while obese women have increased odds for ROA also in the absence of these markers.High-throughput sequencing (HTS) of multiple organisms in parallel (metabarcoding) has become a routine and cost-effective method for the analysis of microbial communities in environmental samples. However, careful data treatment is required to identify potential errors in HTS data, and the large volume of data generated by HTS requires in-house experience with command line tools for downstream analysis. This paper introduces a pipeline that incorporates the most common command line tools into an easy-to-use graphical interface-gDAT. By using the Python scripting language, the pipeline is compatible with the latest Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems. The pipeline supports analysis of Sanger, 454, IonTorrent, Illumina and PacBio sequences, allows custom modification of quality filtering steps, and implements both open and closed-reference operational taxonomic unit-picking for sequence identification. Predefined parameters are optimized for analysis of small subunit (SSU) rRNA gene amplicons from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, but the pipeline is widely applicable to metabarcoding studies targeting a broad range of organisms. The pipeline was additionally tested with data using general eukaryotic primers from the SSU gene region and fungal primers from the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) marker region. We describe the pipeline design and evaluate its performance and speed by conducting analysis of example data sets using different marker regions sequenced on Illumina platforms. HC-7366 price The graphical interface, with the option to use the command line if needed, provides an accessible tool for rapid data analysis with repeatability and logging capabilities. Keeping the software open-source maximizes code accessibility, allowing scrutiny and bug fixes by the community.This paper reports a simple method for the preparation of suitable graphene quantum dots after surface passivation, to be used for the determination of carbaryl in juice samples. A comparison of synthetic conditions for the preparation of graphene quantum dots following the top-down approach is described. In the one-step route selected, evaluation of diverse reaction time for cutting and modulating the oxidizing sites in the broken pieces of the initial graphene layer is conducted with a mixture of concentrated acids. Exploring the passivation effect on the purified graphene quantum dots, we demonstrated the suitability of the selected graphene quantum dots for practical application in the detection of carbaryl using fluorometric detection. Higher sensitivity was achieved after 8 min of contact, in which graphene quantum dots promotes the degradation of carbaryl into naphthol, being the latter responsible for the analytical signal. The detection and quantification limits were 0.36 and 1.21 μg/L, respectively, being the response linear up to 26 μg/L with excellent precision (better than 3.2% at the limit of detection). The recovery of the analyte from commercial juice samples (91.4-96.7%) testifies to the applicability of the proposal for the analytical problem selected.Toxoplasmosis, caused by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii, is a widespread zoonosis capable to affect a wide range of warm-blooded vertebrates. In the past two decades, T. gondii emerged as a significant aquatic pathogen with some pathogenic atypical genotypes isolated and characterized from stranded marine mammals. In contrast, no information is available for mammals in freshwater environment. Although otters are considered highly susceptible to T. gondii infection, to date molecular evidence of T. gondii in Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) does not exist. We report the first molecular evidence of T. gondii in a free-ranging Eurasian otter from southern Italy and characterized the present strain as a genotype type II variant, with all loci type II except PK1 (locus sequence corresponding to type II variant B), B1 (locus sequence corresponding to type II/X A) and C29-2 (locus with SNPs). Our results indicate circulation of a type II variant in freshwater environment which suggests potential risk of transmission to animals and humans. The finding of a potential pathogenic strain is of great concern for future conservation programmes of the critically endangered Eurasian otter in southern Italy.