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A 78-year-old male was admitted to our hospital with lumbar pain and was found to have an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and femoral artery aneurysm (FAA). Initially, the patient underwent endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for the AAA and aneurysmectomy for the FAA. The FAA was diagnosed by histology as immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD). The preoperative serum IgG4 level was within the normal range, although a slight serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) elevation was observed. Four years later, the AAA-sac diameter had expanded and the serum levels of both IgG4 and IL-6 levels had increased. see more Six years after the initial EVAR, aneurysmorrhaphy of AAA-sac was performed. The resected specimen revealed adventitial fibrosis and prominent lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate with regulatory T cells, satisfying histological diagnostic criteria for IgG4-RD. Immunoreactive matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), particularly MMP-2 and MMP-9, and IL-6 were detected within numerous spindle cells in the adventitia of both the FAA and the AAA-sac. Five months after the aneurysmorrhaphy, the residual AAA-sac was again enlarged with a thickened wall that accumulated [18 F] fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG-PET) on positron emission tomography; these findings were paralleled by increased levels of serum IgG4 and IL-6. Therefore, persistent inflammation after EVAR may be attributed to the inflammatory sequelae of IgG4-RD.To investigate age-related changes in oral motor strategies in response to unpredictable load demands. Sixty-five healthy children (aged 3-17 yr) were divided into five age-groups based on their dental eruption stages and compared with a group of healthy adults (aged 18-35 yr). Each participant was asked to perform a standardized motor control task involving 'pulling' and 'holding' a force transducer with the anterior teeth. Different loads were attached to the force transducer in an unpredictable manner. The temporal force profile was divided into two time-segments (an initial segment and a later segment). The peak force and peak force rate during the initial time-segment, and the holding force and intra-trial variability (coefficient of variation) during the later time-segment, were measured. The results showed no differences in the peak force, peak force rate, holding force, and force variability in children compared with adults. However, the trends in the data evaluated using a segmented regression analysis showed that a breakpoint (abrupt change) consistently occurred in the late-mixed dentition group (age 9-11 yr) for most of the outcome variables. The results indicate that while the motor control strategies in children appear to be similar to those in adults, there is a shift in the oral motor developmental trend during the late-mixed dentition stage.The magnetization-prepared two-rapid-gradient-echo (MP2RAGE) sequence is used for structural T1 -weighted imaging and T1 mapping of the human brain. In this sequence, adiabatic inversion RF pulses are commonly used, which require the B1+ magnitude to be above a certain threshold. Achieving this threshold in the whole brain may not be possible at ultra-high fields because of the short RF wavelength. This results in low-inversion regions especially in the inferior brain (eg cerebellum and temporal lobes), which is reflected as regions of bright signal in MP2RAGE images. This study aims at eliminating the low-inversion-efficiency induced artifacts in MP2RAGE images at 7 T. The proposed technique takes advantage of parallel RF transmission systems by splitting the brain into two overlapping slabs and calculating the complex weights of transmit channels (ie RF shims) on these slabs for excitation and inversion independently. RF shims were calculated using fast methods implemented in the standard workflow. The excitation RF pulse was designed to obtain slabs with flat plateaus and sharp edges. These slabs were joined into a single volume during the online image reconstruction. The two-slab strategy naturally results in a signal-to-noise ratio loss; however, it allowed the use of independent shims to make the B1+ field exceed the adiabatic threshold in the inferior brain, eliminating regions of low inversion efficiency. Accordingly, the normalized root-mean-square errors in the inversion were reduced to below 2%. The two-slab strategy was found to outperform subject-specific kT -point inversion RF pulses in terms of inversion error. The proposed strategy is a simple yet effective method to eliminate low-inversion-efficiency artifacts; consequently, MP2RAGE-based, artifact-free T1 -weighted structural images were obtained in the whole brain at 7 T.In addition to the evaluation of melanocytic growths (Part I), dermoscopy is helpful in the identification and management of vascular tumors, skin infections, and inflammatory conditions. In this practical review, we present the classic dermoscopic findings of the following vascular tumors, infectious conditions (molluscum contagiosum, scabies, verruca vulgaris), inflammatory conditions (psoriasis, atopic dermatitis), juvenile xanthogranuloma, and nevus sebaceus.Binders of langerin could target vaccines to Langerhans cells for improved therapeutic effect. Since langerin has low affinity for monovalent glycan ligands, highly multivalent presentation has previously been key for targeting. Aiming to reduce the amount of ligand required, we rationally designed molecularly defined high-affinity binders based on the precise display of glycomimetic ligands (Glc2NTs) on DNA-PNA scaffolds. Rather than mimicking langerin's homotrimeric structure with a C3-symmetric scaffold, we developed readily accessible, easy-to-design bivalent binders. The method considers the requirements for bridging sugar binding sites and statistical rebinding as a means to both strengthen the interactions at single binding sites and amplify the avidity enhancement provided by chelation. This gave a 1150-fold net improvement over the affinity of the free ligand and provided a nanomolar binder (IC50 =300 nM) for specific internalization by langerin-expressing cells.The radial conjugated π-system of cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs) makes them intriguing fluorophores and unique supramolecular hosts. However, the bright photoluminescence (PL) of CPPs was limited to the blue light and the supramolecular assembly behavior of large CPPs was rarely investigated. Here we present the synthesis of tetra-benzothiadiazole-based [12]cycloparaphenylene (TB[12]CPP), which exhibits a lime to orange PL with an excellent quantum yield up to 82 % in solution. The PL quantum yield of TB[12]CPP can be further improved to 98 % in polymer matrix. Benefiting from its enlarged size, TB[12]CPP can accommodate a fullerene derivative or concave-convex complexes of fullerene and buckybowl through the combined π-π and C-H⋅⋅⋅π interactions. The latter demonstrates the first case of a ternary supramolecule of CPPs.