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Pethoxamid is a widespread herbicidal product, presenting itself as an extremely flexible active substance and with a high potential for use as an herbicide for preemergence. The emergence of multiple resistance in crops has been addressed using combinations of preemergence and postemergence herbicides in the same seeding-harvest cycle. A winning combination of pethoxamid and glyphosate mainly affected the acidobacteria population. Glyphosate scientific literature has demonstrated an observational link between herbicide exposure and liver disease in human subjects. Identifying and ranking the risk to the public that pethoxamid could exert on target organs has not been evaluated so far. Due to similarities to glyphosate, we did look at the effect of pethoxamid on impaired liver cells HepG2, using a nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) cell model in vitro. Pethoxamid was cytotoxic starting at 1 ppm. Fatty acid accumulation (FA) was enhanced while low doses of pethoxamid slightly decreased LDH protein expression compared to FA-treated HepG2. The same trend was observed for cytochrome c. Based on our data, we can argue that NAFLD hepatic cells react to pethoxamid trying detoxifying strategies, ready to undergo cell death to avoid further degeneration. Downregulation of cytochrome can lead to the hypothesis that pethoxamid should not induce herbicide resistance.

Chronic urticaria (CU) is a common skin disease; however, its etiology is rarely recognized. Infection due to

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) has been shown in some studies to play a significant role in the pathogenesis of CU.

This study was conducted to determine the association between CU and

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infection among patients attending the Regional Dermatology Training Center, Northern Tanzania, from October 2018 to April 2019.

. A matched case-control study that included 55 cases and 55 controls matched by age and sex was conducted. Data were collected through direct interviews, and the results of laboratory investigations were recorded in the extraction sheet. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test was used to detect

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antigen in the stool samples. Conditional logistic regression was used to measure the association between CU and

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The total number of participants in this study was 110 patients (55 cases and 55 controls), whereby the median age was 31 (IQR 27-45) among controls versus 34 (IQR 22-46) years among the cases. Both cases and controls had the same number of females and males. There was no significant association between CU and baseline characteristics of the participants. There was an association between CU and

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infection, such that subjects with CU had a higher number of positive

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test (15/55 = 27%) versus controls (6/55 = 10.1%) (

= 0.0225). The adjusted odds of CU among patients who were positive for

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were sixfolds higher (OR = 6.9; CI 1.3-36.2;

= 0.021) than those of patients who were negative for



There was a strong and significant association between CU and

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infection. We recommend investigating for

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in all cases of CU and conducting further trials on

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eradication.

There was a strong and significant association between CU and H. pylori infection. We recommend investigating for H. pylori in all cases of CU and conducting further trials on H. pylori eradication.Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most serious public health concerns facing the world. Its characteristic feature is neuroinflammation due to microglial activation. Electroacupuncture is one of the therapies employed to improve the condition of patients with AD, although its mechanism of action is still to be determined. Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a microglia-specific receptor that is involved in regulating neuroinflammation in AD. In this study, we applied senescence-accelerated mouse-prone 8 mice as the AD animal model, used the Morris water maze, and applied hematoxylin and eosin staining, immunofluorescence double staining, and Western blotting, to explore the effects and potential mechanisms of action of electroacupuncture. In summary, this study suggested that electroacupuncture treatment could improve the learning and memory abilities (p less then 0.05) and protect neurons. These effects result from acupuncture could upregulate TREM2 expression in the hippocampus (p less then 0.01), which was essential for the anti-inflammatory effects in the AD animal model. However, further studies are needed to conclusively demonstrate the mechanism of action of electroacupuncture in AD.

Previous researches indicate that



mice (inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor type 2 knockout mice) show depressive-like symptoms; however, little is known regarding the

neurobiological effect of Itpr2 as well as the specific pattern of brain abnormalities in



mice.

. First, behavioral tests, structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and resting-state functional MRI were performed on



mice and matched healthy controls. Voxel-based morphometry and seed-based voxel-wise functional connectivity (FC) were, respectively, calculated to assess the gray matter volume and the functional activities of the brain in vivo. Second, the sample of relevant changed brain regions was extracted to detect the expression of BDNF. Finally, to further validate the relationship between Itpr2 deficiency and the observed brain abnormalities, we performed Western blotting to detect the expression of pro-BDNF and mBDNF in



C8-D1A (a type of astrocyte).

Compared with controls,



mice showed depressive-likeelp us better understand underlying mechanisms of Itpr2 deficiency as well as its relation to depressive-like behavior.

This study is aimed at (1) analyzing the clinical manifestations and genetic features of a novel

mutation in a nonsyndromic X-linked recessive hearing loss family and (2) reporting the outcomes of cochlear implantation in a patient with this mutation.

A patient who was diagnosed as the IP-III malformation underwent cochlear implantation in our hospital. The genetic analysis was conducted in his family, including the whole-exome sequencing combined with Sanger sequencing and bioinformatic analysis. Clinical features, preoperative auditory and speech performances, and postoperative outcomes of cochlear implant (CI) were assessed on the proband and his family.

A novel variant c.400_401insACTC (p.Q136LfsX58) in the

gene was detected in the family, which was cosegregated with the hearing loss. This variant was absent in 200 normal-hearing persons. The phylogenetic analysis and structure modeling of Pou3f4 protein further confirmed that the novel mutation was pathogenic. The proband underwent cochlear implantation on the right ear at four years old and gained greatly auditory and speech improvement.