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With high incidence and mortality, severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) is an inflammatory disease of pancreas. When concurrent with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), multiple organ failure syndrome (MODS) or pancreatic encephalopathy (PE), it will significantly augment the mortal rate. Herein, we report the first SAP case complicated with fatal rupture of cerebral aneurysm and pre-existing cerebral arteriovenous malformation; meanwhile, numerous examinations indicated the occurrence of SIRS and MODS.

A 34-year-old male was admitted for these complaints of fixed and continuous epigastric distending pain, nausea and vomiting for nearly 6 h after his greasy lunch. Imaging and experimental examinations indicated SAP concurrent with SIRS and MODS in this patient. Conventional therapies stabled him, but he developed unconscious for fatal rupture of cerebral aneurysm based on cerebral magnetic resonance imaging results. Subsequent treatments failed and this patient died from lethal systemic complications.

After reviewed relevant literature in detail, we unveil the potential mechanisms in this case that systemic inflammation initiated by necrotic tissues of pancreas will disrupt blood-brain barrier (BBB), increase BBB permeability, trigger neuroinflammation and eventually damage cerebral vascular.

Therefore, to prevent lethal complications of PE or cerebral hemorrhage (CM) in severe pancreatitis, more attentions are recommended to be paid on identifying inflammation-induced brain dysfunction and applying prompt anti-inflammatory therapies.

Therefore, to prevent lethal complications of PE or cerebral hemorrhage (CM) in severe pancreatitis, more attentions are recommended to be paid on identifying inflammation-induced brain dysfunction and applying prompt anti-inflammatory therapies.Four disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines were respectively derived from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of two affected individuals in a family affected by familial neurohypophyseal diabetes insipidus carrying the c.314G>C mutation. The expression of pluripotency markers (NANOG, OCT4, and SOX2), maintenance of a normal karyotype, absence of episomal vectors used for iPSC generation, and presence of the original pathogenic mutation were confirmed for each iPSC line. The ability to differentiate into three germ layers was confirmed by a teratoma formation assay. 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This review discusses some research approaches and emerging molecular mechanisms that mediate the activation of transcriptional networks regulating root vascular development.Significant effort has been made to measure and understand the surface charge of CaCO3 and Mg(OH)2 particles. Many laboratory experiments have been reported on zeta potential of natural and prepared CaCO3 and a few have also been published for Mg(OH)2, however, there are very few reported measurements of zeta potential of CaCO3 and Mg(OH)2 particles at conditions relevant to lime softening, despite lime softening being a common and established process for water treatment. The present study aims to understand the interactions and electrokinetic properties of these two particles in lime softening. Effects of various experimental parameters such as pH, temperature, aging, inorganic carbon (CO32-/HCO3-), and divalent cations (Ca2+/Mg2+) on the electrokinetic properties (i.e. zeta potential) of CaCO3 and Mg(OH)2 particles were individually studied. The interactions between humic acid (mimicking natural organic matter), silicate (representing silica), clay (mimicking suspended solids) and CaCO3/Mg(OH)2 particles were studied, as well as the interactions between CaCO3 and Mg(OH)2. Thermodynamic modeling was used to predict precipitates as a function of solution chemistry and assist with data interpretation. The results provide considerable insight into factors that are of importance to lime softening.The comments (Kopinke, 2020) do not accurately represent the experimental conditions, parameter values, and conceptual model used in our study (Rusevova and Huling, 2020), leading to a misinterpretation of the results. The kinetic analysis used to determine the surface scavenging rate constant (kS) involved competition kinetics between the probe and the mineral surfaces (Rusevova and Huling, 2020); similar competition kinetic methods have been used regarding other widely reported rate constants (Buxton et al., 1988; Dorfman and Adams, 1973). Assuming mass transport limitations prevented ·OH reaction at mineral surfaces, as proposed in the comments, estimates of kS would be very small, or 0. However, the addition of solid phase media was found to effectively and consistently compete with the probe. The propensity of data, supporting data, and high degree of quality assurance and quality control measures provide multiple lines of evidence indicating a high level of certainty that ·OH scavenging occurred by solid surfaces.This study evaluated the potential of a microplasma UV lamp as an alternative UV source to the current mercury-based (Hg-based) UV lamp for water disinfection. We developed a set of PCR-based molecular assays (long-range qPCR, DNase, and binding assay) to quantify the adenovirus genome, capsid, and fiber damage with a wide detection range (100.5-106.5 PFU/mL). We used these molecular assays to characterize adenovirus (AdV) inactivation kinetics by microplasma UV that produced monochromatic UV at 222 nm. We found that the inactivation rate constant (0.142 cm2/mJ) due to microplasma UV was 4.4 times higher than that of low-pressure Hg UV (0.032 cm2/mJ). This high efficacy was attributed to monochromatic UV wavelength at 222 nm damaging the AdV capsid protein. The results of these molecular assays also proved that microplasma UV and medium-pressure Hg UV with a bandpass filter at 223 nm (MPUV223nm) have a similar influence on AdV (p>0.05). We then estimated the relative energy efficiency of MPUV and microplasma UV to LPUV for 4 log reduction of the viruses.