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With respect to the daily cleaning of the fistula, a special skin protection paste was applied on the skin around the fistula to create a waterproof film that entirely sealed the skin. Additionally, foam material was inserted between the retaining ring and the skin to absorb the leaking digesta. Monitoring of the pigs throughout the trial showed that modifications in cannula design proved to be useful as they facilitated exteriorization of the cannula through the ribs and stability of the cannula behind the ribs. Moreover, the use of the skin protection paste and foam material during postsurgical treatment of growing pigs effectively prevented skin irritation around the flank area. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society of Animal Science. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail journals.permissions@oup.com.Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) is a rare and poorly-understood hematologic disorder characterized by lymphadenopathy, systemic inflammation, cytopenias, and life-threatening multi-organ dysfunction. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) inhibition effectively treats approximately one-third of patients. Limited options exist for non-responders, because the etiology, dysregulated cell types, and signaling pathways are unknown. We previously reported three anti-IL-6 non-responders with increased mTOR activation who responded to mTOR inhibition with sirolimus. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/3-deazaneplanocin-a-dznep.html We investigated mTOR signaling in tissue and serum proteomes from iMCD patients and controls. mTOR activation was increased in the interfollicular space of iMCD lymph nodes (N=26) compared to control lymph nodes by immunohistochemistry (IHC) for pS6, p4EBP1, and p70S6K, known effectors and read-outs of mTORC1 activation. IHC for pS6 also revealed increased mTOR activation in iMCD compared to Hodgkin lymphoma, systemic lupus erythematosus, and reactive lymph nodes, suggesting that the mTOR activation in iMCD is not just a product of lymphoproliferation/inflammatory lymphadenopathy. Further, the degree of mTOR activation in iMCD was comparable to autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome, a disease driven by mTOR hyperactivation that responds to sirolimus treatment. Geneset enrichment analysis of serum proteomic data from iMCD patients (n=88) and controls (n=42) showed significantly enriched mTORC1 signaling. Finally, functional studies revealed increased baseline mTOR pathway activation in peripheral monocytes and T-cells from iMCD remission samples compared to healthy controls. IL-6 stimulation augmented mTOR activation in iMCD patients, which was abrogated with JAK1/2 inhibition. These findings support mTOR activation as a novel therapeutic target for iMCD, which is being investigated through a trial of sirolimus (NCT03933904). Copyright © 2020 American Society of Hematology.OBJECTIVES The technique of simultaneously visualizing pulmonary nodules and the intersegmental plane using fluorescent images was developed to measure the distance between them intraoperatively. METHODS Patients who underwent pulmonary segmentectomy were consecutively included in this study between March 2016 and July 2019. Computed tomography or electromagnetic bronchoscopy-guided localization with indocyanine green-lipiodol emulsion was performed on the day of surgery. In the middle of the surgery, after dividing the segmental artery, vein and bronchus to a targeted segment, 0.3-0.5 mg/kg of indocyanine green was injected intravenously. RESULTS In total, 31 patients (17 men and 14 women with a mean age of 63.2 ± 9.8 years) were included in this study. The mean size and depth of the nodules were 1.2 ± 0.5 (range 0.3-2.5) cm and 16.4 ± 9.9 (range 1.0-42.0) mm, respectively. Pulmonary nodules and intersegmental plane of all the patients were visualized using a fluorescent thoracoscope. The resection margins were more than the size of the tumour or were 2 (mean 2.4 ± 1.2) cm in size in all patients except one. The resection margin of this patient looked sufficient on the intraoperative view. However, adenocarcinoma in situ at the resection margin was identified based on the pathological report. The mean duration of the operation was 168.7 ± 53.3 min, and the chest tube was removed on an average of 4.7 ± 1.8 days after surgery in all patients. CONCLUSIONS The dual visualization technique using indocyanine green could facilitate an easier measurement of the distance between pulmonary nodules and the intersegmental plane during pulmonary segmentectomy. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.CSF biomarkers, including total-tau, neurofilament light chain (NfL) and amyloid-β, are increasingly being used to define and stage Alzheimer's disease. These biomarkers can be measured more quickly and less invasively in plasma and may provide important information for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. We used stored plasma samples and clinical data obtained from 4444 non-demented participants in the Rotterdam study at baseline (between 2002 and 2005) and during follow-up until January 2016. Plasma concentrations of total-tau, NfL, amyloid-β40 and amyloid-β42 were measured using the Simoa NF-light® and N3PA assays. Associations between biomarker plasma levels and incident all-cause and Alzheimer's disease dementia during follow-up were assessed using Cox proportional-hazard regression models adjusted for age, sex, education, cardiovascular risk factors and APOE ε4 status. Moreover, biomarker plasma levels and rates of change over time of participants who developed Alzheimer's disease dementia during folasma NfL levels, although not specific, may also be useful in monitoring progression of Alzheimer's disease dementia. © The Author(s) (2020). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain.In human-to-mouse xenogeneic transplantation, polymorphisms of signal-regulatory protein α (SIRPA) that decide their binding affinity for human CD47 are critical for engraftment efficiency of human cells. In the present study, we generated a new C57BL/6.Rag2nullIl2rgnull (BRG) mouse line with Sirpahuman/human (BRGShuman), in which mouse Sirpa was replaced by human SIRPA encompassing all 8 exons. Macrophages in C57BL/6 with Sirpahuman/human had an affinity for human CD47 significantly stronger than those with SirpaNOD/NOD, and did not show detectable phagocytosis against human hematopoietic stem cells. In turn, Sirpahuman/human macrophages had a moderate affinity to mouse CD47, and BRGShuman mice did not show blood cytopenia that was seen in Sirpa-/- mice. In xenotransplantation, BRGShuman mice showed significantly efficient engraftment and maintenance of human hematopoiesis with a high level of myeloid reconstitution, and improved reconstitution in peripheral tissues, as compared to BRG with SirpaNOD/NOD (BRGSNOD) mice.