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9%) was almost twice that of men (5.7%). Depression was associated with non-routine discharge after surgery (OR 1.20, CI1.18-1.23, p<0.0001*) and hospital readmission within 30 days (OR 1.12, CI1.09-1.15, p<0.001*).

Rates of depression vary amongst surgically treated cancer patients by primary tumor site. Comorbid depression in these patients is associated with increased likelihood of non-routine discharge and readmission.

Rates of depression vary amongst surgically treated cancer patients by primary tumor site. Comorbid depression in these patients is associated with increased likelihood of non-routine discharge and readmission.

In the EORTC 1410/INTELLANCE 2 randomised, phase II study (NCT02343406), with the antibody-drug conjugate depatuxizumab mafodotin (Depatux-M, ABT-414) in patients with recurrent EGFR-amplified glioblastoma, the primary end-point (overall survival) was not met, and the drug had ocular dose-limiting toxicity. This study reports results from the prespecified health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and neurological deterioration-free survival (NDFS) exploratory analysis.

Patients (n=260) were randomised 111 to receive either Depatux-M 1.25mg/kg or 1.0mg/kg intravenously every 2 weeks with oral temozolomide (TMZ) 150mg/m

, Depatux-M alone, or TMZ or oral lomustine (CCNU) 110mg/m

(TMZ/CCNU). HRQoL outcomes were recorded using the EORTC core Quality of Life QLQ-C30, and brain cancer-specific QLQ-BN20 questionnaires. Questionnaires were completed at baseline, weeks 8 and 16, and month 6, and changes from baseline to each time point were calculated. NDFS was defined as time to first deterioration in World Health Organisation performance status.

Compliance with HRQoL was 88.1% at baseline and decreased to 37.9% at month 6. Differences from baseline between Depatux-M arms and TMZ/CCNU in global health/QoL status throughout treatment did not reach clinical relevance (≥10 points). Self-reported visual disorders deteriorated to a clinically relevant extent with Depatux-M arms versus TMZ/CCNU at all timepoints (mean differences range 24.6-35.1 points). Changes from baseline for other HRQoL scales and NDFS were generally similar between treatment arms.

Depatux-M had no impact on HRQoL and NDFS in patients with EGFR-amplified recurrent glioblastoma, except for more visual disorders, an expected side-effect of the study drug.

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NCT02343406.This study investigated the changes in the mRNA expression of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β), plasminogen activators (PAs), and interleukin (IL) caused by sperm, as well as the regulatory mechanism of PA activity through TGF-β, in porcine uterine epithelial cells. The cells were isolated from the uterine horn of pig and co-incubated with Percoll-separated boar sperm (45% or 90%), or TGF-β for 24 h. selleck chemical The mRNA expression of TGF-β isoforms (TGF-β1, 2 and 3) and their receptors (TGF-β R1 and R2), PAs (urokinase-type, uPA; tissue-type, tPA; uPA receptor, uPAR; type 1 PA inhibitor, PAI-1), IL-6 and IL-8 was analyzed using real-time PCR. Supernatant was used to measure PA activity. Co-incubation with sperm from the 90% Percoll layer increased TGF-β1 mRNA, whereas TGF-β2 and TGF-β3 were decreased (P less then 0.05). However, both TGF-βRs were not changed by the presence of the spermatozoa. Expression of tPA, PAI-1, IL-6, and IL-8 mRNA was down-regulated by 90% Percoll-separated sperm (P less then 0.05), and sperm from 45% Percoll increased uPA expression (P less then 0.05). TGF-β decreased tPA and IL-8 mRNA expression, and increased uPAR and PAI-1 mRNA (P less then 0.05). The suppressive effect of TGF-β on PA activity was blocked by Smad2/3 and JNK1/2 signaling inhibitors (P less then 0.05). In conclusion, sperm separated in 90% in porcine uterus could suppressed inflammation via modulation of TGF-β and down-regulation of PAs and ILs. Therefore, the regulatory mechanism of inflammation by sperm in the porcine uterus could be associated with interactions between numerous cytokines including TGF-β.Temporal expectations critically influence perception and action. Previous research reports contradictory results in children's ability to endogenously orient attention in time as well as the developmental course. To reconcile this seemingly conflicting evidence, we put forward the hypothesis that expectancy violations-through the use of invalid trials-are the source of the mixed evidence reported in the literature. With the aim of offering new results that could reconcile previous findings, we tested a group of young children (4- to 7-year-olds), an older group (8- to 12-year-olds), and a group of adults. Temporal cues provided expectations about target onset time, and invalid trials were used such that the target appeared at the unexpected time in 25% of the trials. In both experiments, the younger children responded faster in valid trials than in invalid trials, showing that they benefited from the temporal cue. These results show that young children rely on temporal expectations to orient attention in time endogenously. Importantly, younger children exhibited greater validity effects than older children and adults, and these effects correlated positively with participants' performance in the invalid (unexpected) trials. We interpret the reduction of validity effects with age as an index of better adaptation to the invalid (unexpected) condition. By using invalid trials and testing three age groups, we demonstrate that previous findings are not inconsistent. Rather, evidence converges when considering the presence of expectancy violations that require executive control mechanisms, which develop progressively during childhood. We propose a distinction between rigid and flexible mechanisms of temporal orienting to accommodate all findings.Learning to synthesize free-hand sketches controllably according to specified categories and sketching styles is a challenging task, due to the lack of training data with category labels and style labels. One choice to control the synthesis is by self-organizing a latent coding space to preserve the similarity of structural patterns of the observed data. A practical way is introducing a Gaussian mixture prior over the latent codes, where each Gaussian component represents a specific categorical or stylistic pattern. As a result, we can generate sketches by sampling the latent variables from the Gaussian components or continuously manipulating the latent representations by interpolation. To achieve robust controllable sketch synthesis, it is critical to determine an appropriate Gaussian number. An underestimated Gaussian number cannot fully represent all the sketch patterns, i.e., some clusters have to contain sketches with more than one pattern. An overestimated one introduces redundant components, usually representing a chaotic collection of sketches with diverse patterns featured by other components.