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The estimated specificity of Abbott and EUROIMMUN was 99.5% (995/1,000 [98.8%, 99.8%]) and 99.7% (997/1,000 [99.1%, 99.9%), respectively. The net sensitivity and specificity of our sequential testing algorithm was 90.7% (97/107 [83.5%, 95.4%]) and 100.0% (1,000/1,000 [99.6%, 100%]), respectively. Of the 24,079 study participants with blood specimens from January 2 to March 18, 2020, 9 were seropositive, 7 of whom were seropositive prior to the first confirmed case in the states of Illinois, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Mississippi.

Our findings indicate SARS-CoV-2 infections weeks prior to the first recognized cases in 5 US states.

Our findings indicate SARS-CoV-2 infections weeks prior to the first recognized cases in 5 US states.The physicist Niels Bohr said "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." Many paradoxical results have no obvious explanation under the standard somatic mutation theory of tumorigenesis including non-genotoxic carcinogens, foreign-body tumorigenesis, tumors lacking the inducing mutation, spontaneous regression of neuroblastoma, epithelial cancer induced by a stromal carcinogen exposure, the link between schistosomiasis and bladder cancer, and experimental reversion of cancer-like alterations to normal tissue. Alternative hypotheses of tumorigenesis provide more plausible explanations. Investigating paradoxical results in tumorigenesis using modern technology guided by various hypotheses of tumorigenesis will likely spur scientific progress and may lead to new strategies for cancer prevention.While much is known about how transcription is controlled at individual genes, comparatively little is known about how cells regulate gene expression on a genome-wide level. Here, we identify a molecular pathway in the C. elegans germline that controls transcription globally in response to nutritional stress. We report that when embryos hatch into L1 larvae, they sense the nutritional status of their environment, and if food is unavailable, they repress gene expression via a global chromatin compaction (GCC) pathway. GCC is triggered by the energy-sensing kinase AMPK and is mediated by a novel mechanism that involves the topoisomerase II/condensin II axis acting upstream of heterochromatin assembly. When the GCC pathway is inactivated, then transcription persists during starvation. These results define a new mode of whole-genome control of transcription.

Ocular surface mucins and glycocalyx are critical for providing ocular hydration as well lubrication and repelling pathogens or allergens. Elevated levels of tear proinflammatory cytokines in dry eye may have detrimental effect on mucins and glycocalyx. The present study tested the effect of proinflammatory cytokines IL-6, TNF-α, and IFN-γ on membrane-tethered mucins expression, glycocalyx, and viability of ocular surface epithelial cells.

Stratified cultures of human corneal and conjunctival epithelial cells were exposed to different concentrations of IL-6, TNF-α, and IFN-γ for 24 hours. The mucins gene and protein expressions were quantified by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The glycocalyx was imaged using confocal microscopy after staining with Alexa 488-conjugated wheat germ agglutinin lectin. Apoptotic and necrotic cell death was quantified using flow cytometry.

IL-6, TNF-α, and IFN-γ treatment resulted in a significant increase in mucins (MUC)1 and MUC4 gene and protein expression in human corneal epithelial cells but caused no significant changes in the levels of these mucins in conjunctival epithelial cells. Further, these cytokines decreased MUC16 expression in both corneal and conjunctival epithelial cells. Moreover, no notable change in glycocalyx or apoptotic cell death in corneal and conjunctival epithelial cells was noted with any of the tested cytokines, but IL-6 and TNF-α exposure increased necrotic cell death in corneal and conjunctival epithelial cells, respectively.

Our results demonstrate that proinflammatory cytokines have differential effects on human corneal and conjunctival epithelial cell mucins expression, but do not cause any damage to ocular surface epithelial cell glycocalyx.

Our results demonstrate that proinflammatory cytokines have differential effects on human corneal and conjunctival epithelial cell mucins expression, but do not cause any damage to ocular surface epithelial cell glycocalyx.

To determine the clinical characteristics of patients and family members with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) caused by mutations in the KIF11 gene.

Twenty-one patients from 10 FEVR families with mutations in the KIF11 gene were studied. The retinal and systemic features were examined. The genetic analyses performed included Sanger sequencing of the KIF11 gene, whole exome sequencing, as well as array comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) analysis and multiple ligation probe assay (MLPA).

Sequence analysis revealed seven different KIF11 mutations. Array CGH with MLPA revealed two different exon deletions. All probands had advanced FEVR with retinal detachments (RDs) and microcephaly with or without developmental disabilities. Patients with bilateral RDs were more frequently associated with developmental disabilities (P = 0.023). Multimodal imaging of the family members revealed that six of nine patients without RDs (66%) had varying degrees of chorioretinopathy. The retinal folds in FEVR patients were associated with severe retinal avascularization. However, funduscopic changes in the peripheral retina were unremarkable in family members without RDs. A score representing the peripheral vascular anomalies determined from the fluorescein angiograms was lower than that of control eyes of patients with mutations of the Wnt signaling genes (P = 0.0029).

The probands with KIF11 mutations were associated with severe ocular and systemic pathologies, whereas affected family members showed highly variable clinical manifestations. Peripheral vascular anomalies can often be unremarkable in eyes without RDs.

These findings highlight more diverse mechanisms that underlie the pathological changes in patients with FEVR.

These findings highlight more diverse mechanisms that underlie the pathological changes in patients with FEVR.

Axitinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is a potent inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptors -1, -2 and -3. Suprachoroidal (SC) delivery of axitinib, combined with pan-VEGF inhibition activity of axitinib, has the potential to provide additional benefits compared to the current standard of care with intravitreal anti-VEGF-A agents. This study evaluated the ocular pharmacokinetics and systemic disposition of axitinib after SC administration in rabbits.

Rabbits received axitinib as either a single SC injection (0.03, 0.10, 1.00, or 4.00 mg/eye; n = 4/group) or a single intravitreal injection (1 mg/eye; n = 4/group) in three separate studies. Axitinib concentrations were measured in several ocular compartments and in plasma at predetermined timepoints for up to 91 days. The pharmacokinetics parameters were estimated by noncompartmental analysis.

A single SC injection of axitinib suspension (1 mg/eye) resulted in an 11-fold higher mean axitinib exposure in the posterior eye cup, compacacy, as a potent tyrosine kinase pan-VEGF inhibitor, compared with current standard anti-VEGF-A therapies.

Suprachoroidal axitinib suspension has potential to decrease the treatment burden in neovascular age-related macular degeneration, as a long-acting therapeutic candidate, and could yield greater efficacy, as a potent tyrosine kinase pan-VEGF inhibitor, compared with current standard anti-VEGF-A therapies.

Nanopore sequencing technologies are rapidly gaining popularity, in part, due to the massive amounts of genomic data they produce in short periods of time (up to 8.5 TB of data in < 72 hours). To reduce the costs of transmission and storage, efficient compression methods for this type of data are needed.

We introduce RENANO, a reference-based lossless data compressor specifically tailored to FASTQ files generated with nanopore sequencing technologies. RENANO improves on its predecessor ENANO, currently the state of the art, by providing a more efficient base call sequence compression component. Two compression algorithms are introduced, corresponding to the following scenarios (1) a reference genome is available without cost to both the compressor and the decompressor; (2) the reference genome is available only on the compressor side, and a compacted version of the reference is included in the compressed file. We compare the compression performance of RENANO against ENANO on several publicly available nanopore datasets. RENANO improves the base call sequences compression of ENANO by 39.8% in scenario (1), and by 33.5% in scenario (2), on average, over all the datasets. As for total file compression, the average improvements are 12.7% and 10.6%, respectively. We also show that RENANO consistently outperforms the recent general-purpose genomic compressor Genozip.

RENANO is freely available for download at https//github.com/guilledufort/RENANO.

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.Extracellular solutes in the central nervous system are exchanged between the interstitial fluid, the perivascular compartment, and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The "glymphatic" mechanism proposes that the astrocyte water channel aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is a major determinant of solute transport between the CSF and the interstitial space; however, this is controversial in part because of wide variance in experimental data on interstitial uptake of cisternally injected solutes. Here, we investigated the determinants of solute uptake in brain parenchyma following cisternal injection and reexamined the role of AQP4 using a novel constant-pressure method. In mice, increased cisternal injection rate, which modestly increased intracranial pressure, remarkably increased solute dispersion in the subarachnoid space and uptake in the cortical perivascular compartment. To investigate the role of AQP4 in the absence of confounding variations in pressure and CSF solute concentration over time and space, solutes were applied directly onto the brain surface after durotomy under constant external pressure. Pressure elevation increased solute penetration into the perivascular compartment but had little effect on parenchymal solute uptake. Panobinostat Solute penetration and uptake did not differ significantly between wild-type and AQP4 knockout mice. Our results offer an explanation for the variability in cisternal injection studies and indicate AQP4-independent solute transfer from the CSF to the interstitial space in mouse brain.

PAX2GRAPHML is an open source Python library that allows to easily manipulate BioPAX source files as regulated reaction graphs described in .graphml format. The concept of regulated reactions, which allows connecting regulatory, signaling and metabolic levels, has been used. Biochemical reactions and regulatory interactions are homogeneously described by regulated reactions involving substrates, products, activators and inhibitors as elements. PAX2GRAPHML is highly flexible and allows generating graphs of regulated reactions from a single BioPAX source or by combining and filtering BioPAX sources. Supported by the graph exchange format .graphml, the large-scale graphs produced from one or more data sources can be further analyzed with PAX2GRAPHML or standard Python and R graph libraries.

https//pax2graphml.genouest.org.

https//pax2graphml.genouest.org.