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CDH, but the surgical indications of the patients need to be selected strictly.

This study suggested that CTDL technique could acquire satisfactory surgical outcomes for patients with multi-segment CSS accompanied with CDH, but the surgical indications of the patients need to be selected strictly.Invited for this month's cover is the group of Prof. Morten Madsen, University of Southern Denmark, together with Stensborg A/S and Dr. Shalev's group at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The image shows the integration of Roll-to-Roll (R2R) light-management foils to enhance efficiency of R2R organic photovoltaics. The Full Paper itself is available at 10.1002/cssc.202101611.Neutrophils constitute abundant cellular components in human gastric cancer (GC) tissues, but their protumorigenic subset in pathogenesis of GC progression is unclear. Here, it is found that patients with GC show significantly higher neutrophil infiltration in tumors that is regulated by CXCL12-CXCR4 chemotaxis. These tumor-infiltrating neutrophils express high level immunosuppressive molecules FasL and PD-L2, and this FasL+ PD-L2+ neutrophil subset with a unique phenotype constitutes at least 20% of all neutrophils in advanced GC and predicts poor patient survival. Tumor induces neutrophils to express FasL and PD-L2 proteins with similar phenotype to those in GC tumors in both time-dependent and dose-dependent manners. Mechanistically, Th17 cell-derived IL-17A and tumor cell-derived G-CSF can significantly induce neutrophil FasL and PD-L2 expression via activating ERK-NF-κB and JAK-STAT3 signaling pathway, respectively. Importantly, upon over-expressing FasL and PD-L2, neutrophils acquire immunosuppressive functions on tumor-specific CD8+ T-cells and promote the growth and progression of human GC tumors in vitro and in vivo, which can be reversed by blocking FasL and PD-L2 on these neutrophils. Thus, the work identifies a novel protumorigenic FasL+ PD-L2+ neutrophil subset in GC and provides new insights for human cancer immunosuppression and anti-cancer therapies targeting these pathogenic cells.

FAM20A, a recently discovered protein, is thought to have a fundamental role in inhibiting ectopic calcification. Several studies have demonstrated that variants of FAM20A are causative for the rare autosomal recessive disorder, enamel-renal syndrome (ERS). ERS is characterized by defective mineralization of dental enamel and nephrocalcinosis suggesting that FAM20A is an extracellular matrix protein, dysfunction of which causes calcification of the secretory epithelial tissues. FAM20A is a low-abundant protein that is difficult to detect in biofluids such as blood, saliva, and urine. Thus, we speculated the abundance of FAM20A to be high in human milk, since the secretory epithelium of lactating mammary tissue is involved in the secretion of highly concentrated calcium. Therefore, the primary aim of this research is to describe the processes/methodology taken to quantify FAM20A in human milk and identify other proteins involved in calcium metabolism.

This study used mass spectrometry-driven quantitative pe milk and obtained a list of proteins involved in calcium metabolism. Furthermore, we show the value of using a combination of both shotgun and targeted driven proteomics for the identification of this low abundant protein in human milk.

Factor XI (FXI) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive bleeding disorder. Only scarce publications address its clinical features in children. The increased prevalence of FXI deficiency in Israel enabled data collection for this large multicenter cohort study.

Some hemostatic challenges may be unique or more common in children, such as bleeding in the neonatal period or trauma-related injury. The current study was designed to explore the potential impact of these differences in children with severe FXI deficiency.

Medical files of all children with FXI level under 15% followed at five tertiary centers were evaluated. The retrieved data comprised demographic and clinical characteristics, including bleeding episodes, surgical interventions, treatment strategies, as well as laboratory features.

Sixty children, whose median age at diagnosis was 4.2years and their median FXI level was 4%, were included. Three children experienced triggered intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) and two children had major bleeds. N and bleeding tendency.Although metal halide perovskites are candidate high-performance light-emitting diode (LED) materials, blue perovskite LEDs are problematic mixed-halide materials are susceptible to phase segregation and bromide-based perovskite quantum dots (QDs) have low stability. Herein, a novel strategy for highly efficient, stable cesium lead bromide (CsPbBr3 ) QDs via in situ surface reconstruction of CsPbBr3 -Cs4 PbBr6 nanocrystals (NCs) is reported. By controlling precursor reactivity, the ratio of CsPbBr3 to Cs4 PbBr6 NCs is successfully modulated. A high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of >90% at 470 nm is obtained because octahedron CsPbBr3 QD surface defects are removed by the Cs4 PbBr6 NCs. The defect-engineered QDs exhibit high colloidal stability, retaining >90% of their initial PLQY after >120 days of ambient storage. Afinitor Furthermore, thermal stability is demonstrated by a lack of heat-induced aggregation at 120 °C. Blue LEDs fabricated from CsPbBr3 QDs with reconstructed surfaces exhibit a maximum external quantum efficiency of 4.65% at 480 nm and excellent spectral stability.Temporal genomic studies that utilise museum insects are invaluable for understanding changes in ecological processes in which insects are essential, such as wild and agricultural pollination, seed dispersal, nutrient cycling, and food web architecture, to name a few. However, given such analyses come at the cost of physical damage to museum specimens required for such work, there is a natural interest in the development and/or application of methods to minimise the damage incurred. We explored the efficacy of a recently published single stranded library construction protocol, on DNA extracted from single legs taken from eight dry-preserved historic bee specimens collected 150 years ago. Specifically, the DNA was extracted using a "minimally destructive" method that leaves the samples' exterior intact. Our sequencing data revealed not only that the endogenous DNA recovered from some of the samples was at a relatively high level (up to 58%), but that the complexity of the libraries was sufficient in the best samples to theoretically allow deeper sequencing to a predicted level of 69x genome coverage. As such, these combined protocols offer the possibility to generate sequencing data at levels that are suitable for many common evolutionary genomic analyses, while simultaneously minimising the damage conferred to the valuable dried museum bee samples. Furthermore, we anticipate that these methods may have much wider application on many other invertebrate taxa stored in a similar way. We hope that the results from this research may be able to contribute to the increased willingness of museums to loan much needed dry-preserved insects for future genomic studies.Protists play important roles in shaping the microbial community of the rhizosphere and defining these roles will require the study of protist isolates. However, there is still a limited understanding of how well protist isolation efforts can capture the diversity and composition of rhizosphere protistan communities. Here, we report a simultaneous isolation and 18S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing survey describing the protist diversity of maize rhizospheres in two climatically and pedologically distinct sites. We demonstrated that the maize rhizosphere exerted significant and site-dependent effects on the protistan community structure and defined a set of core and rhizosphere-enriched protists. From the same root samples, we generated a library of 103 protist isolates representing 46 18S rRNA gene sequence variants from six eukaryotic supergroups. While cultured isolates represented a small proportion of total protist diversity recovered by sequencing, they included taxa enriched in rhizosphere soils across all samples, encompassing 9% of all core sequence variants. The isolation approach also captured 17 protists not detected through 18S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. This study demonstrated that maize roots select for distinct protistan communities, and established a diverse protist culture collection that can be used for future research linking protists to rhizosphere status and plant health.Invited for this month's cover are collaborators from the TheoCheM group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Perugia. The cover picture shows a σ-electron traveling through a hydrogen-bonded squaramide linear chain. The charge transfer within the σ-electronic system is the cause for the cooperativity in the investigated urea, deltamide, and squaramide polymers. More information can be found in the Full Paper by Célia Fonseca Guerra, and co-workers.Resistance to BRAF/MEK inhibitor therapy in BRAFV600 -mutated advanced melanoma remains a major obstacle that limits patient benefit. Microenvironment components including the extracellular matrix (ECM) can support tumor cell adaptation and tolerance to targeted therapy; however, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the process of matrix-mediated drug resistance (MMDR) in response to BRAFV600 pathway inhibition in melanoma. We demonstrate that physical and structural cues from fibroblast-derived ECM abrogate anti-proliferative responses to BRAF/MEK inhibition. MMDR is mediated by drug-induced linear clustering of phosphorylated DDR1 and DDR2, two tyrosine kinase collagen receptors. Depletion and pharmacological targeting of DDR1 and DDR2 overcome ECM-mediated resistance to BRAF-targeted therapy. In xenografts, targeting DDR with imatinib enhances BRAF inhibitor efficacy, counteracts drug-induced collagen remodeling, and delays tumor relapse. Mechanistically, DDR-dependent MMDR fosters a targetable pro-survival NIK/IKKα/NF-κB2 pathway. These findings reveal a novel role for a collagen-rich matrix and DDR in tumor cell adaptation and resistance. They also provide important insights into environment-mediated drug resistance and a preclinical rationale for targeting DDR signaling in combination with targeted therapy in melanoma.Recently, three-terminal synaptic devices, which separate read and write terminals, have attracted significant attention because they enable nondestructive read-out and parallel-access for updating synaptic weights. However, owing to their structural features, it is difficult to address the relatively high device density compared with two-terminal synaptic devices. In this study, a vertical synaptic device featuring remotely controllable weight updates via e-field-dependent movement of mobile ions in the ion-gel layer is developed. This synaptic device successfully demonstrates all essential synaptic characteristics, such as excitatory/inhibitory postsynaptic current (E/IPSC), paired-pulse facilitation (PPF), and long-term potentiation/depression (LTP/D) by electrical measurements, and exhibits competitive LTP/D characteristics with a dynamic range (Gmax /Gmin ) of 31.3, and asymmetry (AS) of 8.56. The stability of the LTP/D characteristics is also verified through repeated measurements over 50 cycles; the relative standard deviations (RSDs) of Gmax /Gmin and AS are calculated as 1.