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In addition, female PD patients aged above 65 years showed a 1.3-fold increase in non-melanoma skin cancer risk than the non-PD group (HR, 1.305; 95% 1.073-1.589). CONCLUSION Compared with the general population, Korean patients diagnosed with PD had a greater risk of skin cancer. Especially, male patients aged 65 years and above, and diagnosed with PD had a significant risk of melanoma development compared with control. Takinib This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Secretory carcinoma is a recently described salivary gland neoplasm that shares the same histologic appearance and ETV6 gene (12p13) rearrangement as secretory carcinoma of the breast.Establishing a definite diagnosis requires microscopic examination and immunohistochemical confirmation. The major cytologic differential diagnoses include myoepithelioma, myoepithelial carcinoma andacinic cell carcinoma.We present a case of a middle-aged male with secretory carcinoma of the parotid diagnosed on fine needle aspiration cytology and immunocytochemistry on cell-block. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Vegetation greenness has increased across much of the global land surface over recent decades. This trend is projected to continue - particularly in northern latitudes - but future greening may be constrained by nutrient availability needed for plant carbon (C) assimilation in response to CO2 enrichment (eCO2 ). eCO2 impacts foliar chemistry and function, yet the relative strengths of these effects versus climate in driving patterns of vegetative greening remain uncertain. Here, we combine satellite measurements of greening with a 135-year record of plant C and nitrogen (N) concentrations and stable isotope ratios (δ13 C and δ15 N) in the Northern Great Plains (NGP) of North America to examine N constraints on greening. We document significant greening over the past two decades with the highest proportional increases in net greening occurring in the driest and warmest areas. In contrast to the climate-dependency of greening, we find spatially uniform increases in leaf-level intercellular CO2 (Ci ) and intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) that track rising atmospheric CO2 (Ca ). Despite large spatial variation in greening, we find sustained and climate-independent declines in foliar N over the last century. Parallel declines in foliar δ15 N and increases in CN ratios point to diminished N availability as the likely cause. The simultaneous increase in greening and decline in foliar N across our study area points to increased N use efficiency (NUE) over the last two decades. However, our results suggest that plant NUE responses are likely insufficient to sustain observed greening trends in NGP grasslands in the future. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the relationship between dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved in feeding behavior, and ad libitum energy intake in humans. METHODS Healthy individuals (n = 158; 72 Native American, 50 white, 18 black, and 18 Hispanic participants; BMI 33 [SD 9] kg/m2 ; body fat 33% [SD 9%]) were admitted for two inpatient studies investigating the determinants of ad libitum energy intake and assessed for 3 days using a highly reproducible, computerized vending machine paradigm. Urine was collected for 24 hours during eucaloric conditions prior to the ad libitum feeding period, and urinary dopamine excretion rate was quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography. RESULTS Urinary dopamine excretion rate was on average 346 ± 106 μg over 24 hours and was positively correlated with BMI (r = 0.28, P  0.3). CONCLUSIONS Higher urinary dopamine concentrations are associated with greater ad libitum energy intake, indicating a role for dopamine in the reward pathway regulating human feeding behavior. © 2020 The Obesity Society. This article has been contributed to by US Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA.BACKGROUND Autoimmune bullous diseases are rare and mostly occur in adults. Several cases and small case series have been described in children but no systematic study about the prevalence of AIBD in children is available. PATIENTS AND METHODS We analysed data of 1.7 million children insured in the largest German health insurance company based on the ICD-10-GM classification for the year 2015. Data were adjusted to the general German population based on the data of the Federal Statistical Office for the year 2015. RESULTS The prevalence of AIBD was calculated to 101.1/million children in 2015, resulting in about 1,351 patients below the age of 18 years in Germany. The highest prevalence of all AIBD was seen for pemphigus vulgaris (30.5/million children) followed by linear IgA disease (24.5/million children) and bullous pemphigoid (4.9/million children). CONCLUSION AIBD in minors are scarce but should be taken into consideration in patients with pruritus and/or blisters and erosions on the skin and/or mucous membranes. Treatment is challenging and due to the rarity of AIBD in minors, the management of these disorders in this patient population is best performed in specialized centres in a multidisciplinary approach, including paediatric dermatologists or dermatologists and paediatricians. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Axon growth rate from different populations of sensory neurons is correlated with the distance they have to grow to reach their targets in development neurons with more distant targets extend axons at intrinsically faster rates. With growth of the embryo, later-born neurons within each population have further to extend their axons to reach their targets than early-born neurons. Here we examined whether the axon growth rate is related to birth date by studying the axon growth from neurons that differentiate in vitro from precursor cells isolated throughout the period of neurogenesis. We first showed that neurons that differentiated in vitro from different precursor cell populations exhibited differences in axon growth rate related to in vivo target distance. We then examined the axon growth rate from neurons that differentiate from the same precursor population at different stages throughout the period of neurogenesis. We studied the epibranchial placode precursors that give rise to nodose ganglion neurons in the chicken embryo.