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pos target cells. Additionally, in total 663 T-cell clones (containing at least 91 unique clones expressing different T-cell receptors) directed against HLA*0201-restricted peptides of TAA WT1-RMF, RHAMM-ILS, Proteinase-3-VLQ, PRAME-VLD and NY-eso-1-SLL were isolated from HLA-A*0201pos donors. Only 3 PRAME-VLD- and 1 NY-eso-1-SLL-specific T-cell clone provoked IFN-gamma production and/or cytolysis upon stimulation with HLA-A*0201pos malignant cell lines (but not primary malignant samples) naturally overexpressing the TAA. These results illustrate that self-HLA-restricted T cells specific for self-antigens like MiHA in MiHApos donors and TAA are present in peripheral blood of healthy individuals, but clinical efficacy would require highly effective in-vivo priming by peptide vaccination in the presence of proper adjuvants or in-vitro expansion of the low numbers of self-antigen-specific T cells of sufficient avidity to recognize endogenously processed antigen.A cognitive map, representing an environment around oneself, is necessary for spatial navigation. However, compared with its constituent elements such as individual landmarks, neural substrates of coherent spatial information, which consists in a relationship among the individual elements, remain largely unknown. The present study investigated how the brain codes map-like representations in a virtual environment specified by the relative positions of three objects. Representational similarity analysis revealed an object-based spatial representation in the hippocampus (HPC) when participants located themselves within the environment, while the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) represented it when they recollected a target object's location relative to their self-body. During recollection, task-dependent functional connectivity increased between the two areas implying exchange of self-location and target location signals between the HPC and mPFC. Together, the object-based cognitive map, whose coherent spatial information could be formed by objects, may be recruited in the HPC and mPFC for complementary functions during navigation, which may generalize to other aspects of cognition, such as navigating social interactions.Two major pathogenic events that cause acute brain damage during neurologic emergencies of stroke, head trauma, and cardiac arrest are spreading depolarizing waves and the associated brain edema that course across the cortex injuring brain cells. Virtually nothing is known about how spreading depolarization (SD)-induced cytotoxic edema evolves at the ultrastructural level immediately after insult and during recovery. In vivo 2-photon imaging followed by quantitative serial section electron microscopy was used to assess synaptic circuit integrity in the neocortex of urethane-anesthetized male and female mice during and after SD evoked by transient bilateral common carotid artery occlusion. SD triggered a rapid fragmentation of dendritic mitochondria. A large increase in the density of synapses on swollen dendritic shafts implies that some dendritic spines were overwhelmed by swelling or merely retracted. The overall synaptic density was unchanged. The postsynaptic dendritic membranes remained attached to axonal boutons, providing a structural basis for the recovery of synaptic circuits. Upon immediate reperfusion, cytotoxic edema mainly subsides as affirmed by a recovery of dendritic ultrastructure. Dendritic recuperation from swelling and reversibility of mitochondrial fragmentation suggests that neurointensive care to improve tissue perfusion should be paralleled by treatments targeting mitochondrial recovery and minimizing the occurrence of SDs.Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) continues to cost the cattle industry millions of dollars each year despite control measures. The primary reservoirs for BVDV are persistently infected (PI) animals, which are infected in utero and shed the virus throughout their lifetime. The difficulty in controlling the virus stems from a limited understanding of transplacental transmission and fetal development of immunotolerance. In this study, pregnant BVDV naïve heifers were inoculated with BVDV on day 75 of gestation and fetal spleens were collected on gestational days 82, 97, 190, and 245. Microarray analysis on splenic RNA from days 82 and 97 revealed an increase in signaling for the innate immune system and antigen presentation to T cells in day 97 PI fetuses compared to controls. RT-qPCR on select targets validated the microarray revealing a downregulation of type I interferons and lymphocyte markers in day 190 PI fetuses compared to controls. Protein was visualized using western blot and tissue sections were anaor over 50 years; however, the mechanisms responsible for the immunotolerance to and persistence of BVDV in PI animals have not been elucidated [1-3]. This in vivo study provides not only a unique perspective on the development of immunotolerance to BVDV in PI fetuses, but contributes to our understanding the development of the bovine fetal immune system.Objective Unsupervised machine learning approaches hold promise for large-scale clinical data. However, the heterogeneity of clinical data raises new methodological challenges in feature selection, choosing a distance metric that captures biological meaning, and visualization. We hypothesized that clustering could discover prognostic groups from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a disease that provides biological validation through well-understood outcomes. Methods To address this challenge, we applied k-medoids clustering with 10 distance metrics to 2 experiments ("A" and "B") with mixed clinical features collapsed to binary vectors and visualized with both multidimensional scaling and t-stochastic neighbor embedding. To assess prognostic utility, we performed survival analysis using a Cox proportional hazard model, log-rank test, and Kaplan-Meier curves. LY-188011 HCl Results In both experiments, survival analysis revealed a statistically significant association between clusters and survival outcomes (A overall survival, P = .0164; B time from diagnosis to treatment, P = .0039). Multidimensional scaling separated clusters along a gradient mirroring the order of overall survival. Longer survival was associated with mutated immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable region gene (IGHV) status, absent Zap 70 expression, female sex, and younger age. Conclusions This approach to mixed-type data handling and selection of distance metric captured well-understood, binary, prognostic markers in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (sex, IGHV mutation status, ZAP70 expression status) with high fidelity.Background Delirium is often an underdiagnosed and underestimated neuropsychiatric syndrome, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Aim To document the prevalence and clinical profile of delirium and to detect the baseline parameters associated with in-hospital mortality. Design A prospective cohort study conducted between January 2016 to December 2016 at an adult medical emergency observational unit of an academic hospital in north India. Methods Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU (CAM-ICU) was used for screening and diagnosis of delirium. Subtypes of delirium and severity were defined with the Richmond agitation-sedation scale and Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 (DRS-R-98). Results Out of 939 screened patients, 312 (33.2%) had delirium, including 73.7% unrecognized cases. The mean age was 49.1 ± 17.3 years (range, 17 - 90), and only 33.3% of the patients were above 60. The prevalence of hypoactive, mixed, and hyperactive delirium was 39.1%, 33.7%, and 27.2%, respectively. Usual predisposing factors were alcohol use disorder (57.4%) and hypertension (51.0%), and infections remain the most common precipitating factors (42.0%). 96.1% of patients received midazolam before delirium onset, and physical restraints were used in 73.4%.Mortality was higher in delirium (19.9% versus 6.4%). The independent predictors of death in delirium were low diastolic blood pressure (p-value 0.000), Glasgow coma scale score less then 15 (p- 0.026), high Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score (p- 0.007), high DRS-R-98 severity score (p- 0.000), and hyperactive delirium (p- 0.024). Conclusion Rapid screening with CAM-ICU detected a high prevalence of delirium (even in young patients), and it had high mortality.Traditional electrical stimulation of brain tissue typically affects relatively large volumes of tissue spanning multiple millimeters. This low spatial resolution stimulation results in nonspecific functional effects. In addition, a primary shortcoming of these designs was the failure to take advantage of inherent functional organization in the cerebral cortex. Here, we describe a new method to electrically stimulate the brain which achieves selective targeting of single feature-specific domains in visual cortex. We provide evidence that this paradigm achieves mesoscale, functional network-specificity, and intensity dependence in a way that mimics visual stimulation. Application of this approach to known feature domains (such as color, orientation, motion, and depth) in visual cortex may lead to important functional improvements in the specificity and sophistication of brain stimulation methods and has implications for visual cortical prosthetic design.Objective The objective of this project was to enable poison control center (PCC) participation in standards-based health information exchange (HIE). Previously, PCC participation was not possible due to software noncompliance with HIE standards, lack of informatics infrastructure, and the need to integrate HIE processes into workflow. Materials and methods We adapted the Health Level Seven Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) consultation note for the PCC use case. We used rapid prototyping to determine requirements for an HIE dashboard for use by PCCs and developed software called SNOWHITE that enables poison center HIE in tandem with a poisoning information system. Results We successfully implemented the process and software at the PCC and began sending outbound C-CDAs from the Utah PCC on February 15, 2017; we began receiving inbound C-CDAs on October 30, 2018. Discussion With the creation of SNOWHITE and initiation of an HIE process for sending outgoing C-CDA consultation notes from the Utah Poison Control Center, we accomplished the first participation of PCCs in standards-based HIE in the US. We faced several challenges that are also likely to be present at PCCs in other states, including the lack of a robust set of patient identifiers to support automated patient identity matching, challenges in emergency department computerized workflow integration, and the need to build HIE software for PCCs. Conclusion As a multi-disciplinary, multi-organizational team, we successfully developed both a process and the informatics tools necessary to enable PCC participation in standards-based HIE and implemented the process at the Utah PCC.Background Detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA is important for the diagnosis and management of COVID-19. Methods We present a clinical validation of a RT-PCR assay for the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N1) gene. Offboard lysis on an automated nucleic acid extraction system (EMAG®) was optimized with endemic Coronaviruses (OC43 and NL63). Genomic RNA and SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a recombinant viral protein coat (Accuplex) were used as control materials and compared for recovery from nucleic acid extraction. Results Nucleic acid extraction showed decreased recovery of endemic Coronavirus in vitro transcribed RNA (NL63) compared to attenuated virus (OC43). SARS-CoV-2 RNA (Accuplex) had more reliable recovery from extraction through amplification compared to genomic RNA. Recovery of genomic RNA was improved by combining lysis buffer with clinical matrix prior to adding RNA. The RT-PCR assay demonstrated 100% in silico sensitivity and specificity. The accuracy across samples was 100% (75 of 75). Precision studies showed 100% intra-run, inter-run, and inter-technologist concordance.