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Would it be a problem if these approaches eventually became independent of any specialist clinical diagnostic supervision? If a theranostic technique is shown to work, following its own logic, do we still need an independent 'traditional' diagnosis prior to its use? We argue that such a diagnosis would no longer be necessary provided certain conditions are fulfilled.

Orolingual angioedema (OA) after intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) with alteplase in acute stroke can be a life-threatening complication. Our aim was to describe its incidence, clinical features, and related factors.

We analyzed a single-center cohort of stroke patients treated with IVT in an 8-year period. We compared patients with (OA+) and without OA (OA-). A meta-analysis of previous studies was performed to identify factors related with OA.

OA occurred in 7 out of 512 patients (1.37%; 95% CI 0.86-1.88%). Phospho(enol)pyruvic acid monopotassium order Previous hypertension, diabetes, and treatment with ACE inhibitors were more frequent in OA+ compared to OA- patients (100% vs 58%, p = 0.045; 71.4% vs 21.8%, p = 0.008; and 71.4% vs. 16.6%, p = 0.002). Three out of 4 cases with unilateral OA had a contralateral insular infarct. The meta-analysis included 13 studies 5720 stroke patients treated with IVT and 209 cases of OA. Factors related with OA were ACE inhibitor treatment (RR 5.33 [95% CI 3.07-9.26]) female sex (RR 1.94 [95% CI 1.24-3.03]), hypertension (RR 2.64 [95% CI 1.79-3.90]), diabetes (RR 1.60 [95% CI 1.16-2.21]), and dyslipidemia (RR 1.46 [95% CI 1.00-2.12]). The effect of insular infarct was inconclusive positive when considering complete infarcts (RR 1.97 [95% CI 1.18-3.29]) and absent when partial infarcts were also included.

OA occurred in 1.37% of the IVT-treated stroke patients. Previous treatment with ACE inhibitors, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and female sex were associated with OA. The effect of insular infarct needs to be clarified in further studies.

OA occurred in 1.37% of the IVT-treated stroke patients. Previous treatment with ACE inhibitors, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and female sex were associated with OA. The effect of insular infarct needs to be clarified in further studies.Geobacter biofilms synthesize an electroactive exopolysaccharide matrix with conductive pili and c-cytochromes that spatially organizes cells optimally for growth and electron transport to iron oxide substrates, soluble metal contaminants, and current-harvesting electrodes. Despite its relevance to bioremediation and bioenergy applications, little is known about the developmental stages leading to the formation of mature (>20 μm thick) electroactive biofilms. Thus, we developed a transposon mutagenesis method and a high-throughput screening assay and identified mutants of Geobacter sulfurreducens PCA interrupted in the initial stages of surface colonization (attachment and monolayer formation) and the vertical growth and maturation of multilayered biofilms. The molecular dissection of biofilm formation demonstrated that cells undergo a regulated developmental program to first colonize the surface to saturation and then synthesize an electroactive matrix to support optimal cell growth within structured communities. Transitioning from a monolayer to a multilayered, mature biofilm required the expression of conductive pili, consistent with the essential role of these extracellular protein appendages as electronic conduits across all layers of the biofilms. The genetic screening also identified cell envelope processes, regulatory pathways, and electron transport components not previously linked to biofilm formation. These genes provide much-needed understanding of the cellular reprogramming needed to build electroactive biofilms. Importantly, they serve as predictive markers of the physiology and reductive capacity of Geobacter biofilms during the bioremediation of toxic metals and radionuclides and current harvesting in bioelectrochemical systems.Slow-fast behavioral and life history differences have been tied to slow-fast variation in cognition that is part of the general speed-accuracy tradeoff. While there is growing evidence for such cognitive variation and its association with behavior and life history at the intraspecific level, it is unknown if a similar relationship extends to the interspecific level. Since interspecific differences in cognition have been shown to be a function of ecology and life history, such differences should be reflected in multiple traits that comprise the slow-fast cognitive axis. In this study, by measuring multiple cognitive traits in individuals, we tested for differences in the cognitive phenotype among four honeybee species, which differ in their behavior and life history in a manner that is associated with differences in their nesting ecology. Our results indicate that a set of cognitive traits consistently covary within each species, resulting in slow and fast cognitive phenotypes that largely meet the predictions of the speed-accuracy tradeoff. We also find that the four species group into two distinct clusters on a slow-fast cognitive axis, although their positions do not align with the known differences in their life history and nesting ecology. We instead find that cognitive differences among the four species are correlated with their brain size. We discuss the possible implications of these results for the role of ecology on slow-fast cognitive differences and the evolution of cognition.Over the last few decades, it has been shown that fish, comprising the largest group of vertebrates and in many respects one of the least well studied, possess many cognitive abilities comparable to those of birds and mammals. Despite a plethora of behavioural studies assessing cognition abilities and an abundance of neuroanatomical studies, only few studies have aimed to or in fact identified the neural substrates involved in the processing of cognitive information. In this review, an overview of the currently available studies addressing the joint research topics of cognitive behaviour and neuroscience in teleosts (and elasmobranchs wherever possible) is provided, primarily focusing on two fundamentally different but complementary approaches, i.e. ablation studies and Immediate Early Gene (IEG) analyses. More recently, the latter technique has become one of the most promising methods to visualize neuronal populations activated in specific brain areas, both during a variety of cognitive as well as non-cognition-related tasks.