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Overall, advances in our knowledge of immune cells and their secreted cytokines, contributing to the protection or pathological process of leishmaniasis may help to reach new approaches for immunotherapy.The classical Javal's rule allows estimation of refractive cylinder from keratometric astigmatism using scaling for vergence transformation, with an additional half dioptre of cylinder against-the-rule. With increasing popularity of toric intraocular lenses it has been shown that keratometric astigmatism does not fully reflect the entire astigmatism of the phakic or pseudophakic eye. Researchers mostly argue that this mismatch is primarily due to astigmatism of the corneal back surface, and some papers propose correction strategies to consider this mismatch with the keratometric values. In this Technical Note we address this issue using a vector analysis and show the consequences of this correction on the front and back surface as well as total astigmatism of the cornea. As examples we focus on the correction strategies proposed by Abulafia and by Savini, frequently used in clinical practice. The main conclusion is that, since corneal tomographers do not systematically show zero total astigmatism in situations where keratometry measures astigmatism against-the-rule of around 3 dioptres, there may be reasons other than the corneal back surface for this mismatch between keratometry and total astigmatism. A number of possible sources of this mismatch are proposed.Flocculation is an aggregation phenomenon of microbial cells in which they form flocs or flakes. In this study, it was found that addition of glycerol to a complex glucose medium promoted spontaneous floc formation by an Escherichia coli degP-deficient mutant strain (ΔdegP) in a dose-dependent manner. In the presence of 10% (v/v) glycerol, the amount of floc formation (quantified as floc protein) reached its maximum value (230 mg/L), five times that in its absence. 10% (v/v) glycerol was the limit concentration that does not inhibit cell growth of ΔdegP strain. Glycerol was not consumed by ΔdegP cells during floc formation. To provide media having nearly the same viscosity as that containing 10% (v/v) glycerol, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) or polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) were added to medium as viscosifying agents. Floc formation was not promoted by increasing the medium viscosity with CMC or PVP. However, addition of ethylene glycol also significantly promoted floc formation in the same manner as glycerol. Addition of short-chain polyols decreased the number of viable ΔdegP cells in the floc structure and enhanced outer membrane vesicle (OMV) production by ΔdegP cells; polyols-induced damage on the outer membrane of ΔdegP cells may contribute to the promoted floc formation.

Osteosarcoma is a common primary malignant bone tumor susceptible to distant metastasis. The clinical outcome for patients remains poor due to the resistance to chemotherapy and lacking effective therapeutic targets. Recepteur d'origine nantais (RON), a transmembrane protein of the c-MET proto-oncogene family, has been reported to contribute to the malignant progression and bone metastasis in several tumors. The present study aimed to explore the prognostic significance of RON in primary high-grade osteosarcoma.

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and western blotting (WB) were used to investigate the protein expression of RON in 80 surgically resected specimens (50 high-grade osteosarcoma specimens and 30 non-neoplastic bone tissues) and 6cell lines. The χ

test or independent-sample Student's t-test was used to assess the significance of RON difference between osteosarcoma and non-neoplastic bone tissues. The χ

test and Fisher's exact test were used to analyze the association of RON with the clinicopathologichigh expression of RON held independent value for unfavorable survival in primary high-grade osteosarcoma. Its potential role as a therapeutic target for osteosarcoma treatment deserves further research.

Emergency department (ED) triage is the process of prioritising patients by medical urgency. Delays in intensive care unit (ICU) admission can adversely affect patients.

This study aimed to identify characteristics associated with ICU admission for patients triaged as Australasian Triage Scale (ATS) 3but subsequently admitted to the ICU within 24h of triage.

This retrospective, observational cohort study was conducted in a public teaching hospital in Queensland, Australia. Microbiology inhibitor Patients older than 18 ytriaged with an ATS 3 and admitted to the ICU within 24h of triage or admitted to the ward between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2012, were included. The demographic and clinical profiles of ICU admissions vs. all other ward admissions for patients triaged an ATS of 3 were compared. Multivariable regression analysis compared characteristics of patients triaged with an ATS of 3 who did and did not require ICU transfer. Descriptive data are reported as n (%) and median and interquartile range (IQR). Regressioion are important to prevent avoidable outcomes.

Patients triaged as ATS 3 presenting on weekends or after hours, and those with infectious, gastrointestinal, or neurological conditions warrant careful attention as these factors were associated with higher odds of ICU admission. Ongoing staff education regarding triage and signs of deterioration are important to prevent avoidable outcomes.Relationships between gut microbiome perturbation and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been observed in several human studies, but the functional implications and molecular mechanisms by which microbes may influence disease symptomology remain enigmatic. A recently published study by Sharon et al. offers evidence that the gut microbiome has a causative role in ASD and highlights the importance of early-life gut microbial metabolites in shaping mammalian behavior.During the last century, there were no significant changes in the teaching methods of anatomy in universities, predominating expositive lectures, and anatomy laboratory activities. With the advent of new technologies, simulators, augmented reality, and virtual reality, new teaching possibilities have emerged that may provide assistance and, in some situations, replace traditional methods of teaching. In this narrative scope review we evaluate articles that compare traditional methods with virtual reality or augmented reality through a search on Cochrane library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and LILACS databases, using the MeSH terms "Anatomy", "Virtual Reality", "Augmented Reality", "Video Games", "Education Medical, Undergraduate", "Teaching" and "Simulation Training". We concluded that virtual reality and augmented reality have a promising value for teaching anatomy in addition to a positive economic impact on universities.