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Additionally, there were significant positive effects of a caffeine mouth rinse in a sport-specific test. These data suggest that athletes can consider mouth rinsing as a strategy to enhance performance when undertaking training or competition during a period of privation.N/A.BACKGROUND Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are associated to several endocrine side effects. In particular, the use of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors is related to a higher incidence of thyroid dysfunction. PATIENT FINDINGS A 85 years-old patient, diagnosed with a metastatic melanoma treated with nivolumab, presented to our hospital with severe ICI-related thyrotoxicosis. The diagnosis was complicated by a biochemical interference on thyroid hormones assay, probably induced by nivolumab. SW033291 in vivo SUMMARY Baseline laboratory examination conducted before the onset of anticancer therapy showed normal thyroid function test (TFTs). A few days after receiving the second nivolumab administration, the patient developed a severe thyrotoxicosis. According to destructive thyroiditis, in a short period thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels normalized and rapidly increased, but free thyroxine (FT4) levels were inappropriately elevated and did not decrease as expected. The sample was processed by using a Siemens Centaur® immunoassay. ovel nivolumab-induced biochemical interference on assays of FT4 levels. The hypothesis of a biochemical drug-induced interference is further supported by the disappearance of the interference after the withdrawal of nivolumab. Further studies are needed to prove the biochemical mechanisms of this interference.Worldwide emergence of Salmonella enterica serovar Newport (S. Newport) infection in humans, in parallel with a significant increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AR), is a serious public health concern. However, the prevalence of S. Newport resistance in China remains largely unknown. A retrospective study of 287 S. Newport clinical isolates collected during 1997-2018 was undertaken for characterization of AR profiles using the micro-dilution assay. We found a recent emergence of colistin resistance in four Chinese clinical isolates, including mcr-1-positive isolates. Importantly, phylogenomic and microbiological investigations indicate multiple independent clonal transmission of colistin-resistant S. Newport isolates of different seafood origins. Our study highlights potential reservoirs for transmission of colistin resistance and suggests that the global food supply chain may facilitate this dissemination.Erectile dysfunction caused by damage to the cavernous nerve (CN) is a common complication of radical prostatectomy for patients with localized prostate cancer. Various studies have investigated repair of damaged tissue and prevention of fibrosis in the corpus cavernosum using stem cell therapy. However, stem cell therapy has limitations, including insufficient nutrient and oxygen supply to transplanted stem cells. This study investigated whether stem cell/oxygen-releasing hollow microparticles (HP) were therapeutic effect on therapeutic effects on erectile dysfunction in a rat model of bilateral cavernous nerve injury (BCNI). Therapeutic effects were observed in the BCNI model at 1,2, and 4 weeks post-cavernous nerve injury. Erectile function further improved after treatment with stem cell/oxygen-releasing HP system compared treatment with only stem cells at 4 weeks. Stem cell/oxygen-releasing HP system increased cGMP level and nNOS, eNOS, a-SMA and M3 expression, while decreasing fibrosis and apoptosis in the corpus cavernosum. Our results clearly show that stem cell survival increase around transplanted stem cell/oxygen releasing hybrid system site. Taken together, an oxygen-releasing HP system supported prolonged stem cell survival, sustaining the paracrine effect of the stem cells, and consequently enhancing erectile function. These findings show promise with regard to prolonged stem cell survival in stem cell applications for various diseases and types of tissue damage.The cyclooxygenase isoenzymes (COX-1 and COX-2) have a critical role in inflammation, fever, and pain. In contrary to COX-1, COX-2 is specifically expressed in inflamed tissues. Because of the subtle difference between both enzyme active sites, targeting COX-2 represents an efficient strategy for the development of novel inhibitors against inflammation with fewer side effects. In order to identify potential inhibitors of COX-2, more than 18,000,000 small molecules were retrieved from the ZINC database and virtually screened against it with a gradual increase in the precision through combined multistep docking. The results were sorted according to the rank-by-rank, induced-fit docking, and MM-GBSA evaluation. Subsequently from the final hit list, two top hits along with an approved selective inhibitor (celecoxib) were further investigated by the molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The results were indicated that ZINC16934653 and ZINC40484701 demonstrate the highest affinity for the COX-2 binding pocket. Both ligands were bound to the important active-site residues, which are necessary for the correct orientation of inhibitors inside the binding cavity. Their binding free energies were comparable to celecoxib. 100 ns MD simulation is revealed that ZINC40484701 is more preferred in comparison with ZINC16934653 and celecoxib. In addition, non-covalent interactions between the compounds and key residues located in 6 Å distance from the COX-2 binding site show similar patterns of bonding by the reduced density gradient and the independent gradient model. Therefore, ZINC40484701 can be a potential candidate for further in vitro and in vivo analysis after lead-optimization efforts.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.To remedy the lack of HLA matched donors and address the problems bedeviling traditional allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation which induces the resultant graft-versus-host disease, we designed a scheme called HLA-mismatched hematopoietic stem cell micro-transplantation (MST) for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), where encouraging results were achieved. In providing answers to such questions as how to select the donors of MST and which factors were involved in the outcome of MST. 131 AML patients from 4 centers with lower or standard risk of prognosis after complete remission were given 3 courses of MST high-dose of cytarabine plus infusion of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor mobilized peripheral blood stem cells from HLA-mismatched donors. Leukemia-free survival (LFS) and overall survival (OS) were compared, with respect to gender defference, number of HLA matched loci, KIR receptors, and ligand mismatch between donors and recipients. Median LFS of recipients with different KIR ligands from those of donors was found to be significantly higher than that of recipients having identical ligands with donors (p less then 0.