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Our results highlight the need for depression screening early on during pregnancy, especially in women with GDM. Timely psychological support may contribute to better GDM management and possibly prevent negative pregnancy outcomes.
Our results highlight the need for depression screening early on during pregnancy, especially in women with GDM. Timely psychological support may contribute to better GDM management and possibly prevent negative pregnancy outcomes.This study aimed to evaluate the use of a by-product, olive cake silage (OCS), as a forage replacement in sheep diets for the improvement of fatty acid (FA) content of milk and thus, the lipids of the ovine halloumi cheese produced. Sixty second-parity purebred Chios ewes in mid-lactation were assigned to three diet treatments (2 lots of 10 animals per treatment) receiving 0%, 10%, and 20% of OCS on dry matter basis for 3 weeks (treatments S0, S10, and S20, respectively). Halloumi cheese was manufactured from fresh raw milk of ewes fed the three different diets. Inclusion of OCS in the diets increased linearly the concentration in milk of unsaturated FA up to 20%, monounsaturated FA up to 23%, polyunsaturated FA up to 11%, rumenic acid (CLA cis-9, trans-11) up to 61%, and consequently reduced the atherogenicity and thrombogenicity milk indices by 31% and 27%, for the S10 and S20 treatments, respectively, compared with the control treatment. Moreover, these differences were carried over to the lipid profile of ovine halloumi cheese showing, on average, more than 25% increase of unsaturated, polyunsaturated, and monounsaturated FA, with particularly enhanced oleic and rumenic acid content. These changes resulted in reduced atherogenicity by 29% and 45% and thrombogenicity by 23% and 24% of ovine halloumi cheese made from milk of S10 and S20 diets, respectively. Milk yield, milk fat, or protein content was not affected by S10 or S20 feeding treatments compared to control. Overall, the applied ensiling method of olive cake produces a by-product that can be included as a forage replacement up to 20% of DM intake in Chios sheep without adversely affecting the lactating performance. Furthermore, the present study showed that such substitution improves the lipid quality of milk and related halloumi cheese enriching these ovine dairy products with beneficial to human health fatty acids.
Autosomal recessive Alport syndrome (ARAS) is caused by pathogenic variants in both alleles of either COL4A3 or COL4A4 genes. Reports on ARAS are rare due to small patient numbers and there are no reports on renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibition therapy in ARAS.
Retrospective study in 101 patients with ARAS from Chinese Registry Database of Hereditary Kidney Diseases and European Alport Registry. Genotype-phenotype correlations and nephroprotective effects of RAAS inhibition in ARAS were evaluated.
Median age was 15 years (range 1.5-46 years). Twelve patients progressed to stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD5) at median age 20.5 years. Patients without missense variants had both higher prevalence and earlier onset age of hearing loss, nephrotic-range proteinuria, more rapid decline of eGFR, and earlier onset age of CKD5 compared to patients with 1 or 2 missense variants. Most patients (79/101, 78%) currently are treated with RAAS inhibitors; median age at therapy initiation was 10 years and mean duration 6.5 ± 6.0 years. OSI-930 in vivo Median age at CKD5 for untreated patients was 24 years. RAAS inhibition therapy delayed CKD5 onset in those with impaired kidney function (T-III) to median age 35 years, but is undefined in treated patients with proteinuria (T-II) due to low number of events. No treated patients with microalbuminuria (T-I) progressed to CKD5. ARAS patients with 1 or 2 missense variants showed better response to treatment than patients with non-missense-variants.
Our study provides the first evidence for early use of RAAS inhibition therapy in patients with ARAS. Furthermore, genotype in ARAS correlates with response to therapy in favor of missense variants.
Our study provides the first evidence for early use of RAAS inhibition therapy in patients with ARAS. Furthermore, genotype in ARAS correlates with response to therapy in favor of missense variants.The roadblock on the way to perform the quantum mechanical calculation as the "SCF or DFT" method for some molecules such as drugs, biological molecules, and so on is that these molecules are too large to study. They need a computer with a large amount of system memory and a very fast CPU. Therefore, we are looking for an entirely quantum-mechanical procedure to study the electronic properties of a large molecule with considerable saving computational time and acceptable accuracy. This procedure is based on searching for the active parts of a molecule, which are essentially HOMO and LUMO parts and their surroundings, and is called truncated molecule (TM) in this manuscript. To this end, at first, this procedure is inspected for Mn-complex, due to the availability of its experimental UV spectra. The calculation of the UV spectrum for TM part of Mn-complex shows λmax = 355.64 nm, while experimental UV spectra is λmax = 334.31 nm, and the corresponding theoretical value for the original molecule reveals λmax = 346.99 nm. The CPU time for the original molecule is 448,045 s that is reduced to 101,555 s for TM with acceptable accuracy (the CPU ratio is 4.41). Furthermore, this procedure is also tested for one of the sequences of A-chain of insulin, Docetaxel (drug molecule), and Taxol (drug molecule); the acceptable resemblance between UV spectra of the original and TM molecule is obtained. The computational time is reduced with a ratio of 3.59, 2.44, and 1.69, respectively.In the present work, we report the discovery and complete genome sequence of a novel partitivirus identified from Brassica campestris L. ssp. chinensis, which we have named "Brassica campestris chinensis cryptic virus 1" (BCCV1). Next-generation sequencing (NGS) combined with adapter-ligation-mediated amplification allowed assembly of the full-length genome sequence of BCCV1. The genome of BCCV1 contains two dsRNA segments, dsRNA1 (1595 bp) and dsRNA2 (1591 bp), which encode a conserved RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) and a putative capsid protein (CP), respectively. Homology searches and phylogenetic analysis of the 479-aa RdRp and 438-aa CP showed that BCCV1 is a new member of the genus Deltapartitivirus, family Partitiviridae. This is the first report of the identification of a member of the family Partitiviridae in Brassica campestris L. ssp. chinensis.