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However, Myo-EVs did not affect the phenotypes or mitochondrial biogenesis of mouse primary osteoblasts. In conclusion, the present study showed for the first time that Myo-EVs suppress osteoclast formation and mitochondrial energy metabolism in mouse bone marrow and Raw264.7 cells. EVs secreted from skeletal muscles might be a crucial mediator of muscle-bone interactions. INTRODUCTION Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are emerging multidrug-resistant bacteria. They can cause serious nosocomial infections, especially in immunocompromised patients. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS In this study, we aimed to determine the burden of intestinal VRE colonization and clinically relevant infection in adult hematologic and oncologic patients at a tertiary care clinic in Germany based on prospective infection surveillance and an active screening program. RESULTS In a 12 month period, 132 of 555 patients had intestinal VRE-colonization (23.8%) and four patients (0.7% of the entire cohort, and 3.0% of those colonized with VRE) developed a nosocomial infection with VRE. CONCLUSIONS The prospective surveillance and active screening for VRE was very useful to determine the true ratio of intestinal colonization to infection and thus helps to shape infection control management. STUDY OBJECTIVES We aimed to assess ventilatory control in typically developing children with and without obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). METHODS Otherwise healthy children referred for suspicion of OSA were recruited. In addition to polysomnography, we analyzed loop, controller and plant gains (ie, LG, CG, and PG), which reflect the stability of control, chemoreceptor sensitivity and the pulmonary control of blood gases in response to changes in ventilation, respectively, from tidal breathing recordings during wakefulness. Two bivariate (ventilation, end-tidal CO2 one unconstrained and one constrained) and one trivariate (plus end-tidal oxygen) unconstrained model were used to assess model consistency and oxygen chemosensitivity. RESULTS In sum, 54 children (median age 11.6 years) were included. Children with OSA (n = 19, [obstructive apnea-hypopnea index] OAHI ≥2.h-1) had a higher plant gain compared with those without OSA (n = 35), and it was positively correlated with apnea hypopnea index (AHI) (r2 = 0.10, p  less then  0.020). The two models showed consistent results. The bivariate constrained model showed that children with OAHI ≥5.h-1 showed an increased steady-state plant gain compared with children with OAHI less then 5.h-1. The trivariate model did not show evidence of any abnormality of oxygen chemosensitivity. CONCLUSION Plant gain may contribute to OSA pathophysiology in children, and therapies directed at its reduction should be tested. OBJECTIVE In stable neuromuscular patients under long-term non-invasive ventilation (NIV), subjective sleep quality may be predicted by chronic hypoventilation, as assessed by base excess (BE), and %N3 sleep stage duration. In this study, we explored how other variables, closely associated with self-reported health complaints, contributed to subjective sleep quality in adult patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). METHODS This is a secondary analysis of a quality of life study in 48 adult DMD patients under NIV therapy, with little evidence of residual hypoventilation. Subjective sleep quality was evaluated by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). A PSQI score >5 was considered indicative of poor sleep quality. Several other symptoms were evaluated sleepiness, by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS); depression and anxiety, by the anxiety and depression subscales of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-A and HADS-D); autonomic symptoms, by the Composite Autonomic Symptom Score 31; pain, by the Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS); and fatigue, by the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS). RESULTS Mean PSQI was 6.1 ± 2.9. Abnormal scores were found for NPRS in 40, for HADS-A in 10 and for FSS in 24 subjects. The NPRS, HADS-A and FSS scores and the N3 sleep stage, independently predicted PSQI (R2 = 0.47, p  less then  0.0001). CONCLUSIONS In adult DMD patients, pain, fatigue and anxiety may have a prominent influence on subjective sleep quality. Improvement of sleep quality may be of utmost importance in DMD, as it may ameliorate quality of life and extend its benefits to cardiovascular morbidity and life expectancy. Research suggests that electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) use is associated with other substance use in adolescents; however, the magnitude of this association and whether this differs between adolescents and adults is not yet well understood. This meta-analysis aimed to quantify the extent to which ENDS use is associated with alcohol and marijuana use among adolescents and to compare the odds across adolescent samples and a comparison group of adult samples. A comprehensive literature review was conducted examining the relationship between ENDS use and alcohol (adolescent k = 40 from 19 independent studies; adult k = 35 from 12 independent studies) and marijuana (adolescent k = 24 from 14 independent studies; adult k = 6 from 3 independent studies) use. Adolescents who use ENDS had greater odds of reporting co-occurring alcohol use (OR = 4.50, p  less then  .001), particularly binge drinking (OR = 4.51), and marijuana use (OR = 6.04, p  less then  .001) than adolescent who did not use ENDS. Adults who use ENDS were also more likely to use alcohol (OR = 1.57, p  less then  .001) and marijuana (OR = 2.04, p  less then  .001) than those who did not use ENDS. Enitociclib cell line ENDS use was associated with significantly greater odds of alcohol use (log odds ratio; LOR = 0.96 (OR = 2.61), p  less then  .001) and a trend of greater marijuana use (LOR = 0.93 (OR = 2.53), p = 0.08) in adolescents than in adults. Effects were large in adolescents and small in adults. Findings suggest that ENDS use should be assessed in adolescents in both research and clinical settings. link2 Importantly, ENDS use is strongly associated with co-occurring alcohol or marijuana use in adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd.BACKGROUND The combination of two long acting bronchodilators with an inhaled corticosteroid, known as Triple Therapy (TT), is a usual clinical practice for patients affected by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This analysis aimed to identify subjects with COPD treated with extemporaneous combination of ICS/LABA and LAMA (namely open TT) and to describe the pharmacological strategy, the spirometry use, the exacerbations occurrence and the costs, in the perspective of the Italian National Health System (NHS). METHODS Through record linkage of administrative data (ReS database) of about 12 million inhabitants in 2014, a cohort of patients aged ≥45, without asthma and treated with open TT (index date) was selected. Specific drugs, oxygen supply and exacerbations were described in one year before the index date, while spirometry tests over two years before the index date. All these resources utilization, the persistence to the open TT, and integrated costs of the above healthcare services were analys describe the real clinical management of the open TT, before the marketing of the fixed one. These findings are useful for health policymakers in order to promote the appropriate utilization of both currently marketed and future therapies. BACKGROUND Not all patients with cough variant asthma (CVA) show responsiveness to bronchodilators (RB) in clinic. Whether there are specific clinical and pathophysiological features can indicate RB in patients with CVA needs further investigation. Thus, we aimed to investigate the RB in patients with CVA and associated factors. METHODS Forty-two CVA patients were randomized in a 21 ratio to receive oral bambuterol hydrochloride (10 mg, once daily, for 3 days) or matched placebo, 36 patients (24 with bronchodilator and 12 with placebo) completed the study eventually. RB was considered when cough visual analogue scale (VAS) score decreased 30% or more after 3 days treatment. The baseline clinical and pathophysiological characteristics between patients with RB and patients without RB were compared. CRS was presented with the lowest concentration of capsaicin inducing at least 5 coughing (C5). RESULTS The responsive rate of patients with bronchodilator was significantly higher than that with placebo (62.5% vs 16 mechanisms, which suggests that CVA could be divided into two phenotypes according to the response to bronchodilators. The nuclease Artemis is a enzyme for V(D)J recombination allowing for the creation of T and B lymphocytes as well as for the repair of radiation-induced DNA double strand breaks encoded by the DCLRE1C gene. Artemis-null mutations are a known cause of severe combined immunodeficiencies (SCIDs) with radiosensitivity. Hypomorphic mutations in Artemis have been reported to cause a "leaky SCID"" phenotype, typically with hypogammaglobulinemia. We present four patients, all harboring the same unique hypomorphic mutation in the DCLRE1C gene, an 8-base pair insertion (c.1299_1306dup, p.Cys436*) presenting with a relatively mild phenotype including pulmonary infectious EBV-related lymphoproliferative diseases, an autoimmune phenomenon. Non-typical findings of IgG hypergammaglobulinemia accompanied by IgA and IgE deficiency were recorded in all patients. The typical viral, fungal, and opportunistic infections were absent, and patients reached a relatively old age. Leukocyte adhesion deficiency type III (LAD-III) is caused by mutations in FERMT3 that encodes Kindlin-3 which regulates integrins activation. LAD-III predisposes to infections and bleeding. Osteopetrosis was reported in some cases. We report three patients who presented as malignant infantile osteopetrosis. One had recurrent infections and none had bleeding. Exome sequencing revealed a novel homozygous mutation in FERMT3 c.1555C > T (p.Gln519Ter). Two patients underwent successful hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) from matched siblings with resolution of osteopetrosis. The third patient died secondary to sepsis prior to HSCT. Our results support early HSCT in LAD-III prior to the occurrence of life-threatening complications. link3 In this paper we study interactions between stochasticity and time delays in the dynamics of immune response to viral infections, with particular interest in the onset and development of autoimmune response. Starting with a deterministic time-delayed model of immune response to infection, which includes cytokines and T cells with different activation thresholds, we derive an exact delayed chemical master equation for the probability density. We use system size expansion and linear noise approximation to explore how variance and coherence of stochastic oscillations depend on parameters, and to show that stochastic oscillations become more regular when regulatory T cells become more effective at clearing autoreactive T cells. Reformulating the model as an Itô stochastic delay differential equation, we perform numerical simulations to illustrate the dynamics of the model and associated probability distributions in different parameter regimes. The results suggest that even in cases where the deterministic model has stable steady states, in individual stochastic realisations, the model can exhibit sustained stochastic oscillations, whose variance increases as one gets closer to the deterministic stability boundary.