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Interestingly, social-conditioning with a higher dose of 20mg/kg (that induced classic-CPP) was able to reverse these effects. Finally, CMUS potentiated rewarding effects of a low dose of mephedrone (5mg/kg) and increased the level of corticosterone in rats' prefrontal cortex and hippocampus.

Altogether, the presented results give new insight into possible factors underlying the vulnerability to mephedrone abuse and can serve as a basis for further studies assessing mechanisms underlying observed effects.

Altogether, the presented results give new insight into possible factors underlying the vulnerability to mephedrone abuse and can serve as a basis for further studies assessing mechanisms underlying observed effects.Dysphagia is a common complication of cardiac surgery (CS) contributing to morbidity and mortality. Although early dysphagia detection is important, no current screening guidelines or validated tools exist in the cardiac intensive care setting. We therefore aimed to examine the discriminant ability of the 3-ounce water swallow test (3 oz. WST) to detect aspiration in acute postoperative CS patients. 196 postoperative CS patients were enrolled in this prospective single-center study. Participants completed the 3 oz. WST and a standardized Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing. Independent duplicate ratings of the penetration aspiration scale (PAS) were performed in a blinded fashion (100% agreement criteria). Receiver operating characteristic curve and area under the curve (AUC) analyses were performed with sensitivity, specificity, positive, and negative predictive values (PPV, NPV) derived. Fifty-four CS patients (28%) were confirmed aspirators (PAS ≥ 6), of whom 48% (n = 26) were silent aspirators (PAS = 8). Both the sensitivity and specificity of the 3 oz. WST to identify instrumentally confirmed aspiration was 63% (AUC 0.63, 95% CI 0.54, 0.72), and PPV was 39% and NPV 82%. The 3 oz. WST demonstrated fair discriminant ability to detect aspiration in acute postoperative CS patients. The high rate of silent aspiration may explain, in part, these findings given that the screening fail criteria include an overt cough response. In isolation, the 3 oz. WST does not represent a sensitive screen of aspiration in postoperative CS patients with a need to identify alternative screening tools for this setting.Bottled beer is used to calibrate a CO2 analyser by measuring the dilution of O2 when gas collected in the headspace of the bottle is diluted with atmospheric air. The method is simple and provides an accurate calibration of a CO2 analyser in the field without the need or hassle of transporting expensive calibration gas.

We report preliminary dosimetric data concerning the use of 1.5-T MR-guided daily-adaptive radiotherapy for abdomino-pelvic lymph-nodal oligometastases. We aimed to assess the impact of this technology on mitigating daily variations for both target coverage and organs-at-risk (OARs) sparing.

A total of 150 sessions for 30 oligometastases in 23 patients were analyzed. All patients were treated with MR-guided stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for a total dose of 35Gy in five fractions. For each fraction, a quantitative analysis was performed for PTV volume, V35Gy and D

. Similarly, for OARs, we assessed daily variations of volume, D

, D

. Any potential statistically significant change between baseline planning and daily-adaptive sessions was assessed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, assuming a p value < 0.05 as significant.

Average baseline PTV, bowel, bladder, and single intestinal loop volumes were respectively 8.9cc (range 0.7-41.2cc), 1176cc (119-3654cc), 95cc (39.7-202.9cc), 18.3cc (9.1ing the bowel, no differences in terms of D

[4.78Gy (1.3-10.9Gy) vs 5.6Gy (1.4-10.5Gy); p value = 0.23] were observed between after daily-adapted sessions. A statistically significant difference was observed for bowel D

[26.4Gy (7.7-34Gy) vs 25.8Gy (7.8-33.1Gy); p value = 0.0086].

Daily-adaptive MR-guided SBRT reported a significantly improved single intestinal loop sparing for lymph-nodal oligometastases. Also, bowel D

was significantly reduced with daily-adaptive strategy. A minor advantage was also reported in terms of PTV coverage, although not statistically significant.

Daily-adaptive MR-guided SBRT reported a significantly improved single intestinal loop sparing for lymph-nodal oligometastases. Also, bowel Dmax was significantly reduced with daily-adaptive strategy. A minor advantage was also reported in terms of PTV coverage, although not statistically significant.Pectin-rich residues are considered as promising feedstocks for sustainable production of platform chemicals. Enzymatic hydrolysis of extracted sugar beet press pulp (SBPP) releases the main constituent of pectin, D-galacturonic acid (D-GalA). Using engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae, D-GalA is then reduced to L-galactonate (L-GalOA) with sorbitol as co-substrate. The current work addresses the combination of enzymatic hydrolysis of pectin in SBPP with a consecutive optimized biotransformation of the released D-GalA to L-GalOA in simple batch processes in stirred-tank bioreactors. Process conditions were first identified with synthetic media, where a product concentration of 9.9 g L-1 L-GalOA was obtained with a product selectivity of 99% (L-GalOA D-GalA-1) at pH 5 with 4% (w/v) sorbitol within 48 h. A very similar batch process performance with a product selectivity of 97% was achieved with potassium citrate buffered SBPP hydrolysate, demonstrating for the first time direct production of L-GalOA from hydrolyzed biomass using engineered S. cerevisiae. Combining the hydrolysis process of extracted SBPP and the biotransformation process with engineered S. cerevisiae paves the way towards repurposing pectin-rich residues as substrates for value-added chemicals. KEY POINTS • Efficient bioreduction of D-GalA with S. cerevisiae in stirred-tank reactors • Batch production of L-GalOA by engineered S. cerevisiae with high selectivity • Direct L-GalOA production from hydrolyzed sugar beet press pulp Bioreduction of D-galacturonic acid to L-galactonate with recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae enables for the first time the valorization of hydrolysates from extracted sugar beet press pulp for the sustainable production of value-added chemicals.Variation in the efficacy and safety of central nervous system drugs between humans and rodents can be explained by physiological differences between species. An important factor could be P-glycoprotein (Pgp) activity in the blood-brain barrier (BBB), as BBB expression of this drug efflux transporter is reportedly lower in humans compared to mouse and rat and subject to an age-dependent increase. This might complicate animal to human extrapolation of brain drug disposition and toxicity, especially in children. In this study, the potential species-specific effect of BBB Pgp activity on brain drug exposure was investigated. An age-dependent brain PBPK model was used to predict cerebrospinal fluid and brain mass concentrations of Pgp substrate drugs. For digoxin, verapamil and quinidine, in vitro kinetic data on their transport by Pgp were derived from literature and used to scale to in vivo parameters. In addition, age-specific digoxin transport was simulated for children with a postnatal age between 25 and 81 days. BBB Pgp activity in the model was optimized using measured CSF data for the Pgp substrates ivermectin, indinavir, vincristine, docetaxel, paclitaxel, olanzapine and citalopram, as no useful in vitro data were available. Inclusion of Pgp activity in the model resulted in optimized predictions of their brain concentration. Total brain-to-plasma AUC values (Kp,brain) in the simulations without Pgp were divided by the Kp,brain values with Pgp. Kp ratios ranged from 1 to 45 for the substrates investigated. Comparison of human with rodent Kp,brain ratios indicated ≥ twofold lower values in human for digoxin, verapamil, indinavir, paclitaxel and citalopram and ≥ twofold higher values for vincristine. In conclusion, BBB Pgp activity appears species-specific. An age-dependent PBPK model-based approach could be useful to extrapolate animal data to human adult and paediatric predictions by taking into account species-specific and developmental BBB Pgp expression.Aphids are important pests of pecans in Georgia. Although previous studies conducted seasonal monitoring of pecan aphids, these studies were done at a single experimental site. In addition, only a few seasonal monitoring studies have tracked pecan aphid mummies parasitized by the aphid parasitoid, Aphelinus perpallidus Gahan. The objective of this study was to assess the seasonal phenology of yellow pecan aphid (Monelliopsis pecanis Bissell), blackmargined aphid [Monellia caryella (Fitch)], black pecan aphid [Melanocallis caryaefoliae (Davis)], aphid mummies, and adult A. perpallidus in four Georgia commercial orchards, with varying aphid management regimes, in 2019 and 2020. Comparison of overall aphid and parasitoid numbers between sites revealed few consistent annual patterns in both years. Aphid seasonal trends were consistent among sites and followed the patterns seen in previous studies, with the yellow aphid complex peaking in May, June, September, and October and black pecan aphids peaking in late September and October. Despite varying levels of insecticide application between sites, aphid phenology followed a similar seasonal pattern and remained low, throughout both growing seasons. This may indicate that growers can apply low frequencies of insecticides and still achieve pecan aphid control. Parasitism numbers were highest in the low insecticide frequency site compared with the other three sites. Mummies varied in their correlation with yellow aphid complex and black pecan aphid numbers. Parasitoid numbers typically followed the cycle of their host throughout the season.A critical challenge for the successful development of RNA interference-based therapeutics therapeutics has been the enhancement of their in vivo metabolic stability. In therapeutically relevant, fully chemically modified small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), modification of the two terminal phosphodiester linkages in each strand of the siRNA duplex with phosphorothioate (PS) is generally sufficient to protect against exonuclease degradation in vivo. Selleck Ciforadenant Since PS linkages are chiral, we systematically studied the properties of siRNAs containing single chiral PS linkages at each strand terminus. We report an efficient and simple method to introduce chiral PS linkages and demonstrate that Rp diastereomers at the 5' end and Sp diastereomers at the 3' end of the antisense siRNA strand improved pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties in a mouse model. In silico modeling studies provide mechanistic insights into how the Rp isomer at the 5' end and Sp isomer at the 3' end of the antisense siRNA enhance Argonaute 2 (Ago2) loading and metabolic stability of siRNAs in a concerted manner.In eukaryotes, three RNA polymerases (RNAPs) play essential roles in the synthesis of various types of RNA namely, RNAPI for rRNA; RNAPII for mRNA and most snRNAs; and RNAPIII for tRNA and other small RNAs. All three RNAPs possess a short flexible tail derived from their common subunit RPB6. However, the function of this shared N-terminal tail (NTT) is not clear. Here we show that NTT interacts with the PH domain (PH-D) of the p62 subunit of the general transcription/repair factor TFIIH, and present the structures of RPB6 unbound and bound to PH-D by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Using available cryo-EM structures, we modelled the activated elongation complex of RNAPII bound to TFIIH. We also provide evidence that the recruitment of TFIIH to transcription sites through the p62-RPB6 interaction is a common mechanism for transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair (TC-NER) of RNAPI- and RNAPII-transcribed genes. Moreover, point mutations in the RPB6 NTT cause a significant reduction in transcription of RNAPI-, RNAPII- and RNAPIII-transcribed genes.