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5‒E13.5. These data suggested that the loss of Nr5a1 abrogates the testicular pathway and induces the ectopic ovarian pathway, resulting in postnatal partial/complete male-to-female gonadal sex reversal. Our findings provide evidence for the critical role of NR5A1 in murine gonadal sex determination in vivo.Cancer is a clonal disorder derived from a single ancestor cell and its progenies that are positively selected by acquisition of 'driver mutations'. However, the evolution of positively selected clones does not necessarily imply the presence of cancer. On the contrary, it has become clear that expansion of these clones in phenotypically normal or non-cancer tissues is commonly seen in association with ageing and/or in response to environmental insults and chronic inflammation. Recent studies have reported expansion of clones harbouring mutations in cancer driver genes in the blood, skin, oesophagus, bronchus, liver, endometrium and bladder, where the expansion could be so extensive that tissues undergo remodelling of an almost entire tissue. The presence of common cancer driver mutations in normal tissues suggests a strong link to cancer development, providing an opportunity to understand early carcinogenic processes. Nevertheless, some driver mutations are unique to normal tissues or have a mutation frequency that is much higher in normal tissue than in cancer, indicating that the respective clones may not necessarily be destined for evolution to cancer but even negatively selected for carcinogenesis depending on the mutated gene. Moreover, tissues that are remodelled by genetically altered clones might define functionalities of aged tissues or modified inflammatory processes. In this Review, we provide an overview of major findings on clonal expansion in phenotypically normal or non-cancer tissues and discuss their biological significance not only in cancer development but also in ageing and inflammatory diseases.Risk factors associated with the progression of acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease in pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (AlloHCT) recipients are not well described. We retrospectively investigated the risk factors for the progression to CKD in 275 AlloHCT recipients. AKI and CKD grading was defined according to the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes classification. PRI90 was defined as persistent renal insufficiency (estimated GFR  less then  90 ml/min/1.73 m2) 90 days after the first episode of AKI. The median age was 9.1 years. Incidence of stages 1, 2, and 3 AKI were 43%, 41%, and 15%, respectively. 86.1% met our study criteria for PRI90. Of the 236 PRI90 patients, 213 and 152 patients were evaluable for CKD at 1 and 3 years, respectively. The incidence of CKD at 1 and 3 years was 63.1% and 62.9%, respectively. On multivariable analysis, estimated GFR at initial episode of AKI ( less then 80 ml/min/1.73 m2) and estimated GFR ( less then 70 ml/min/1.73 m2) at PRI90 was a risk factor associated with CKD development and both risk factors were associated with significantly lower overall survival. To conclude, eGFR at the time of AKI and PRI90 may be considered for screening pediatric AlloHCT recipients at risk for the progression to CKD.Millions of individuals who have recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection may be eligible to participate in convalescent plasma donor programs, yet the optimal window for donating high neutralizing titer convalescent plasma for COVID-19 immunotherapy remains unknown. Here we studied the response trajectories of antibodies directed to the SARS-CoV-2 surface spike glycoprotein and in vitro SARS-CoV-2 live virus neutralizing titers (VN) in 175 convalescent donors longitudinally sampled for up to 142 days post onset of symptoms (DPO). We observed robust IgM, IgG, and viral neutralization responses to SARS-CoV-2 that persist, in the aggregate, for at least 100 DPO. However, there is a notable decline in VN titers ≥160 for convalescent plasma therapy, starting 60 DPO. The results also show that individuals 30 years of age or younger have significantly lower VN, IgG and IgM antibody titers than those in the older age groups; and individuals with greater disease severity also have significantly higher IgM and IgG antibody titers. Taken together, these findings define the optimal window for donating convalescent plasma useful for immunotherapy of COVID-19 patients and reveal important predictors of an ideal plasma donor.Chronic infection with persistent antigenic stimulation results in the generation of exhausted CD8+ T cells, which are considered defective effector CD8+ T cells, and thus compromises effective immune responses. selleck chemicals However, recent studies have illustrated that exhausted CD8+ T cells may be purposely generated and maintained to provide mild immune responses against chronic infection or cancer, which can be safer over a long period of time than strong immune responses. Indeed, a specific population of exhausted CD8+ T cells that behaves similarly to self-renewing stem cells and provides a continuous supply of exhausted CD8+ T cells has been identified, indicating that this population can be considered progenitors of exhausted CD8+ T cells. Furthermore, several ground-breaking studies in the last few years have shed new light on the transcriptional regulatory network governing the generation and propagation of exhausted CD8+ T cells, which involves T cell receptor (TCR) signaling that leads to NFAT-TCF1 (nuclear factor of activated T cells-T cell factor 1) activity followed by activation of the TOX/NR4A axis. Elucidation of the intracellular signaling pathways will help to define the definitive developmental stages leading to exhausted CD8+ T cells, which can be exploited to advance our never-ending battle against cancer. This review will summarize the recent discoveries that have deepened our understanding of the exhaustion program of cytotoxic CD8+ T cells.Identifying novel drug-target interactions (DTIs) plays an important role in drug discovery. Most of the computational methods developed for predicting DTIs use binary classification, whose goal is to determine whether or not a drug-target (DT) pair interacts. However, it is more meaningful but also more challenging to predict the binding affinity that describes the strength of the interaction between a DT pair. If the binding affinity is not sufficiently large, such drug may not be useful. Therefore, the methods for predicting DT binding affinities are very valuable. The increase in novel public affinity data available in the DT-related databases enables advanced deep learning techniques to be used to predict binding affinities. In this paper, we propose a similarity-based model that applies 2-dimensional (2D) convolutional neural network (CNN) to the outer products between column vectors of two similarity matrices for the drugs and targets to predict DT binding affinities. To our best knowledge, this is the first application of 2D CNN in similarity-based DT binding affinity prediction.