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This article has been retracted please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal ( https//www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Authors. The corresponding author informed the journal that there were severe problems with the testing instrument that rendered the subsequent conclusions invalid. The authors apologise for any inconvenience caused.In this paper, standardization of the activity concentration of gaseous beta-emitting radionuclide 85Kr is introduced. The measurement was performed at the recent-established primary standard at the National Institute of Metrology of China (NIM), which consists of a set of internal gas proportional counters of different length. Samples suitable for High Purity Germanium gamma-ray spectrometry measurement were also prepared, and efficiency calibration at an energy of Eγ = 514 keV with standardized 85Kr source in a given geometrical container is presented.There is a lack of reliable experiments aiming at the prompt fission neutron spectrum of 235U for energies higher than 10 MeV. The presented experiment performed at the LVR-15 light water reactor aimed at the measurement of very high threshold reactions spectral averaged cross sections such as 55Mn (n,2n)54Mn, 197Au (n,2n)196Au, 197Au (n,3n)195Au, 209Bi(n,3n)207Bi, 209Bi(n,4n)206Bi. 209Bi(n,3n)207Bi and 209Bi(n,4n)206Bi reactions were measured for the first time. 58Ni(n,p)58Co reaction was used as a monitor reaction. The experimental spectral averaged cross sections are derived from reaction rates measured by means of high purity Germanium spectroscopy at the well defined detector. The experimental spectral averaged cross sections are compared with calculations using either ENDF/B-VIII.0 or JEFF-3.3 235U prompt fission neutron spectrum and IRDFF-II cross sections. The discrepancy is higher with higher mean response energy for JEFF-3.3 unlike ENDF/B-VIII.0, where the agreement is good within broad range of mean response energy. Moreover, due to the high thermal neutron flux in the reactor, the experimental reaction rate is compared with calculated 198Au (n,g)199Au reaction rate. The difference of -55.3% for double capture reaction was found in comparison with ROSFOND-2010 calculations.Tuberculosis is the most common mycobacterial disease that affects humans worldwide. Rapid and reliable diagnosis of mycobacteria is crucial to identify infected individuals, to initiate and monitor treatment and to minimize or prevent transmission. Microscopic identification of acid-fast mycobacteria (AFB) in tissue sections is usually accomplished by examining Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) stained slides in which AFB appear bright red against the blue background. SAR131675 mw Because the ZN-stained slides require time consuming and meticulous screening by an experienced pathologist, our team developed a machine learning pipeline to classify digitized ZN-stained slides as AFB-positive or AFB-negative. The pipeline includes two convolutional neural network (CNN) models to recognize tiles containing AFB, and a logistic regression (LR) model to classify slides based on features from AFB-probability maps assembled from the CNN tile-based classification results. The first CNN was trained using tiles from 6 AFB-positive and 8 AFB-negativhe CNN trained only on the initial set of slides, respectively. Our CNNs outperformed several recently published models for AFB detection. Active learning induced robust learning of features by the CNN and led to improved LR classification performance of slides. In the 52 AFB-positive slides used in the pipeline development, the AFB were infrequent, predominantly single and only rarely found in small clusters. Our pipeline can classify slides and visualize suspected AFB-positive areas in each slide, and thus potentially facilitate evaluation of ZN-stained tissue sections for AFB.Characterization of MHC-bound peptides by mass spectrometry (MS) is an essential technique for immunologic studies. Many efforts have been made to quantify the number of MHC-presented ligands by MS and to define the limits of detection of a specific MHC ligand. However, these experiments are often complex and comparisons across different laboratories are challenging. Therefore, we compared and orthogonally validated quantitation of peptideMHC complexes by radioimmunoassay and flow cytometry using TCR mimic antibodies in three model systems to establish a method to control the experimental input of peptide MHCcomplexes for MS analysis. Following isolation of MHC-bound peptides we identified and quantified an MHC ligand of interest with high correlation to the initial input. We found that the diversity of the presented ligandome, as well as the peptide sequence itself affected the detection of the target peptide. Furthermore, results were applicable from these model systems to unmodified cell lines with a tight correlation between HLA-A*02 complex input and the number of identified HLA-A*02 ligands. Overall, this framework provides an easily accessible experimental setup that offers the opportunity to control the peptideMHC input and in this way compare immunopeptidome experiments not only within but also between laboratories, independent of their experimental approach. SIGNIFICANCE Although immunopeptidomics is an essential tool for the characterization of MHCbound peptides on the cell surface, there are no easily applicable established protocols available that allow comparison of immunopeptidome experiments across laboratories. Here, we demonstrate that controlling the peptideMHC input for immunopurification and LC-MS/MS experiments by flow cytometry in pre-defined model systems allows the generation of qualitative and quantitative data that can easily be compared between investigators, independently of their methods for MHC ligand isolation for MS.Development and repurposing of therapies that show promise in the prevention or treatment of preeclampsia would be a major advance for the obstetrics field. We recently identified esomeprazole and sulfasalazine as potential candidates for the treatment of preeclampsia. Both reduce placental and endothelial secretion of sFlt-1 and sENG and mitigate endothelial dysfunction in vitro. Here we assessed whether esomeprazole and sulfasalazine in combination would additively attenuate the elevated release of anti-angiogenic factors and markers of endothelial dysfunction, key characteristics of preeclampsia. Primary placental tissue and cells, and primary endothelial cells were treated with esomeprazole and sulfasalazine alone and in combination. We assessed secretion of sFlt-1 and sENG and performed in vitro assays of endothelial dysfunction. Combining esomeprazole and sulfasalazine in lower concentrations caused an additive reduction in sFlt-1 secretion in primary cytotrophoblasts, placental explants and endothelial cells.