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Among 1,019 records screened, 26 studies met the inclusion criteria using either electroconvulsive therapy (n=14), magnetic seizure therapy (n=2), repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (n=9), or transcranial direct current stimulation (n=1). We observed that studies reported significant results, suggesting these techniques can be effective on the suicidal dimension of mental health pathologies, but a general statement regarding their efficacy is premature due to limitations.

Future enquiry is necessary to address methodological limitations and evaluate the long-term efficacy of these methods both alone and in combination with pharmacotherapy and/or psychotherapy.

Future enquiry is necessary to address methodological limitations and evaluate the long-term efficacy of these methods both alone and in combination with pharmacotherapy and/or psychotherapy.A general method to carry out the fluorination of metal oxides with poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE, Teflon) waste by spark plasma sintering (SPS) on a minute scale with Teflon is reported. The potential of this new approach is highlighted by the following results. i) The tantalum oxyfluorides Ta3 O7 F and TaO2 F are obtained from plastic scrap without using toxic or caustic chemicals for fluorination. ii) Short reaction times (minutes rather than days) reduce the process time the energy costs by almost three orders of magnitude. iii) The oxyfluorides Ta3 O7 F and TaO2 F are produced in gram amounts of nanoparticles. Their synthesis can be upscaled to the kg range with industrial sintering equipment. iv) SPS processing changes the catalytic properties while conventionally prepared Ta3 O7 F and TaO2 F show little catalytic activity, SPS-prepared Ta3 O7 F and TaO2 F exhibit high activity for photocatalytic oxygen evolution, reaching photoconversion efficiencies up to 24.7% and applied bias to photoconversion values of 0.86%. This study shows that the materials properties are dictated by the processing which poses new challenges to understand and predict the underlying factors.

Hiatal hernia is clinically important because it impairs the protective mechanism that prevents gastroesophageal reflux-induced injury. Diagnosing hiatal hernia is more important in neurologically impaired children because hiatal hernia-induced gastroesophageal reflux often causes severe complications such as aspiration pneumonia or malnutrition. We aimed to evaluate the patient characteristics and early predictors of hiatal hernia in neurologically impaired children.

We retrospectively investigated 97 neurologically impaired children who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy and upper gastrointestinal series between March 2004 and June 2019. Demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as endoscopic and radiological findings, were statistically analyzed.

Of the 97 children recruited, 22 (22.7%) had hiatal hernia. When comparing the non-hiatal hernia group with the hiatal hernia group, neurological disease longer than 6months (odds ratio 10.9, 95% confidence interval 1.2-96.5), wasting (odds ratio 4.6, 95% confidence interval 1.3-16.3), enteral tube feeding (odds ratio 9.2, 95% confidence interval 1.6-53.0), and history of aspiration pneumonia (odds ratio 6.5, 95% confidence interval 1.2-34.5) were identified as early predictors of hiatal hernia.

Timely identification of predictors of developing hiatal hernia in neurologically impaired children is important for early diagnostic confirmation to initiate optimal medical or surgical treatment of hiatal hernia to avoid serious complications such as aspiration pneumonia and malnutrition.

Timely identification of predictors of developing hiatal hernia in neurologically impaired children is important for early diagnostic confirmation to initiate optimal medical or surgical treatment of hiatal hernia to avoid serious complications such as aspiration pneumonia and malnutrition.

Rumination syndrome has been associated with increased duodenal eosinophils and intraepithelial lymphocytes in adults. The aims of the current study were to assess densities of antroduodenal eosinophils and mast cells and duodenal intraepithelial lymphocytes in youth with rumination syndrome and to compare cell densities in those with and without abdominal pain or early satiety.

Twenty-eight youth fulfilling Rome IV criteria for rumination syndrome who had undergone endoscopy were identified and compared to 10 controls. Antral and duodenal biopsies were assessed to determine densities of eosinophils, mast cells, and intraepithelial lymphocytes. Cell densities were also compared between rumination patients with and without abdominal pain and those with and without early satiety.

Antral mast cell (peak 18.5±6.5 vs. 12.5±2.7) and eosinophil (peak 9.6±5.2 vs. 4.9±2.1) densities were significantly greater in patients with rumination syndrome as compared to controls. Duodenal intraepithelial lymphocyte densityndrome. Future studies should address whether treatment directed at these cells are beneficial in treating rumination syndrome.

Incorrect surgical counts are closely related to retained surgical items, which pose a threat to patients. However, the risk factors for incorrect surgical counts have not been identified yet.

To identify the risk factors associated with incorrect surgical counts during surgery in a tertiary hospital.

An observational case-control study.

Seventy cases of incorrect surgical counts were reviewed in this study. Foscenvivint Data were collected from January 1, 2014, to April 4, 2019. For each case, we included four randomly selected control cases involving the same surgical procedures by the same surgeon within a 6-month period for comparison. The medical data of these cases were extracted for further statistical analysis.

A higher incidence of incorrect surgical counts was observed among surgical counts performed between 800 a.m. to 1200 a.m., emergency operations, prolonged procedures, and/or after addition of surgical items.

Prolonged surgical procedures, emergency operations, time of occurrence, and addition ourgical counts. The implications of this paper It is important for nurses to be aware of the factors that can interfere with correct surgical counts, thereby ensuring vigilance during emergency operations or long procedures. By identifying these risk factors, a more comprehensive safety policy in the operation room can be implemented to reduce incorrect surgical counts. Novel technological adjuncts should be promoted in the operating room gradually to improve overall patient safety.

To further understand clinical and biochemical features, and HLA-DRB1 genotypes, in new cases of diabetes in Sudanese children and adolescents.

Demographic characteristics, clinical information, and biochemical parameters (blood glucose, HbA1c, C-peptide, autoantibodies against glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 [GADA] and insulinoma-associated protein-2 [IA-2A], and HLA-DRB1) were assessed in 99 individuals <18 years, recently (<18 months) clinically diagnosed with T1D. HLA-DRB1 genotypes for 56 of these Arab individuals with T1D were compared to a mixed control group of 198 healthy Arab (75%) and African (25%) individuals without T1D.

Mean ± SD age at diagnosis was 10.1 ± 4.3 years (range 0.7-17.6 years) with mode at 9-12 years. A female preponderance was observed. Fifty-two individuals (55.3%) presented in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Mean ± SD serum fasting C-peptide values were 0.22 ± 0.25 nmol/L (0.66±0.74 ng/ml). 31.3% were autoantibody negative, 53.4% were GADA positive, 27.2% were IA-2A positrticularly strong association with HLA-DRB1*0301.Costus speciosus is a rich source of commercially important compound Diosgenin, distributed in different regions of India. The present investigation was aimed to quantify diosgenin through High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography in 34 germplasms of Costus speciosus and also to identify the superior sources and to correlate the macronutrients of rhizospheric soil. The starch content varied in microscopic examination and correlated inversely (r=-0.266) with diosgenin content. Findings revealed that the extraction process with acid hydrolysis yielded higher diosgenin content (0.15-1.88 %) as compared to non-hydrolysis (0.009-0.368 %) procedure. Germplasms from Uttar Pradesh (NBCS-4), Jharkhand (NBCS-39) and Bihar (NBCS-2) were identified as elite chemotypes based on hierarchical clustering analysis. The phosphorous content of respective rhizospheric soil correlated positively (r=0.742) with diosgenin content. Findings of present study are useful to identify the new agrotechniques. link2 The elite germplasms can also be used as quality planting material for large scale cultivation in order to assure a sustained supply to the herbal drug industry.

Normal gastrointestinal motility depends on electrical slow-wave activity generated by interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) in the tunica muscularis of the gastrointestinal tract. A requirement for HCO



in extracellular solutions used to record slow waves indicates a role for HCO



transport in ICC pacemaking. The Slc4a4 gene transcript encoding the electrogenic Na

/HCO



cotransporter, NBCe1, is enriched in mouse small intestinal myenteric region ICC (ICC-MY) that generate slow waves. This study aimed to determine how extracellular HCO



concentrations affect electrical activity in mouse small intestine and to determine the contribution of NBCe1 activity to these effects.

Immunohistochemistry and sharp electrode electrical recordings were used.

The NBCe1 immunoreactivity was localized to ICC-MY of the tunica muscularis. In sharp electrode electrical recordings, removal of HCO



from extracellular solutions caused significant, reversible, depolarization of the smooth muscle and a reductiosis contributes to generation of normal pacemaker activity in the gastrointestinal tract.Protein-protein interactions are crucial in biology and play roles in for example, the immune system, signaling pathways, and enzyme regulation. Ultra-high affinity interactions (Kd less then 0.1 nM) occur in these systems, however, structures and energetics behind stability of ultra-high affinity protein-protein complexes are not well understood. Regulation of the starch debranching barley limit dextrinase (LD) and its endogenous cereal type inhibitor (LDI) exemplifies an ultra-high affinity complex (Kd of 42 pM). In this study the LD-LDI complex is investigated to unveil how robust the ultra-high affinity is to LDI sequence variation at the protein-protein interface and whether alternative sequences can retain the ultra-high binding affinity. The interface of LD-LDI was engineered using computational protein redesign aiming at identifying LDI variants predicted to retain ultra-high binding affinity. These variants present a very diverse set of mutations going beyond conservative and alanine substitutions typically used to probe interfaces. Surface plasmon resonance analysis of the LDI variants revealed that high affinity of LD-LDI requires interactions of several residues at the rim of the protein interface, unlike the classical hotspot arrangement where key residues are found at the center of the interface. link3 Notably, substitution of interface residues in LDI, including amino acids with functional groups different from the wild-type, could occur without loss of affinity. This demonstrates that ultra-high binding affinity can be conferred without hotspot residues, thus making complexes more robust to mutational drift in evolution. The present mutational analysis also demonstrates how energetic coupling can emerge between residues at large distances at the interface.