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Although levodopa-induced dyskinesia-relevant white matter change has been evaluated, it is uncertain whether these changes may reflect the underlying predisposing conditions leading to the development of levodopa-induced dyskinesia.
To elucidate the role of white matter connectivity networks in the development of levodopa-induced dyskinesia in drug-naïve Parkinson's disease.
We recruited 30patients who developed levodopa-induced dyskinesia within 5years from MRI acquisition (vulnerable-group), 47 patients who had not developed levodopa-induced dyskinesia within 5years (resistant-group), and 28 controls. We performed comparative analyses of whole-brain white matter integrity and connectivity using tract-based spatial and network- and degree-based statistics. We evaluated the predictability of levodopa-induced dyskinesia development and relationship with its latency, using the average connectivity strength as a predictor in Cox- and linear-regression, respectively.
Mean-diffusivity was lower mainly at a pivotal role in the development of levodopa-induced dyskinesia.
To describe long term clinical and functional outcomes of schizophrenia in a developed country.
Long term longitudinal study of clinical and functional outcomes of incidence cohort of all consecutive admissions for a first hospitalization for schizophrenia between 1983 and 1987 in Montreal, Canada (n = 142). Data collection was conducted at admission, 5years, 10-16years and 27-31years follow-up by reviewing hospital charts and government linked health administrative databases.
One fifth of patients were never re-hospitalized and 35% were still in contact with the same catchment area psychiatric services. Thirty-four (24%) died on average at 45.5years. Fourteen (9.9%) died by suicide; half of them did so 10years after their first hospitalization. Over 20% were exposed to clozapine and nearly 50% to long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication. There were no inmates; an estimated one fifth might be inferred to be living in supervised residential settings and the rest lived alone or with family. Approximately three quarters of the patients under 65 were receiving social assistance benefits at study's end. From 15 to 25% might have been employed (supported or competitive employment).
This study confirms that the long-term course of schizophrenia is heterogenous and mostly positive with most patients living in the community, although a significant proportion need long term support and an important proportion experience premature death. To mitigate the persistent suicide risk and to respond to their need for support, continuous mental health professional's involvement is required for many.
This study confirms that the long-term course of schizophrenia is heterogenous and mostly positive with most patients living in the community, although a significant proportion need long term support and an important proportion experience premature death. To mitigate the persistent suicide risk and to respond to their need for support, continuous mental health professional's involvement is required for many.At the Wiesbaden Internist Congress of 1949, Alexander Mitscherlich and Viktor von Weizsäcker called for an expansion of the scientific concept of causality to include the search for the meaning of illness in one's personal history. This called into question a traditional psychiatric paradigm which presumed somatic causes of mental illness. Additionally, common psychiatric evidence practices were put to the test. In the first part of this article, three psychiatric positions that were presented at the 1949 congress are reconstructed. In the second part, the development of one of the psychiatrists involved, Jürg Zutt, is examined by focusing on the question of the possible effects of the Wiesbaden debate on his scientific reorientation as well as its consequences for his view of psychiatric evidence.
National registry data have established Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) functional recovery target values for adults after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. However, the specificity of these target values for young athletes after ACL reconstruction is unclear. The purpose of this analysis was to (1) derive age- and activity-relevant KOOS functional recovery target values from uninjured young athlete data and (2) determine clinical measures at the time of RTS clearance associated with meeting the newly-derived functional recovery target values in young athletes following ACLR.
Two hundred and twenty-two young athletes (56 uninjured controls, 17.2 ± 2.4years, 73% female; 166 after ACL reconstruction, 16.9 ± 2.2years, 68% female) were included in this cross-sectional analysis from a larger cohort study. Uninjured control participants completed the KOOS, and functional recovery target values were defined as the lower bound of the 95% confidence interval for KOOS subscales. Adiatric ACL reconstruction, quadriceps strength limb-symmetry index > 90%, single-hop limb-symmetry index > 90%, and crossover-hop limb-symmetry index > 90%.
KOOS functional recovery target values derived from uninjured young athletes were higher than those previously reported. Small proportions of young athletes following recent RTS clearance after ACLR met these newly-derived functional recovery target values, and factors associated with meeting functional recovery target values included younger age, hamstring autograft and pediatric ACLR, and having > 90% LSI for quadriceps strength and single-leg hop tests.
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I.An increase in the number of elderly people suffering from the symptoms of Parkinson's disease is leading to an expansion in the market size of 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl-L-alanine (L-DOPA), which is the most commonly used drug for the treatment of this disease. Need for better quality products through economically feasible and sustainable processes makes biotechnological approaches attractive. The current study is focused on heterologous expression of Ralstonia solanacearum tyrosinase in Corynebacterium glutamicum cells to produce L-DOPA during growth on glucose or glucose/xylose mixtures. Whole-cells pre-grown on glucose were further exploited for biotransformation of L-tyrosine to L-DOPA. To prevent L-DOPA oxidation, not only the most commonly used agent, ascorbic acid, but also for the first time, thymol was evaluated. The highest L-DOPA titer was 0.26 ± 0.02 g/L at the end of growth on a mixture of 1% xylose and 3% glucose in the presence of 200 μM thymol as the oxidation inhibitor. The ability to co-utilize glucose and xylose to reach this titer could make these cells ideal for L-DOPA production using hydrolyzed lignocellulosic biomass. When the pre-grown cells were further used for biotransformation, the highest L-DOPA yield was 0.61 ± 0.02 g/gDCW with 4 mM ascorbic acid. Since L-tyrosine biotransformation is primarily dependent on tyrosinase activity, yield in this route could be improved by optimizing reaction conditions. As the industrial workhorse for amino acid production, these C. glutamicum cells will clearly benefit from strain development efforts and bioprocess optimization towards sustainable and economically feasible L-DOPA production. KEY POINTS • Fermentative l-DOPA production was achieved in C. glutamicum. • Tyrosinase produced by C. glutamicum cells successfully transformed l-Tyr. • Thymol proved to be a significant oxidation inhibitor for l-DOPA production.
Perioperative bleeding poses a major risk during liver surgery, which can result in increased transfusion requirements, morbidity, and mortality. Tranexamic acid (TXA) effectively reduces perioperative bleeding and transfusion requirements in trauma patients. However, there remains a lack of evidence of its use in liver surgery. This meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials evaluated the efficacy and safety of TXA in liver resection and transplantation.
A comprehensive search of Medline, Embase, CENTRAL and Clinicaltrials.gov databases was undertaken to identify studies from January 1947 to September 2021. The outcomes of the need for blood transfusion, thromboembolic events and mortality were extracted from the included studies. Quantitative pooling of data was based on the random effects model.
Six studies reporting on 429 patients were included. Tofacitinib TXA reduced the need for perioperative blood transfusion in liver resection and transplantation (OR 0.09; 95% CI 0.01 to 0.72). More importantly, TXA did not increase the incidence of thromboembolic events (OR 2.22; 95% CI 0.47 to 10.43) and mortality (OR 0.60; 95% CI 0.13 to 2.76).
TXA safely reduces the need for blood transfusion in patients undergoing liver resection and transplantation.
TXA safely reduces the need for blood transfusion in patients undergoing liver resection and transplantation.In clinical practice, it was found that some patients experienced short-term recurrent pain (SRP) in the original site after PVP treatment. This study was designed to develop and validate a nomogram for predicting the potential risks of SRP after PVP, which may help to provide a painless postoperative experience and personalized health management for patients with OVCF.
With the aging of China's population, the incidence of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCF) has increased significantly. Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) has been widely accepted due to its minimally invasive, rapid, and effective characteristics. However, it has been found that some patients have short-term recurrent pain (SRP) in the original site after surgery in practical clinical work.
We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of OVCF patients who were treated with PVP in our center from January 1st, 2019, to December 30th, 2020. A total of 296 patients were enrolled in the study cohort, and patients were randomly d of OVCF and strengthen patient education.
The nomogram prediction model had satisfactory accuracy and clinical utility, which may benefit clinical decision-making for the treatment of OVCF and strengthen patient education.The liver is essential in the elimination of environmental and food contaminants. Given the interspecies differences between rodents and humans, the development of relevant in vitro human models is crucial to investigate liver functions and toxicity in cells that better reflect pathophysiological processes. Classically, the differentiation of the hepatic HepaRG cell line requires high concentration of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), which restricts its usefulness for drug-metabolism studies. Herein, we describe undifferentiated HepaRG cells embedded in a collagen matrix in DMSO-free conditions that rapidly organize into polarized hollow spheroids of differentiated hepatocyte-like cells (Hepoid-HepaRG). Our conditions allow concomitant proliferation with high levels of liver-specific functions and xenobiotic metabolism enzymes expression and activities after a few days of culture and for at least 4 weeks. By studying the toxicity of well-known injury-inducing drugs by treating cells with 1- to 100-fold of their plaeclinical studies and environmental chemicals risk assessment.Hibernating mammals drastically lower their rate of oxygen consumption and body temperature (Tb) for up to several weeks, but regularly rewarm and stay euthermic for brief periods ( less then 30 h). It has been hypothesized that these periodic arousals are driven by the development of a metabolic imbalance during torpor, that is, the accumulation or the depletion of metabolites or the accrual of cellular damage that can be eliminated only in the euthermic state. We obtained oxygen consumption (as a proxy of metabolic rate) and Tb at 7-minute intervals over entire torpor-arousal cycles in the garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus). Torpor bout duration was highly dependent on mean oxygen consumption during the torpor bout. Oxygen consumption during torpor, in turn, was elevated by Tb, which fluctuated only slightly in dormice kept at∼3-8°C. This corresponds to a well-known effect of higher Tb on shortening torpor bout lengths in hibernators. Arousal duration was independent from prior torpor length, but arousal mean oxygen consumption increased with prior torpor Tb.