and Death Stranding Original Score By www.gamemp3s.net Published On :: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:58:30 +0000 -Album Details- Title: Death Stranding Original Score Publisher: Sony Classical Catalog Number: 19439727722 Release Date: March 13th, 2020 Ripped by: Razakin -Info- Soundtrack to Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding, score by Ludvig Forssell. Purchase Link(s) Amazon Full Article new releases
and Review of Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds (Windows) By www.mobygames.com Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:44:54 +0000 A review by SomeRandomHEFan (46). Getting closer Full Article
and Xiaomi Mi Note 10, наконец-то, начал получать Android 10 на глобальном рынке By gagadget.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 07:02:20 +0300 Компания Xiaomi осенью прошлого года выпустила смартфон Mi Note 10, но обновление Android 10 добралось до аппарата только сейчас. Full Article
and Meizu представила оболочку Flyme 8.1 на базе Android 10: какие смартфоны обновятся By gagadget.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 11:58:14 +0300 По словам производителя, Flyme 8.1, по сравнению с Flyme 8, получила более 300 улучшений и оптимизаций. Full Article
and Mold Inspection and Testing Service By www.kimvazquez.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 12:38:12 +0000 Mold is a fungus with the Ability to flourish in just about any circumstance. While found almost everywhere in nature, mold can cause serious problems when found in residential areas and must be quarantined and removed as soon as possible.… Continue Reading → Full Article General
and Featured - What is the biggest difference between academic research and industrial research? By www.labspaces.net Published On :: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:06:16 -0600 I would like to thank AGreenMonster for these great questions for discussion. I am going to answer these from my perspective, which is from a life science company. I welcome anyone to give their feedback as well. In fact, if any of the readers out there feels like they have a lot to share, I would be happy to host your article on my blog so that you may provide more details. Just drop me a line.Hi; (read more) Source: Suzy - Discipline: BioTech Full Article
and Featured - Communication Skills 101 (and some tips for managing others) By www.labspaces.net Published On :: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:40:24 -0600 Thank God it's Thursday because I am already burnt out from the first three days of this week. It has been an inordinately stressful week for multiple reasons, one of which I will talk about today.It's not the lab. Lab work is like heaven for me. I love escaping to the bench, avoiding human contact, and focusing on how to get something puzzling to work.It's not the next looming product launch, ; (read more) Source: Suzy - Discipline: BioTech Full Article
and Featured - My Biggest Lab Mistake (and why I don't leave home without socks) By www.labspaces.net Published On :: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:10:30 -0600 My grad schools days are long behind me, and as time goes on, my memories of the pain and suffering become more of a blur. But, there was one day that I will never forget. Not only did I lose an entire days work, but I was lucky to avoid serious injury. It was the day I made the biggest mistake I ever made in the lab.My graduate school was in a southern area of the country where obnoxio; (read more) Source: Suzy - Discipline: Misc Full Article
and Featured - How Products are Born: What exactly is going on in research and development anyway? By www.labspaces.net Published On :: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:18:06 -0600 OK, let’s pick up our discussion where we left off last week, at feasibility. You did it. You successfully convinced a room full of vice presidents and directors, or maybe even the CEO that they should take your fabulous product idea to the next level. You’ve got marketing on board, excited to promote it and now it’s time for the work to begin.You are the lead scientist s; (read more) Source: Suzy - Discipline: BioTech Full Article
and Featured - How to Find a Job in Biotech and Resume/CV Tips By www.labspaces.net Published On :: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:32:03 -0500 This week I will answer questions sent to me by a LabSpaces reader. I welcome additional input from readers who have their own experiences with industry job hunting and using recruiters. Please do feel free to share your knowledge. Questions: I have really been enjoying your posts on your experience with working in industry. I am coming to decide that I want to jump off the academia boat and try; (read more) Source: Suzy - Discipline: BioTech Full Article
and Far Cooler and More Memorable Than Most Mother’s Day Cards: A Questionnaire for Kids & Moms to Fill Out By www.freerangekids.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:21:29 +0000 What expression does — did — your mom use all the time? What skill did you learn from her? What does (or did) she encourage you to do? These are great questions for any mom and child, whether the kid is 5 or 50. And if you click here, you can print out a very […] Full Article Miscellaneous
and Is the COVID Quarantine Making Kids Less Anxious (and Maybe Even More Helpful)? By www.freerangekids.com Published On :: Sun, 03 May 2020 02:06:22 +0000 At least for some kids, yes, being flung from the stress of a super-structured, super-supervised existence is having a calming, life-expanding effect. I discuss this amazing phenom in this Big Think article, including six short essays by kids themselves, and also in this interview with Bored Panda, the pop culture site, where I note that […] Full Article Miscellaneous
and Stop Throwing Away Those Little Silica Gel Packets! You and the Kids Can Use Them a Ton of Clever Ways By www.freerangekids.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 02:20:29 +0000 Parents, kids: Fear not the silica gel pack. Sure it says DO NOT EAT and THROW AWAY. But you should only follow one of those rules. Instead, save the packs and use them a whole lot of ways: Place them on the car dashboard by the windshield to keep it from fogging up. […] Full Article Miscellaneous
and High Minimum Wage And The Decline Of Stores By www.futurepundit.com Published On :: 2016-08-07T19:51:35-08:00 The incentive to automate will be enormous for $15 per hour minimum wage. Of Americas nearly 16 million retail workers, the biggest group 4.6 million are salespeople. Their average wage is $10.47 an hour. After that, the country has another 3.4 million cashiers, and their average wage is $9.28 an hour. Only a quarter of salespeople earn more than $14 and only 10 percent earn more than $19. The figures are worse for cashiers. But in the race to automate there will be a clear winner: Amazon. Why: Amazon can automate more easily than can physical stores. It is analogous to why long haul trucking can be automated before taxis: Just as highways are simpler places than... Full Article
and Expanding Miami Zika Zone: Time To Wipe Out Invasive Mosquito By www.futurepundit.com Published On :: 2016-09-17T18:01:02-08:00 The Miami Beach danger zone for mosquitoes carrying Zika virus is expanding. This isn't just about microcephaly in developing fetuses. Since Zika attacks neural progenitor cells it might cause lasting damage in adults too. A case of acute sensory polyneuropathy in an adult caused symptoms that lasted for months. It is suspected that Zika causes inflammation of sensory nerves and possibly an auto-immune response. So Zika is bad. What should we do about it? Wipe out the mosquitoes that carry it. Totally drive them to extinction. These mosquitoes are invasive in the Western Hemisphere. If a mosquito causes major health problems for the human species we should just wipe it out. Wiping out a mosquito species could be done with... Full Article
and Elon Musk, Trips To Mars, And A Mars Colony By www.futurepundit.com Published On :: 2016-10-02T21:22:11-08:00 I've previously argued that going to Mars and trying to live there is a dumb idea for the foreseeable future. Notwithstanding assorted recent comments by Elon Musk this is still true. The best treatment of Musk's proposal for a big trip to Mars comes from The Martian science fiction author Andy Weir in his comments to Ars Technica. I think Weir went too easy the obviously ridiculous low cost estimates made by Musk and didn't address many of the problems with a Mars colony. But he makes excellent points. Read the article if you are interested. I like Weir's point that solar panels weigh too much to cart all the way to Mars. Better to take a nuclear reactor. I've... Full Article
and Genetic Engineering To Lower Risks And Assure Child Outcomes By www.futurepundit.com Published On :: 2016-10-07T16:44:54-08:00 In a nutshell: editing offspring DNA at the embryo stage will eventually offer so many advantages that lots of people will cave in on some advantage. Don't want to make your kid smarter? Make him or her better looking? Don't want that? How about a throwing arm competitive in major league baseball? Opposed to that? How about avoiding passing along your terrible allergies, need for braces, terrible eyesight, tendency to get depressed or perhaps anxiety attacks or eating disorders? Lots of ways to be persuaded to step over the line once the tech becomes safe. If asked whether one would genetically engineer one's offspring today many people would answer "No" to the hypothetical question. But today choosing genes for your... Full Article
and Job Automation And Universal Basic Income By www.futurepundit.com Published On :: 2016-12-03T20:39:39-08:00 Elon Musk thinks a universal basic income is inevitable. Musk doesn't see plausible alternatives. I hope not. So here's the optimistic scenario: On the one hand, manual and low skilled work will mostly get automated out of existence. So one could imagine why demand for people at lower skill levels and lower levels of cognitive ability could just evaporate. On the other hand, automation will cut costs and boost the wealth of those still employed. Even if the pay of manual laborers is low the goods a manual laborer will need to survive should become very cheap. So any upper class people who can find a use for them might pay them enough to survive. But I see a stronger... Full Article
and Trump And Blue Collar Workers By www.futurepundit.com Published On :: 2016-12-14T22:08:38-08:00 I am amazed at what gritty realism the Wall Street Journal will publish from Peggy Noonan. Life has been famously cruel to some good people the past few decades. The past few years it seemed the progressive left and the Democratic Party, confident in what they called the coalition of the ascendant, were looking at the old American working class, especially the white working class, and saying: Heres your disability check, now go take your opioids and get lost while we transform our country. By the way, we have friends on Wall Street. From the right and Republicans it was: Take your piece of the dole, we are importing an entire new people from other countries to take your place,... Full Article
and The Robots Are Coming And Cutting Employment By www.futurepundit.com Published On :: 2017-03-31T18:25:55-08:00 Daron Acemoglu of MIT and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University find that robots really do decrease human employment. As robots and other computer-assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing concern about the future of jobs and wages. We analyze the effect of the increase in industrial robot usage between 1990 and 2007 on US local labor markets. Using a model in which robots compete against human labor in the production of different tasks, we show that robots may reduce employment and wages, and that the local labor market effects of robots can be estimated by regressing the change in employment and wages on the exposure to robots in each local labor marketdefined from the national... Full Article
and JoT #2692: Pandemic priorities. By www.geekculture.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:34:05 -0800 Keep calm, and stay geeky people! Full Article Comics
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and Add Scandinavian artist Asbjorn Lonvig RSS and ATOM feeds By www.lonvig.dk Published On :: Hand made RSS feeds made by me to you and ATOM feeds generated by www.blogger.com Full Article
and Dodo le mouton et le landau mystérieux. By www.lonvig.dk Published On :: Contes de fées aux enfants - Dodo le mouton et le landau mystérieux. Full Article
and Affiche - Charlie Grand By www.artwanted.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:43:05 +0100 Affiches. Vous pouvez commander des affiches de cette image en ligne. De très petit à 76 x 102 centimètres, c'est à 30 x 40 pouces. Prix d'USS 1.95 vers les USA $79.95. Full Article
and Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles: Coding (2017) By www.google.com Published On :: Date: April 27, 2020 As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we’re launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games! Stay and play at home with today’s featured throwback: Our 2017 Doodle game celebrating 50 years of Kids Coding! Help stop the spread of COVID-19 by following these steps. Learn more here about the latest ways we’re responding, and how our products can help people stay connected during this time. Location: Global Tags: Full Article
and King's Day 2020 (Netherlands) By www.google.com Published On :: Date: April 27, 2020 Today’s Doodle commemorates what is widely revered as the Netherlands’ most popular holiday, King’s Day. Known as Koningsdag in Dutch, today honors the birthday of the first Dutch king in 123 years, His Royal Highness Willem-Alexander. Depicted in the Doodle artwork, the red, white, and blue tricolor Dutch flag was affirmed in its current form by a royal decree in 1937. With orange as the official color of the day, the flag is often seen with a small orange stripe, or a wimpel, hovering on the top for King’s Day. Fijne Koningsdag! (Happy King’s Day!) Location: Netherlands Tags: national day, National Holiday, independence, history, Netherlands, King's Day Full Article
and Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles: Cricket (2017) By www.google.com Published On :: Date: April 28, 2020 As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we’re launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games! Stay and play at home with today’s featured throwback: Our 2017 Doodle game celebrating Cricket! Help stop the spread of COVID-19 by following these steps. Learn more here about the latest ways we’re responding, and how our products can help people stay connected during this time. Location: Global Tags: Full Article
and Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles: Fischinger (2017) By www.google.com Published On :: Date: April 29, 2020 As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we’re launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games! Stay and play at home with today’s featured throwback: Our 2017 Doodle game celebrating Oskar Fischinger! Help stop the spread of COVID-19 by following these steps. Learn more here about the latest ways we’re responding, and how our products can help people stay connected during this time. Location: Global Tags: Full Article
and Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles: Rockmore (2016) By www.google.com Published On :: Date: April 30, 2020 As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we’re launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games! Stay and play at home with today’s featured throwback: Our 2016 Doodle game celebrating Clara Rockmore! Help stop the spread of COVID-19 by following these steps. Learn more here about the latest ways we’re responding, and how our products can help people stay connected during this time. Location: Global Tags: Full Article
and Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles: Garden Gnomes (2018) By www.google.com Published On :: Date: May 1, 2020 As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we’re launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games! Stay and play at home with today’s featured throwback: Our 2018 Doodle game celebrating Garden Gnomes! Help stop the spread of COVID-19 by following these steps. Learn more here about the latest ways we’re responding, and how our products can help people stay connected during this time. Location: Global Tags: Full Article
and Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles: Scoville (2016) By www.google.com Published On :: Date: May 4, 2020 As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we’re launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games! Stay and play at home with today’s featured throwback: Our 2016 Doodle game celebrating Wilbur Scoville! Help stop the spread of COVID-19 by following these steps. Learn more here about the latest ways we’re responding, and how our products can help people stay connected during this time. Location: Global Tags: Full Article
and Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles: Lotería (2019) By www.google.com Published On :: Date: May 5, 2020 As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we’re launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games! Stay and play at home with today’s featured throwback: Our 2019 Doodle game celebrating Lotería! Help stop the spread of COVID-19 by following these steps. Learn more here about the latest ways we’re responding, and how our products can help people stay connected during this time. Location: Global Tags: Full Article
and Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles: Halloween (2016) By www.google.com Published On :: Date: May 6, 2020 As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we’re launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games! Stay and play at home with today’s featured throwback: Our 2016 Doodle game celebrating Halloween! Help stop the spread of COVID-19 by following these steps. Learn more here about the latest ways we’re responding, and how our products can help people stay connected during this time. Location: Global Tags: Full Article
and Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles: Hip Hop (2017) By www.google.com Published On :: Date: May 7, 2020 As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we’re launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games! Stay and play at home with today’s featured throwback: Our 2017 Doodle game celebrating the birth of Hip Hop! Help stop the spread of COVID-19 by following these steps. Learn more here about the latest ways we’re responding, and how our products can help people stay connected during this time. Location: Global Tags: Full Article
and Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles: PAC-MAN (2010) By www.google.com Published On :: Date: May 8, 2020 As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people and families everywhere are spending more time at home. In light of this, we’re launching a throwback Doodle series looking back at some of our popular interactive Google Doodle games! Stay and play at home with today’s featured throwback: Our 2010 Doodle game celebrating PAC-MAN! Help stop the spread of COVID-19 by following these steps. Learn more here about the latest ways we’re responding, and how our products can help people stay connected during this time. Location: Global Tags: Full Article
and Fishing Footwear Basics: Keeping Your Feet Neat and Safe By www.oceanbluefishing.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 08:03:30 +0000 Fishing Footwear Basics: Keeping Your Feet Neat and Safe The post Fishing Footwear Basics: Keeping Your Feet Neat and Safe appeared first on Ocean Blue Fishing Adventures. Full Article Featured Post Gear & Boats best fishing shoes fishing footwear fishing gear fishing sandals fishing shoes Vanuatu Fishing
and Hepatic CEACAM1 expression indicates donor liver quality and prevents early transplantation injury By www.jci.org Published On :: Although CEACAM1 (CC1) glycoprotein resides at the interface of immune liver injury and metabolic homeostasis, its role in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) remains elusive. We aimed to determine whether/how CEACAM1 signaling may affect hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) and OLT outcomes. In the mouse, donor liver CC1 null mutation augmented IRI-OLT (CC1-KO→WT) by enhancing ROS expression and HMGB1 translocation during cold storage, data supported by in vitro studies where hepatic flush from CC1-deficient livers enhanced macrophage activation in bone marrow–derived macrophage cultures. Although hepatic CC1 deficiency augmented cold stress–triggered ASK1/p-p38 upregulation, adjunctive ASK1 inhibition alleviated IRI and improved OLT survival by suppressing p-p38 upregulation, ROS induction, and HMGB1 translocation (CC1-KO→WT), whereas ASK1 silencing (siRNA) promoted cytoprotection in cold-stressed and damage-prone CC1-deficient hepatocyte cultures. Consistent with mouse data, CEACAM1 expression in 60 human donor liver biopsies correlated negatively with activation of the ASK1/p-p38 axis, whereas low CC1 levels associated with increased ROS and HMGB1 translocation, enhanced innate and adaptive immune responses, and inferior early OLT function. Notably, reduced donor liver CEACAM1 expression was identified as one of the independent predictors for early allograft dysfunction (EAD) in human OLT patients. Thus, as a checkpoint regulator of IR stress and sterile inflammation, CEACAM1 may be considered as a denominator of donor hepatic tissue quality, and a target for therapeutic modulation in OLT recipients. Full Article
and Epigenetic driver mutations in ARID1A shape cancer immune phenotype and immunotherapy By www.jci.org Published On :: Whether mutations in cancer driver genes directly affect cancer immune phenotype and T cell immunity remains a standing question. ARID1A is a core member of the polymorphic BRG/BRM-associated factor chromatin remodeling complex. ARID1A mutations occur in human cancers and drive cancer development. Here, we studied the molecular, cellular, and clinical impact of ARID1A aberrations on cancer immunity. We demonstrated that ARID1A aberrations resulted in limited chromatin accessibility to IFN-responsive genes, impaired IFN gene expression, anemic T cell tumor infiltration, poor tumor immunity, and shortened host survival in many human cancer histologies and in murine cancer models. Impaired IFN signaling was associated with poor immunotherapy response. Mechanistically, ARID1A interacted with EZH2 via its carboxyl terminal and antagonized EZH2-mediated IFN responsiveness. Thus, the interaction between ARID1A and EZH2 defines cancer IFN responsiveness and immune evasion. Our work indicates that cancer epigenetic driver mutations can shape cancer immune phenotype and immunotherapy. Full Article
and Complementopathies and precision medicine By www.jci.org Published On :: The renaissance of complement diagnostics and therapeutics has introduced precision medicine into a widened field of complement-mediated diseases. In particular, complement-mediated diseases (or complementopathies) with ongoing or published clinical trials of complement inhibitors include paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, cold agglutinin disease, hemolytic uremic syndrome, nephropathies, HELLP syndrome, transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, myasthenia gravis, and neuromyelitis optica. Recognizing that this field is rapidly expanding, we aim to provide a state-of-the-art review of (a) current understanding of complement biology for the clinician, (b) novel insights into complement with potential applicability to clinical practice, (c) complement in disease across various disciplines (hematology, nephrology, obstetrics, transplantation, rheumatology, and neurology), and (d) the potential future of precision medicine. Better understanding of complement diagnostics and therapeutics will not only facilitate physicians treating patients in clinical practice but also provide the basis for future research toward precision medicine in this field. Full Article
and Specificity of bispecific T cell receptors and antibodies targeting peptide-HLA By www.jci.org Published On :: Tumor-associated peptide–human leukocyte antigen complexes (pHLAs) represent the largest pool of cell surface–expressed cancer-specific epitopes, making them attractive targets for cancer therapies. Soluble bispecific molecules that incorporate an anti-CD3 effector function are being developed to redirect T cells against these targets using 2 different approaches. The first achieves pHLA recognition via affinity-enhanced versions of natural TCRs (e.g., immune-mobilizing monoclonal T cell receptors against cancer [ImmTAC] molecules), whereas the second harnesses an antibody-based format (TCR-mimic antibodies). For both classes of reagent, target specificity is vital, considering the vast universe of potential pHLA molecules that can be presented on healthy cells. Here, we made use of structural, biochemical, and computational approaches to investigate the molecular rules underpinning the reactivity patterns of pHLA-targeting bispecifics. We demonstrate that affinity-enhanced TCRs engage pHLA using a comparatively broad and balanced energetic footprint, with interactions distributed over several HLA and peptide side chains. As ImmTAC molecules, these TCRs also retained a greater degree of pHLA selectivity, with less off-target activity in cellular assays. Conversely, TCR-mimic antibodies tended to exhibit binding modes focused more toward hot spots on the HLA surface and exhibited a greater degree of crossreactivity. Our findings extend our understanding of the basic principles that underpin pHLA selectivity and exemplify a number of molecular approaches that can be used to probe the specificity of pHLA-targeting molecules, aiding the development of future reagents. Full Article
and CEACAM1 and molecular signaling pathways to expand the liver transplant donor pool By www.jci.org Published On :: Organ shortage continues to limit the lives of patients who require liver transplantation. While extending criteria for liver organs provides a needed resource, tissue damage from prolonged ischemic injury can result in early allograft dysfunction and consequent rejection. In this issue of the JCI, Nakamura et al. used a mouse transplantation model with prolonged ex vivo cold storage to explore liver graft protection. The authors found that liver grafts with absent carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 1 (CEACAM1) exhibited increased ischemia-reperfusion injury inflammation and decreased function in wild-type recipients. The authors went on to correlate CEACAM1 levels with postreperfusion damage in human liver transplant recipients. Notably, this study identified a potential biomarker for liver transplant donor graft quality. Full Article
and Distinct immune characteristics distinguish hereditary and idiopathic chronic pancreatitis By www.jci.org Published On :: Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is considered an irreversible fibroinflammatory pancreatic disease. Despite numerous animal model studies, questions remain about local immune characteristics in human CP. We profiled pancreatic immune cell characteristics in control organ donors and CP patients including those with hereditary and idiopathic CP undergoing total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation. Flow cytometric analysis revealed a significant increase in the frequency of CD68+ macrophages in idiopathic CP. In contrast, hereditary CP samples showed a significant increase in CD3+ T cell frequency, which prompted us to investigate the T cell receptor β (TCRβ) repertoire in the CP and control groups. TCRβ sequencing revealed a significant increase in TCRβ repertoire diversity and reduced clonality in both CP groups versus controls. Interestingly, we observed differences in Vβ-Jβ gene family usage between hereditary and idiopathic CP and a positive correlation of TCRβ rearrangements with disease severity scores. Immunophenotyping analyses in hereditary and idiopathic CP pancreases indicate differences in innate and adaptive immune responses, which highlights differences in immunopathogenic mechanisms of disease among subtypes of CP. TCR repertoire analysis further suggests a role for specific T cell responses in hereditary versus idiopathic CP pathogenesis, providing insights into immune responses associated with human CP. Full Article
and Molecular crosstalk between Y5 receptor and neuropeptide Y drives liver cancer By www.jci.org Published On :: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is clearly age-related and represents one of the deadliest cancer types worldwide. As a result of globally increasing risk factors including metabolic disorders, the incidence rates of HCC are still rising. However, the molecular hallmarks of HCC remain poorly understood. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and NPY receptors represent a highly conserved, stress-activated system involved in diverse cancer-related hallmarks including aging and metabolic alterations, but its impact on liver cancer had been unclear. Here, we observed increased expression of NPY5 receptor (Y5R) in HCC, which correlated with tumor growth and survival. Furthermore, we found that its ligand NPY was secreted by peritumorous hepatocytes. Hepatocyte-derived NPY promoted HCC progression by Y5R activation. TGF-β1 was identified as a regulator of NPY in hepatocytes and induced Y5R in invasive cancer cells. Moreover, NPY conversion by dipeptidylpeptidase 4 (DPP4) augmented Y5R activation and function in liver cancer. The TGF-β/NPY/Y5R axis and DPP4 represent attractive therapeutic targets for controlling liver cancer progression. Full Article
and Clinical and immunological features of severe and moderate coronavirus disease 2019 By www.jci.org Published On :: BACKGROUND Since December 2019, an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, and is now becoming a global threat. We aimed to delineate and compare the immunological features of severe and moderate COVID-19.METHODS In this retrospective study, the clinical and immunological characteristics of 21 patients (17 male and 4 female) with COVID-19 were analyzed. These patients were classified as severe (11 cases) and moderate (10 cases) according to the guidelines released by the National Health Commission of China.RESULTS The median age of severe and moderate cases was 61.0 and 52.0 years, respectively. Common clinical manifestations included fever, cough, and fatigue. Compared with moderate cases, severe cases more frequently had dyspnea, lymphopenia, and hypoalbuminemia, with higher levels of alanine aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, C-reactive protein, ferritin, and D-dimer as well as markedly higher levels of IL-2R, IL-6, IL-10, and TNF-α. Absolute numbers of T lymphocytes, CD4+ T cells, and CD8+ T cells decreased in nearly all the patients, and were markedly lower in severe cases (294.0, 177.5, and 89.0 × 106/L, respectively) than moderate cases (640.5, 381.5, and 254.0 × 106/L, respectively). The expression of IFN-γ by CD4+ T cells tended to be lower in severe cases (14.1%) than in moderate cases (22.8%).CONCLUSION The SARS-CoV-2 infection may affect primarily T lymphocytes, particularly CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, resulting in a decrease in numbers as well as IFN-γ production by CD4+ T cells. These potential immunological markers may be of importance because of their correlation with disease severity in COVID-19.TRIAL REGISTRATION This is a retrospective observational study without a trial registration number.FUNDING This work is funded by grants from Tongji Hospital for the Pilot Scheme Project, and partly supported by the Chinese National Thirteenth Five Years Project in Science and Technology for Infectious Disease (2017ZX10202201). Full Article
and Neuroimmune modulation of pain and regenerative pain medicine By www.jci.org Published On :: Regenerative pain medicine, which seeks to harness the body’s own reparative capacity, is rapidly emerging as a field within pain medicine and orthopedics. It is increasingly appreciated that common analgesic mechanisms for these treatments depend on neuroimmune modulation. In this Review, we discuss recent progress in mechanistic understanding of nociceptive sensitization in chronic pain with a focus on neuroimmune modulation. We also examine the spectrum of regenerative outcomes, including preclinical and clinical outcomes. We further distinguish the analgesic mechanisms of regenerative therapies from those of cellular replacement, creating a conceptual and mechanistic framework to evaluate future research on regenerative medicine. Full Article
and CDCP1 overexpression drives prostate cancer progression and can be targeted in vivo By www.jci.org Published On :: The mechanisms by which prostate cancer shifts from an indolent castration-sensitive phenotype to lethal castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) are poorly understood. Identification of clinically relevant genetic alterations leading to CRPC may reveal potential vulnerabilities for cancer therapy. Here we find that CUB domain-containing protein 1 (CDCP1), a transmembrane protein that acts as a substrate for SRC family kinases (SFKs), is overexpressed in a subset of CRPC. Notably, CDCP1 cooperates with the loss of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN to promote the emergence of metastatic prostate cancer. Mechanistically, we find that androgens suppress CDCP1 expression and that androgen deprivation in combination with loss of PTEN promotes the upregulation of CDCP1 and the subsequent activation of the SRC/MAPK pathway. Moreover, we demonstrate that anti-CDCP1 immunoliposomes (anti–CDCP1 ILs) loaded with chemotherapy suppress prostate cancer growth when administered in combination with enzalutamide. Thus, our study identifies CDCP1 as a powerful driver of prostate cancer progression and uncovers different potential therapeutic strategies for the treatment of metastatic prostate tumors. Full Article
and Transcriptional and cytopathological hallmarks of FSHD in chronic DUX4-expressing mice By www.jci.org Published On :: Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is caused by loss of repression of the DUX4 gene; however, the DUX4 protein is rare and difficult to detect in human muscle biopsies, and pathological mechanisms are obscure. FSHD is also a chronic disease that progresses slowly over decades. We used the sporadic, low-level, muscle-specific expression of DUX4 enabled by the iDUX4pA-HSA mouse to develop a chronic long-term muscle disease model. After 6 months of extremely low sporadic DUX4 expression, dystrophic muscle presented hallmarks of FSHD histopathology, including muscle degeneration, capillary loss, fibrosis, and atrophy. We investigated the transcriptional profile of whole muscle as well as endothelial cells and fibroadiopogenic progenitors (FAPs). Strikingly, differential gene expression profiles of both whole muscle and, to a lesser extent, FAPs, showed significant overlap with transcriptional profiles of MRI-guided human FSHD muscle biopsies. These results demonstrate a pathophysiological similarity between disease in muscles of iDUX4pA-HSA mice and humans with FSHD, solidifying the value of chronic rare DUX4 expression in mice for modeling pathological mechanisms in FSHD and highlighting the importance FAPs in this disease. Full Article
and Marked and rapid effects of pharmacological HIF-2α antagonism on hypoxic ventilatory control By www.jci.org Published On :: Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) is strikingly upregulated in many types of cancer, and there is great interest in applying inhibitors of HIF as anticancer therapeutics. The most advanced of these are small molecules that target the HIF-2 isoform through binding the PAS-B domain of HIF-2α. These molecules are undergoing clinical trials with promising results in renal and other cancers where HIF-2 is considered to be driving growth. Nevertheless, a central question remains as to whether such inhibitors affect physiological responses to hypoxia at relevant doses. Here, we show that pharmacological HIF-2α inhibition with PT2385, at doses similar to those reported to inhibit tumor growth, rapidly impaired ventilatory responses to hypoxia, abrogating both ventilatory acclimatization and carotid body cell proliferative responses to sustained hypoxia. Mice carrying a HIF-2α PAS-B S305M mutation that disrupts PT2385 binding, but not dimerization with HIF-1β, did not respond to PT2385, indicating that these effects are on-target. Furthermore, the finding of a hypomorphic ventilatory phenotype in untreated HIF-2α S305M mutant mice suggests a function for the HIF-2α PAS-B domain beyond heterodimerization with HIF-1β. Although PT2385 was well tolerated, the findings indicate the need for caution in patients who are dependent on hypoxic ventilatory drive. Full Article