Future studies should continue to monitor the impact of policies that legalize cannabis for medical or recreational use, and medical motivations for cannabis use on young adults' cannabis and other drug use.Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is a contagious disease common among children under 5 years old worldwide. It is caused by strains of enterovirus, especially EV-A71, which can lead to severe disease. Vaccines are the only way to fight this disease. Accordingly, it is necessary to establish an efficient and accurate methodology to evaluate vaccine efficacy in vivo. Here, we established a practical method using a hSCARB2 knock-in mouse model, which was susceptible to EV-A71 infection at 5-6 weeks of age, to directly determine the efficacy of vaccines. Unlike traditional approaches, one-week-old hSCARB2 mice were immunized twice with a licensed vaccine, with an interval of a week. The titre of antibodies was measured after 1 week. Mice at 4 weeks of age were challenged with EV-A71 intraperitoneally and intracranially, respectively. The unimmunized hSCARB2 mice displayed systemic clinical symptoms and succumbed to the disease at a rate of approximately 50%. High viral loads were detected in the lungs, brain, and muscles, accompanied by clear pathological changes. The expression of IL-1β, IL-13, IL-17, and TNF-α was significantly upregulated. By contrast, the immunized group was practically normal and indistinguishable from the control mice. These results indicate that the hSCARB2 knock-in mouse is susceptible to infection in adulthood, and the in vivo efficacy of EV-A71 vaccine could be directly evaluated in this mouse model. The method developed here may be used in the development of new vaccines against HFMD or quality control of licensed vaccines.To address workforce issues in professional geropsychology, clinical training sites must offer opportunities to build skills for working with older adults and aging families. Neuropalliative care (NPC) may offer a valuable learning environment for geropsychology trainees to develop professional competencies, while positively contributing to patient care. This article describes a novel clinical rotation for an advanced geropsychology trainee in an interdisciplinary specialty NPC clinic. A co-assessment model emerged as a useful strategy for integrating the trainee into the established NPC team. Two case examples illustrate the co-assessment's ability to enhance collaboration within the clinic; psychological care for patients and care partners; and opportunities for the trainee to build competencies related to assessment, intervention, teams, and consultation. This paper concludes with a discussion of the benefits of NPC as a clinical training rotation for geropsychology trainees, as well as practical considerations for implementation in other clinics.Mechanical-Biological Treatment (MBT) is a technology applied to reduce the environmental impacts of urban waste based on stabilizing the organic matter content. As the process is not entirely efficient, the residue can generate methane when it is landfilled. Long-term methane emissions estimation based on models is usually over or underestimated because the actual waste composition after stabilization is generally unknown. This work proposes a single tool to improve the emission estimations of the landfilled MBT waste based on the determination of the biomethane potential test (BMP). Experimental BMP of the crude and stabilized organic fractions of municipal solid waste obtained from an MBT plant were carried out, and the results were used to predict the methane emission from two models, LandGEM (2005) and IPCC (2006). In the LandGEM model, the experimental value of BMP represents the methane potential L0 while in the IPCC model it allowed to obtain the ultimate organic carbon anaerobically degraded (DOCf), based on a linear correlation (R2 = 0.944, p-value less then .05) that can be used to obtain the DOCf in a waste of any composition. The results of the long-term (40 years) methane emissions of the stabilized waste disposed on land showed overestimations of up 56.0% (IPCC model) and 259.5% (Landgem model) when default data, instead the actual DOCf were applied in stabilized waste; similar behaviour was observed for the crude waste (23.3% and 241.3% overestimations). Moreover, the impact of the stabilization process revealed methane emission reductions of 5.1% and 20.9% based on LandGEM and IPCC models, respectively.ABSTRACTSeveral nairo-like viruses have been discovered in ticks in recent years, but their relevance to public health remains unknown. Here, we found a patient who had a history of tick bite and suffered from a febrile illness was infected with a previously discovered RNA virus, Beiji nairovirus (BJNV), in the nairo-like virus group of the order Bunyavirales. We isolated the virus by cell culture assay. BJNV could induce cytopathic effects in the baby hamster kidney and human hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Negative-stain electron microscopy revealed enveloped and spherical viral particles, morphologically similar to those of nairoviruses. We identified 67 patients as BJNV infection in 2017-2018. The median age of patients was 48 years (interquartile range 41-53 years); the median incubation period was 7 days (interquartile range 3-12 days). Most patients were men (70%), and a few (10%) had underlying diseases. Common symptoms of infected patients included fever (100%), headache (99%), depression (63%), coma (63%), and fatigue (54%), myalgia or arthralgia (45%); two (3%) patients became critically ill and one died. BJNV could cause growth retardation, viremia and histopathological changes in infected suckling mice. BJNV was also detected in sheep, cattle, and multiple tick species. These findings demonstrated that the newly discovered nairo-like virus may be associated with a febrile illness, with the potential vectors of ticks and reservoirs of sheep and cattle, highlighting its public health significance and necessity of further investigation in the tick-endemic areas worldwide.In this study, the biosurfactant-enhanced electrokinetic method was investigated for the removal of potentially toxic trace elements (As, Ba, Cd, Cr, Cu, Mo, Ni, Pb, Sb, Se and Zn) in waterways sediments. LY3023414 in vivo The effect of this method was compared to the removal capacities of deionized water in the same conditions in order to assess its efficiency. After treatment, batch leaching tests have shown that almost toxic elements (As 81.3%; Ba 80%; Cr 97.3%; Cu 82%; Zn 94.5%; Mo 13.8%; Ni 62.7%; Se 66.8% and Sb 9.3%) were less released in waters. On the whole sediment samples, Ba and Cd displayed the highest removal rates (Ba 71.2% and Cd 77.5%). The use of biosurfactant enhanced the electrokinetic method by improving the trace elements migration and altering pH and Eh locally generated by the system. Overall, the application of this new approach dredged sediments seems to be promising but needed further investigations for industrial applications.LY3023414 in vivo
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