ria TISU SUPER TAHAN LAMA OBAT KUAT OLES - Rahasia Pria By investing.96.lt Published On :: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 10:59:05 UTC Tisu Super Tahan Lama merupakan tisu antiseptik sekaligus obat kuat oles tahan lama , efektif atasi ejakulasi dini pria dengan harga sangat ekonomis Full Article Sports and Health
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ria MAXIMUM POWERFUL OBAT KUAT PRIA TAHAN LAMA - Rahasia Pria By investing.96.lt Published On :: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:00:48 UTC Maximum Powerful Obat Kuat Pria adalah ramuan herbal alami yang berkhasiat sebagai obat kuat tahan lama,serta mengatasi ejakulasi dini, impotensi dan dll Full Article Sports and Health
ria Fruit Plant Suplemen Diet Herbal Alami - Rahasia Pria By investing.96.lt Published On :: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:01:36 UTC Fruit Plant Original Pelangsing Badan Herbal terbuat dari Sayuran Dan Buah-Buahan Berkualitas Tinggi Mampu Menjadikan Sehat Serta Langsing Secara Cepat Full Article Sports and Health
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ria Krim Pelangsing Badan Alami Geen Tea - Rahasia Pria By investing.96.lt Published On :: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:06:05 UTC Krim Pelangsing Badan Alami Green Tea adalah pelangsing herbal berbentuk krim berguna untuk melangsingkan dan mempercepat pembakaran lemak perut, lengan dl Full Article Sports and Health
ria Obat Perangsang Libido Wanita Blue Wizard - Rahasia Pria By investing.96.lt Published On :: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:06:57 UTC Obat Perangsang Libido Wanita Blue Wizard Adalah Obat Perangsang Wanita Alami Yang Berasal Dari Jerman, Sangat Manjur Untuk Wanita Kurang Bergairah (Firgid) Full Article Sports and Health
ria ‘Buffalo Soldiers’: Jamaican ice hockey team to be memorialised in Canadian sports yearbook By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 00:11:59 -0500 Jamaica’s senior men’s ice hockey team’s historic championship win at last year’s Amerigol LATAM Cup is memorialised in a Canadian sports yearbook published earlier this year. The team copped the championship in its first international outing... Full Article
ria Russia's Imperial Nostalgia: Implications for the West By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:50:01 +0000 Invitation Only Research Event 31 January 2020 - 11:00am to 12:30pm Chatham House | 10 St James's Square | London | SW1Y 4LE Event participants Sergei Medvedev, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Higher School of Economics (Moscow) Vladimir Putin’s goal of restoring Russia’s status as a great power has led to an aggressive foreign policy and confrontation with its immediate neighbours as well as Western countries.Sergei Medvedev, author of The Return of the Russian Leviathan, will discuss the forces shaping Russian politics and society today as well as how a nostalgia for empire – still widespread in contemporary Russia - has shaped Moscow’s foreign policy.Attendance at this event is by invitation only. Event attributes Chatham House Rule Department/project Russia and Eurasia Programme, Russian Foreign Policy, The Drivers of Russian Foreign Policy Anna Morgan Administrator, Ukraine Forum +44 (0)20 7389 3274 Email Full Article
ria Serial killer By kolembo.wordpress.com Published On :: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:33:55 +0000 I squashed a cockroach the other day. A big, Fat, Cockroach. It was trying to get away and I squashed it. Not that I had anything against that, Particular cockroach but, I was bare-foot. I had tea, And biscuits, And was bare-foot when he made his dash across the corridor. It took some time to […] Full Article Poetry double indemnity Film Hollywood noir poetry
ria JaRIA considers threats, opportunities in the ‘new normal’ By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:10:39 -0500 Industries across the world face uncertainty, as no one entity can absolutely declare when or if economies will revert to normal in the wake of COVID-19. The local entertainment industry suffers the same uncertainty – and to address it, the Jamaica... Full Article
ria Inhibition of Mitochondrial Calcium Overload by SIRT3 Prevents Obesity- or Age-Related Whitening of Brown Adipose Tissue By diabetes.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2020-01-20T12:00:26-08:00 The whitening and loss of brown adipose tissue (BAT) during obesity and aging promote metabolic disorders and related diseases. The imbalance of Ca2+ homeostasis accounts for the dysfunction and clearance of mitochondria during BAT whitening. Capsaicin, a dietary factor activating TRPV1, can inhibit obesity induced by high-fat diet (HFD), but whether capsaicin inhibits BAT loss and the underlying mechanism remain unclear. In this study, we determined that the inhibitory effects of capsaicin on HFD-induced obesity and BAT whitening were dependent on the participation of SIRT3, a critical mitochondrial deacetylase. SIRT3 also mediated all of the beneficial effects of capsaicin on alleviating reactive oxygen species generation, elevating mitochondrial activity, and restricting mitochondrial calcium overload induced by HFD. Mechanistically, SIRT3 inhibits mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU)-mediated mitochondrial calcium overload by reducing the H3K27ac level on the MCU promoter in an AMPK-dependent manner. In addition, HFD also inhibits AMPK activity to reduce SIRT3 expression, which could be reversed by capsaicin. Capsaicin intervention also inhibited aging-induced BAT whitening through this mechanism. In conclusion, this study emphasizes a critical role of the AMPK/SIRT3 pathway in the maintenance of BAT morphology and function and suggests that intervention in this pathway may be an effective target for preventing obesity- or age-related metabolic diseases. Full Article
ria Rastafarian inmate who sued to wear dreadlocks released from confinement By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 17:33:09 -0500 HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — A Pennsylvania inmate whose dreadlocks violated a jail’s haircut policy has been released from solitary confinement after more than a year, although his federal lawsuit is still pending. A federal... Full Article
ria Venerable but vulnerable: Centenarians hit hard by virus By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 09:42:22 -0500 BOSTON (AP) — Centenarians have always been a rare breed. Now they’re an endangered species. The 100-plus crowd — those most venerable of human beings — is succumbing rapidly and heartbreakingly to the coronavirus... Full Article
ria The BMJ requires data sharing on request for all trials By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 22 May 2015 13:22:11 +0000 The movement to make data from clinical trials widely accessible has achieved enormous success, and it is now time for medical journals to play their part. From 1 July The BMJ will extend its requirements for data sharing to apply to all submitted clinical trials, not just those that test drugs or devices. The BMJ's Elizabeth Loder explains what... Full Article
ria The evidence manifesto - better trials, better use of trial data By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:48:21 +0000 We're creating a manifesto for better evidence. The centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, and the BMJ, are asking what are the problem with medical evidence, and how can we fix them? In this second discussion we went to Nottingham University, to find out what the people who create the bread and butter of EBM -... Full Article
ria MVA85A trial investigation - press conference. By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:34:38 +0000 Trial MVA85A - monkey trials for a booster vaccine for BCG, developed by researchers at Oxford University, is the subject of an investigation published on bmj.com. Experts warn that today’s investigation is just one example of “a systematic failure” afflicting preclinical research and call for urgent action “to make animal research more fit for... Full Article
ria Evidence in a humanitarian emergency By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:52:03 +0000 At evidence live this year, one of the sessions was about the work of Evidence Aid - and their attempt to bring high quality evidence to the frontline of a humanitarian crisis. In that situation, it’s very difficult to know what will work - a conflict, or even immediately post-conflict situation is characterised by chaos - and merely doing... Full Article
ria Vinay Prasad - there is overdiagnosis in clinical trials By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:11:07 +0000 We want clinical trials to be thorough - but Vinay Prasad, assistant professor of medicine at Oregon Health Science University, argues that the problem of overdiagnosis may be as prevalent, in the way we measure disease in our research, as our practice. In this podcast he joins us to discuss the problem, and why he thinks what qualifies as... Full Article
ria Acceptable, tolerable, manageable - but not to patients. How drug trials report harms. By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:02:11 +0000 You’ll have read in a clinical trial “Most patients had an acceptable adverse-event profile.” Or that a drug “has a manageable and mostly reversible safety profile.” And that “the tolerability was good overall.” In this podcast, Bishal Gyawali (@oncology_bg) joins us to describe what events those terms were actually describing in cancer drug... Full Article
ria Thoroughly and deliberately targeted; Doctors in Syria By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:08:51 +0000 As Syria enters its ninth year of conflict, doctors are struggling to provide health care to a badly damaged country. While dealing with medicine shortages, mass casualties and everything that comes with working in a warzone, healthcare facilities and their staff are also facing an unprecedented number of targeted and often repeated attacks.... Full Article
ria Fighting bad science in Austria By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:29:32 +0000 Cochrane Austria have been asking the public what they'd like to know about health. Not whether the latest drug is more efficacious, but whether glacier stone power cures hangovers. Gerald Gartlehner, director of the Cochrane Austria Centre joins us to explain what they do, and how their evidence has been received. Read more about the project... Full Article
ria Cancer drug trials used for regulatory approval are at risk of bias By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:09:14 +0000 Around half of trials that supported new cancer drug approvals in Europe between 2014 and 2016 were judged to be at high risk of bias, in a new study. Huseyin Naci,assistant professor of health policy a the London School of Economics joins us to talk about why potential bias may mean potential exaggeration of treatment effects, and could be... Full Article
ria How Blockchain could improve clinical trial transparency By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:06:50 +0000 Blockchain is the digital technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, and has been proposed as the digital panacea of our times. But Leeza Osipenko, from the London School of Economics, has thought about how it could actually be used in clinical trials, and what else would need to change in our regulatory environment to make that... Full Article
ria Hypoglycemia in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial By diabetes.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 1997-02-01 The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research GroupFeb 1, 1997; 46:271-286Original Article Full Article
ria The Relationship of Glycemic Exposure (HbA1c) to the Risk of Development and Progression of Retinopathy in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial By diabetes.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 1995-08-01 The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research GroupAug 1, 1995; 44:968-983Original Article Full Article
ria Dysfunction of Mitochondria in Human Skeletal Muscle in Type 2 Diabetes By diabetes.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2002-10-01 David E. KelleyOct 1, 2002; 51:2944-2950Metabolism and Signal Transduction Full Article
ria Rare Genetic Variants of Large Effect Influence Risk of Type 1 Diabetes By diabetes.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2020-03-20T11:50:29-07:00 Most replicated genetic determinants for type 1 diabetes are common (minor allele frequency [MAF] >5%). We aimed to identify novel rare or low-frequency (MAF <5%) single nucleotide polymorphisms with large effects on risk of type 1 diabetes. We undertook deep imputation of genotyped data followed by genome-wide association testing and meta-analysis of 9,358 type 1 diabetes case and 15,705 control subjects from 12 European cohorts. Candidate variants were replicated in a separate cohort of 4,329 case and 9,543 control subjects. Our meta-analysis identified 27 independent variants outside the MHC, among which 3 were novel and had MAF <5%. Three of these variants replicated with Preplication < 0.05 and Pcombined < Pdiscovery. In silico analysis prioritized a rare variant at 2q24.3 (rs60587303 [C], MAF 0.5%) within the first intron of STK39, with an effect size comparable with those of common variants in the INS and PTPN22 loci (combined [from the discovery and replication cohorts] estimate of odds ratio [ORcombined] 1.97, 95% CI 1.58–2.47, Pcombined = 2.9 x 10–9). Pharmacological inhibition of Stk39 activity in primary murine T cells augmented effector responses through enhancement of interleukin 2 signaling. These findings provide insight into the genetic architecture of type 1 diabetes and have identified rare variants having a large effect on disease risk. Full Article
ria Mitochondrial Proton Leak Regulated by Cyclophilin D Elevates Insulin Secretion in Islets at Nonstimulatory Glucose Levels By diabetes.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2020-01-20T12:00:25-08:00 Fasting hyperinsulinemia precedes the development of type 2 diabetes. However, it is unclear whether fasting insulin hypersecretion is a primary driver of insulin resistance or a consequence of the progressive increase in fasting glycemia induced by insulin resistance in the prediabetic state. Herein, we have discovered a mechanism that specifically regulates non–glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (NGSIS) in pancreatic islets that is activated by nonesterified free fatty acids, the major fuel used by β-cells during fasting. We show that the mitochondrial permeability transition pore regulator cyclophilin D (CypD) promotes NGSIS, but not glucose-stimulated insulin secretion, by increasing mitochondrial proton leak. Islets from prediabetic obese mice show significantly higher CypD-dependent proton leak and NGSIS compared with lean mice. Proton leak–mediated NGSIS is conserved in human islets and is stimulated by exposure to nonesterified free fatty acids at concentrations observed in obese subjects. Mechanistically, proton leak activates islet NGSIS independently of mitochondrial ATP synthesis but ultimately requires closure of the KATP channel. In summary, we have described a novel nonesterified free fatty acid–stimulated pathway that selectively drives pancreatic islet NGSIS, which may be therapeutically exploited as an alternative way to halt fasting hyperinsulinemia and the progression of type 2 diabetes. Full Article
ria A Novel Model of Diabetic Complications: Adipocyte Mitochondrial Dysfunction Triggers Massive {beta}-Cell Hyperplasia By diabetes.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2020-02-20T11:55:30-08:00 Obesity-associated type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) entails insulin resistance and loss of β-cell mass. Adipose tissue mitochondrial dysfunction is emerging as a key component in the etiology of T2DM. Identifying approaches to preserve mitochondrial function, adipose tissue integrity, and β-cell mass during obesity is a major challenge. Mitochondrial ferritin (FtMT) is a mitochondrial matrix protein that chelates iron. We sought to determine whether perturbation of adipocyte mitochondria influences energy metabolism during obesity. We used an adipocyte-specific doxycycline-inducible mouse model of FtMT overexpression (FtMT-Adip mice). During a dietary challenge, FtMT-Adip mice are leaner but exhibit glucose intolerance, low adiponectin levels, increased reactive oxygen species damage, and elevated GDF15 and FGF21 levels, indicating metabolically dysfunctional fat. Paradoxically, despite harboring highly dysfunctional fat, transgenic mice display massive β-cell hyperplasia, reflecting a beneficial mitochondria-induced fat-to-pancreas interorgan signaling axis. This identifies the unique and critical impact that adipocyte mitochondrial dysfunction has on increasing β-cell mass during obesity-related insulin resistance. Full Article
ria Perivascular Adipose Tissue Controls Insulin-Stimulated Perfusion, Mitochondrial Protein Expression, and Glucose Uptake in Muscle Through Adipomuscular Arterioles By diabetes.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2020-03-20T11:50:28-07:00 Insulin-mediated microvascular recruitment (IMVR) regulates delivery of insulin and glucose to insulin-sensitive tissues. We have previously proposed that perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) controls vascular function through outside-to-inside communication and through vessel-to-vessel, or "vasocrine," signaling. However, direct experimental evidence supporting a role of local PVAT in regulating IMVR and insulin sensitivity in vivo is lacking. Here, we studied muscles with and without PVAT in mice using combined contrast-enhanced ultrasonography and intravital microscopy to measure IMVR and gracilis artery diameter at baseline and during the hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp. We show, using microsurgical removal of PVAT from the muscle microcirculation, that local PVAT depots regulate insulin-stimulated muscle perfusion and glucose uptake in vivo. We discovered direct microvascular connections between PVAT and the distal muscle microcirculation, or adipomuscular arterioles, the removal of which abolished IMVR. Local removal of intramuscular PVAT altered protein clusters in the connected muscle, including upregulation of a cluster featuring Hsp90ab1 and Hsp70 and downregulation of a cluster of mitochondrial protein components of complexes III, IV, and V. These data highlight the importance of PVAT in vascular and metabolic physiology and are likely relevant for obesity and diabetes. Full Article
ria Bariatric Surgery Rapidly Decreases Cardiac Dietary Fatty Acid Partitioning and Hepatic Insulin Resistance Through Increased Intra-abdominal Adipose Tissue Storage and Reduced Spillover in Type 2 Diabetes By diabetes.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2020-03-20T11:50:28-07:00 Reduced storage of dietary fatty acids (DFAs) in abdominal adipose tissues with enhanced cardiac partitioning has been shown in subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and prediabetes. We measured DFA metabolism and organ partitioning using positron emission tomography with oral and intravenous long-chain fatty acid and glucose tracers during a standard liquid meal in 12 obese subjects with T2D before and 8–12 days after bariatric surgery (sleeve gastrectomy or sleeve gastrectomy and biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch). Bariatric surgery reduced cardiac DFA uptake from a median (standard uptake value [SUV]) 1.75 (interquartile range 1.39–2.57) before to 1.09 (1.04–1.53) after surgery (P = 0.01) and systemic DFA spillover from 56.7 mmol before to 24.7 mmol over 6 h after meal intake after surgery (P = 0.01), with a significant increase in intra-abdominal adipose tissue DFA uptake from 0.15 (0.04–0.31] before to 0.49 (0.20–0.59) SUV after surgery (P = 0.008). Hepatic insulin resistance was significantly reduced in close association with increased DFA storage in intra-abdominal adipose tissues (r = –0.79, P = 0.05) and reduced DFA spillover (r = 0.76, P = 0.01). We conclude that bariatric surgery in subjects with T2D rapidly reduces cardiac DFA partitioning and hepatic insulin resistance at least in part through increased intra-abdominal DFA storage and reduced spillover. Full Article
ria On Trial: Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:58:30 +0000 21 July 2014 Download PDF Rob Bailey Former Research Director, Energy, Environment and Resources @ClimateRob Robin WilloughbyDavid Grzywacz Increasing agricultural productivity and adapting farming to climate change are central to Africa’s development prospects. There are important opportunities to enhance yields and increase resilience through the adoption of improved crop varieties. In some cases, biotechnology, and in particular genetic modification (GM), offers advantages over conventional plant-breeding approaches. Accordingly there are a various projects under way to develop new GM varieties for African farmers, ranging from drought-resistant maize to varieties of cassava, banana, sorghum, cowpea and sweet potato with resistance to pests and disease.In addition to government funds, these projects have also attracted the support of influential donor agencies and philanthropic foundations. However, despite the expenditure of considerable resources, the potential of GM in Africa is not being realized. So far no GM trait developed for African farmers has been put to use.Multiple barriers inhibit the development and adoption of pro-poor GM varieties in Africa. On the demand side, farmers may be reluctant to adopt GM varieties owing to a lack of export opportunities and distrust of the technology among local consumers. Farmers may also be concerned about exploitation by transnational seed companies (despite the fact that development of new GM technologies in Africa is dominated by the public sector). On the supply side, donor funding struggles to match the long timescales of research and development, while incentives among research scientists may be poorly aligned with farmer outcomes. Non-existent, poorly functioning or overly punitive regulatory regimes discourage investment.The most important barriers – such as regulatory constraints, consumer distrust and weak farmer demand – must be understood in the context of wider social and political dynamics surrounding GM, typified by misinformation, polarized public discourse, and dysfunctional and opportunistic politics. The result is most GM projects becoming ‘stuck’ at the field trial stage without ever progressing to release. This ‘convenient deadlock’ of continual field trials allows governments to manage political risks by effectively balancing the demands of pro-GM and anti-GM lobbies – proponents of GM have a pipeline of technologies, while opponents are appeased by the failure of any to gain approval. The disabling socio-political environment for GM development in Africa greatly reduces the efficacy of investment in this technology.This has two important implications. First, technology development needs to be located within a wider project of transformation that engages key actors – most notably politicians, policy-makers and farmers – as stakeholders from the outset, and includes strategies to address multiple demand- and supply-side barriers. Second, successful adoption is more likely in countries with less disabling political conditions, characterized by lower levels of consumer distrust and opposition, genuine farmer demand and demonstrable commitment from government. Focusing efforts and resources on a small number of ‘best bet’ countries will also allow donors and technology providers to support more ambitious, transformational projects led by national governments. Department/project Energy, Environment and Resources Programme Full Article
ria Nigeria’s Solid Minerals Sector: Alternative Investment Opportunities By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 05 May 2016 15:30:01 +0000 Research Event 19 May 2016 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm UK Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London Transcriptpdf | 250.5 KB Meeting Summarypdf | 111.25 KB Event participants HE Dr Kayode Fayemi, Minister of Solid Minerals Development, NigeriaHE Aminu Bello Masari, Governor of Katsina State, NigeriaChair: Chi Onwurah MP, Vice Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on Nigeria As Nigeria seeks to diversify its economy, the federal government is prioritizing the development of the solid minerals sector, in order to enhance foreign investment, create local job opportunities and build technological capacity and expertise in mining.At this event, Minister for Solid Minerals Development HE Dr Kayode Fayemi, will discuss plans and priorities for the solid minerals sector including the strengthening of regulatory frameworks and opportunities for investment. Following this, HE Aminu Bello Masari, governor of Katsina State, will discuss state initiatives for solid minerals sector development in northern Nigeria.This event is now full and registration is closed. Department/project Africa Programme, West Africa, Nigeria Full Article
ria Appropriate Use Criteria for Imaging Evaluation of Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer After Definitive Primary Treatment By jnm.snmjournals.org Published On :: 2020-04-01T06:00:28-07:00 Full Article
ria Comparison of 3 Interpretation Criteria for 68Ga-PSMA11 PET Based on Inter- and Intrareader Agreement By jnm.snmjournals.org Published On :: 2020-04-01T06:00:28-07:00 PET using radiolabeled prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is now being more widely adopted as a valuable tool to evaluate patients with prostate cancer (PC). Recently, 3 different criteria for interpretation of PSMA PET were published: the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) criteria, the Prostate Cancer Molecular Imaging Standardized Evaluation criteria, and the PSMA Reporting and Data System. We compared these 3 criteria in terms of interreader, intrareader, and intercriteria agreement. Methods: Data from 104 patients prospectively enrolled in research protocols at our institution were retrospectively reviewed. The cohort consisted of 2 groups: 47 patients (mean age, 64.2 y old) who underwent Glu-NH-CO-NH-Lys-(Ahx)-[68Ga(HBED-CC)] (68Ga-PSMA11) PET/MRI for initial staging of biopsy-proven intermediate- or high-risk PC, and 57 patients (mean age, 70.5 y old) who underwent 68Ga-PSMA11 PET/CT because of biochemically recurrent PC. Three nuclear medicine physicians independently evaluated all 68Ga-PSMA11 PET/MRI and PET/CT studies according to the 3 interpretation criteria. Two of them reevaluated all studies 6 mo later in the same manner and masked to the initial reading. The Gwet agreement coefficient was calculated to evaluate interreader, intrareader, and intercriteria agreement based on the following sites: local lesion (primary tumor or prostate bed after radical prostatectomy), lymph node metastases, and other metastases. Results: In the PET/MRI group, interreader, intrareader, and intercriteria agreement ranged from substantial to almost perfect for any site according to all 3 criteria. In the PET/CT group, interreader agreement ranged from substantial to almost perfect except for judgment of distant metastases based on the PSMA Reporting and Data System (Gwet agreement coefficient, 0.57; moderate agreement), in which the most frequent cause of disagreement was lung nodules. Intrareader agreement ranged from substantial to almost perfect for any site according to all 3 criteria. Intercriteria agreement for each site was also substantial to almost perfect. Conclusion: Although the 3 published criteria have good interreader and intrareader reproducibility in evaluating 68Ga-PSMA11 PET, there are some factors causing interreader disagreement. Further work is needed to address this issue. Full Article
ria Manual acupuncture versus sham acupuncture and usual care for prophylaxis of episodic migraine without aura: multicentre, randomised clinical trial By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 22:31 Full Article
ria Comparison of dietary macronutrient patterns of 14 popular named dietary programmes for weight and cardiovascular risk factor reduction in adults: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised trials By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 22:31 Full Article
ria Prospective registration and reporting of trial number in randomised clinical trials: global cross sectional study of the adoption of ICMJE and Declaration of Helsinki recommendations By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 09:20 Full Article
ria Prevalence of diabetes recorded in mainland China using 2018 diagnostic criteria from the American Diabetes Association: national cross sectional study By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 09:16 Full Article
ria Use of genetic variation to separate the effects of early and later life adiposity on disease risk: mendelian randomisation study By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 22:31 Full Article
ria Sino-Russian Gas Cooperation: Power of Siberia I and II and Implications for Global LNG Supplies By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:25:01 +0000 Invitation Only Research Event 27 November 2019 - 8:30am to 9:30am Chatham House | 10 St James's Square | London | SW1Y 4LE Event participants Professor Keun-Wook Paik, Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Resources Department, Chatham HouseChair: John Lough, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House In a new event in the Sustainable Transitions series, the speaker will present an update of Sino-Russian gas cooperation.To give a comprehensive account of their impact on global liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies, he will discuss the following points:Gas is scheduled to start flowing from the Power of Siberia I (POS) on 2 December 2019. But what is the background of development of POS 1 and what is its current status and prospects? What are the chances of exporting gas through the proposed Altai pipeline? Why is the Mongolia export route so significant? And how will it affect the Central Asian Republics and in particular Turkmenistan’s gas export to China? What are the implications of both POS I and Altai gas via Mongolia route in the context of global LNG supply?What are the prospects for multilateral pipeline gas cooperation in northeast Asia?What are the implications for other Arctic onshore LNG supply, in particular, for Novatek's Yamal LNG and Arctic LNG 1 and 2 to China on top of POS 1 and Altai gas?Attendance at this event is by invitation only. Event attributes Chatham House Rule Department/project Energy, Environment and Resources Programme, Sustainable Transitions Series Chloé Prendleloup Email Full Article
ria Single-molecule level structural dynamics of DNA unwinding by human mitochondrial Twinkle helicase [Molecular Biophysics] By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2020-04-24T06:08:45-07:00 Knowledge of the molecular events in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) replication is crucial to understanding the origins of human disorders arising from mitochondrial dysfunction. Twinkle helicase is an essential component of mtDNA replication. Here, we employed atomic force microscopy imaging in air and liquids to visualize ring assembly, DNA binding, and unwinding activity of individual Twinkle hexamers at the single-molecule level. We observed that the Twinkle subunits self-assemble into hexamers and higher-order complexes that can switch between open and closed-ring configurations in the absence of DNA. Our analyses helped visualize Twinkle loading onto and unloading from DNA in an open-ringed configuration. They also revealed that closed-ring conformers bind and unwind several hundred base pairs of duplex DNA at an average rate of ∼240 bp/min. We found that the addition of mitochondrial single-stranded (ss) DNA–binding protein both influences the ways Twinkle loads onto defined DNA substrates and stabilizes the unwound ssDNA product, resulting in a ∼5-fold stimulation of the apparent DNA-unwinding rate. Mitochondrial ssDNA-binding protein also increased the estimated translocation processivity from 1750 to >9000 bp before helicase disassociation, suggesting that more than half of the mitochondrial genome could be unwound by Twinkle during a single DNA-binding event. The strategies used in this work provide a new platform to examine Twinkle disease variants and the core mtDNA replication machinery. They also offer an enhanced framework to investigate molecular mechanisms underlying deletion and depletion of the mitochondrial genome as observed in mitochondrial diseases. Full Article
ria Atomic force microscopy-based characterization of the interaction of PriA helicase with stalled DNA replication forks [DNA and Chromosomes] By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2020-05-01T00:06:09-07:00 In bacteria, the restart of stalled DNA replication forks requires the DNA helicase PriA. PriA can recognize and remodel abandoned DNA replication forks, unwind DNA in the 3'-to-5' direction, and facilitate the loading of the helicase DnaB onto the DNA to restart replication. Single-stranded DNA–binding protein (SSB) is typically present at the abandoned forks, but it is unclear how SSB and PriA interact, although it has been shown that the two proteins interact both physically and functionally. Here, we used atomic force microscopy to visualize the interaction of PriA with DNA substrates with or without SSB. These experiments were done in the absence of ATP to delineate the substrate recognition pattern of PriA before its ATP-catalyzed DNA-unwinding reaction. These analyses revealed that in the absence of SSB, PriA binds preferentially to a fork substrate with a gap in the leading strand. Such a preference has not been observed for 5'- and 3'-tailed duplexes, suggesting that it is the fork structure that plays an essential role in PriA's selection of DNA substrates. Furthermore, we found that in the absence of SSB, PriA binds exclusively to the fork regions of the DNA substrates. In contrast, fork-bound SSB loads PriA onto the duplex DNA arms of forks, suggesting a remodeling of PriA by SSB. We also demonstrate that the remodeling of PriA requires a functional C-terminal domain of SSB. In summary, our atomic force microscopy analyses reveal key details in the interactions between PriA and stalled DNA replication forks with or without SSB. Full Article
ria A Tightening Grip Abroad: Authoritarian Regimes Target Their Emigrant and Diaspora Communities By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 11:46:22 -0400 Authoritarian states have long attempted to restrict citizens’ movement. But what happens when their reach extends beyond their borders? The October 2018 assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi brought into sharp relief the long arm of these regimes in reaching citizens abroad. This phenomenon, “transnational authoritarianism,” further shows that the relationship between migration and authoritarianism is becoming more complex. Full Article
ria Regional Enforcement: A Profile of Migrants Deported from the United States and Mexico to the Northern Triangle By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:13:52 -0400 Marking the release of an MPI report, speakers on this webinar present an overview of regional immigration enforcement trends, including U.S. and Mexican apprehensions and deportations of both children and adults, along with a demographic, socioeconomic, and criminal profile of child and adult deportees. Full Article
ria Migrants Deported from the United States and Mexico to the Northern Triangle: A Statistical and Socioeconomic Profile By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:46:25 -0400 This report examines the rising numbers of apprehensions and deportations of Central American children and adults by the United States and Mexico, and provides a demographic, socioeconomic, and criminal profile of deportees to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The report traces how rising Mexican enforcement is reshaping regional dynamics and perhaps ushering in changes to long-lasting trends in apprehensions. Full Article
ria Regional Enforcement: A Profile of Migrants Deported from the United States and Mexico to the Northern Triangle By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:28:05 -0400 This webinar includes an overview of regional immigration enforcement trends, including U.S. and Mexican apprehensions and deportations of Central American migrants, along with a demographic, socioeconomic, and criminal profile of child and adult deportees. Full Article