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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) is associated with mortality in patients with Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease (MAC-LD). However, the clinical significance of the positivity of Aspergillus precipitating antibody (APAb), a serodiagnostic test for pulmonary aspergillosis (PA), at the time of MAC-LD diagnosis is unknown. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of APAb test results on the clinical outcomes of patients with MAC-LD. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed patients who were newly diagnosed as having MAC-LD between 2007 and 2014 in our hospital and checked for APAb at the time of diagnosis. RESULTS We enrolled 131 patients in this study. Of these patients, 20 (15.3%) tested positive for APAb at the diagnosis of MAC-LD. The APAb-positive patients were more frequently male (70.0% vs. 37.8%, P = 0.013) and more frequently had pulmonary emphysema (60.0% vs. 13.5%, P less then 0.001) and interstitial pneumonia (15.0% vs. 1.8%, P = 0.025) compared with the APAb-negative patients. During a median follow-up period of 4.0 years, PA developed in 12 of the APAb-positive patients (60.0%, CPA 9 and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis 3) and 12 APAb-negative patients (10.8%, CPA 12) (P less then 0.001). The APAb-positive patients had a significantly higher rate of mortality than did the APAb-negative patients (P = 0.004). A multivariate analysis indicated that older age, lower albumin, fibrocavitary or fibrocavitary and nodular/bronchiectatic radiographic features, and APAb positivity were negative prognostic factors. CONCLUSIONS APAb-positive patients with MAC-LD more frequently develop PA and may have an unfavorable prognosis. PURPOSE To investigate the effects of low dose endotoxin on transcriptional activity in intestinal epithelium, and its role in necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). METHODS Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) were injected into the amniotic cavity of pregnant mice under ultrasound guidance. The effects of LPS on fetal and neonatal intestines were determined. Mouse pups were exposed to low dose LPS (0.01 μg per fetus) prenatally and subjected to experimental NEC after birth. The incidence and severity of NEC, as well as intestinal permeability, NF-κB activation, and IL-6 expression were studied. The signaling pathways in the intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) that were activated by LPS were also investigated. RESULTS Low dose LPS did not increase apoptosis, myeloperoxidase activity, histological injury or NF-κB activity in fetal intestines. However, prenatal low dose LPS exposure disturbed the transient and self-limited activation of NF-κB in neonatal intestines after birth. Importantly, it increased the incidence and severity of experimental NEC in neonatal mice. In primary IECs, low dose LPS induced IRAK-1 expression via activation of GSK3β. Elevated IRAK-1 levels prolonged the activation of IECs upon stimulation by high dose LPS. CONCLUSION Prenatal low dose endotoxin exposure disturbs self-limited postnatal epithelial cell activation and predisposes the neonatal intestine to NEC. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Not applicable (experimental animal study). BACKGROUND Physician stress impacts patient care and provider wellness. Researchers have largely used reductionist approaches to study stress (e.g. focusing on physiology). This study sought to understand surgeons' subjective experiences of stress in the workplace, using a holistic perspective. METHODS Using a constructivist grounded theory methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 staff surgeons at the University of Toronto, purposively sampled for specialties and experience levels. RESULTS The stress experience was reconceptualized as a variable and multidimensional state of fracture, comprised of physiologic, cognitive, emotional, sociocultural, and environmental facets. CONCLUSIONS Reconceptualizing surgeon stress as a multidimensional state of fracture may help surgeons recognize the contributing facets and identify appropriate strategies for promoting wellness and optimizing performance. Two interpretations of similar structures for the same molecular machine illustrate the limits of inferring biochemical mechanism from protein structure. © 2020, Tsai and Hill.Simulations predict a paradoxical effect that should be revealed by patterned stimulation of the cortex. © 2020, Sanzeni and Histed.BACKGROUND Major depressive episodes (MDEs) show diverse cortisol level alterations. Heterogeneity in symptom profiles, symptom severity and cortisol specimens may explain these heterogeneous results. Less severely ill out-patients with a non-melancholic MDE (NM-MDE) may have a variation in the rhythm of cortisol secretion rather than in its concentration. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/GDC-0980-RG7422.html METHOD Cortisol measures were taken (a) over a short-term period (12 h) by measuring daily salivary output using the area under the curve with respect to the ground (AUCg) and (b) over a long-term period (3 months) in hair. Additionally, cortisol reactivity measures in saliva - the cortisol awakening response and the 30 min delta cortisol secretion after awakening (DELTA) - were investigated in 19 patients with a melancholic MDE (M-MDE) and 52 with a NM-MDE, and in 40 matched controls who were recruited from the UK and Chile. Depression severity scores were correlated with different cortisol measures. RESULTS The NM-MDE group showed a decreased AUCg in comparison with controls (P = 0.02), but normal cortisol reactivity and long-term cortisol levels. The M-MDE group did not exhibit any significant cortisol alterations nor an association with depression severity scores. Higher Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score was linked with decreased hair cortisol concentration (HCC, P = 0.05) and higher DELTA (P = 0.04) in NM-MDEs, whereas decreased HCC was the sole alteration associated with out-patients with severe M-MDEs. CONCLUSIONS The contrasting short- and long-term cortisol output results are compatible with an alteration in the rhythm of cortisol secretion in NM-MDEs. This alteration may consist of large and/or intense episodes of hypercortisolaemia in moderate NM-MDEs and frequent, but brief and sharp early-morning DELTAs in its severe form. These changes may reflect the effects of environmental factors or episodes of nocturnal hypercortisolaemia that were not measured by the short-term samples used in this study.
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