Buyers expect much from the veterinarian examining a prospective horse for purchase. To compound this, the veterinarian is the gatekeeper in a highly unregulated transaction. The examining veterinarian must determine precisely what the buyer’s expectations are for the examination and their prospective new horse. How we communicate our findings to them is critical for helping them make an informed purchasing decision.

Introduction The Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are exceptionally rare mesenchymal derived tumors accounting for only 1% of all malignancies. Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) include 5-10% of STS cases that displays heterogeneous subtype of malignant mesenchymal tumor originated from smooth muscle tissues 1. The LMS Commonly diagnosed in the fifth and sixth decades of life, and it can be detected every anatomic site, including the uterus, retroperitoneum, extremities, and vasculature 2. The two primary categories of LMS contains uterine LMS (uLMS) and extrauterine (euLMS) types, the first is commonest subtype of uterine sarcoma, while metastatic euLMS are not well described in terms of treatment, outcomes and prognostic factors3. The treatment of this tumor is controversial. However, regardless the site of origin, surgical resection is cornerstone treatment for localized LMS 2,4. The standard surgical procedure includes a complete excision with wide negative margins that gives the best chance of cure 2. Pelvic external beam radiation therapy with or without brachytherapy are recommended for locally resected tumors, especially for advance metastatic disease, chemotherapy considered as an option2,4. In the euLMS is not clear that the choice of specific agent or sensitivity to first-line systemic therapy affects the response rate and clinical outcomes 5.The molecular heterogeneity of leiomyosarcoma is uknown also targeted therapy not available now, detection of different molecular subtypes is urgent to weigh novel therapeutic options. Two diagnostic immunohistochemical markers newly detected in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues; are LMOD1 (Leiomodin 1) in subtype I and ARL4C (ADP-ribosylation factor-like protein 4C) in subtype II leiomyosarcoma 6,7. Acording leiomyosarcoma tissue microarray and considering clinical outcome, specified that subtype I leiomyosarcoma is associated with good outcome in extrauterine leiomyosarcoma nonetheless, subtype II is related to poor prognosis in uterine and extrauterine leiomyosarcoma 7.Due to rarity and few confirmed cases reported in the literature, this case report presents a young female patient with euLMS, invading the ovary, uterus, small intestine, sigmoid colon, rectum, omentum and pancreas, which were treated with radical surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy.

Recently we demonstrated that in 452 COVID-19 inpatients higher colchicine doses reduced the mortality about 5 times. Here we report another 333 cases of COVID-19 inpatients, treated with different doses of colchicine. There was a clear trend of reduction in the mortality of inpatients with increasing doses of colchicine between 2- and 7-fold. Colchicine loading doses of 4 mg are more effective than those with 2 mg. Despite higher than the so-called “standard doses” of colchicine, our doses are completely safe. The World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended strategy to inhibit viral replication had partial success because there is no direct link between viral load and the hyperactivation of the NLRP3 inflammasome. The neutralization of the IL-6 effects with anti-receptor antibodies and the inhibition of the tyrosine kinase JAK can be compromised if NLRP3 continues to be hyperactive and generates a cytokine storm. Our treatment strategy to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 entry into the cell with inhaled bromhexine and the hyperactivated NLRP3 inflammasome with higher doses of colchicine, as the source of the cytokine storm practically solves the problem of treating COVID-19. The timing of initiation of treatment is critical.

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Ischemic stroke in a 4 year child resulting from scorpion envenomation: A case report from Nepal.Authors : Bhatta Sunil1, Awasthi Pusp Raj21-Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Nisarga Hospital and Research Center Pvt. Ltd.2-Department of Pediatric Critical Care, Nisarga Hospital and Research Center Pvt. Ltd.Data availability statement : Data described to support the findings is openly accessible in the article.

Human Papillomaviruses (HPV) are a diverse family of non-enveloped dsDNA viruses that infect the skin and mucosal epithelia. Persistent HPV infections can lead to cancer frequently involving integration of the virus into the host genome, leading to sustained oncogene expression and loss of capsid and genome maintenance proteins. Microhomology-mediated double-strand break repair, a DNA double-stranded breaks repair pathway present in many organisms, was initially thought to be a backup but it’s now seen as vital, especially in homologous recombination-deficient contexts. Increasing evidence has identified microhomology (MH) near HPV integration junctions, suggesting MH-mediated repair pathways drive integration. In this comprehensive review, we present a detailed summary of both the mechanisms underlying MH-mediated repair and the evidence for its involvement in HPV integration in cancer. Lastly, we highlight the involvement of these processes in the integration of other DNA viruses and the broader implications on virus lifecycles and host innate immune response.

Sibling relationships’ effects on social–emotional competence were investigated among elementary school children experiencing changing family structures. The study involved 965 students (ages 10–12 years; 472 boys, 503 girls; N5th grades = 510, N6th grades = 465) in a developed province in China. Sibling relationships and social–emotional competence showed a significant positive association. Sibling rivalry, conflict, and power contrast hindered children’s self-awareness, decision making, and interpersonal skills. Positive sibling relationships (e.g., sibling intimacy) were positively correlated with and predictive of social–emotional competence in children from multi-child families. Sibling intimacy best explained children’s social–emotional competence and predicted the development of social–emotional competence dimensions. Sibling intimacy aspects—pro-sociality, affect, companionship, and admiration—primarily predicted social–emotional competence.

Ten state wildlife management agencies in the United States, including six within the Southeast, have delayed their spring wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) hunting season since 2017 by five or more days to address concerns related to the potential effects of hunting on wild turkey seasonal productivity. One hypothesis posits that if the spring hunting season is too early, there may be insufficient time for males to breed hens before being harvested, thus leading to reduced seasonal productivity. We conducted an experiment to determine if delaying the wild turkey hunting season by two weeks in south-middle Tennessee would affect various reproductive rates. In 2021 and 2022, the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission experimentally delayed the spring hunting season to open 14 days later than the traditional date (the Saturday closest to 1 April) in Giles, Lawrence, and Wayne counties. We monitored reproductive rates from 2017 to 2022 in these three counties as well as two adjacent counties, Bedford and Maury, that were not delayed. We used a Before-After-Control-Impact design to analyze the proportion of hens nesting, clutch size, hatchability, nest success, poult survival, and hen survival with linear mixed-effect models and AIC model selection to detect relationships between the 14-day delay and reproductive parameters. We detected no relationship (P > 0.05) between the 14-day delay and any individual reproductive parameter. The traditional Tennessee start date had been in place since 1986 while the turkey harvest increased exponentially and more recently stabilized. Our data indicate that moving the start of the hunting season from a period prior to peak nest initiation to two weeks later to coincide with peak nest initiation and the onset of incubation resulted in similar levels of productivity in wild turkey flocks in south-middle Tennessee.

Plant-soil feedback (PSF), the reciprocal interaction between plants and their soil environment, is a fundamental ecological process that influences coexistence and functional structure in plant communities. Current theory establishes that PSF may enhance diversity or lead to exclusion depending on whether soil conditioning disproportionately benefits heterospecific or conspecific individuals. However, a more complete picture of the impact of PSF requires understanding how PSF synergizes with competition. To that end, here we propose an integrated mathematical model combining trait-based competition and soil-explicit PSF. Contrary to the current paradigm, we find that soil conditioning that disproportionately favors conspecific individuals can promote coexistence. Additionally, we show that priority effects are common when soil-conditioning species differ in their edaphic preferences. These effects can allow species with large differences in competitive ability to coexist under certain soil conditions. Our results provide testable predictions tying community-level functional patterns in plant communities to PSF and competition.

Understanding gene flow can help biodiversity to mitigate habitat changes by contributing to inform and design protected areas. The brown trout, Salmo trutta, displays a multitude of life-history strategies and represents an ideal model for applications in conservation genetics. Using a panel of 185-single nucleotide polymorphism markers, the present study aimed to explore the population structure of the brown trout and in the English Channel. The genotypes of 2,729 individual trout from 88 rivers were obtained across England and France. Population structure revealed the presence of genetic clusters following an east/west gradient. The maximum threshold distance between genetic distance and geographic distance was 344 km. The measure appeared relative to the studied spatial environment and reflected Salmo trutta capacity to achieve long migration distances. A machine-learning framework derived from a gradient forest analysis was used to generate a resistance surface using changes in allelic frequencies and environmental predicators. The resulting surface identified areas limiting gene flow. On the British coast, a genetic break was observed along the Jurassic coast, whereas the Cotentin peninsula acted as a physical barrier among French coastal populations. Salmo trutta populations appeared to be differently affected by environmental factors reflecting demes preference to specific breeding ground. Using our resistance map, the distance of maximum correlation using cost distance were computed allowing the pruning of our genetic graph. The resulting least cost path connections were mapped to reveal the main dispersal routes. Finally, a prioritization analysis using connectivity surface was implemented to design potential protected areas.

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Intro: psychotic disorders (PD) and eating disorders (ED) both are highly invalidating, costly and associated with premature death. Researchers call for early detection and intervention. Little is known about co-occurrence and associations between the at risk mental state for psychosis (ARMS) and ED. Objectives: to explore the prevalence of and associations between ARMS and ED-risk. To gain a first explorative insight into the similarities and differences of ARMS profiles in individuals with and without an ED risk score (EDr versus EDnr). Method: a cross sectional observational prevalence study (N=736) in secondary mental health care with a qualitative examination of ARMS profiles (N=47), using an ED screener (SCOFF), psychosis prodromal screener (PQ16) and CAARMS interview (detection of ARMS). We analyzed prevalences, associations (using Fisher’s exact test), and conditional probabilities of frequencies for CAARMS and SCOFF outcomes. We explored differences in ARMS profiles between EDr and EDnr by inspection of CAARMS reports. Results: ARMS and EDr are common across all psychiatric conditions. ED appear to remain largely undetected. Findings demonstrated no significant or conditional association of frequencies between CAARMS and EDr/nr outcome. ARMS items ‘guilt/punishment’ and ‘ideas of reference’ stood out in the EDr group. Conclusions: Be aware of ARMS and psychosis in ED. Pay more attention to possible ED. ARMS and psychosis are equally prevalent in EDr and EDnr, and vice versa. Researchers are encouraged to conduct studies on severity associations and profiles of psychosis spectrum symptoms in the various manifestations of ED.

In this paper, we present one Robust control Problem where \mathcal{P}=\{P(s,l,m)=U(s,l)/V(s,m):l\in L,m\in M \}  is a family of interval plants. Considering a multilinear function with two uncertain parameters l and m, we have shown the strictly positive real (SPR) constructing four Kharitonov Polynomials for that problem. For this case, the aim of the paper is twofold. First, we approach to show the robust stability of {P}(s,l,m). Second we show that   \displaystyle{\min_{l\in L,m\in M}}~~{Re U\left(j\omega,l ight)V^\ast\left(j\omega,m ight)>0} where V^\ast\left(j\omega,m ight) is conjugate of V(j\omega,m) and s=j\omega where omega is frequency assuming some domain. Then we have illustrated one example.

Magnetic nanoparticles have recently attracted attention for biochemical and medical applications like drug delivery and hyperthermia for a variety of reasons with most important being their stability, chemical compatibility, and suitable magnetic properties like moderate specific mass magnetization. Cobalt ferrites are a well-studied family of materials and the partial substitution of Fe 3+ cations by rare earth (RE) ones may be used to tune the magnetic properties. In the present work pure and substituted Co ferrite nanoparticles with nominal stoichiometry CoFe 2-xR xO 4 (R = Yb, Gd; x = 0.05, 0.1, 0.3) synthesized by the co-precipitation method are studied with 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy in order to determine the incorporation of RE ions in the spinel lattice. The fitting procedure was based on the standard spinel model using two sextets for the octahedral and the tetrahedral coordinated positions of Fe atoms. All isomer shift values were found within the typical range of high spin ferric ions while quadrupole splitting values strongly suggest that there is a substitution preference; RE ions replace iron ones in octahedral sites. The inversion parameter was found to decrease with RE content (lowest value about 0.534 for CoFe 1.90Yb 0.10O 4) and thermal treatment always results in changing the material towards normal spinel, while pure CoFe 2O 4 was inverse. Thermal treatment of substituted materials in ambient air at temperature range 1500-1700 K for 12 hours increase crystallite size and changes the degree of inversion.

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Coral populations across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) could rapidly adapt to the warming climate if they have standing genetic variation for thermal adaptation. Here, we describe a locus likely involved in acclimatization and adaptation of Acropora millepora to cooler temperatures at higher latitudes. This locus shows a strong signal of selection in the A. millepora genome, with a steep latitudinal gradient of derived allele frequency, and harbors a cluster of eight tandemly repeated Δ9-desaturase genes adjacent to a region where a hard sweep likely occurred. In colonies reciprocally transplanted across 4.5 degrees of latitude, the expression of Δ9-desaturase was upregulated at the cooler high-latitude reef. Furthermore, corals from the warmer low-latitude reef with one or two copies of the “cold-adapted” Δ9-desaturase allele expressed the gene more and grew faster than their peers when transplanted to the cooler reef. In other organisms ranging from bacteria to fish, Δ9-desaturase is upregulated under cold conditions to adjust membrane fluidity by introducing double bonds into fatty acid chains of membrane lipids. While all these lines of evidence are suggestive rather than conclusive, they collectively make Δ9-desaturase a strong candidate marker gene for coral thermal acclimatization and adaptation.

Background Previous research indicates disparities in atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence and complications following catheter ablation in women; however, long-term outcomes based on gender remain underexplored. Objective This study evaluated the long-term rates of AF recurrence and major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) following catheter ablation, investigating gender-related risk factors to inform clinical practice improvement. Methods We conducted a retrospective analysis using data from a prospectively observational registry of AF ablation procedures at our institution from 2015 to 2020. Patients were followed up for MACCE and AF recurrence. The risk factors of AF recurrence and MACCE were further explored. Results The study cohort consisted of 2,293 patients, including 1,441 males and 852 females, and had an average follow-up duration of 50.36 months. After catheter ablation, females exhibited a notably higher rate of recurrence compared to males, with a hazard ratio of 1.305 and a 95% confidence interval ranging from 1.101 to 1.547, which was statistically significant (p=0.0014). Gender differences in AF recurrence persisted regardless of early versus late intervention (both p<0.05). No significant difference in MACCE rates was observed between genders. Independent risk factors for AF recurrence included female gender, diabetes, left atrial diameter ≥40 mm. Conclusions Gender differences significantly impact the long-term outcomes of AF recurrence, but not MACCE rates post-catheter ablation. The study highlights the necessity to integrate gender considerations into AF management strategies.

The development of cost-effective, highly efficient, and durable electrocatalysts has been a paramount pursuit for advancing the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, a simplified synthesis protocol was designed to achieve a self-standing electrode, composed of activated carbon paper embedded with Ru single-atom catalysts and Ru nanoclusters (ACP/RuSAC+C) via acid activation, immersion, and high-temperature pyrolysis. Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) calculations are employed to gain a more profound understanding of the impact of acid activation on carbon paper. Furthermore, the coexistence states of the Ru atoms are confirmed via aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (AC-STEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). Experimental measurements and theoretical calculations reveal that introducing a Ru single atom site adjacent to the Ru nanoclusters induces a synergistic effect, tuning the electronic structure and thereby significantly enhancing their catalytic performance. Notably, the ACP/RuSAC+C exhibits a remarkable turnover frequency (TOF) of 18 s-1 and an exceptional mass activity (MA) of 2.2 A mg-1, surpassing the performance of conventional Pt electrodes. The self-standing electrode, featuring harmoniously coexisting Ru states, stands out as a prospective choice for advancing HER catalysts, enhancing energy efficiency, productivity, and selectivity.