Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds.

The critical temperature beyond which photosynthetic machinery in tropical trees begins to fail averages approximately 46.7 °C (T). However, it remains unclear whether leaf temperatures experienced by tropical vegetation approach this threshold or soon will under climate change.

Monitoring of Vedolizumab Infusion Therapy (MOVE-IT) Response With Fecal Inflammation Markers, Ultrasound, and Trough Serum Level in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis: Protocol for a Multicentric, Prospective, Noninterventional Study.

Background: Vedolizumab has been shown to induce clinical remission in patients with active ulcerative colitis. Treatment with anti-integrin vedolizumab leads to clinical remission in 16.9% and clinical response in 47.

Myelomeningocele - a single institute analysis of the years 2007 to 2015.

Background: After the introduction of folate supplementation, the number of open spinal dysraphism was successfully reduced over time. In 2007, the department for pediatric neurosurgery was established in the children's hospital. Since then, newborns with myelomeningocele (MMC), the most common form of open neural tube defects (NTD), are treated here.

Reaction profiles and energy surfaces of compressed species.

Both experiment and first principles calculations unequivocally indicate that properties of elements and their compounds undergo a tremendous transformation at ultrahigh pressures exceeding 1 Mbar due to the fact that the difference between intra- and intermolecular interactions disappears under such conditions. Yet, even at much milder pressures of 50-300 kbar, when molecules still retain their individual identity, their chemical properties and reactivity change dramatically. Since kinetics and mechanisms of condensed-phase reactions are described in terms of their potential energy (PES) or Gibbs energy (GES) surfaces, chemical effects of high pressure can be assessed through analysis of pressure-induced deformations of GES of solvated reaction systems.

ARDS as presenting symptom in an infant with CD40L deficiency (Hyper-IgM syndrome Type 1).

We report on a 4 month old male infant with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). A diagnostic algorithm including extended infectiological and immunological work-up revealed absence of CD40-ligand. ARDS was treated successfully with a complex respiratory therapy plus intravenous immunoglobulin substitution.