Publications by authors named "E J Dick"

Previous studies in rodents suggest that mismatch between fetal and postnatal nutrition predisposes individuals to metabolic diseases. We hypothesized that in nonhuman primates (NHP), fetal programming of maternal undernutrition (MUN) persists postnatally with a dietary mismatch altering metabolic molecular systems that precede standard clinical measures. We used unbiased molecular approaches to examine response to a high fat, high-carbohydrate diet plus sugar drink (HFCS) challenge in NHP juvenile offspring of MUN pregnancies compared with controls (CON).

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The majority of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) negative individuals exposed to () control the bacillary infection as latent TB infection (LTBI). Co-infection with HIV, however, drastically increases the risk to progression to tuberculosis (TB) disease. TB is therefore the leading cause of death in people living with HIV (PLWH) globally.

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  • The study investigates common injury sites and imaging findings in penetrating injuries, focusing on gluteal, anterior abdominal wall, and junctional zone injuries, to identify diagnostic uncertainties.
  • A retrospective review of pediatric trauma cases from 2015 to 2019 reveals that gluteal injuries are the most frequent, primarily superficial, but with a significant minority presenting serious complications needing urgent treatment.
  • Although anterior abdominal wall and junctional zone injuries are rarer, they involve higher morbidity and diagnostic uncertainty, highlighting the need for thorough imaging to improve trauma diagnosis and management.
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  • Chronic immune activation in HIV/TB co-infection increases the risk of TB reactivation, highlighting the need for therapies that target immune responses.
  • The IDO inhibitor D-1 methyl tryptophan (D1MT) shows promise in improving immune function in the lungs and enhancing TB control without affecting HIV treatment.
  • Further trials are recommended to investigate the effectiveness of IDO inhibition as a host-directed therapy in individuals co-infected with M. tuberculosis and HIV while on antiretroviral therapy.
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We report the reactivity, structures and spectroscopic characterization of reactions of phosphine-based ligands (mono-, di- and tri-dentate) with iron-carbide carbonyl clusters. Historically, the archetype of this cluster class, namely [Fe(μ-C)(μ-CO)(CO)], can be prepared on a gram-scale but is resistant to simple ligand substitution reactions. This limitation has precluded the relevance of iron-carbide clusters relating to organometallics, catalysis and the nitrogenase active site cluster.

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