Diverse Imaging Methods May Influence Long-Term Oncologic Outcomes in Oligorecurrent Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Metastasis-Directed Therapy (the PRECISE-MDT Study).

Metastasis-directed therapy (MDT) has been tested in clinical trials as a treatment option for oligorecurrent prostate cancer (PCa). However, there is an ongoing debate regarding the impact of using different imaging techniques interchangeably for defining lesions and guiding MDT within clinical trials. We retrospectively identified oligorecurrent PCa patients who had 5 or fewer nodal, bone, or visceral metastases detected by choline or prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT and who underwent MDT stereotactic body radiotherapy with or without systemic therapy in 8 tertiary-level cancer centers.

Mucilage cells in the flower of Rosales species: reflections on morphological diversity, classification, and functions.

The presence of mucilage cells in plants, studied mainly in vegetative organs, is a condition shared by several taxonomic groups and aspects related to their diversity have been discussed with systematic purposes. This study explores the flower distribution and classification of mucilage cells in Rosales species, with inferences about flower functions. Floral buds from fifty-seven species representing seven of nine families recognized in the Rosales were sampled and processed for light and transmission electron microscopy.

Anatomy solves the puzzle of explosive pollen release in wind-pollinated urticalean rosids.

Premise Of The Study: This study details the unusual synorganization of the staminate flower in wind-pollinated urticalean rosids to add the missing pieces that complete the puzzle of the explosive mechanism of pollen release in this group.

Methods: Flower buds and flowers were analyzed using light and scanning electron microscopy.

Key Results: The pistillode, stamens, and sepals form a floral apparatus that explosively releases pollen to be carried by the wind.

In the interface of caesalpinioids and mimosoids: Comparative floral development elucidates shared characters in and (Leguminosae).

Premise Of The Study: and (Leguminosae) have long been considered a possible enigmatic link between caesalpinioids and mimosoids because they both have an imbricate calyx and heteromorphic androecium, floral features that are rare among mimosoids but common among caesalpinioids. This study compared the developing flowers of and to determine whether the shared floral conditions also have the same ontogenetic origin.

Methods: Buds of different sizes and flowers were processed for surface (scanning electron microscopy) and histological (light microscopy) examination.