Assessment of immune-cell subsets within the tumor immune microenvironment is a powerful approach to better understand cancer immunotherapy responses. However, the use of biopsies to assess the tumor immune microenvironment poses challenges, including the potential for sampling error, restricted sampling over time, and inaccessibility of some tissues/organs, as well as the fact that single biopsy analyses do not reflect discordance across multiple intrapatient tumor lesions. Immuno-positron emission tomography (PET) presents a promising translational imaging approach to address the limitations and assess changes in the tumor microenvironment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite the enormous promise of T cell therapies, the isolation and study of human T cell receptors (TCRs) of dedicated specificity remains a major challenge. To overcome this limitation, we generated mice with a genetically humanized system of T cell immunity. We used VelociGene technology to replace the murine TCRαβ variable regions, along with regions encoding the extracellular domains of co-receptors CD4 and CD8, and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II, with corresponding human sequences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Acute compartment syndrome is a serious complication of trauma and pathological disorders. Non-traumatic acute compartment syndrome is very rare and has no coherence with trauma. The case report demonstrates diagnostics difficulties and the treatment strategy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Open surgical treatment of Achilles tendon rupture comes with high ratio of complications. We have retrospectively evaluated those complications to find patients that would benefit from the mini-invasive technique.
Methods: We analysed all patients after surgical treatment of acute Achilles tendon rupture between the years 2014 and 2020.
Functional molecular groups mounted on specific foot structures are ideal model systems to study intermolecular interactions, due to the possibility to separate the functionality and the adsorption mechanism. Here, we report on the rotational switching of a thioacetate group mounted on a tripodal tetraphenylmethane (TPM) derivative adsorbed in ordered islands on a Au(111) surface. Using low temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy, individual freestanding molecular groups of the lattice can be switched between two bistable orientations.
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