Effects of pre-experimental fasting and sheltering on the swimming performance and oxygen consumption of juvenile grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella).

This study investigated the effects of pre-experimental fasting for 2, 7, and 14 days under both unsheltered (12 h dark-12 h light) and sheltered conditions on the critical swimming speed (U) and oxygen consumption (MO) of juvenile grass carp, using a modified swim respirometer. Key findings include (1) the U of test fish decreased significantly, by 28%, after fasting for 14 days and sheltering intensified the impact to a 43% decrease, and (2) fish anaerobic capacity decreased after 7 days but increased after 14 days, and was enhanced by sheltering conditions. These findings are important as they indicate that fasting and sheltering can impair grass carp survival and disrupt river ecosystem balance, highlighting the need for habitat conservation.

Pulling Back the Curtain: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Medical Spas in Missouri.

Background: There is very little legislation defining the degree of supervision and training required to perform cosmetic procedures in Missouri. The medical spa industry, particularly the volume and complexity of cosmetic procedures offered by medical spas, has seen significant growth in recent years.

Objective: To better understand the medical spa workforce, depth, and breadth of aesthetic procedures offered by medical spas in Missouri.

Effects of polystyrene microspheres on the swimming behavior and metabolism of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella).

Microplastics (MPs) are a heterogeneous class of pollutants fouling aquatic environments and they are hazardous to aquatic organisms. This study investigated the size-dependent effects of polystyrene microspheres (PSMPs) on the swimming ability, metabolism, and oxidative stress of juvenile grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella). Test fish were exposed to four sizes of PSMPs (0.

Chemical Conversions within the Mo-Ga-C System: Layered Solids with Variable Ga Content.

Layered carbides are fascinating compounds due to their enormous structural and chemical diversity, as well as their potential to possess useful and tunable functional properties. Their preparation, however, is challenging and forces synthesis scientists to develop creative and innovative strategies to access high-quality materials. One unique compound among carbides is MoGaC.

Early Intervention in Psychosis and Management of First Episode Psychosis in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.

Background And Hypothesis: People with first-episode psychosis (FEP) in low- and lower-middle-income countries (LMIC) experience delays in receiving treatment, resulting in poorer outcomes and higher mortality. There is robust evidence for effective and cost-effective early intervention in psychosis (EIP) services for FEP, but the evidence for EIP in LMIC has not been reviewed. We aim to review the evidence on early intervention for the management of FEP in LMIC.

Association Between Cardiovascular Event Type and Smoking Cessation Rates Among Outpatients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: Insights From the NCDR PINNACLE Registry.

Background: It is unclear how the type of an atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) event potentially influences patients' likelihood of smoking cessation.

Methods: Using 2013 to 2018 data from the US based National Cardiovascular Data Registry Practice Innovation and Clinical Excellence outpatient cardiac registry, we identified patients who were current smokers at a clinic visit and followed them over time for a subsequent ASCVD event. Self-reported smoking status was assessed at each consecutive visit and used to determine smoking cessation after each interim ASCVD event (myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass graft, stroke/transient ischemic attack, peripheral artery disease).

Diastolic Dysfunction and Health Status Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.

Background: Baseline left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) is associated with poor health status in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), but health status improvement after TAVR appears similar across all grades of LVDD. Here, we aim to examine the relationship between changes in LVDD severity and health status outcomes following TAVR.

Methods: Patients who underwent TAVR and had evaluable LVDD at both baseline and 1 year in the PARTNER (Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves) 2 SAPIEN 3 registries and PARTNER 3 trial were analyzed.

A Modified BPaL Regimen for Tuberculosis Treatment replaces Linezolid with Inhaled Spectinamides.

Unlabelled: The Nix-TB clinical trial evaluated a new 6-month regimen containing three-oral- drugs; bedaquiline (B), pretomanid (Pa) and linezolid (L) (BPaL regimen) for treatment of tuberculosis (TB). This regimen achieved remarkable results as almost 90% of the multidrug resistant (MDR) or extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB participants were cured but many patients also developed severe adverse events (AEs). The AEs were associated with the long-term administration of the protein synthesis inhibitor linezolid.

Traditional healers working with primary care and mental health for early intervention in psychosis in young persons: protocol for the feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial.

Objectives: In low/middle-income countries (LMICs), more than half of patients with first-episode psychosis initially seek treatment from traditional and religious healers as their first care. This contributes to an excessively long duration of untreated psychosis (DUP). There is a need for culturally appropriate interventions to involve traditional and spiritual healers to work collaboratively with primary care practitioners and psychiatrists through task-shifting for early detection, referral and treatment of first episode of psychosis.

Cryopreservation Induces Acetylation of Metabolism-Related Proteins in Boar Sperm.

Cryodamage affects the normal physiological functions and survivability of boar sperm during cryopreservation. Lysine acetylation is thought to be an important regulatory mechanism in sperm functions. However, little is known about protein acetylation and its effects on cryotolerance or cryodamage in boar sperm.

Metabolic Processes and Biological Macromolecules Defined the Positive Effects of Protein-Rich Biostimulants on Sugar Beet Plant Development.

Protein-based biostimulants (PBBs) have a positive effect on plant development, although the biological background for this effect is not well understood. Here, hydrolyzed wheat gluten (HWG) and potato protein film (PF) in two levels (1 and 2 g/kg soil) and in two different soils (low and high nutrient; LNC and HNC) were used as PBBs. The effect of these PBBs on agronomic traits, sugars, protein, and peptides, as well as metabolic processes, were evaluated on sugar beet in comparison with no treatment (control) and treatment with nutrient solution (NS).

Hospital-Level Variability in Use of Intracoronary Imaging for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the United States.

Background: Intracoronary (IC) imaging for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with better patient outcomes and carries a class IIA guideline recommendation, but it remains rarely used. We sought to characterize hospital-level variability in IC imaging for PCI in the United States and to identify factors that may explain this variability.

Methods: Patients who underwent PCI, with or without IC imaging, in the Nationwide Readmissions Database (2016-2020) were included.

Synthetic Hybrid-Scale Fiber Matrix for the Treatment of Complex Lower-Extremity Wounds.

Background: Chronic, nonhealing wounds are a growing health-care problem in the United States, affecting more than 6.5 million patients annually and costing the health-care system over $25 billion. Chronic wounds, including diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) and venous leg ulcers (VLUs), are often difficult to treat, and patients commonly fail to heal even with the most advanced therapies.

Odorant Receptor OR2C1 Is an Essential Modulator of Boar Sperm Capacitation by Binding with Heparin.

Heparin, a class of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), is widely used to induce sperm capacitation and fertilization. How heparin induces sperm capacitation remains unclear. Olfactory receptors (ORs) which are G protein-coupled receptors, have been proposed to be involved in sperm capacitation.

Mucosal exposure to non-tuberculous mycobacteria elicits B cell-mediated immunity against pulmonary tuberculosis.

Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is the only licensed vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB) disease. However, BCG has limited efficacy, necessitating the development of better vaccines. Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTMs) are opportunistic pathogens present ubiquitously in the environment.

Erratum to "Association of ambient air pollution with risk of out of hospital cardiac arrest in the United States" [Am. Heart J. Plus Cardiol. Res. Practice 17 (May 2022)].

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.ahjo.

Corrigendum to 'Association Between Hospital Resuscitation Team Leader Credentials and Survival Outcomes for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest' [Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovation Quality Outcomes, 2021, Vol 5, Issue 6, Pages 1021-1028, Article Number: doi: 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2021.06.002].

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.

Derivation and validation of a predictive model for chronic stress in patients with cardiovascular disease.

Background: Chronic stress in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), including peripheral artery disease (PAD), is independently associated worse outcomes. A model that can reliably identify factors associated with risk of chronic stress in patients with CVD is needed.

Methods: In a prospective myocardial infarction (MI) registry (TRIUMPH), we constructed a logistic regression model using 27 patient demographic, socioeconomic, and clinical factors, adjusting for site, to identify predictors of chronic stress over 1 year.

Association of ambient air pollution with risk of out of hospital cardiac arrest in the United States.

Objective: We assessed the association of acute exposure to ambient air particulate matter < 2.5 μm (PM) and Ozone with risk of out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).

Methods: We used data from the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES), a prospective multicenter registry of patients with OHCA in the U.

Association of country economy and socioeconomic factors on risk factor control for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes mellitus: Insights from the DISCOVER study.

Background: We sought to describe global patterns in achievement of risk factor control for primary prevention in patients with T2D and explore the association of country's GNI/capita with risk factor control.

Methods: The DISCOVER study is a prospective, observational study of patients with T2D from 38 countries enrolled at initiation of second-line glucose-lowering therapy. We examined achievement of risk factor control (glycosylated hemoglobin <7%, blood pressure <140/90 mmHg, prescription of a statin) at 3 years among those without optimal control at baseline.

Factors associated with weight loss in people with overweight or obesity living with type 2 diabetes mellitus: Insights from the global DISCOVER study.

Aims: To estimate real-world change in weight over 3 years and the factors influencing it in participants who are overweight and live with type 2 diabetes.

Materials And Methods: DISCOVER is a multinational prospective observational study that enrolled participants with type 2 diabetes between December 2014 and June 2016 at the time of initiation of a second-line glucose-lowering medication (GLM). Demographic, anthropometric, and quality-of-life data were collected at baseline, and after 6, 12, 24 and 36 months of follow-up.