The Role of Dental Occlusion Ties to Achieve Stable Maxillomandibular Fixation During Temporomandibular Joint Replacement.

Dental occlusion ties (Minne Ties®) are a new example of the concept of an oral zip tie used to establish maxillomandibular fixation (MMF). Each tie uses a blunt introducer that is easily passed between embrasures and fed through a self-locking, unidirectional clasp. Five to six ties are used to establish MMF.

Use of Messaging Principles to Design a Facebook Ad Promoting Public Engagement in Serious Illness Care for National Healthcare Decisions Day.

Public hesitation to engage in advance care planning, consultation with palliative care, and admission to hospice is a significant barrier to improving patient outcomes. In previous study, we derived five empirically supported messaging principles, and in this project we used these messaging principles to design, place, and analyze a 60-second video for the Oregon Coalition for Living Well with Serious Illness. The video was scripted to emphasize a single message that had emerged from the empirical research: that "you should have a say in your care.

Convergent eusocial evolution is based on a shared reproductive groundplan plus lineage-specific plastic genes.

Eusociality has convergently evolved multiple times, but the genomic basis of caste-based division of labor and degree to which independent origins of eusociality have utilized common genes remain largely unknown. Here we characterize caste-specific transcriptomic profiles across development and adult body segments from pharaoh ants (Monomorium pharaonis) and honey bees (Apis mellifera), representing two independent origins of eusociality. We identify a substantial shared core of genes upregulated in the abdomens of queen ants and honey bees that also tends to be upregulated in mated female flies, suggesting that these genes are part of a conserved insect reproductive groundplan.

Transcriptomic basis and evolution of the ant nurse-larval social interactome.

Development is often strongly regulated by interactions among close relatives, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are largely unknown. In eusocial insects, interactions between caregiving worker nurses and larvae regulate larval development and resultant adult phenotypes. Here, we begin to characterize the social interactome regulating ant larval development by collecting and sequencing the transcriptomes of interacting nurses and larvae across time.

Genomic Signature of Kin Selection in an Ant with Obligately Sterile Workers.

Kin selection is thought to drive the evolution of cooperation and conflict, but the specific genes and genome-wide patterns shaped by kin selection are unknown. We identified thousands of genes associated with the sterile ant worker caste, the archetype of an altruistic phenotype shaped by kin selection, and then used population and comparative genomic approaches to study patterns of molecular evolution at these genes. Consistent with population genetic theoretical predictions, worker-upregulated genes experienced reduced selection compared with genes upregulated in reproductive castes.

Metastatic basal cell carcinoma presenting as unilateral axillary lymphadenopathy: report of a case and review of the literature.

Background: Although basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is one of the most common forms of cancer worldwide, the incidence of metastatic basal cell carcinoma (MBCC) is exceedingly low. Of reported cases, it is estimated that up to 85% arise in the head and neck region.

Objective: Case presentation of a BCC measuring 1.