Aging Deteriorates Blood Brain Barrier Function and Polarizes Adaptive T Cell Expansion Contributing to Neurocognitive Damage in Experimental Cirrhosis.

Cirrhosis incidence is significantly increased with age and frequently complicated with neurocognitive dysfunction. We have evaluated the contribution of aging to neuroinflammation in the liver-brain axis in advanced chronic liver disease. Young (6-week-old) and old (9-month-old) mice were included in a 12-week protocol of CCl-induced cirrhosis.

Systemic Inflammation In Asymptomatic Hyperuricemia With Sonographic Crystal Deposits, Including A Comparison With Normouricemia And Gout.

Objective: To describe the inflammatory profile of asymptomatic hyperuricemia (AH) with ultrasound evidence of monosodium urate (MSU) crystals (AH-MSUpos), vs AH without deposits (AH-MSUneg), intercritical gout, and normouricemia.

Methods: Based on serum urate levels, musculoskeletal ultrasound, and history of flares, we divided 122 participants into four groups: normouricemia, AH-MSUneg, AH-MSUpos, and intercritical gout. We tested four ultrasound definitions for MSU deposition in AH: grade 2-3 (G2-3) double contour and/or tophi, G1-3 double contour and/or tophi, G1-3 Stewart scheme (double contour sign in knee cartilage and/or first metatarsophalangeal joint and/or tophi in first metatarsophalangeal joint), and G2-3 Stewart scheme.

Peripheral blood regulatory T cells and disease activity, quality of life, and outcomes in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Objectives: To measure regulatory T cell (Treg) levels in the peripheral blood of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and analyse the association of this measure with disease activity, quality of life, adjustment of treatment, and hospitalisation.

Methods: We conducted a two-phase study (cross-sectional and prospective), including consecutive children with a JIA diagnosis according to ILAR criteria. Our independent variables were Tregs, Th1, Th2, and cytokines in peripheral blood, and our dependent variables in the cross-sectional phase were arthritis category, JIA activity, and patient-reported outcomes.

Cirrhosis-downregulated LSECtin can be retrieved by cytokines, shifts the TLR-induced LSECs secretome and correlates with the hepatic Th response.

Background And Aims: We evaluated tolerogenic C-type lectin LSECtin loss in cirrhosis and its potential regulation by cytokines.

Methods: Liver tissue from patients with cirrhosis and healthy controls, immortalised and generated LSECtin-CRISPR immortalised LSECs, and murine primary LSECs from the CCl model were handled.

Results: LSECtin expression was reduced in liver tissue from cirrhotic patients, and it decreased from compensated to decompensated disease.

Morphological Characterization of the Anterior Palatine Region Using Cone Beam Computed Tomography.

Background: Surgery of the anterior maxillary zone has a strong impact upon dental and facial aesthetics and function.

Purpose: To determine the anatomical characteristics and dimensions of the nasopalatine canal and alveolar bone using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT).

Materials And Methods: A retrospective, cross-sectional study was made of the nasopalatine canal in 122 randomly selected CBCT scans corresponding to 66 males (44.