Potassium-Alkali-Enriched Diet, Hypertension, and Proteinuria following Uninephrectomy.

Key Points: A K-alkali–enriched diet blunted post-uninephrectomy hypertension and facilitated acid clearance by suppressing Na reabsorption. Uninephrectomy-associated proteinuria could be attributed to elevated single-nephron GFR and downregulation of megalin, which reduced fractional protein endocytosis.

Background: Losing or donating a kidney is associated with risks of developing hypertension and albuminuria.

An interdisciplinary model chain quantifies the footprint of global change on reservoir sedimentation.

Global change alters hydro-climatic conditions, affects land use, and contributes to more frequent droughts and floods. Large artificial reservoirs may effectively alleviate hydro-climatic extremes, but their storage capacities are threatened by sedimentation processes, which in turn are exacerbated by land use change. Envisioning strategies for sustainable reservoir management requires interdisciplinary model chains to emulate key processes driving sedimentation under global change scenarios.

Attrition from paediatric weight management impacts anthropometric outcomes at 2 years, but not health-related quality of life.

The study objective is to evaluate the influence of attrition from a paediatric weight management program (PWM) on health indicators over a 2-year period. In this observational study, children and youth with obesity were recruited at entry into a family-based behaviour modification PWM and had four research study visits, independent of clinic visits, over 2 years. Participants were divided into attrition groups based on length of clinic enrolment.

Association Between Intraoperative Remifentanil Dosage and Postoperative Opioid Consumption in Adolescent Idiopathic Spine Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Background: Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) surgery is associated with significant postoperative pain. Remifentanil is a short-acting opioid that is often used as a component of total intravenous anesthesia. Remifentanil has been implicated in acute opioid tolerance and opioid-induced hyperalgesia, resulting in increased postoperative pain and opioid consumption.

Determination of Critical Requirements for Classical Swine Fever Virus NS2-3-Independent Virion Formation.

For members of the , it is known that, besides the structural proteins, nonstructural (NS) proteins also play a critical role in virion formation. Pestiviruses, such as bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), rely on uncleaved NS2-3 for virion formation, while its cleavage product, NS3, is selectively active in RNA replication. This dogma was recently challenged by the selection of gain-of-function mutations in NS2 and NS3 which allowed virion formation in the absence of uncleaved NS2-3 in BVDV type 1 (BVDV-1) variants encoding either a ubiquitin (Ubi) (NS2-Ubi-NS3) or an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) (NS2-IRES-NS3) between NS2 and NS3.

Lifespan map creation enhances stream restoration design.

Research and engineering efforts are establishing a vast number of stream restoration planning approaches, design testing frameworks, construction techniques, and performance evaluation methods. A primary question arises as to the lifespan of stream restoration features. This study develops a framework to identify relevant parameters, design criteria and survival thresholds for ten multidisciplinary restoration techniques: •Parameterize relevant features, notably, (1) bar and floodplain grading; (2) berm setback; (3) vegetation plantings; (4) riprap placement; (5) sediment replenishment; (6) side cavities; (7) side channel and anabranches; (8) streambed reshaping; (9) structure removal; and (10) placement of wood in the shape of engineered logjams and rootstocks.

Hydro-morphological parameters generate lifespan maps for stream restoration management.

Anthropogenic, eco-morphological degradation of lotic waters necessitates laws, directives, and voluntary actions involving stream restoration and habitat enhancement. Research and engineering efforts are establishing a vast number of stream restoration planning approaches, design testing frameworks, construction techniques, and performance evaluation methods. As the practice of restoration scales up from an individual action at a single site to sequences of actions at many sites in a long river segment, a primary question arises as to the lifespan of such a sequence.

Pestivirus virion morphogenesis in the absence of uncleaved nonstructural protein 2-3.

The family Flaviviridae contains three genera of positive-strand RNA viruses, namely, Flavivirus, Hepacivirus (e.g., hepatitis C virus [HCV]), and Pestivirus.