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Finally, we demonstrate that the PB nanoprobe is successfully able to image the variation of ONOO- in drug-induced hepatotoxicity in vivo by PAI and MRI bimodal imaging. Notably, the complementarity of such dual-modality imaging could not only endow our probes with better accuracy and higher penetration depth for visualizing of ONOO- in drug-induced liver injury but also provide anatomical structure to identify the injury area of livers.Copper is an essential element that plays an important role in both cancer development and growth. Indeed, high levels of copper have been found in prostate cancer (PCa), and this finding have paved the way for the use of this element as a target for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. Copper64 (64Cu) can be used alone, as 64CuCl and other PET tracers radio-labelled with 64Cu.

COVID-19 can lead to life-threatening disease. While awaiting vaccines or documented specific therapeutic agents, several alternative treatment options are under investigation. This is a case report of the first COVID-19 patient treated with convalescent plasma in Norway.

A patient with severe COVID-19 on prolonged mechanical ventilation, who was PCR SARS-Cov-2 positive on day 22, was transfused with convalescent plasma on day 31 and tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 the following day. The patient gradually improved and was weaned from the ventilator and discharged alive from the ICU on day 63.

This case report concerns one patient with clinical improvement after convalescent plasma transfusion. A SARS-CoV-2 test was not performed immediately before transfusion and the complexity of intensive care treatment makes it difficult to draw any conclusions on the potential effectiveness of this treatment. However, this case report is encouraging with regard to planned trials with convalescent plasma.

This case report concerns one patient with clinical improvement after convalescent plasma transfusion. A SARS-CoV-2 test was not performed immediately before transfusion and the complexity of intensive care treatment makes it difficult to draw any conclusions on the potential effectiveness of this treatment. However, this case report is encouraging with regard to planned trials with convalescent plasma.

Gynaecological fistulae cause urinary and/or faecal incontinence. Haukeland University Hospital has systematically recorded treatments for gynaecological fistulae, since 2012 in its capacity as the Norwegian National Unit for Gynaecological Fistulae. This study describes characteristics of and therapeutic outcomes for gynaecological fistulae caused by surgery and/or radiotherapy.

We have conducted a retrospective cohort study of women who were treated at the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, in the period 1995-2019 for gynaecological fistulae due to surgery or radiotherapy.

Surgery or radiotherapy was the cause of gynaecological fistulae in 182 of a total of 411 women. 163 of them consented to the study, 124/163 (76%) with fistulae following surgery and 39/163 (24%) with fistulae following radiotherapy. The post-surgical fistulae were mainly urogenital (91/124 73%) and most often caused by a hysterectomy (n = 71) or urinary incontinence procedure (n = 11). Post-radiotherapy fistulae were mainly enterogenital (34/39 87%), with rectal cancer (n = 22) and cervical cancer (n = 11) as the most frequent types of cancer. The main procedure was vaginal fistuloplasty, which was carried out on 100/124 (81%) of women with post-surgical fistula and 7/39 (18%) of those with post-radiotherapy fistula. Catheter drainage or stomy alone resulted in healing in 14/163 (9%) of all patients. A total of 117/124 (94%) of women with post-surgical fistula achieved healing, compared with 10/39 (26%) with post-radiotherapy fistula. 28/39 (72%) of the latter had a permanent urostomy or enterostomy.

Gynaecological fistulae caused by surgery have a good healing rate, while post-radiotherapy fistulae are more often permanent.

Gynaecological fistulae caused by surgery have a good healing rate, while post-radiotherapy fistulae are more often permanent.Aronia fruits contain many valuable components that are beneficial to human health. However, fruits are characterized by significant variations in chemical composition dependent on the growing conditions and harvesting period. Therefore, there is a need to formulate the extracts with a precisely defined content of health-promoting substances. Aronia dry extracts (ADE) were prepared from frozen pomace applying water extraction, followed by purification and spray-drying. Subsequently, the content of anthocyanins, phenolic acids, and polyphenols was determined. selleck chemical The high-quality chokeberry pomace enabled obtaining extracts with anthocyanin content much higher than the typical market standards. Moreover, it was found that the antioxidant capacity of aronia extracts exceeded those found in other fruit preparations. Antioxidant and free-radical scavenging properties were evaluated using a 2,2′-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy (DPPH-EPR) test and Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) assay. The inhibition of lipid peroxidation and the level of inflammatory markers have been also investigated using lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated RAW 264 cells. It was revealed that ADE standardized to 25% of anthocyanins depresses the level of markers of inflammation and lipid peroxidation (Interleukin 1 beta (IL-1β), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), and malondialdehyde (MDA)) in in vitro conditions. Additionally, it was confirmed that ADE at all analyzed concentrations did not show any cytotoxic effect as demonstrated by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay.Detection technology of underwater pipeline leakage plays an important role in the subsea production system. In this paper, a new method based on the acoustic leak signal collected by a hydrophone is proposed to detect pipeline leakage in the subsea production system. Through the pipeline leakage test, it is found that the radiation noise is a continuous spectrum of the medium and high-frequency noise. Both the increase in pipe pressure and the diameter of the leak hole will narrow the spectral structure and shift the spectrum center towards the low frequencies. Under the same condition, the pipe pressure has a greater impact on the noise; every 0.05 MPa increase in the pressure, the radiation sound pressure level increases by 6-7 dB. The time-frequency images were obtained by processing the acoustic signals using the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) and Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT), and fed into a two-layer Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for leakage detection. The results show that CNN can correctly identify the degree of pipeline leakage.