Duodenal Eosinophilia in Functional Dyspepsia

Aim: to present observation of a patient diagnosed with functional dyspepsia based on current guidelines, and having increased eosinophil counts in the biopsy specimen of duodenal mucosa. To consider possible causes of duodenal eosinophilia in the light of present-day concepts.Highlights. Patient K., 40 years old, complained of dyspeptic phenomena, the first appearance of which she had noted at the age of 18. The patient noted poor tolerance to canned and fermented foods, which provoked an increase in dyspepsia and sometimes caused watery diarrhea. The examination excluded “symptoms of concern”. Successful antihelicobacter eradication therapy was carried out. Morphological examination of the stomach showed phenomena of mild chronic inflammation without intestinal metaplasia or glandular atrophy. A biopsy of the mucosa of the descending part of the duodenum showed a moderate increase in the levels of mononuclears and eosinophils in its lamina propria without penetration into the epithelium of the villi or formation of clusters. The patient suffers from pollinosis; sensitization to birch pollen was diagnosed by a skin prick test. However, she has no oral allergy symptoms, which does not allow linking duodenal eosinophilia to food allergy. Based on current guidelines, the patient was diagnosed with functional dyspepsia. In addition to dietary restrictions, treatment courses with a proton pump inhibitor, itopride, and S-methylmethionine sulfonium chloride, which has an antihistamine effect, were recommended for periods of worsening dyspepsia.Conclusion. The clinical significance of duodenal eosinophilia and local histamine production in patients with a clinical diagnosis of functional dyspepsia deserves special attention. Triggering factors provoking the worsening of symptoms should be analyzed; in particular, a food diary and exclusion of food allergies are recommended. Histamine-neutralizing drugs may play a role in the treatment of FD with duodenal eosinophilia in the future

ИФЛА и ЦУР: обзор проектов Секции окружающей среды, устойчивого развития и библиотек

Among the other IFLA sections and thematic groups, IFLA Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section (ENSULIB) is in the thick of sustainability problems and, in particular, of ecological component of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). ENSULIB encourages the libraries to inspire their communities for the ecologically sustainable course of action through providing materials on “green” librarianship, giving the floor to “green” librarians and library projects, by taking the lead and propounding the discussion.On IFLA ENSULIB web page, one can find materials and projects for the libraries working in ecological education and advocating sustainability ideas, and among these initiatives are IFLA Green Library Award, news bulletin, open access thematic information resource, Library Map of the World Project, and regular webinars. The ENSULIB provides support to zero-waste and decrease-ofconsumption projects. The authors discuss the materials that might be useful for Russian libraries.Среди множества секций и тематических групп Международной федерации библиотечных ассоциаций (ИФЛА) наиболее плотно вопросами устойчивого развития, а особенно вопросами, связанными с экологической составляющей Целей устойчивого развития (ЦУР), занимается Секция окружающей среды, устойчивого развития и библиотек (Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section – ENSULIB). Деятельность ENSULIB направлена на то, чтобы библиотекари вдохновляли свои сообщества на более экологически устойчивый образ действий, предоставляя материалы по «зелёному библиотечному делу», давая слово «зелёным библиотекарям и библиотечным проектам», подавая пример и предлагая обсуждение этих вопросов.На тематической странице секции на сайте ИФЛА представлено множество материалов и проектов для библиотек, работающих в области экологического просвещения и продвижения идей устойчивого развития. Среди них: премия ИФЛА «Зелёная библиотека», информационный бюллетень, общедоступный тематический информационный ресурс, проект «Библиотечная карта», регулярные вебинары. Оказана поддержка проектам, призванным сократить выбросы и снизить уровень потребления. В статье освещены материалы, которые могут быть использованы в деятельности российских библиотек

ФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ПОТЕНЦИАЛ КЛЕТОК ПАМЯТИ CD8+ В УСЛОВИЯХ ЛИМФОПЕНИИ, ВЫЗВАННОЙ ВВЕДЕНИЕМ ГИДРОКОРТИЗОНА

Background. Wide use of glucocorticoids therapy for neoplasms, autoimmune diseases and allergies is associated with suppression of adaptive immunity that requires profound study of their immunoregulatory properties and immunotoxicity.Results. In this work, using our model of selective activation of mouse CD8+ memory cells in the mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) in vitro, we show for the first time that intraperitoneal injection of high dose hydrocortisone (2.5 mg per animal) allows to detect memory cells in the thymus of animals immunized with allogeneic tumor cells. Similar to memory cells from other lymphoid organs, hydrocortisone-resistant thymic lymphocytes from immune animals respond on allogeneic stimulators subjected to severe heat shock and are immunologically specific to immunizing alloantigen. Thus, cortisone-resistant thymocytes are partially or completely represented by memory cells. We also show here that memory responses of heterozygotes on TCR a-chain knock-out (genetically incapable to secondary rearrangement of TCR achains) are significantly enhanced as compared with the ones of wild type mice.Conclusion. These findings allows to suggest the hypothesis according to which memory T cell clones proliferating in primary immune response migrate into thymus providing necessary microenvironment for reexpression of recombinases. After editing of genes encoding TCR achains, such T lymphocytes can return to peripheral repertoire maintaining its wideness.Введение. Широкое применение глюкокортикоидов в терапии онкологических, аутоиммунных и аллергических заболеваний сопряжено с подавлением функций адаптивного иммунитета и ставит задачу углубленного исследования их иммунорегуляторных свойств и иммунотоксичности.Результаты. Используя разработанную нами модель селективной активации мышиных клеток памяти CD8+ в смешанной культуре лимфоцитов (mixedlymphocytereaction, MLR) invitro, в этой работе мы впервые показали, что внутрибрюшинное введение мышам гидрокортизона в высокой дозе (2,5 мг на 1 животное) позволяет обнаружить Т-клетки памяти в тимусе животных, иммунизированных клетками  аллогенной опухоли. Как и клетки  памяти из других лимфоидных органов, лимфоциты тимуса иммунных животных, резистентные к гидрокортизону, отвечают пролиферацией на аллогенные стимуляторы, подвергнутые острому тепловому шоку и иммунологически специфичны к иммунизирующему аллоантигену. Таким образом, кортизонрезистентные тимоциты частично или полностью представлены клетками памяти. Также мы показали, что у гетерозигот по нокауту α-цепи TCR (генетически неспособных ко вторичной реаранжировке α-цепей) ответы клеток памяти значительно усилены по сравнению с ответами клеток памяти мышей дикого типа.Заключение. Полученные данные позволяют выдвинуть гипотезу, согласно которой клоны Т-клеток памяти, размножившиеся в первичном иммунном ответе, мигрируют в тимус, обеспечивающий микроокружение, необходимое для реэкспрессии ими рекомбиназ. После завершения редактирования α-цепей TCR такие Т-лимфоциты могут вернуться в периферический репертуар, поддерживая его широту

Constraints on jet quenching in p-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=5.02 TeV measured by the event-activity dependence of semi-inclusive hadron-jet distributions

CNPQ - CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOFINEP - FINANCIADORA DE ESTUDOS E PROJETOSFAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOThe ALICE Collaboration reports the measurement of semi-inclusive distributions of charged-particle jets recoiling from a high-transverse momentum trigger hadron in p-Pb collisions at root s(NN) = 5.02TeV. Jets are reconstructed from charged-particle tracks using the anti-k(T) algorithm with resolution parameter R = 0.2 and 0.4. A data-driven statistical approach is used to correct the uncorrelated background jet yield. Recoil jet distributions are reported for jet transverse momentum 15 < p(T,jet)(ch) < 50 GeV/c and are compared in various intervals of p-Pb event activity, based on charged-particle multiplicity and zero-degree neutral energy in the forward (Pb-going) direction. The semi-inclusive observable is self-normalized and such comparisons do not require the interpretation of p-Pb event activity in terms of collision geometry, in contrast to inclusive jet observables. These measurements provide new constraints on the magnitude of jet quenching in small systems at the LHC. In p-Pb collisions with high event activity, the average medium-induced out-of-cone energy transport for jets with R = 0.4 and 15 < p(T,jet)(ch) < 50 GeV/c is measured to be less than 0.4 GeV/c at 90% confidence, which is over an order of magnitude smaller than a similar measurement for central Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV. Comparison is made to theoretical calculations of jet quenching in small systems, and to inclusive jet measurements in p-Pb collisions selected by event activity at the LHC and in d-Au collisions at RHIC.78395113CNPQ - CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOFINEP - FINANCIADORA DE ESTUDOS E PROJETOSFAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOCNPQ - CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOFINEP - FINANCIADORA DE ESTUDOS E PROJETOSFAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOSem informaçãoSem informaçãoSem informaçãoAgências de fomento estrangeiras apoiaram essa pesquisa, mais informações acesse artig

Longitudinal asymmetry and its effect on pseudorapidity distributions in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

First results on the longitudinal asymmetry and its effect on the pseudorapidity distributions in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider are obtained with the ALICE detector. The longitudinal asymmetry arises because of an unequal number of participating nucleons from the two colliding nuclei, and is estimated for each event by measuring the energy in the forward neutron-Zero-Degree-Calorimeters (ZNs). The effect of the longitudinal asymmetry is measured on the pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles in the regions vertical bar eta vertical bar < 0.9, 2.8 < eta < 5.1 and -3.7 < eta < -1.7 by taking the ratio of the pseudorapidity distributions from events corresponding to different regions of asymmetry. The coefficients of a polynomial fit to the ratio characterise the effect of the asymmetry. A Monte Carlo simulation using a Glauber model for the colliding nuclei is tuned to reproduce the spectrum in the ZNs and provides a relation between the measurable longitudinal asymmetry and the shift in the rapidity (y(0)) of the participant zone formed by the unequal number of participating nucleons. The dependence of the coefficient of the linear term in the polynomial expansion, c(1), on the mean value of y(0) is investigated.Peer reviewe

Constraining the magnitude of the chiral magnetic effect with event shape engineering in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

CNPQ - CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOFINEP - FINANCIADORA DE ESTUDOS E PROJETOSFAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOIn ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, the event-by-event variation of the elliptic flow v(2) reflects fluctuations in the shape of the initial state of the system. This allows to select events with the same centrality but different initial geometry. This selection technique, Event Shape Engineering, has been used in the analysis of charge-dependent two-and three-particle correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV. The two-particle correlator < cos(phi(alpha) - phi(ss))gt;, calculated for different combinations of charges alpha and beta, is almost independent of v(2) (for a given centrality), while the three-particle correlator < cos(phi(alpha) + phi(beta) - 2 Psi(2))gt; scales almost linearly both with the event v(2) and charged-particle pseudorapidity density. The charge dependence of the three-particle correlator is often interpreted as evidence for the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME), a parity violating effect of the strong interaction. However, its measured dependence on v(2) points to a large non-CME contribution to the correlator. Comparing the results with Monte Carlo calculations including a magnetic field due to the spectators, the upper limit of the CME signal contribution to the three-particle correlator in the 10-50% centrality interval is found to be 26-33% at 95% confidence level.777151162CNPQ - CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOFINEP - FINANCIADORA DE ESTUDOS E PROJETOSFAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOCNPQ - CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOFINEP - FINANCIADORA DE ESTUDOS E PROJETOSFAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOSem informaçãoSem informaçãoSem informaçãoAgências de fomento estrangeiras apoiaram essa pesquisa, mais informações acesse artig

First measurement of Ξc0 production in pp collisions at s=7 TeV

The production of the charm-strange baryon Csi0c is measured for the first time at the LHC via its semileptonic decay into e+Csi-νe in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ALICE detector. The transverse momentum (pT) differential cross section multiplied by the branching ratio is presented in the interval 1 &lt; pT &lt; 8 GeV/c at mid-rapidity, |y| &lt; 0.5. The transverse momentum dependence of the Csi0c baryon production relative to the D0 meson production is compared to predictions of event generators with various tunes of the hadronisation mechanism, which are found to underestimate the measured cross- section ratio.The production of the charm-strange baryon Csi0c is measured for the first time at the LHC via its semileptonic decay into e+Csi-νe in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ALICE detector. The transverse momentum (pT) differential cross section multiplied by the branching ratio is presented in the interval 1 &lt; pT &lt; 8 GeV/c at mid-rapidity, |y| &lt; 0.5. The transverse momentum dependence of the Csi0c baryon production relative to the D0 meson production is compared to predictions of event generators with various tunes of the hadronisation mechanism, which are found to underestimate the measured cross- section ratio