Filariasis of the Axilla in a Patient Returning from Travel Abroad: A Case Report

Background: The term filariasis comprises a group of parasitic infections caused by helminths belonging to different genera in the superfamily Filaroidea. The human parasites occur mainly in tropical and subtropical regions, but filariae are also found in temperate climates, where they can infect wild and domestic animals. Humans are rarely infected by these zoonotic parasites. Patients and Methods: A 55-year-old patient presented with a new-onset, subcutaneous, non-tender palpable mass in the right axilla. Ultrasonography showed a 1.3-cm, solid, singular encapsulated node. Sonography of the breast on both sides, axilla and lymphatic drainage on the left side, lymphatic drainage on the right side, and mammography on both sides were without pathological findings. The node was excised under local anesthesia as the patient refused minimal invasive biopsy. Results: On histopathological examination, the tail of a parasite of the group of filariae was found. The patient revealed that she had stayed in Africa and Malaysia for professional reasons. 6 months before the time of diagnosis, she had also suffered from a fever and poor general condition after a trip abroad. The patient was referred for further treatment to the Institute for Tropical Medicine at the University of Dusseldorf, where a treatment with ivermectin was conducted on the basis of positive staining with antibodies against filariae. Conclusion: Our case demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration between breast center, pathology, and other specialties such as microbiology and tropical medicine

Produção de mudas de almeirão e cultivo no campo, em sistema agroecológico.

Objetivou-se, neste trabalho, avaliar o desenvolvimento das mudas de almeirão em diferentes substratos orgânicos e verificar o comportamento em bandejas, após o transplante no campo e na pós-colheita, constituindo três experimentos. Foram avaliados o uso do substrato comercial e quatro misturas de proporções de composto, areia e pó de basalto. Foram quatro fases de avaliação: aos 13 e 26 dias após a emergência (DAE), aos 74 dias após o transplante e na pós-colheita. Avaliaram-se o comprimento e a massa da matéria seca de raiz e de parte aérea, número de folhas por planta, diâmetro do coleto, área foliar e a conservação pós-colheita. O composto orgânico e as misturas foram superiores ao substrato comercial, na maioria das características avaliadas nos 13 e 26 DAE; entretanto, o substrato comercial superou os demais tratamentos para o comprimento de raiz. Os substratos orgânicos (T2 e T3) podem ser recomendados para a produção de mudas de almeirão com desenvolvimento satisfatório em sistema de cultivo em bandejas e a campo e, de igual forma, em pós-colheita; o uso de composto orgânico como substrato para produção de mudas propiciou o desenvolvimento de mudas mais vigorosas e plantas mais resistentes no campo do que o substrato comercial

SSDSS IV MaNGA - Properties of AGN host galaxies

We present here the characterization of the main properties of a sample of 98 AGN host galaxies, both type-II and type-I, in comparison with those of about 2700 non-active galaxies observed by the MaNGA survey. We found that AGN hosts are morphologically early-type or early-spirals. For a given morphology AGN hosts are, in average, more massive, more compact, more central peaked and rather pressurethan rotational-supported systems. We confirm previous results indicating that AGN hosts are located in the intermediate/transition region between star-forming and non-star-forming galaxies (i.e., the so-called green valley), both in the ColorMagnitude and the star formation main sequence diagrams. Taking into account their relative distribution in terms of the stellar metallicity and oxygen gas abundance and a rough estimation of their molecular gas content, we consider that these galaxies are in the process of halting/quenching the star formation, in an actual transition between both groups. The analysis of the radial distributions of the starformation rate, specific star-formation rate, and molecular gas density shows that the quenching happens from inside-out involving both a decrease of the efficiency of the star formation and a deficit of molecular gas. All the intermediate data-products used to derive the results of our analysis are distributed in a database including the spatial distribution and average properties of the stellar populations and ionized gas, published as a Sloan Digital Sky Survey Value Added Catalog being part of the 14th Data Release: http://www.sdss.org/dr14/manga/manga-data/manga-pipe3d-value-added-catalog/Comment: 48 pages, 14 figures, in press in RMxA

The two-pore channel TPC1 is required for efficient protein processing through early and recycling endosomes

Two-pore channels (TPCs) are localized in endo-lysosomal compartments and assumed to play an important role for vesicular fusion and endosomal trafficking. Recently, it has been shown that both TPC1 and 2 were required for host cell entry and pathogenicity of Ebola viruses. Here, we investigate the cellular function of TPC1 using protein toxins as model substrates for distinct endosomal processing routes. Toxin uptake and activation through early endosomes but not processing through other compartments were reduced in TPC1 knockout cells. Detailed co-localization studies with subcellular markers confirmed predominant localization of TPC1 to early and recycling endosomes. Proteomic analysis of native TPC1 channels finally identified direct interaction with a distinct set of syntaxins involved in fusion of intracellular vesicles. Together, our results demonstrate a general role of TPC1 for uptake and processing of proteins in early and recycling endosomes, likely by providing high local Ca2+ concentrations required for SNARE-mediated vesicle fusion

Vanadium

International audienceVanadium (chemical symbol, V) is a d-block transition metal,silver in color, appearing in the first long period of the peri-odic table between titanium and chromium. Vanadium hastwo stable isotopes: 50V and 51V, with atomic abundance of0.25 % and 99.75 %, respectively. Vanadium has several oxidation forms (between 2+ and 5+). In the lithosphere, Voccurs as reducing V(III) form, whereas in oxidizing con- ditions V prevails under V(IV) form. Vanadium(II) is partic- ularly unstable in the environment. Vanadium(III) is more stable than V(II), but it is also gradually oxidized by the air or dissolved oxygen. Vanadium(V) is expected to be the prevailing form in waters exposed to atmospheric oxygen, whereas V(IV) may be present in reducing environments. Depending upon geometry and environment, V ionic radii vary between 36 pm and 79 pm. Vanadium has a high melting point of 1910 42 C and is a mildly incompatible, refractory,lithophile (siderophile in the iron core and chondrites) ele- ment. Vanadium has an electronegativity of 1.63 on the Pau- ling scale and displays a first ionization potential of 6.74 eV. More details can be found in Richards (2006) and Haynes (2015)

Câmeras modificadas e multiespectrais embarcadas em drones: enfoque para estudos da vegetação.

Nos últimos dez anos, os drones vêm sendo cada vez mais utilizados para aplicações florestais devido à sua flexibilidade, autonomia e capacidade de obter dados, de maneira remota, por meio de sensores embarcados. Essa ferramenta pode ser usada em substituição de algumas atividades de coleta de dados normalmente trabalhosas, demoradas, sujeitas a erro e de alto custo. Podem contribuindo, dessa maneira, para gerar informações decisivas para a gestão e a tomada de decisão na atividade florestal, com elevada precisão e custos reduzidos. Câmeras multiespectrais embarcadas em drones ampliam a capacidade de análise nos estudos de florestas plantadas e nativas, auxiliando na análise do desenvolvimento e da vitalidade dos plantios ou florestas e identificando fatores prejudiciais relacionados com estresses bióticos e abióticos. Entretanto, apesar dos avanços tecnológicos atingidos até o momento, a captura de dados de qualidade ainda permanece um grande desafio. Nesta publicação são apresentadas diretrizes orientadoras para o desenvolvimento de trabalhos sobre vegetação que envolvem a coleta de imagens por meio de câmeras multiespectrais, e modificadas, embarcadas em drones

Reação de genótipos de Stylosanthes capitata à antracnose.

O Brasil detém o maior rebanho bovino comercial do mundo, baseado na utilização de pastagens. Atualmente, o uso de leguminosas forrageiras vem crescendo, em consorciação com poáceas ou exclusiva (bancos de proteínas), entre as quais Stylosanthes capitata Swartz. tem se destacado. Porém, sua utilização comercial tem sido limitada, em decorrência da antracnose, causada pelo fungo Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. Este trabalho teve como objetivo identificar genótipos de S. capitata com alto grau de resistência à antracnose. O trabalho foi desenvolvido na Embrapa Gado de Corte, de 2012 a 2014. Inicialmente, semearam-se 30 acessos de S. capitata em casa de vegetação, mantendo-se apenas uma planta por recipiente, onde estas permaneceram durante sete semanas até a realização da inoculação. Em delineamento de blocos ao acaso, em esquema fatorial (30 acessos do hospedeiro x quatro isolados do patógeno), com 10 repetições, conduziram-se dois experimentos, em épocas diferentes. Os isolados monospóricos de C. gloeosporioides (GC2, GC20, GC672 e GC722) foram selecionados com base na sua representatividade das raças fisiológicas mais frequentes no Brasil. Tais isolados foram inoculados com suspensões de 106 conídios/mL nos acessos hospedeiros. Baseado no grau de resistência ao patógeno, os acessos foram classificados como imune a altamente suscetível. No campo, em experimento em blocos ao acaso com quatro repetições, avaliaram-se a severidade da doença em 44 acessos da leguminosa. Dentre os genótipos inoculados, nos dois experimentos, os acessos GC1081, GC1087, GC1090, GC1094, GC1173 e GC2298 comportaram-se como resistentes a todos os isolados do patógeno estudados. Os isolados GC2 e GC672 foram os mais agressivos, independentemente do acesso do hospedeiro. Os resultados do experimento de campo evidenciaram a variabilidade genética do germoplasma estudado quanto à resistência a essa doença. No entanto, não foi possível selecionar acessos resistentes ao patógeno. Em tais condições, pode ocorrer nova variação fisiológica do patógeno, mais agressiva que aquelas artificialmente inoculadas. Temperatura e umidade relativa médias de 22-26º C e 77% UR, respectivamente, proporcionaram condições adequadas para a evolução da doença no campo

Thermodynamic controls on element partitioning between titanomagnetite and andesitic–dacitic silicate melts

Titanomagnetite–melt partitioning of Mg, Mn, Al, Ti, Sc, V, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf and Ta was investigated experimentally as a function of oxygen fugacity (fO2) and temperature (T) in an andesitic–dacitic bulk-chemical compositional range. In these bulk systems, at constant T, there are strong increases in the titanomagnetite–melt partitioning of the divalent cations (Mg2+, Mn2+, Co2+, Ni2+, Zn2+) and Cu2+/Cu+ with increasing fO2 between 0.2 and 3.7 log units above the fayalite–magnetite–quartz buffer. This is attributed to a coupling between magnetite crystallisation and melt composition. Although melt structure has been invoked to explain the patterns of mineral–melt partitioning of divalent cations, a more rigorous justification of magnetite–melt partitioning can be derived from thermodynamic principles, which accounts for much of the supposed influence ascribed to melt structure. The presence of magnetite-rich spinel in equilibrium with melt over a range of fO2 implies a reciprocal relationship between a(Fe2+O) and a(Fe3+O1.5) in the melt. We show that this relationship accounts for the observed dependence of titanomagnetite–melt partitioning of divalent cations with fO2 in magnetite-rich spinel. As a result of this, titanomagnetite–melt partitioning of divalent cations is indirectly sensitive to changes in fO2 in silicic, but less so in mafic bulk systems.Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The attached file is the published pdf