N The Spanish-language version of the Identification of Functional Ankle Instability questionnaire (IdFAI-Sp) is a valid and reliable tool. A966492 The IdFAI-Sp enables researchers and healthcare professionals to identify and classify chronic ankle instability among Spanish-speaking patients. Accordingly, it can be considered a useful clinical instrument. Aapplication of the questionnaire before and after treatment can reveal the patient's degree of recovery over time.Chest imaging is often used as a complementary tool in the evaluation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, helping physicians to augment their clinical suspicion. Despite not being diagnostic for COVID-19, chest CT may help clinicians to isolate high suspicion patients with suggestive imaging findings. However, COVID-19 findings on CT are also common to other pulmonary infections and non-infectious diseases, and radiologists and point-of-care physicians should be aware of possible mimickers. This state-of-the-art review goal is to summarize and illustrate possible etiologies that may have a similar pattern on chest CT as COVID-19. The review encompasses both infectious etiologies, such as non-COVID viral pneumonia, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Pneumocystis jiroveci, and pulmonary granulomatous infectious, and non-infectious disorders, such as pulmonary embolism, fat embolism, cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, non-specific interstitial pneumonia, desquamative interstitial pneumonia, and acute and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia.Mammalian neurons undergo rapid excitotoxic cell death when deprived of oxygen; however, the common goldfish (Carassius auratus) has the unique ability of surviving in oxygen-free waters, under anoxia. This organism utilizes γ-amino butyric acid (GABA) signaling to suppress excitatory glutamatergic activity during anoxic periods. Although GABAA receptor antagonists are not deleterious to the cellular survival, coinhibition of GABAA and GABAB receptors is detrimental by abolishing anoxia-induced neuroprotective mechanisms. Here we show that blocking the anoxic GABAergic neurotransmission induces seizure-like activity (SLA) analogous to a paroxysmal depolarization shift (PDS), with hyperpolarization of action potential (AP) threshold and elevation of threshold currents. The observed PDS was attributed to an increase in excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) that are normally attenuated with decreasing oxygen levels. Furthermore, for the first time, we show that in addition to PDS, some neurons undergo depolarization block and do not generate AP despite a suprathreshold membrane potential. In conclusion, our results indicate that with severe hypoxia and absence of GABA receptor activity, telencephalic neurons of C. auratus manifest a paroxysmal depolarization shift, a key feature of epileptic discharge.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This work shows that the combination of anoxia and inhibition of GABA receptors induces seizure-like activities in goldfish telencephalic pyramidal and stellate neurons. Importantly, to prevent seizure-like activity, an intact GABA-mediated inhibitory pathway is required. This study aimed to evaluate the role and the underlying mechanisms of Forkhead box A1 (encoded by ) in colon cancer. We analyzed mRNA and protein expression in colon cancer tissues and cell lines. We also silenced expression in HCT116 and SW480 cells to evaluate the effects on cell proliferation, cell cycle, migration, and invasion by using MTT, colony formation, flow cytometry, and the Transwell assay, respectively. FOXA1 immunostaining was higher in colon cancer tissues than adjacent healthy tissues. mRNA and protein expression was significantly increased in human colon cancer cells compared with a normal colonic cell line. expression was also significantly higher in colorectal cancer tissues from TCGA data sets and was associated with worse prognosis in the R2 database. expression was negatively correlated with the extent of its methylation, and its knockdown reduced proliferation, migration, and invasion, and induced G2/M phase arrest in HCT116 and SW480 cells by suppressing the phosphatase and tensin homolog/Akt signaling pathway and inhibiting epithelial-mesenchymal transition. may act as an oncogene in colon cancer tumorigenesis and development.FOXA1 may act as an oncogene in colon cancer tumorigenesis and development. To construct and validate a clinically accurate and histology-specific nomogram to predict overall survival (OS) among liposarcoma (LPS) patients. We retrospectively screened eligible patients with LPS diagnosed between 2004 and 2015 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. We screened independent predictors for the nomogram using univariate and multivariate analyses. We then evaluated the prognostic accuracy of the nomogram by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis and Harrell's concordance index. The prognostic performances of the nomogram and the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) seventh edition staging system were compared using integrated discrimination improvement (IDI), net reclassification improvement (NRI), and decision curve analyses (DCA). A novel nomogram was developed using independent prognostic variables, which exhibited excellent predictive performances for 3- and 5-year OS according to ROC curves. The C-index proved that the proposed nomogram had better prognostic accuracy for LPS than the traditional AJCC system, while the NRI, IDI, and DCA of the nomogram indicated better clinical net benefit. The proposed nomogram can predict 3- and 5-year OS of LPS patients with reliable accuracy and may thus help clinicians to develop appropriate clinical therapies and counseling strategies to prolong the life expectancy of these patients.The proposed nomogram can predict 3- and 5-year OS of LPS patients with reliable accuracy and may thus help clinicians to develop appropriate clinical therapies and counseling strategies to prolong the life expectancy of these patients.Anticancer lipopeptides (ACLPs) are considered promising alternatives to combat resistant cancer cells, but the influence of peptide conformational propensity alone on their selectivity and mechanism remains obscure. In this study, we developed N-palmitoylated MK5E (P1MK5E) and MEK5 (P1MEK5) that have the same composition of 23 residues undergoing the pH-dependent structural alterations but differ in the conformational tendency of their amino acid composites. Nonlipidated peptides were readily accumulated in the A549 cell nucleus by the direct membrane translocation and the heparan sulfate-mediated endocytosis than the lipid-raft-dependent pathway. The increased hydrophobicity favored the amino acid-position-dependent folding of P1MK5E and P1MEK5, respectively, toward the α-helical coiled-coil nanofibrils and amyloidlike β-protofibrils. At the close concentrations (∼7.5 μM) to the toxic effects of doxorubicin (DOX), P1MK5E exhibited (i) an increased anticancer toxicity through a time-dependent S-phase arrest, (ii) enhanced plasma membrane permeability, and (iii) dose-dependent changes in the cell death characteristic features in the A549 cells relative to P1MEK5 that was almost inactive at ∼75 μM.