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CRT). Specific antiviral reagents are desperately required, particularly for HPV+HNSCC whose incidence is increasing and for which there are no diagnostic tools available for combatting this disease. Using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), we and others determined that the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) is overexpressed in HPV+HNSCC and that elevated levels are associated with an improved disease outcome. This has led to the proposal that estrogen treatment could be a novel therapeutic approach for combatting HPV+cancers. Here, we demonstrate that estrogen attenuates the growth of HPV+epithelial cells using multiple mechanisms, supporting the idea that estrogen has potential as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of HPV+HNSCC. Copyright © 2020 Bristol et al.The simian polyomavirus SV40 was reported to express Vp4, an N-terminally truncated form of the minor capsid proteins Vp2 and Vp3. Since a missense mutation of the putative Vp4 start codon (Vp2M228I) was found to give reduced progeny release and delayed lysis, Vp4 was claimed to be a viroporin. However, two independent research groups, including our own, were unable to replicate these findings. In contrast, we found no Vp4 expression in SV40-infected cells and no reduction in progeny release for Vp4-deficient virus, and finally, we found that the single amino acid substitution unavoidably introduced into the overlapping Vp2/Vp3 genes during Vp4 mutagenesis reduced early steps but not virus release. Remarkably, the existence of the viroporin Vp4 still seems to be widely accepted, which presumably is preventing important research on polyomavirus release. With this perspective, we will review and comment on the most important experiments that led to the disputed announcement of the viroporin Vp4. Copyright © 2020 Henriksen and Rinaldo.Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects both lower and upper motor neurons (MNs) in the central nervous system (CNS). ALS etiology is highly multifactorial and multifarious, and an effective treatment is still lacking. Neuroinflammation is a hallmark of ALS and could be targeted to develop new therapeutic approaches. Interestingly, the transcription factor Nurr1 has been demonstrated to play an important role in inflammatory process in several neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease (PD) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS).In the present paper, we demonstrated for the first time that Nurr1 expression levels were up-regulated in the peripheral blood of ALS patients. Moreover, we investigated Nurr1 function in the SOD1-G93A mouse model of ALS. Interestingly, Nurr1 was strongly up-regulated in the spinal cord during the asymptomatic and early symptomatic phases of the disease, where it promoted the up-regulation of the BDNF mRNA and the repression of NF-kB pro-inflammatory targets, such as iNOS. Therefore, we hypothesize that Nurr1 is activated in an early phase of the disease as survival endogenous anti-inflammatory mechanism, although not sufficient to revert disease progression.Based on these observations, Nurr1 could represent a potential biomarker for ALS and a promising target for future therapies for ASL. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/U0126.html © 2020. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.BACKGROUND Adverse events from surgical care are a major cause of death and disability, particularly in low-and-middle-income countries. Metrics for quality of surgical care developed in high-income settings are resource-intensive and inappropriate in most lower resource settings. The purpose of this study was to apply and assess the feasibility of a new tool to measure surgical quality in resource-constrained settings. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study of surgical quality using a novel evidence-based tool for quality measurement in low-resource settings. The tool was adapted for use at a tertiary hospital in Amazonas, Brazil resulting in 14 metrics of quality of care. Nine metrics were collected prospectively during a 4-week period, while five were collected retrospectively from the hospital administrative data and operating room logbooks. RESULTS 183 surgeries were observed, 125 patient questionnaires were administered and patient charts for 1 year were reviewed. All metrics were successfully collected. The study site met the proposed targets for timely process (7 hours from admission to surgery) and effective outcome (3% readmission rate). Other indicators results were equitable structure (1.1 median patient income to catchment population) and equitable outcome (2.5% at risk of catastrophic expenditure), safe outcome (2.6% perioperative mortality rate) and effective structure (fully qualified surgeon present 98% of cases). CONCLUSION It is feasible to apply a novel surgical quality measurement tool in resource-limited settings. Prospective collection of all metrics integrated within existing hospital structures is recommended. Further applications of the tool will allow the metrics and targets to be refined and weighted to better guide surgical quality improvement measures. © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.BACKGROUND Many care home residents cannot self-report their own health status. Previous studies have shown differences between staff and resident ratings. In 2012, we collected 10 168 pairs of health status ratings using the howRu health status measure. This paper examines differences between staff and resident ratings. METHOD HowRu is a short generic person-reported outcome measure with four items pain or discomfort (discomfort), feeling low or worried (distress), limited in what you can do (disability) and require help from others (dependence). A summary score (howRu score) is also calculated. Mean scores are shown on a 0-100 scale. High scores are better than low scores. Differences between resident and staff reports (bias) were analysed at the item and summary level by comparing distributions, analysing correlations and a modification of the Bland-Altman method. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Distributions are similar superficially but differ statistically. Spearman correlations are between 0.55 and 0.67. For items, more than 92.