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PRKO mice showed similar MBP levels than wild type. Thus, these data suggests that progesterone and its neuroactive metabolites may play a role in postnatal cerebellar myelination. During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, patients receiving maintenance dialysis are a highly vulnerable population due to their comorbidities and circumstances that limit physical distancing during treatment. This study sought to characterize the risk factors for and outcomes following COVID-19 in this population. Retrospective cohort study. Maintenance dialysis patients in clinics of a midsize national dialysis provider that had at least 1 patient who tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from February to June 2020. Demographics, dialysis characteristics, residence in a congregated setting, comorbid conditions, measurements of frailty, and use of selected medications. COVID-19, defined as having a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result, and all-cause mortality among those with COVID-19. Logistic regression analyses conducted to identify clinical characteristics associated with COVID-19 and risk factors associated with mortality among patients fs, particularly those residing in congregate settings. Among maintenance dialysis patients with COVID-19, mortality is high, exceeding 20%.Sensory substitution refers to the concept of feeding information to the brain via an atypical sensory pathway. We here examined the degree to which participants (deaf and hard of hearing) can learn to identify sounds that are algorithmically translated into spatiotemporal patterns of vibration on the skin of the wrist. Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid In a three-alternative forced choice task, participants could determine the identity of up to 95% and on average 70% of the stimuli simply by the spatial pattern of vibrations on the skin. Performance improved significantly over the course of 1 month. Younger participants tended to score better, possibly because of higher brain plasticity, more sensitive skin, or better skills at playing digital games. Similar results were obtained with pattern discrimination, in which a pattern representing the sound of one word was presented to the skin, followed by that of a second word. Participants answered whether the word was the same or different. With minimal difference pairs (distinguished by only one phoneme, such as "house" and "mouse"), the best performance was 83% (average of 62%), while with non-minimal pairs (such as "house" and "zip") the best performance was 100% (average of 70%). Collectively, these results demonstrate that participants are capable of using the channel of the skin to interpret auditory stimuli, opening the way for low-cost, wearable sensory substitution for the deaf and hard of hearing communities.Editorial on Non-negative matrix factorization as a tool to distinguish between synaptic vesicles in different functional states.Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) degrades collagen and other cellular matrix proteins. After acute ischemic stroke, increased MMP-9 levels are correlated with hemorrhage, lack of reperfusion and stroke severity. Nevertheless, definitive data that MMP-9 itself causes poor outcomes in ischemic stroke are limited. In a model of experimental ischemic stroke with reperfusion, we examined whether ischemia and recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (r-tPA) therapy affected MMP-9 expression, and we used specific inhibitors to test if MMP-9 affects brain injury and recovery. After stroke, MMP-9 expression increased significantly in the ischemic vs. non-ischemic hemisphere of the brain (p less then 0.001). MMP-9 expression in the ischemic, but not the non-ischemic hemisphere, was further increased by r-tPA treatment (p less then 0.001). To determine whether MMP-9 expression contributed to stroke outcomes after r-tPA treatment, we tested three different antibody MMP-9 i