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CONCLUSIONS Clinical-grade mbIL-21/4-1BBL-expanded NK cells exhibited antileukemic activity against AML in vitro and in vivo. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.A 46-year-old Pakistani woman was referred to dermatology with a 2-year history of a recurrent daily (2-4) urticarial rash, throat tightness after ingestion of certain foods and intermittent eczema affecting her legs. Previous skin prick tests by immunology to common foods were unremarkable. She had subclinical hypothyroidism and was on no relevant medications. On examination there was mild eczema on the lower legs that responded to topical steroids. Dermographism was not present. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.The most common drivers of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are oncogenic activating mutations in KIT (75%) or PDGFRA (10%) [1]; 5% of GISTs are succinate dehydrogenase (SDH)-deficient, secondary to either SDHx mutations or SDHC promoter hypermethylation [2]. Rare GISTs have alternate drivers, including BRAF, RAS, or NF1 mutations, or NTRK3 or FGFR1 fusions. Here we report the first case of GIST with an ALK gene rearrangement. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Cerebral sinovenous thrombosis (CSVT) mostly affects sick neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with predisposing or underlying conditions. The clinical presentation is nonspecific which often leads to a delayed or missed diagnosis. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) use in the NICU is rapidly increasing. One of the main uses of neonatologist-performed POCUS is cranial ultrasound which permits diagnosis and monitoring of neurological disease at the bedside. We present the case of a neonate with a complex clinical situation where cranial POCUS permitted a prompt diagnosis and treatment of severe CSVT by imaging the transverse sinuses through the mastoid fontanelle. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Highly concentrated sugar solutions are known to be effective anti-microbial agents. However, it is unknown whether this effect is solely the result of the collective osmotic effect imparted by a mixture of sugars or whether the type of carbohydrate used also has an individual chemical effect on bacterial responses, i.e., inhibition/growth. In view of this, in this work, the anti-microbial properties of four sugars, namely glucose, fructose, sucrose and maltose against three common food pathogens; Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica, were investigated using a turbidimentric approach. The results obtained indicate that the type of sugar used has a significant effect on the extent of bacterial inhibition which is not solely dependent on the water activity of the individual sugar solution. In addition, while it was shown that high sugar concentrations inhibit bacterial growth, very low concentrations show the opposite effect, i.e. they stimulate bacterial growth, indicating that there is a threshold concentration upon which sugars cease to act as anti-microbial agents and become media instead. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.We consider the central problem of polarizable and leaky-dielectric uncharged spherical particle freely suspended in an unbounded non-symmetric binary electrolyte, which is forced by an ambient time-harmonic uniform electric field. Under the assumption of a 'weak field', we employ the linearized standard electro-kinetic model of binary electrolytes to account for such anion/cation asymmetry. A simplified generalized asymmetric dipole-term approximation, valid for a dielectric/conducting microsphere, is analytically derived for an arbitrary Debye scale and for any mismatch between ion diffusivities and valances. A two-peak unified dispersion spectrum covering all range of practical frequencies (KHz to MHz), is found for the case of a rot