Surgery duration, early postoperative, pain and infection rates were significantly reduced with self-gripping polyester mesh compared to Lichtenstein repair with polypropylene mesh. The use of fixation increased postoperative pain in the P group. The absence of early recurrence highlights the gripping efficiency effect.
Breast cancer patients younger than 50 years with technically resectable hepatic metastases, minimal extrahepatic tumour and positive HER2 expression appear to be suitable candidates for liver resection with curative intent. An aggressive multi-disciplinary management of those patients including surgical treatment may improve long-term survival.
Although lentiviruses like HIV-1 are able to infect non-dividing cells, particular resting cells such as non-stimulated primary peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) are resistant to infection. In contrast to other lentiviruses, SIVsmmPBj can replicate in non-stimulated PBMC. Moreover, SIVsmmPBj-derived, but not HIV-1-derived, replication-incompetent vectors enable gene transfer into G(0)-arrested human cell lines and primary human monocytes. Here, we demonstrate that transduction of G(0)-arrested cell lines by SIVsmmPBj-derived vectors is independent of the viral accessory proteins Vif, Vpx, Vpr, or Nef. In contrast, for the transduction of primary human monocytes, the Vpx protein proved to be essential. However, trans-complementation of HIV-1 vectors with SIVsmmPBj Vpx did not provide the property of gene transfer into monocytes. Taken together, these data indicate that Vpx is essential for the infection of primary monocytes by SIVsmmPBj. Additionally, further genome functions besides the accessory proteins are required for the particular capacity of SIVsmmPBj in transduction or infection events.
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