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This article examines the inter-subjective touch in Ildikó Enyedi's film On Body and Soul (2017), employing a phenomenological approach by analyzing the aspects of horror, pleasure, dreaming, and breath. This film recontextualizes horror and reaffirms pleasure through the inter-subjective touch. The binary setting between the dreaming world and the waking world, through the perception of touch, is used not to disdain the cruel reality but to arouse inter-subjectivity. The representation of breath illuminates another tactility regarding spatiality and inter-subjectivity. I argue that On Body and Soul constructs layers of tactility and inter-subjectivity between the film and the spectator; the two protagonists (Mária and Endre); human and non-human; dreaming and waking; and mind and body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The signal-responsive E3 ubiquitin ligase pellino 1 (PELI1) regulates TLR and T cell receptor (TCR) signaling and contributes to the maintenance of autoimmunity; however, little is known about the consequence of mutations that result in upregulation of PELI1. Here, we developed transgenic mice that constitutively express human PELI1 and determined that these mice have a shorter lifespan due to tumor formation. Constitutive expression of PELI1 resulted in ligand-independent hyperactivation of B cells and facilitated the development of a wide range of lymphoid tumors, with prominent B cell infiltration observed across multiple organs. PELI1 directly interacted with the oncoprotein B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (BCL6) and induced lysine 63-mediated BCL6 polyubiquitination. In samples from patients with diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCLs), PELI1 expression levels positively correlated with BCL6 expression, and PELI1 overexpression was closely associated with poor prognosis in DLBCLs. Together, these results suggest that increased PELI1 expression and subsequent induction of BCL6 promotes lymphomagenesis and that this pathway may be a potential target for therapeutic strategies to treat B cell lymphomas., Introduction The pellino (PELI) protein family is highly conserved in the course of evolution and contains C3HC4 RING-like motifs in its C-terminal domains, which may serve as scaffold proteins (1). [...]

Helicobacter pylori infection induces apoptosis and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression in gastric epithelial cells. In this study, we investigated the effects of NF-[KAPPA]B activation and iNOS expression on apoptosis in H. pylori-infected gastric epithelial cells. The suppression of NF-[kappa]B significantly increased caspase-3 activity and apoptosis in H. pylori-infected MKN-45 and Hs746T gastric epithelial cell lines as well as primary gastric epithelial cells. An NF-[kappa]B signaling pathway via NF-[kappa]B-inducing kinase and I[kappa]B kinase-[beta] activation was found to be involved in the inhibition of apoptosis in H. pylori-infected gastric epithelial cells. In gastric epithelial cells transfected with retrovirus containing I[kappa]B[alpha] superrepressor, iNOS mRNA and protein levels were reduced, indicating that H. pylori infection induced the expression of iNOS by activating NF-[kappa]B. Moreover, a NO donor, S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (100 [micro]M), decreased caspase-3 activity and apoptosis in NF-[kappa]B-suppressed cells infected with H. pylori. These results suggest that NF-[kappa]B activation may play a role in protecting gastric epithelial cells from H. pylori-induced apoptosis by upregulating endogenous iNOS. I[kappa]B kinase; NF-[KAPPA]B-inducing kinase; nitric oxide; superrepressor

Background: TEL (ETV6)/AML1 (RUNX1) rearrangement is observed in approximately 20-25% of childhood precursor B-ALL and is associated with a favorable outcome. Additional genetic changes, associated with TEL/AML1, are frequently found. We evaluated the prevalence and prognostic significance of TEL/AML1 rearrangement and additional genetic changes in the TEL and AML1 genes in Korean childhood precursor B-ALL., Methods: We performed FISH using LSITEL/AML1 ES probe (Vysis, USA) in 123 children diagnosed as having precursor B-ALL and assessed clinical relevance of the TEL/AML1 rearrangement and additional genetic abnormalities., Results: The frequency of TEL/AML1 was 17.1% (21/123) in patients with precursor B-ALL. TEL/ AML1-positive group showed male predominance (P=0.012) and younger age of onset than TEL/ AML1-negative group by 1.6 yr (P=0.013). The outcome of TEL/AML1-positive group tended to show lower incidences of relapse (1/21 vs 20/102), death (1/21 vs 17/102) and longer event free survival. Among TEL/AML1-positive patients, unrearranged TEL deletion, AML1 gain, and unrearranged TEL deletion combined with AML1 gain were detected in 61.9%, 23.8%, and 9.5%, respectively. There were no significant differences in the clinical features and outcome according to the presence or absence of additional genetic changes., Conclusions: The frequency of TEL/AML1 and additional genetic changes in TEL and AML1 is higher than previous studies in Korean children, and in close agreement with usually reported one, 20-25%. TEL/AML1-positive group showed a tendency toward better prognosis. Further study is needed to clarify the prognostic significance of additional changes in TEL and AML1 based on a large sample size.

Atopobium rimae, previously Lactobacillus rimae, is a strictly anaerobic, non-spore forming grampositive rod which was frequently isolated from odontogenic infection. We report a case of A. rimae bacteremia. A 47-yr-old man with liver cirrhosis was admitted to the hospital via emergency room due to fever and chill. His abdominal and pelvic computed tomography revealed a small abscess near the left adrenal gland. Three sets of blood cultures were taken and non-spore forming, grampositive rods were detected in all anaerobic vials. This isolate grew small nonhemolytic, gray-white translucent colonies on Brucella blood agar and was obligatory anaerobic on air-tolerance test. This organism was negative for catalase, indole, nitrate-reduction and beta-lactamase and failed to identify by Vitek ANI card (bioMerieux, France). 16S rRNA sequences of this showed 99.8% homology of the published sequence of A. rimae (GenBank accession number AF292371). Aspirates of periadrenal abscess grew Escherichia coli and Peptostreptococcus micros. He was treated with metronidazole and imipenem and follow-up cultures of blood were negative at days 4 and 10. To our knowledge, this is the first report of bacteremia of A. rimae.

Ureaplasma urealyticum causes infection or colonization of female genital tracts associated with preterm delivery and infertility and the infection of the bloodstream, respiratory tract, and central nervous system in infants, especially in prematures. We report the first case of U. urealyticum meningitis in a premature infant in Korea. She was born with a birth weight of 1,481 gram at 32+3 weeks' gestation and hospitalized for a respiratory care in the NICU in November 2005. Endotracheal aspirates and urine cultures grew U. urealyticum at <10(4) CFU/mL of the specimens at 2-day-old, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cultures grew U. urealyticum at > or = 10(4) CFU/mL of CSF. The patient had a marked CSF pleocytosis, low glucose and high protein content on the 13th hospital day. CSF cultures for ordinary bacteria, mycobacteria and fungi remained negative. U. urealyticum was resistant to erythromycin, tetracycline, ciprofloxacin and pristinamycin, but susceptible to doxycycline. Although she was treated with erythromycin for 30 days, the organism was still isolated four times from the CSF with fluctuation of C-reactive protein (CRP). After the addition of chloramphenicol, CSF cultures became negative in 3 days. However, CRP rose again with increased BUN at the 99th hospital day, and she died on the 103rd hospital day under the diagnosis of a clinical sepsis of unknown origin. In acute meningitis of prematures already colonized with U. urealyticum, ureaplasmal cultures and susceptibility test are warranted in Korea.