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Despite few cases of recovery after reduced doses of levodopa, the above-described case of positive reintroduction was an argument in favor of the role of levodopa in gout flare. This study highlights a potential association between levodopa and gout through an analysis of the cases reported in the WHO pharmacovigilance database.The borondipyrromethene (BODIPY) chromophore is a versatile platform for the construction of photoresponsive dyes with unique properties. Specifically, its covalent connection to a photocleavable group can be exploited to engineer compounds with photoswitchable fluorescence. The resulting photoactivatable fluorophores can increase their emission intensity or shift their emission wavelengths in response to switching. Such changes permit the spatiotemporal control of fluorescence with optical stimulations and the implementation of imaging strategies that would be impossible to replicate with conventional fluorophores. Indeed, BODIPYs with photoactivatable fluorescence enable the selective highlighting of intracellular targets, the nanoscaled visualization of sub-cellular components, the real-time monitoring of dynamic events and the photochemical writing of optical barcodes.Spider silk is one of the most robust natural materials, which has extremely high strength in combination with great toughness and good elasticity. Inspired by spider silk but beyond it, a healable and recyclable supramolecular elastomer, possessing superhigh true stress at break (1.21 GPa) and ultrahigh toughness (390.2 MJ m-3 ), which are, respectively, comparable to and ≈2.4 times higher than those of typical spider silk, is developed. The elastomer has the highest tensile strength (ultimate engineering stress, 75.6 MPa) ever recorded for polymeric elastomers, rendering it the strongest and toughest healable elastomer thus far. The hyper-robust elastomer exhibits superb crack tolerance with unprecedentedly high fracture energy (215.2 kJ m-2 ) that even exceeds that of metals and alloys, and superhigh elastic restorability allowing dimensional recovery from elongation over 12 times. These extraordinary mechanical performances mainly originate from the meticulously engineered hydrogen-bonding segments, consisting of multiple acylsemicarbazide and urethane moieties linked with flexible alicyclic hexatomic spacers. Such hydrogen-bonding segments, incorporated between extensible polymer chains, aggregate to form geometrically confined hydrogen-bond arrays resembling those in spider silk. The hydrogen-bond arrays act as firm but reversible crosslinks and sacrificial bonds for enormous energy dissipation, conferring exceptional mechanical robustness, healability, and recyclability on the elastomer.Chemodynamic therapy (CDT) employs Fenton catalysts to kill cancer cells by converting intracellular hydrogen peroxide (H2 O2 ) into hydroxyl radicals (OH•). Although many studies on H2 O2 supplementation have been conducted to improve the therapeutic effect of CDT, few studies have focused on the application of superoxide radical (O2 -• ) in CDT, which may result in better efficacy. A major concern about O2 -• -mediated CDT is its tendency to induce serious oxidative damage to normal tissues, which may be addressed by using a degradable O2 -• scavenger. Here, a harmless-harmful switchable and uninterrupted laccase (LAC)-instructed killer (HULK) is constructed, which is the first CDT agent accelerated by LAC-instructed O2 -• generation and possesses a harmless-harmful switchable effect because of the photodegradation of the O2 -• scavenger iron-chlorin e6 (FeCe6). LAC-instructed substrate oxidation effectively catalyzes O2 -• production with the help of intracellular reduction, thereby promoting the conversion of Fe3+ to Fe2+ , accelerating the generation of OH•, and inducing tumor cell apoptosis and necrosis. The introduced O2 -• scavenger FeCe6 is quickly photodegraded during irradiation, while LAC-instructed O2 -• generation proceeds as before, resulting in activatable CDT. This work not only provides the first strategy for LAC-instructed O2 -• generation but also presents new insight into activatable CDT.There is limited evidence regarding the impact of allograft nephrectomy (AN) on the long-term outcome of subsequent kidney re-transplantation compared with no prior allograft nephrectomy. The aim of the present study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the accumulation of evidence over time. Primary outcomes were 5-year graft and patient survival. Cochrane library, Google scholar, PubMed, Medline and Embase were systematically searched. Meta-analysis was conducted using both fixed- and random-effects models. Study quality was assessed in duplicate using the Newcastle-Ottawa scale. buy TKI-258 Sixteen studies were included, with a total of 2256 patients. All included studies were retrospective and comparative. There was no significant difference in 5-year graft survival (GS) [Hazard Ratio (HR) = 1.11, 95% Confidence Intervals (CI) 0.89, 1.38, P = 0.37, I2 = 10%) or in 5-year patient survival (PS; HR = 0.70, 95% CI 0.45, 1.10, P = 0.12, I2 = 0%]. Patients in the AN cohort were significantly younger than patients in the nonallograft nephrectomy (NAN) cohort by one year. Prior allograft nephrectomy was associated with a significantly higher risk of delayed graft function (DGF), acute rejection, primary nonfunction (PNF), per cent of panel reactive antibodies (% PRA) and allograft loss of the subsequent transplant. Although, DGF, % PRA, acute rejection and primary nonfunction rates were significantly higher in the AN cohort, allograft nephrectomy prior to re-transplantation had no significant association with five-year graft and patient survival.The trade-off between sensitivity and linearity is critical for preserving the high pressure-resolution over a broad range and simplifying the signal processing/conversion of flexible tactile sensors. Conventional dielectrics suffer from the difficulty of quantitatively controlling the interacted mechanical and dielectric properties, thus causing the restricted sensitivity and linearity of capacitive sensors. Herein, inspired by human skin, a novel hybrid dielectric composed of a low-permittivity (low-k) micro-cilia array, a high-permittivity (high-k) rough surface, and micro-dome array is developed. The pressure-induced series-parallel conversion between the low-k and high-k components of the hybrid dielectric enables the linear effective dielectric constant and controllable initial/resultant capacitance. The gradient compressibility of the hybrid dielectric enables the linear behavior of elastic modulus with pressures, which derives the capacitance variation determined by the effective dielectric constant. Therefore, an ultrawide linearity range up to 1000 kPa and a high sensitivity of 0.