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163 Babenhauserheide, Melanie: Harry Potter und die Widersprüche der Kulturindustrie. Eine ideologiekritische Analyse (DAVID N. SCHMIDT)
165 Ballis, Anja/Pecher, Claudia Maria/ Schuler, Rebecca (Hrsg.): Mehrsprachige Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Überlegungen zur Systematik, Didaktik und Verbreitung (SVETLANA VISHEK)
167 Bannasch, Bettina/Matthes, Eva (Hrsg.): Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Historische, erzähl- und medientheoretische, pädagogische und therapeutische Perspektiven (susanne blumesberger)
169 Batzke, Ina/ Erbacher, Eric C. /Heß, Linda M. / Lenhardt, Corinna (Hrsg.): Exploring the Fantastic. Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture (THOMAS BITTERLICH)
170 Bertling, Maria: All-Age-Literatur. Die Entdeckung einer neuen Zielgruppe und ihrer Rezeptionsmodalitäten (NICOLA KÖNIG)
172 Blümer, Agnes: Mehrdeutigkeit übersetzen. Englische und französische Kinderliteraturklassiker der Nachkriegszeit in deutscher Übertrag (MARTINA SEIFERT)
174 Blumesberger, Susanne/Thunecke, Jörg (Hrsg.): Deutschsprachige Kinder- und Jugendliteratur während der Zwischenkriegszeit und im Exil. Schwerpunkt Österreich (KURT FRANZ)
176 Busch, Nathanael /Velten, Hans Rudolf (Hrsg.): Die Literatur des Mittelalters im Fantasyroman (SONJA LOIDL)
178 Cave, Roderick/Ayad, Sara (Hrsg.): Die Geschichte des Kinderbuches in 100 Büchern (ERNST SEIBERT)
180 Dettmar, Ute/Pecher, Claudia Maria/Schlesinger, Ron (Hrsg.): Märchen im Medienwechsel. Zur Geschichte und Gegenwart des Märchenfilms (MICHAEL STIERSTORFER)
182 Dommermuth, Clarissa: Wir sind dagegen – denn ihr seid dafür. Zur Tradition literarischer Jugendbewegungen im deutschsprachigen Raum (SUSANNE BLUMESBERGER)
184 Ellerbach, Benoît: L’Arabie contée aux Allemands. Fictions interculturelles chez Rafik Schami (ANNETTE KLIEWER)
185 Enklaar, Jattie/ Ester, Hans /Tax, Evelyne (Hrsg.): Studien über Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im europäischen Austausch von 1800 bis heute (IRIS SCHÄFER)
187 Ewers, Hans-Heino: Michael Ende neu entdecken. Was »Jim Knopf«,»Momo« und »Die unendliche Geschichte« Erwachsenen zu sagen haben (MARKUS JANKA)
189 Flegel, Monica/Parkes, Christopher (Hrsg.): Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures (LENA HOFFMANN)
191 Garbe, Christine/Gürth, Christina et al. (Hrsg.): Attraktive Lesestoffe (nicht nur) für Jungen. Erzählmuster und Beispielanalysen zu populärer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (THOMAS BITTERLICH)
193 Goga, Nina/Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (Hrsg.): Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature. Landscapes, Seascapes, and Cityscapes (Wolfgang Biesterfeld)
195 Hamer, Naomi /Nodelman, Perry / Reimer, Mavis (Hrsg.): More Words about Pictures. Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People (FARRIBA SCHULZ)
196 Hoffmann, Lena: Crossover. Mehrfachadressierung in Text, Markt und Diskurs (HEIDI LEXE)
198 Josting, Petra/Reuter, Frank/Roeder, Caroline/Wolters, Ute (Hrsg.): »Denn sie rauben sehr geschwind jedes böse Gassenkind.« ›Zigeuner‹-Bilder in Kinder- und Jugendmedien (KURT FRANZ)
200 Langemeyer, Peter /Knutsen, Karen Patrick (Hrsg.): Narratology Plus. Studies in Recent International Narratives for Children and
Young Adults / Narratologie Plus. Studien zur Erzählweise in aktueller internationaler Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (NADINE BIEKER)
202 Museumsinsel Lüttenheid (Hrsg.): Rudolf Dirks. Zwei Lausbuben und die Erfindung des modernen Comics (LUKAS SARVARI)
204 Oeste, Bettina/Preußer, Ulrike (Hrsg.): Neuvermessung deutschsprachiger Erinnerungsstrategien in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur nach 1990 (annette kliewer)
206 Planka, Sabine (Hrsg.): Berlin. Bilder einer Metropole in erzählenden Medien für Kinder und Jugendliche (KATHARINA EGERER)
208 Press, Alexander: Die Bilder des Comics. Funktionsweisen aus kunst- und bildwissenschaftlicher Perspektive (RALF VOLLBRECHT)
209 Schenk, Klaus /Zeisberg, Ingold (Hrsg.): Fremde Räume. Interkulturalität und Semiotik des Phantastischen (ANNETTE KLIEWER)
211 Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien SIKJM (Hrsg.): Atlas der Schweizer Kinderliteratur. Expeditionen und
Panoramen (SUSANNE RIEGLER)
Sammelrezensionen
213 Heinemann, Caroline: Produktionsräume im zeitgenössischen Kinder- und Jugendtheater. – Hentschel, Ingrid: Theater zwischen Ich und Welt. Beiträge zur Ästhetik des Kinder- und Jugendtheaters. Theorien – Praxis – Geschichte (PHILIPP SCHMERHEIM)
215 Janka, Marcus /Stierstorfer, Michael (Hrsg.): Verjüngte Antike. Griechisch-römische Mythologie in zeitgenössischen Kinder- und Jugendmedien. – Stierstorfer, Michael: Antike Mythologie in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der Gegenwart. Unsterbliche Götter- und Heldengeschichten? (KARINA BECKER)
218 Josting, Petra/Kruse, Iris (Hrsg.): Paul Maar. Bielefelder Poet in Residence 2015 | Paderborner Kinderliteraturtage 2016. – Wicke, Andreas /Roßbach, Nikola (Hrsg.): Paul Maar. Studien zum kinder- und jugendliterarischen Werk (SONJA MÜLLER-CARSTENS)
Stimulation of renal collecting duct principal cells with antidiuretic hormone (arginine-vasopressin, AVP) results in inhibition of the small GTPase RhoA and the enrichment of the water channel aquaporin-2 (AQP2) in the plasma membrane. The membrane insertion facilitates water reabsorption from primary urine and fine-tuning of body water homeostasis. Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) interact with RhoA, catalyze the exchange of GDP for GTP and thereby activate the GTPase. However, GEFs involved in the control of AQP2 in renal principal cells are unknown. The A-kinase anchoring protein, AKAP-Lbc, possesses GEF activity, specifically activates RhoA, and is expressed in primary renal inner medullary collecting duct principal (IMCD) cells. Through screening of 18,431 small molecules and synthesis of a focused library around one of the hits, we identified an inhibitor of the interaction of AKAP-Lbc and RhoA. This molecule, Scaff10-8, bound to RhoA, inhibited the AKAP-Lbc-mediated RhoA activation but did not interfere with RhoA activation through other GEFs or activities of other members of the Rho family of small GTPases, Rac1 and Cdc42. Scaff10-8 promoted the redistribution of AQP2 from intracellular vesicles to the periphery of IMCD cells. Thus, our data demonstrate an involvement of AKAP-Lbc-mediated RhoA activation in the control of AQP2 trafficking.
The consequences of the current COVID-19 pandemic for mental health remain unclear, especially regarding the effects on suicidal behaviors. To assess changes in the pattern of suicide attempt (SA) admissions and completed suicides (CS) in association with the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a longitudinal study, SA admissions and CS are systematically documented and analyzed in all psychiatric hospitals in Frankfurt/Main (765.000 inhabitants). Number, sociodemographic factors, diagnoses and methods of SA and CS were compared between the periods of March–December 2019 and March–December 2020. The number of CS did not change, while the number of SA significantly decreased. Age, sex, occupational status, and psychiatric diagnoses did not change in SA, whereas the percentage of patients living alone while attempting suicide increased. The rate and number of intoxications as a SA method increased and more people attempted suicide in their own home, which was not observed in CS. Such a shift from public places to home is supported by the weekday of SA, as the rate of SA on weekends was significantly lower during the pandemic, likely because of lockdown measures. Only admissions to psychiatric hospitals were recorded, but not to other institutions. As it seems unlikely that the number of SA decreased while the number of CS remained unchanged, it is conceivable that the number of unreported SA cases increased during the pandemic. Our data suggest that a higher number of SA remained unnoticed during the pandemic because of their location and the use of methods associated with lower lethality.
The two main phytocannabinoids—delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD)—have been extensively studied, and it has been shown that THC can induce transient psychosis. At the same time, CBD appears to have no psychotomimetic potential. On the contrary, emerging evidence for CBD's antipsychotic properties suggests that it may attenuate effects induced by THC. Thus, we investigated and compared the effects of THC and CBD administration on emotion, cognition, and attention as well as the impact of CBD pre-treatment on THC effects in healthy volunteers. We performed a placebo-controlled, double-blind, experimental trial (GEI-TCP II; ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02487381) with 60 healthy volunteers randomly allocated to four parallel intervention groups, receiving either placebo, 800 mg CBD, 20 mg THC, or both cannabinoids. Subjects underwent neuropsychological tests assessing working memory (Letter Number Sequencing test), cognitive processing speed (Digit Symbol Coding task), attention (d2 Test of Attention), and emotional state (adjective mood rating scale [EWL]). Administration of CBD alone did not influence the emotional state, cognitive performance, and attention. At the same time, THC affected two of six emotional categories—more precisely, the performance-related activity and extraversion—, reduced the cognitive processing speed and impaired the performance on the d2 Test of Attention. Interestingly, pre-treatment with CBD did not attenuate the effects induced by THC. These findings show that the acute intake of CBD itself has no effect per se in healthy volunteers and that a single dose of CBD prior to THC administration was insufficient to mitigate the detrimental impact of THC in the given setting. This is in support of a complex interaction between CBD and THC whose effects are not counterbalanced by CBD under all circumstances.
The pathophysiological role of neural autoantibodies in acute psychotic disorders is receiving increased attention. However, there is still an ongoing debate, whether predominantly psychotic manifestations of autoimmune encephalitides exist that may remain undetected and, thus, untreated. Furthermore, it is discussed if such conditions can be diagnosed based on serum antibody results or if a reliable diagnosis requires additional cerebrospinal fluids (CSF) results. In this study, we screened pairs of serum and CSF samples from antipsychotic-naïve individuals with first-episode schizophrenic psychosis (FEP, n = 103), clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR, n = 47), and healthy volunteers (HV, n = 40) for eight different antibodies against various antigens that have been shown to be associated with autoimmune encephalitides: N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR, NR1 subunits only), glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD65), leucine-rich glioma inactivated protein 1 (LGI1), contactin-associated protein-like 2 protein (CASPR2), α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPAR) subunit 1, AMPAR subunit 2, γ-aminobutyric acid-B receptors (GABABR), and glycine receptors. All patients were within the norm with regards to a careful neurological examination, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, an electroencephalogram (EEG), and routine blood pathology. All CSF samples were autoantibody-negative. In three serum samples of individuals with FEP, we detected low-titer CASPR2 immunoglobulin (Ig) G antibodies (≤1:160, n = 2) and non-IgG antibodies against NMDAR (n = 1) (overall serum-autoantibody prevalence in FEP: 2.91%). However, the IgG titers were below the laboratory cut-off defined for positivity, and non-IgG antibodies are of no clinical relevance. This suggests that there were no cases of autoimmune encephalitis in our cohort. Our results highlight the importance and the high specificity of CSF analysis to reliably detect autoantibodies. They confirm the hypothesis that pure psychotic manifestations of antibody-associated autoimmune encephalitides without any additional neuropsychiatric findings are very rare. However, special attention must be paid to those presenting with atypical mental illnesses with additional neurological symptoms, evidence of clinically-significant cognitive involvement, profound sleep-wake perturbations, seizures, electroencephalographic, or magnetic resonance imaging pathologies to be able to identify cases with autoimmune-mediated psychiatric syndromes.
Background and Objectives: Red blood cell (RBC) transfusions are needed by almost every acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patient undergoing induction chemotherapy and constitute a cornerstone in supportive measures for cancer patients in general. Randomized controlled trials have shown non‐inferiority or even superiority of restrictive transfusion guidelines over liberal transfusion guidelines in specific clinical situations outside of medical oncology. In this study, we analysed whether more restrictive RBC transfusion reduces blood use without affecting hard outcomes.
Materials and Methods: A total of 352 AML patients diagnosed between 2007 and 2018 and undergoing intensive induction chemotherapy were included in this retrospective analysis. In the less restrictive transfusion group, patients received RBC transfusion for haemoglobin levels below 8 g/dl (2007–2014). In the restrictive transfusion group, patients received RBC transfusion for haemoglobin levels below 7 g/dl (2016–2018). Liberal transfusion triggers were never endorsed.
Results: A total of 268 (76·1%) and 84 (23·9%) AML patients fell into the less restrictive and restrictive transfusion groups, respectively. The less restrictive transfusion group had 1 g/dl higher mean haemoglobin levels, received their first RBC transfusions earlier and needed 1·5 more units of RBC during the hospital stay of induction chemotherapy. Febrile episodes, C‐reactive protein levels, admission to the intensive care unit, length of hospital stay as well as response and survival rates did not differ between the two cohorts.
Conclusion: From our retrospective analysis, we conclude that a more restrictive transfusion trigger does not affect important outcomes of AML patients. The opportunity to test possible effects of the more severe anaemia in the restrictive transfusion group on quality of life was missed.
Driven by globalization, urbanization and climate change, the distribution range of invasive vector species has expanded to previously colder ecoregions. To reduce health-threatening impacts on humans, insect vectors are extensively studied. Population genomics can reveal the genomic basis of adaptation and help to identify emerging trends of vector expansion. By applying whole genome analyses and genotype-environment associations to populations of the main dengue vector Aedes aegypti, sampled along an altitudinal gradient in Nepal (200–1300 m), we identify putatively adaptive traits and describe the species' genomic footprint of climate adaptation to colder ecoregions. We found two differentiated clusters with significantly different allele frequencies in genes associated to climate adaptation between the highland population (1300 m) and all other lowland populations (≤800 m). We revealed nonsynonymous mutations in 13 of the candidate genes associated to either altitude, precipitation or cold tolerance and identified an isolation-by-environment differentiation pattern. Other than the expected gradual differentiation along the altitudinal gradient, our results reveal a distinct genomic differentiation of the highland population. Local high-altitude adaptation could be one explanation of the population's phenotypic cold tolerance. Carrying alleles relevant for survival under colder climate increases the likelihood of this highland population to a worldwide expansion into other colder ecoregions.
Filamentous enzymes have been found in all domains of life, but the advantage of filamentation is often elusive1. Some anaerobic, autotrophic bacteria have an unusual filamentous enzyme for CO2 fixation—hydrogen-dependent CO2 reductase (HDCR)2,3—which directly converts H2 and CO2 into formic acid. HDCR reduces CO2 with a higher activity than any other known biological or chemical catalyst4,5, and it has therefore gained considerable interest in two areas of global relevance: hydrogen storage and combating climate change by capturing atmospheric CO2. However, the mechanistic basis of the high catalytic turnover rate of HDCR has remained unknown. Here we use cryo-electron microscopy to reveal the structure of a short HDCR filament from the acetogenic bacterium Thermoanaerobacter kivui. The minimum repeating unit is a hexamer that consists of a formate dehydrogenase (FdhF) and two hydrogenases (HydA2) bound around a central core of hydrogenase Fe-S subunits, one HycB3 and two HycB4. These small bacterial polyferredoxin-like proteins oligomerize through their C-terminal helices to form the backbone of the filament. By combining structure-directed mutagenesis with enzymatic analysis, we show that filamentation and rapid electron transfer through the filament enhance the activity of HDCR. To investigate the structure of HDCR in situ, we imaged T. kivui cells with cryo-electron tomography and found that HDCR filaments bundle into large ring-shaped superstructures attached to the plasma membrane. This supramolecular organization may further enhance the stability and connectivity of HDCR to form a specialized metabolic subcompartment within the cell.
The project focuses on the efficiency of combined technologies to reduce the release of micropollutants and bacteria into surface waters via sewage treatment plants of different size and via stormwater overflow basins of different types. As a model river in a highly populated catchment area, the river Schussen and, as a control, the river Argen, two tributaries of Lake Constance, Southern Germany, are under investigation in this project. The efficiency of the different cleaning technologies is monitored by a wide range of exposure and effect analyses including chemical and microbiological techniques as well as effect studies ranging from molecules to communities.