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0%, p = 0.027). There was no significant difference in calorie intake between the intermittent and continuous group during the first 3 days (2595.4 ± 394.5 kcal vs 2317.8 ± 645.1 kcal, p = 0.099). No significant difference in total calorie intake was found between two groups (6265.6 ± 1261.3 kcal vs 6429.4 ± 1452.4 kcal, p = 0.597). CONCLUSION Continuous tube feeding was an effective way to improve the tolerance of enteral nutrition. But no enough evidence was found to support the advantage in calorie intake of continuous tube feeding in this study.BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the association between muscle weakness and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and whether the association is partly explained by insulin resistance or inflammation. SUBJECTS/METHODS Subjects were 3922 adults who participated in the 2015 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Relative grip strength (rGS; calculated as maximal grip strength divided by BMI) was used to predict NAFLD defined by NAFLD liver fat score. Participants were classified into four groups according to the quartiles of rGS distribution (Q1-Q4). Insulin resistance was assessed by triglycerides and glucose (TyG) index. Inflammation was measured with C-reactive protein (CRP). Fibrosis was assessed by the Fibrosis-4 index (FIB-4) and the NAFLD fibrosis score. RESULTS rGS had significant negative associations with TyG index and CRP (all p  less then  0.001). rGS was a significant predictor of NAFLD (OR, 0.54-0.19 in Q2-Q4 men; OR, 0.54-0.08 in Q2-Q4 women, all p  less then  0.001). Adjustment for other participant factors did not substantially affect the results. Addition of TyG index changed the estimates for NAFLD slightly and addition of CRP increased the ORs by 10-20% in Q3-Q4 women. In the subpopulation with NAFLD (n = 946), rGS showed strong inverse relationships with FIB-4 and NAFLD fibrosis score (all p  less then  0.001). CONCLUSIONS Grip strength was inversely associated not only with the risk of NAFLD but also with its severity. Insulin resistance and inflammation explained only a small portion of the association between grip strength and NAFLD risk.BACKGROUND The prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican schoolchildren has increased in the past three decades. Dietary pattern approaches to assess diet have been used to study the relation between nutrition and chronic conditions. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to analyze the association between dietary patterns (DP) and overweight and obesity in Mexican schoolchildren. METHODS We analyzed information from schoolchildren who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012 (ENSANUT-2012). Dietary information was obtained through a 24-h recall of 2751 children (5-11 year). Foods were classified into 33 groups, and the DPs were identified by cluster analysis (k-means method). Weight and height were measured to estimate the body mass index (BMI), by classifying overweight if the Z score was >1 and ≤2 standard deviations (SD), and obesity when the Z score was >2SD. To analyze the association, a Poisson regression model was used, adjusting by age, region, area of residence, socioeconomic status (SES), and the survey design. RESULTS Four DPs were identified "Traditional", "Industrialized", "Varied", and "Modern". The "Modern" DP was associated with obesity (PR = 1.7) (p  less then  0.05) compared with the "Traditional" DP. CONCLUSIONS The "Modern" DP could be influencing the development of obesity in Mexican schoolchildren. The promotion of healthy food and public health strategies to those food groups that should be discouraged are necessary to reverse the obesity epidemic in Mexican children.The antibacterial agents currently in clinical development are predominantly derivatives of well-established antibiotic classes and were selected to address the class-specific resistance mechanisms and determinants that were known at the time of their discovery. Many of these agents aim to target the antibiotic-resistant priority pathogens listed by the WHO, including Gram-negative bacteria in the critical priority category, such as carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas and Enterobacterales. Although some current compounds in the pipeline have exhibited increased susceptibility rates in surveillance studies that depend on geography, pre-existing cross-resistance both within and across antibacterial classes limits the activity of many of the new agents against the most extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and pan-drug-resistant (PDR) Gram-negative pathogens. In particular, cross-resistance to unrelated classes may occur by co-selection of resistant strains, thus leading to the rapid emergence and subsequent spread of resistance. There is a continued need for innovation and new-class antibacterial agents in order to provide effective therapeutic options against infections specifically caused by XDR and PDR Gram-negative bacteria.Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) ligation delimits immunogenic responses in T cells. However, the consequences of programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1) ligation in T cells are uncertain. ABTL-0812 mw We found that T cell expression of PD-L1 in cancer was regulated by tumor antigen and sterile inflammatory cues. PD-L1+ T cells exerted tumor-promoting tolerance via three distinct mechanisms (1) binding of PD-L1 induced STAT3-dependent 'back-signaling' in CD4+ T cells, which prevented activation, reduced TH1-polarization and directed TH17-differentiation. PD-L1 signaling also induced an anergic T-bet-IFN-γ- phenotype in CD8+ T cells and was equally suppressive compared to PD-1 signaling; (2) PD-L1+ T cells restrained effector T cells via the canonical PD-L1-PD-1 axis and were sufficient to accelerate tumorigenesis, even in the absence of endogenous PD-L1; (3) PD-L1+ T cells engaged PD-1+ macrophages, inducing an alternative M2-like program, which had crippling effects on adaptive antitumor immunity. Collectively, we demonstrate that PD-L1+ T cells have diverse tolerogenic effects on tumor immunity.