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Monoclonal antibodies are efficiently reduced by extracorporeal therapies and re-dosing is necessary to provide sufficient efficacy. In the case of serious adverse events such as immune-related adverse events, IA might be used to eliminate the monoclonal antibody. Measuring IgG levels might be a reasonable strategy for monitoring drug levels of monoclonal antibodies during IA. © 2020 The Authors. Journal of Clinical Apheresis published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.BACKGROUND Although the toxic effects of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) on children are well established, there is emerging evidence about the dynamics and associated demographics of drinking patterns across pregnancy, with risky drinking more likely to take place in the period before pregnancy awareness. This study investigated the use of complementary measurement tools in the understanding of alcohol use across pregnancy and reports on the rates and patterns of alcohol use in a community antenatal setting. METHODS Data on alcohol consumption before and after awareness of pregnancy were collected via multiple measurement tools anonymous lifestyle questionnaire, TWEAK (Tolerance, Worried, Eye-opener, Amnesia, K/Cut down) screener questionnaire, and Substance Use Inventory interviews across multiple pregnancy timepoints. Additionally, phosphatidylethanol (PEth), a direct biomarker of alcohol metabolism, collected from newborns' dried blood spot cards, was analyzed. RESULTS The TWEAK screener was more likely th, may be useful for identifying the risk of PAE in late pregnancy. © 2020 by the Research Society on Alcoholism.Differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) is a procedure often used to decrease problem behavior, but the processes responsible for behavior reduction are not well understood. This study assessed whether adventitious reinforcement of other behavior contributes to DRO effectiveness when, relative to previous research, DRO exposure is prolonged. Two response options were presented on a computer and target responding was reinforced on a variable-ratio schedule. Response rates were then compared during DRO versus yoked variable-time or extinction probes. Across 2 experiments, DRO decreased target responding and increased other responding more than control conditions. However, increases in other responding did not usually maintain despite target responding remaining at low levels. DRO might adventitiously reinforce other responses transiently but the decreases in target behavior could not be entirely explained by adventitious reinforcement of the other response. Instead, reductions in target responding likely depend on the discriminability of the DRO contingency. © 2020 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.We have evaluated the performance of various density functionals, covering generalized gradient approximation (GGA), global hybrid (GH) and range-separated hybrid (RSH), using time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) for computing vertical excitation energies against experimental absorption maximum (λmax ) for a set of 10 different core-substituted naphthalene diimides (cNDI) recorded in dichloromethane. The computed excitation in case of GH PBE0 is most accurate while the trend is most systematic with RSH LCY-BLYP compared to λmax . We highlight the importance of including solvent effects for optimal agreement with the λmax . Increasing the basis set size from TZ2P to QZ4P has a negligible influence on the computed excitation energies. Notably, RSH CAMY-B3LYP gave the least error for charge-transfer excitation. The poorest agreement with λmax is obtained with semi-local GGA functionals. Use of the optimally-tuned RSH LCY-BLYP* is not recommended because of the high computational cost and marginal improvement in results. © 2020 The Authors. Journal of Computational Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Measurements of open chromatin in specific cell types are widely used to infer the spatiotemporal activity of transcriptional enhancers. How reliable are these predictions? In this review, it is argued that the relationship between the accessibility and activity of an enhancer is insufficiently described by simply considering open versus closed chromatin, or active versus inactive enhancers. Instead, recent studies focusing on the quantitative nature of accessibility signal reveal subtle differences between active enhancers and their different inactive counterparts the closed silenced state and the accessible primed and repressed states. While the open structure as such is not a specific indicator of enhancer activity, active enhancers display a higher degree of accessibility than the primed and repressed states. Molecular mechanisms that may account for these quantitative differences are discussed. A model that relates molecular events at an enhancer to changes in its activity and accessibility in a developing tissue is also proposed. © 2020 The Authors. Microbiology inhibitor BioEssays published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.BACKGROUND The current study was aimed at investigating the feasibility of hippocampus-avoidance whole-brain radiation therapy with a simultaneous integrated boost (HA-WBRT+SIB) for metastases and at assessing tumor control in comparison with conventional whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT) in patients with multiple brain metastases. METHODS Between August 2012 and December 2016, 66 patients were treated within a monocentric feasibility trial with HA-WBRT+SIB hippocampus-avoidance WBRT (30 Gy in 12 fractions, dose to 98% of the hippocampal volume ≤ 9 Gy) and a simultaneous integrated boost (51 or 42 Gy in 12 fractions) for metastases/resection cavities. Intracranial tumor control, hippocampal failure, and survival were subsequently compared with a retrospective cohort treated with WBRT via propensity score matching analysis. RESULTS After 11 propensity score matching, there were 62 HA-WBRT+SIB patients and 62 WBRT patients. Local tumor control (LTC) of existing metastases was significantly higher after HA-WBbehalf of American Cancer Society.OBJECTIVE To conduct a randomized double-blind prospective study to investigate effect of different doses of atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, and simvastatin on elderly patients with ST-elevation AMI after PCI. METHODS One hundred and ninety-two AMI patients over 60 years old who underwent PCI were randomly divided into six groups the low atorvastatin group, high atorvastatin group; low rosuvastatin group; high rosuvastatin group; low simvastatin group; high simvastatin group. Demographic data and clinical information as well as coronary angiography parameters were recorded. Plasma levels of CK-MB, BNP, ALT, and TnI were measured at 12 hr, 24 hr, and 1 week after PCI. Major cardiovascular events (MACE) were recorded and analyzed using Kaplan-Meier (K-M) curve. RESULTS No significant differences were observed in angiographic and procedural characteristics. In all high dose groups, all levels of CK-MB, BNP, ALT, and TnI were significantly lower. However, after 1 week of PCI, only CK-MB, BNP, and TnI showed significant difference between high and low dose groups.