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Wilson's disease is an autosomal-recessive disorder of copper metabolism with neurological and hepatic presentations. Chelation therapy is used to 'de-copper' patients but neurological outcomes remain unpredictable. A range of neuroimaging abnormalities have been described and may provide insights into disease mechanisms, in addition to prognostic and monitoring biomarkers. Previous quantitative MRI analyses have focussed on specific sequences or regions of interest, often stratifying chronically-treated patients according to persisting symptoms as opposed to initial presentation. In this cross-sectional study, we performed a combination of unbiased, whole-brain analyses on T1-weighted, fluid-attenuated inversion recovery, diffusion-weighted and susceptibility-weighted imaging data from 40 prospectively-recruited patients with Wilson's disease (age range 16-68). We compared patients with neurological (n = 23) and hepatic (n = 17) presentations to determine the neuroradiological sequelae of the initial brain iute to neurodegeneration in Wilson's disease.Everyday auditory streams are complex, including spectro-temporal content that varies at multiple timescales. Using EEG, we investigated the sensitivity of human auditory cortex to the content of past stimulation in unattended sequences of equiprobable tones. In 3 experiments including 82 participants overall, we found that neural responses measured at different latencies after stimulus onset were sensitive to frequency intervals computed over distinct timescales. Importantly, early responses were sensitive to a longer history of stimulation than later responses. To account for these results, we tested a model consisting of neural populations with frequency-specific but broad tuning that undergo adaptation with exponential recovery. We found that the coexistence of neural populations with distinct recovery rates can explain our results. Furthermore, the adaptation bandwidth of these populations depended on spectral context-it was wider when the stimulation sequence had a wider frequency range. Our results provide electrophysiological evidence as well as a possible mechanistic explanation for dynamic and multiscale context-dependent auditory processing in the human cortex.MYD88 and CXCR4 mutations are common in Waldenström Macroglobulinemia (WM). Mutated CXCR4 (CXCR4Mut) impacts BTK-inhibitor response. We conducted a Phase I trial of the CXCR4-antagonist ulocuplumab with ibrutinib in this first-ever study to target CXCR4Mut in WM. Ibrutinib was initiated at 420 mg/day with Cycle 1 and continued until intolerance or progression; ulocuplumab was given cycles 1-6, with a 3+3 dose-escalation design. Each cycle was 4 weeks. Thirteen symptomatic patients, nine treatment-naive were enrolled. Twelve were evaluable for response. At best response, their median serum IgM declined from 5,574 to 1,114 mg/dL; bone marrow disease decreased from 65% to 10%; and hemoglobin increased from 10.1 to 14.2 g/dL (p less then 0.001). The major and VGPR response rates were 100% and 33%, respectively, with VGPRs observed at lower ulocuplumab dose cohorts. Median times to minor and major responses were 0.9 and 1.2 months, respectively. With a median follow-up of 22.4 months, the estimated 2-year PFS was 90%. The most frequent recurring Grade ≥2 adverse events included reversible thrombocytopenia, rash, and skin infections. Ulocuplumab dose-escalation did not impact adverse events. The study demonstrates the feasibility of combining a CXCR4-antagonist with ibrutinib, and provides support for the development of CXCR4-antagonists for CXCR4Mut WM. www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT03225716).

Healthcare professionals have an important role in ensuring that adverse drug reactions are well documented and reported. The key determinants of adverse drug reactions reporting are the knowledge, attitude and practice of healthcare professionals. A systematic review of the literature was undertaken to identify, critically evaluate and summarise the findings on the knowledge, attitude and practice of Malaysian healthcare professionals towards adverse drug reaction reporting.

Literature search using electronic databases including PubMed, Google Scholar and National Medical Research Register was conducted. Additional articles were identified by reviewing the bibliography of the retrieved articles. The articles were searched with any of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms in the title adverse drug reaction, attitude, awareness, behaviour, experience, knowledge, Malaysia, perspectives, pharmacovigilance, practice and view. Studies were selected based on fulfilment of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Ttaken to enhance ADR reporting among Malaysian healthcare professionals should focus on alleviating lethargy and ignorance associated with ADR reporting.

To evaluate key factors for Presenteeism and Activity impairment in multinational patients with Behçet's syndrome (BS) and recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS).

In this cross-sectional study, 364 BS patients from Jordan, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Turkey and 143 RAS patients from the United Kingdom and Turkey were included. Work Productivity Activity Impairment (WPAI) scale was used for Presenteeism and Activity impairment. Mediation analyses were performed to evaluate both direct and indirect causal effects.

Presenteeism score was higher in active patients with genital ulcers and eye involvement as well as patients with comorbidities and current smokers than the others in BS (p< 0.05). In RAS, Presenteeism score was elevated by oral ulcer activity in the direct path (p= 0.0073) and long disease duration as a mediator in the indirect path (p= 0.0191).Patients with active joint involvement had poor scores in Absenteeism, Presenteeism, Overall impairment and Activity impairment compared with those og appropriate treatment strategies in their working environment and daily life.

Scalable clustering algorithms are needed to analyse millions of cells in single cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data.

Here we present an open source python package called FlowGrid that can integrate into the Scanpy workflow to perform clustering on very large scRNA-seq data sets. FlowGrid implements a fast density-based clustering algorithm originally designed for flow cytometry data analysis. We introduce a new automated parameter tuning procedure, and show that FlowGrid can achieve comparable clustering accuracy as state-of-the-art clustering algorithms but at a substantially reduced run time for very large single cell RNA-seq data sets. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/cx-5461.html For example, FlowGrid can complete a 1-hour clustering task for one million cells in about 5 minutes.

https//github.com/holab-hku/FlowGrid.

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.