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We find that attention causes broad modulations at multiple levels of speech representations while growing stronger toward later stages of processing, and that unattended speech is represented up to the semantic level in parabelt auditory cortex. These results provide insights on attentional mechanisms that underlie the ability to selectively listen to a desired speaker in noisy multispeaker environments.

Giardiasis failing nitroimidazole first-line treatment is an emerging clinical problem in returning European travelers. We present data on the efficacy and tolerability of two second-line treatment regimens.

Prospective, open-label, multi-center study assessing the efficacy and tolerability of quinacrine monotherapy (100mg TID for 5 days) and albendazole plus chloroquine combination therapy (400mg BID plus 155mg BID for 5 days) in nitroimidazole-refractory giardiasis, defined as cases with persisting or relapsing infection despite single or repeated courses of nitroimidazole treatment. The defined endpoints were the clinical outcome, assessed by a questionnaire, at week 5 after treatment and the parasitological outcome, assessed by microscopy of 2 stool samples, ≥2-≤5 weeks after treatment.

106 patients were included in the study. Quinacrine achieved clinical and parasitological cure in 81% (59/73) and 100% (56/56), respectively. Albendazole plus chloroquine achieved clinical and parasitological cure inned on the low risk of severe neuropsychiatric adverse event. Albendazole plus chloroquine had a low cure rate in nitroimidazole-refractory giardiasis. Nitroimidazole-refractory giardiasis was primarily seen in travelers returning from India.

Levofloxacin is a third-generation fluoroquinolone that has several advantages over its R-Ofloxacin isomer. It is used to treat different types of infections including urinary and prostatitis.

New HPLC method for the enantioselective separation of levofloxacin and its chiral impurity was developed and validated to improve the separation of the enantiomers of levofloxacin (impurity-R and active principle-S) by increasing the value of the resolution between the eutomer and the distomer.

Chromatographic separation was performed on Prodigy ODS -2, 5 µm 4.6 × 150 mm column, with a gradient of buffer solution and methanol, in the proportion of (8020, v/v). The box-Behnken design was considered when optimizing the enantioseparation involving many factors effects such as the concentration of D-phenylalanine, the pH of the buffer, the percentage of organic modifier in the mobile phase, the flow rate, the temperature of the column, and the type column.

Chiral separation was achieved with an optimal resolution of 3.8. The method was successfully validated following ICH Q2 (R1) guideline, fulfilling acceptance criteria for selectivity (no interference in the retention time of S-levofloxacin and R-levofloxacin), linearity [r > 0.999 in the ranges 1.25 to 3.75 µg/mL for all enantiomers], and precision (RSD < 2%). Accuracy was assessed by the application of the analytical method to an analyte of know purity, evidencing the usefulness of this monitoring system.

The method was successfully used for the determination of levofloxacin impurity in raw material and pharmaceutical dosage forms.

The method was successfully used for the determination of levofloxacin impurity in raw material and pharmaceutical dosage forms.

Despite the therapeutic efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in a subset of patients, consistent and easily obtainable predictors of efficacy remain elusive.

This study was conducted on 644 advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with ICI monotherapy between April 2013 and September 2020 at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Patient smoking history, clinicopathological characteristics, tumor mutation burden (TMB) by clinical targeted next generation sequencing, and PD-L1 tumor proportion score (TPS) by immunohistochemistry were prospectively collected. The association of smoking history with clinical outcomes of ICI monotherapy in metastatic NSCLC patients was evaluated after adjusting for other potential predictors. All statistical tests were 2-sided.

Of 644 advanced NSCLC patients 105 (16.3%) were never smokers, 375 (58.2%) were former smokers (median pack-years = 28), and 164 (25.4%) were current smokers (median pack-years = 40). Multivaking exposure had a statistically significant association with improved clinical outcomes in metastatic NSCLC treated with ICI monotherapy independent of PD-L1 TPS. Pack-years may serve as a consistent and readily obtainable surrogate of ICI efficacy when TMB is not available to inform prompt clinical decisions and allow more patients to benefit from ICIs.While clonal hematopoiesis (CH) can precede the development of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), it can also persist after achieving remission. IKE modulator Long-term clonal dynamics and clinical implications of persistent CH are not well understood. Here, we studied the prevalence, dynamics and clinical implications of post-remission CH in 164 AML patients who attained complete remission after induction chemotherapies. Post-remission CH was identified in 79 (49%) patients. Post-remission CH persisted long-term in 91% of the trackable patients despite treatment with various types of consolidation and maintenance therapies. Post-remission CH was eradicated in 20 out of 21 (95%) patients who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplant. While patients with post-remission CH as a group had comparable hematopoiesis with those without it, patients with persistent TET2 mutations showed significant neutropenia long-term. Post-remission CH had little impact on relapse risk, non-relapse mortality, and incidence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, although the clinical impact of post-CR CH was heterogeneous among different mutations. These data suggest that while residual clonal hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are generally resistant to consolidation and maintenance therapies, they retain the ability to maintain normal hematopoiesis and have little impact on clinical outcomes, although larger study is needed to dissect the gene-specific heterogeneity.