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INTRODUCTION Quantitative Myasthenia Gravis (QMG) and Myasthenia Gravis Activities of Daily Living (MG-ADL) scales were compared using the data from the MGTX study. METHODS Correlation between QMG and MG-ADL raw and change-from-baseline scores was calculated every 3 months for 60 months based on treatment groups and minimal manifestation status (MMS). KYA1797K RESULTS QMG and MG-ADL change-from-baseline scores correlated significantly, with increasing strength of correlation over time, in both treatment groups. QMG and MG-ADL raw scores correlated significantly in both treatment groups with increasing correlation only in the prednisone alone group. Correlation between raw scores was weaker in patients who were in MMS demonstrating a "floor effect" in the MG-ADL scale. Raw QMG scores could be modeled assuming a normal distribution while raw MG-ADL scores could not. DISCUSSION The floor effect and skewed distribution of the MG-ADL measure should be taken into account in the design of myasthenia gravis clinical trials. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.One of the hallmarks of COVID-19 is a reduction in lymphocyte counts, and the degree of reduction correlates with disease severity. Studies have shown a linear negative correlation between peripheral blood CD8+ T cells counts and viral copy numbers in nasopharynx and disease severity. In addition, CD8+ T cells are reported to be functionally 'exhausted'. Currently, there is no proven treatment for COVID-19. Cytotoxic T cells are key to fighting intracellular viruses. In the context of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, a variety of viral infections have been successfully treated using off-the-shelf HLA-matched virus-specific cytotoxic T cells. A similar strategy using convalescent donor CD8+ T cells appears to be the need of the hour and has not received enough attention till date. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.A self-consistent Coulomb bath model is presented to provide an accurate and efficient way of performing calculations for interfragment electrostatic and polarization interactions. In this method, a condensed-phase system is partitioned into molecular fragment blocks. Each fragment is embedded in the Coulomb bath due to other fragments. Importantly, the present Coulomb bath is represented using a density fitting method in which the electron densities of molecular fragments are fitted using an atom-centered auxiliary basis set of Gaussian type. The Coulomb bath is incorporated into an effective Hamiltonian for each fragment, with which the electron density is optimized through an iterative double self-consistent field (DSCF) procedure to realize the mutual many-body polarization effects. In this work, the accuracy of interfragment interaction energies enumerated using the Coulomb bath is tested, showing a good agreement with the exact results from an energy decomposition analysis. The qualitative features of many-body polarization effects are visualized by electron density difference plots. It is also shown that the present DSCF method can yield fast and robust convergence with near-linear scaling in performance with increase in system size. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Mycodextran-also known as nigeran-is an unbranched polysaccharide made of α-d-glucopyranose units alternatively connected by (1 → 3) and (1 → 4) glycosidic linkages produced intracellularly by Aspergillus niger and Penicillium crustosum. In this work we examine possible enforced conformational transitions in the glucopyranose rings in the nigeran oligosaccharide chains. In order to simulate such structural changes we used the Enforced Geometry Optimization (EGO) method. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Low doses of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) are recommended in some venous thromboembolism prophylaxis guidelines for total knee replacement arthroplasty surgery. As salicylic acid has antimicrobial activity it would be advantageous if aspirin's use reduced the risk of prosthetic joint infection. We measured salicylate levels in the synovial fluid of patients taking long term low dose aspirin who were having knee arthroplasty surgery. Low levels of salicylic and salicyluric acids were present in synovial fluid immediately pre surgery. Acetylsalicylic acid was not measurable in synovial fluid. The measured salicylic acid levels were lower than those previously shown to have antibacterial activity against any of the bacteria that typically cause prosthetic joint infection. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Worldwide cases of confirmed COVID-19 are approaching three million, and citizens around the world are experiencing unprecedented changes to their lifestyles due to the measures implemented to slow the spread of the disease. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.We explored the effects of atmospheric CO2 concentration (Ca ) and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) on putative mechanisms controlling leaf elongation in perennial ryegrass. Plants were grown in stands at a Ca of 200, 400 or 800 μmol mol-1 combined with high (1.17 kPa) or low (0.59 kPa) VPD during the 16 h-day in well-watered conditions with reduced nitrogen supply. We measured daynight-variation of leaf elongation rate (LERday LERnight ), final leaf length and width, epidermal cell number and length, stomatal conductance, transpiration, leaf water potential and water-soluble carbohydrates and osmotic potential in the leaf growth-and-differentiation zone. Daily mean LER or morphometric parameters did not differ between treatments, but LERnight strongly exceeded LERday , particularly at low Ca and high VPD. Across treatments LERday was negatively related to transpiration (R2 =0.75) and leaf water potential (R2 =0.81), while LERnight was independent of leaf water potential or turgor. Enhancement of LERnight over LERday was proportional to the turgor-change between day and night (R2 =0.93). LGDZ sugar concentration was high throughout diel cycles, providing no evidence of source limitation in any treatment. Our data indicate a mechanism of diel cycling between daytime hydraulic and nighttime stored-growth controls of LER, buffering Ca and daytime VPD effects on leaf elongation. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.While most pregnant women with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) appear to experience a milder clinical course [1,2], the present report describes a critical case of COVID-19 in a pregnant woman. We discuss the identification, diagnosis, disease progression, and treatment outcome in a 31-year-old pregnant woman admitted to Xiaolan People's Hospital of Zhongshan at 35+2 weeks of pregnancy with no known comorbidity or history of chronic illness. Onset of symptoms in the patient began with a sore throat and dry cough for 4 days, followed by fever and dyspnea for half a day. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Since the beginning of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak, it has emerged that the clinical course and outcome of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is definitely more favourable in children than in adults.1 Few cases of infection in children with cancer are described; also in these patients, except for one reported case,2 the disease was largely asymptomatic.3 Nevertheless, the management of COVID-19 in young patients with comorbidities, particularly cancer, remains a challenge for the clinician; further data are required to optimize the clinical approach to these cases. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Acute promyelocytic leukaemia and COVID-19 are two conditions associated with severe coagulopathy. We present here the multiple haemostasis abnormalities observed in a patient with concomitant acute promyelocytic leukaemia and COVID-19. The clinical consequences were dramatic and led to the death of the patient. A 62-year old woman was admitted on April 13, 2020 for unexplained asthenia, dyspnoea, and uncontrolled epistaxis. Clinical examination revealed pallor, left periorbital ecchymosis due to a recent fall, intrabuccal haemorrhagic bullae, persistent epistaxis, and mild splenomegaly. Oxygen saturation was 96%. Chest computed tomography (CT) was consistent with moderate COVID-19 pneumonia (9 points on a 0-25 scale)(Pan, et al 2020). The qRT-PCR of a nasopharyngeal swab was positive for SARS-CoV2. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Sutton et al. [1] recently reported on universal testing with nasopharyngeal swabs to detect severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) infection in 215 women admitted for delivery at the Presbyterian Allen Hospital in New York, USA. They identified 33 (15.3%) infected women, of whom only four had fever or symptoms suggesting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). These findings suggest that only universal testing can reliably recognize infected cases. However, this approach is only feasible in major hospitals in high-resource countries with efficient lab facilities in-house. Alternative approaches deserve consideration. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Recent evidence suggests that signs and symptoms of severe COVID-19 infection resemble more the pathophysiology and phenotype of complement-mediated thrombotic micoangiopathies (TMA), rather than sepsis-induced coagulopathy or disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) (Campbell and Kahwash 2020, Zhang, et al 2020). Since effective treatment is available for complement-mediated TMA (Gavriilaki 2020), we aim to systematically describe relevant features (clinical phenotype, pathophysiology and management) in patients with severe COVID-19 infection. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Covid-19 has emerged as a global threat that has claimed millions of lives until now. Haematological manifestation as an initial presentation of this deadly virus is not frequently reported in the literature. We hereby report a case series of asymptomatic patients with severe thrombocytopenia which was later found to be Covid induced. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.In drug development, preclinical studies often do not predict human benefit. Why not, then, go right to the source-patients with rare diseases and, more importantly, with specific various genetic mutations that, in aggregate, define the phenotypic clinical disorder? In this issue, Genova et al. describe how induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with two genetic disorders (ataxia-telangiectasia and Aicardi-Goutières syndrome) can be used to better predict responses to immunosuppressive therapy. © 2020 The Authors Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics © 2020 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.Recently, a multiple comparisons procedure was derived with the goal of determining whether it is reasonable to make a decision about which of J independent groups has the largest robust measure of location. This was done by testing hypotheses aimed at comparing the group with the largest estimate to the remaining J - 1 groups. It was demonstrated that for the goal of controlling the familywise error rate, meaning the probability of one or more Type I errors, well-known improvements on the Bonferroni method can perform poorly. A technique for dealing with this issue was suggested and found to perform well in simulations. However, when dealing with dependent groups, the method is unsatisfactory. This note suggests an alternative method that is designed for dependent groups. © 2020 The British Psychological Society.