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Overall, students in the PBL programme had significantly higher knowledge scores than students in the traditional programme (76% (SD 9) vs 67% (SD 15); p = 0.002). Additionally, students in the PBL programme made significantly fewer inappropriate therapy choices (p = 0.023) and fewer erroneous prescriptions than did students in the traditional programme (p = 0.27). Students in the PBL programme felt more confident in prescribing, felt better prepared for prescribing as junior doctor and completed more drug prescriptions during their medical training.

Changing from a traditional programme to an integrated PBL programme in pharmacology and CPT during the undergraduate medical curriculum may improve the prescribing competencies of final-year students.
Changing from a traditional programme to an integrated PBL programme in pharmacology and CPT during the undergraduate medical curriculum may improve the prescribing competencies of final-year students.Sport with an endoprosthesis is controversially discussed, whereas golf with a knee endoprosthesis is usually allowed. This case shows that playing golf can lead to severe wear of the prosthesis. The wear pattern of the components of the prosthesis suggests increased rotational loads. A change to a constrained prosthesis was made because of metal-to-metal contact. It is important to inform the patient before surgery about sports with endoprosthesis. Athletic loads are not part of prosthesis testing according to ISO.
The main purposes of this article are to describe an unprecedented phenomenon in which significant amount of a shoulder peak impurity was observed during normal non-reducing capillary electrophoresis-sodium dodecyl sulfate (CE-SDS) analysis of a recombinant fusion protein X, and to evaluate the root cause for this phenomenon.

A series of experiments were conducted to study the nature of this degradation. Effects of iodoacetamide (IAM), heating temperature, duration, and SDS on the formation of this specific impurity were evaluated using a variety of characterization techniques.

The formation of the impurity as observed in CE-SDS was actually due to alkylation of lysine and serine residues with IAM, as confirmed by peptide mapping and LC-MS/MS, which increased the molecular weight and therefore decreased the electrophoretic mobility. The amount of impurity was also strongly dependent on sample preparation conditions including the presence or absence of SDS.

Our study clearly suggested that even though IAM has been used extensively as an alkylation reagent in the traditional non-reducing CE-SDS analysis of monoclonal antibodies and other proteins, alkylation with IAM could potentially lead to additional impurity peak, and therefore complicating analysis. Therefore, before performing CE-SDS and other analyses, the effects of sample preparation procedures on analytical results must be evaluated. For protein X, IAM should be excluded for CE-SDS analysis.
Our study clearly suggested that even though IAM has been used extensively as an alkylation reagent in the traditional non-reducing CE-SDS analysis of monoclonal antibodies and other proteins, alkylation with IAM could potentially lead to additional impurity peak, and therefore complicating analysis. Therefore, before performing CE-SDS and other analyses, the effects of sample preparation procedures on analytical results must be evaluated. For protein X, IAM should be excluded for CE-SDS analysis.Surgical excision is important for melanoma treatment. Delays in surgical excision after diagnosis of melanoma have been linked to decreased survival in hospital-based cohorts. JAK inhibitor This study was aimed at quantifying the association between the timeliness of surgical excision and overall survival in patients diagnosed with melanoma in hospital- and non-hospital-based settings, using a retrospective cohort study of patients with stage 0-III melanoma and using data linked between the North Carolina Central Cancer Registry to Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plan claims across the state. We identified 6,496 patients diagnosed between 2004 and 2012 with follow-up through 2017. We categorized the time from diagnostic biopsy to surgical excision as  90 days after melanoma diagnosis. Multivariable Cox regression was used to estimate differences in survival probabilities. Five-year overall survival was lower for those with time to surgery over 90 days (78.6%) compared with those with less than 6 weeks (86%). This difference appeared greater for patients with Stage 1 melanoma. This study was retrospective, included one state, and could not assess melanoma specific mortality. Surgical timeliness may have an effect on overall survival in patients with melanoma. Timely surgery should be encouraged.The reaction of benzenesulfonyl azides with oxabicyclic alkenes to form aziridines could either proceed via initial [3 + 2] cycloaddition to form triazoline intermediates which then leads to aziridines, or via initial dinitrogen cleavage of the benzenesulfonyl azide to afford a nitrene intermediate followed by addition of this nitrene species across the olefinic C-C bond of the oxabicyclic alkene. Calculations at the DFT M06-2X/6-311G(d,p) level indicate that the initial [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of benzenesulfonyl azide and oxabicyclic alkene has barriers of 15.0 kcal/mol (endo) and 10.3 kcal/mol (exo) and rate constants of 5.23 × 103 s-1 (endo) and 3.86 × 106 s-1 (exo) whereas the pathway involving initial formation of nitrene species has a high activation barrier of 39.2 kcal/mol and rate constant of 8.92 × 10-12 s-1, indicating that the reaction will go through the former route to form an exo triazoline intermediate. The exo triazoline can either undergo a concerted C-C, N-N bond cleavage to form a ring-opened intermediate, a reaction that has a barrier of 23.4 kcal/mol, followed by dinitrogen extrusion and C-C, C-N bond regeneration with barriers of 29.1 and 23.5 kcal/mol respectively to form endo aziridines, or it can undergo direct nitrogen extrusion to form the exo product, a reaction with a barrier of 38.3 kcal/mol. Since the rate-determining step of the former route is 9.2 kcal/mol more favored than the latter, the former route rate is favored. The rate constants of the rate-determining steps are 1.30 × 10-5 s-1 (endo) and 3.16 × 10-11 s-1 (exo), indicating that endo aziridine would be formed as the major product and this is in conformity with the experimental observations of Chen et al. (J. Org. Chem. 1811863-11872, 2019). The position of substituents on the benzene group of the benzenesulfonyl azide affects the endo/exo diastereoselectivity.Graphical abstract.
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