Publications by authors named "R H Scheel"

We report a case of severe hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) complicated by hyperviscosity syndrome as a possible adverse reaction to risankizumab-rzaa in a 49-year-old male with a history of longstanding uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, obesity, and coronary artery disease with prior ST-elevation myocardial infarction. On admission, the patient presented with xanthomatous plaques, chest and epigastric discomfort, and headache. Subsequent blood testing revealed severely elevated triglyceride (TG) levels at 7670 mg/dL (86.

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The pseudo-natural product (pseudo-NP) concept aims to combine NP fragments in arrangements that are not accessible through known biosynthetic pathways. The resulting compounds retain the biological relevance of NPs but are not yet linked to bioactivities and may therefore be best evaluated by unbiased screening methods resulting in the identification of unexpected or unprecedented bioactivities. Herein, various NP fragments are combined with a tricyclic core connectivity via interrupted Fischer indole and indole dearomatization reactions to provide a collection of highly three-dimensional pseudo-NPs.

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Purpose: Myriad dysphagia assessment tools have been designed, but their application is variable. This is partly due to a lack of implementation and dissemination strategy as well as to limited guidance regarding which instruments are optimally designed and best used for clinical and research applications.

Method: This tutorial provides a high-level overview of implementation and dissemination, their interaction with psychometrics and knowledge coproduction, and how these concepts relate to proper development and widespread application of contextually relevant, psychometrically optimized, evidence-based dysphagia assessment instruments.

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In alkyllithium chemistry the highest reactivity has historically been linked to the smallest degree of aggregation possible. Since tert-butyllithium is known to form a monomer in tetrahydrofuran solution, using just stoichiometric amounts of the lewis base to selectively form a dimeric species seemed irrational. In this study, we showed a considerable increase of the reactivity of t-BuLi when using stoichiometric amounts of THF in the non-polar solvent n-pentane in order to enable the deprotonation of simple methyl silanes and other low C-H-acidic substrates.

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Design strategies that can access natural-product-like chemical space in an efficient manner may facilitate the discovery of biologically relevant compounds. We have employed a divergent intermediate strategy to construct an indole alkaloid-inspired compound collection derived from two different molecular design principles, i.e.

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