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Several studies have shown that hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) ameliorates renal interstitial fibrosis, but the mechanism is not fully clear. This study was designed to examine whether HGF can relieve renal interstitial injury in 5/6 nephrectomized rats, and to confirm whether this f...
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PMID: 22165288
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Several studies have shown that hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) ameliorates renal interstitial fibrosis, but the mechanism is not fully clear. This study was designed to examine whether HGF can relieve renal interstitial injury in 5/6 nephrectomized rats, and to confirm whether this f...
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PMID: 22165288
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Several studies have shown that hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) ameliorates renal interstitial fibrosis, but the mechanism is not fully clear. This study was designed to examine whether HGF can relieve renal interstitial injury in 5/6 nephrectomized rats, and to confirm whether this f...
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PMID: 22165288
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Kazutomo Kinoshita,
Takamitsu Kobayashi,
Kohsuke Asoh,
Noriyuki Furuichi,
Toshiya Ito,
Hatsuo Kawada,
Sousuke Hara,
Jun Ohwada,
Kazuo Hattori,
Takuho Miyagi,
Woo-Sang Hong,
Min-Jeong Park,
Kenji Takanashi,
Toshiyuki Tsukaguchi,
Hiroshi Sakamoto,
Takuo Tsukuda and
Nobuhiro Oikawa
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9-Substituted 6,6-dimethyl-11-oxo-6,11-dihydro-5H-benzo[b]carbazoles were discovered as highly selective and potent anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitors by structure-based drug design. The high target selectivity was achieved by introducing a substituent close to the E(0) regi...
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PMID: 21823617
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R James Christie,
Kanjiro Miyata,
Yu Matsumoto,
Takahiro Nomoto,
Daniel Menasco,
Tzai Chung Lai,
Matthew Pennisi,
Kensuke Osada,
Shigeto Fukushima,
Nobuhiro Nishiyama,
Yuichi Yamasaki and
Kazunori Kataoka
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We investigated the properties of micellar siRNA delivery vehicles prepared with poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(l-lysine) (PEG-b-PLL) comprising lysine amines modified to contain amidine and thiol functionality. Lysine modification was achieved using 2-iminothiolane (2-IT) [yielding PEG-b-PLL(N2IM...
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PMID: 21863796
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We characterized the pharmacokinetics of fentanyl in 15 patients (American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification 2 or 3) undergoing living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Fentanyl was continuously infused at the rate of 200-400 µg/h throughout the operation. The time cour...
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PMID: 21814196
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The effect of potentially relevant genetic polymorphisms, CYP3A5 6986A>G and ABCB1 3435C>T, on Tacrolimus pharmacokinetics and graft clinical outcome was investigated in donor and recipient DNA samples from 209 kidney transplant patients.
The mean follow-up was 21.8 ...
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PMID: 21677300
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The effect of potentially relevant genetic polymorphisms, CYP3A5 6986A>G and ABCB1 3435C>T, on Tacrolimus pharmacokinetics and graft clinical outcome was investigated in donor and recipient DNA samples from 209 kidney transplant patients.
The mean follow-up was 21.8 ...
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PMID: 21677300
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The effect of potentially relevant genetic polymorphisms, CYP3A5 6986A>G and ABCB1 3435C>T, on Tacrolimus pharmacokinetics and graft clinical outcome was investigated in donor and recipient DNA samples from 209 kidney transplant patients.
The mean follow-up was 21.8 ...
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PMID: 21677300
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We tested the hypothesis that a high-fat diet (HFD) modifies the liver mitochondrial proteome and alters proteins involved in NO metabolism, namely arginase 1 and endothelial NO synthase. Male C57BL/6 mice were fed a control or HFD and liver mitochondria were isolated for proteomics and reactive oxy...
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PMID: 20919931
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Although clinical drug trials are indispensable in providing an appropriate background for dosage recommendations, they can provide mechanistic pharmacokinetic information only indirectly with the help of certain biomarkers for pathological, physiological and pharmacological determinants. Thus, to pr...
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PMID: 21740072
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We detected no increased risk for perinatal events with fluoxetine therapy compared to the short half-life antidepressants.
clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00279370.
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PMID: 21824458
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We hypothesized that activating NRF2-dependent cytoprotective gene expression with sulforaphane (SFN) affords protection against CS-induced lung damage by inhibiting chemokine production. Results indicate that in the human BEAS-2B epithelial cell line, 5 μM SFN activated NRF2-dependent gene express...
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PMID: 21401388
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We compared renal expression of CYP3A5 and P-gp, measured by immunohistochemistry, in 32 renal allograft biopsies with de novo arteriolar hyalinosis as a sign of CNIT with a control group, consisting of normal protocol allograft biopsies (n=50) and protocol biopsies demonstrating alloimmune injury (...
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PMID: 21544031
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We compared renal expression of CYP3A5 and P-gp, measured by immunohistochemistry, in 32 renal allograft biopsies with de novo arteriolar hyalinosis as a sign of CNIT with a control group, consisting of normal protocol allograft biopsies (n=50) and protocol biopsies demonstrating alloimmune injury (...
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PMID: 21544031
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We compared renal expression of CYP3A5 and P-gp, measured by immunohistochemistry, in 32 renal allograft biopsies with de novo arteriolar hyalinosis as a sign of CNIT with a control group, consisting of normal protocol allograft biopsies (n=50) and protocol biopsies demonstrating alloimmune injury (...
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PMID: 21544031
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In 1998, the National Toxicology Program concluded that inhalation exposure to tetrahydrofuran resulted in increased incidences of renal adenomas and carcinomas (combined) in male F344 rats and of hepatocellular adenomas and carcinomas (combined) in female B6C3F1 mice. In the present...
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PMID: 21316415
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In 1998, the National Toxicology Program concluded that inhalation exposure to tetrahydrofuran resulted in increased incidences of renal adenomas and carcinomas (combined) in male F344 rats and of hepatocellular adenomas and carcinomas (combined) in female B6C3F1 mice. In the present...
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PMID: 21316415
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In 1998, the National Toxicology Program concluded that inhalation exposure to tetrahydrofuran resulted in increased incidences of renal adenomas and carcinomas (combined) in male F344 rats and of hepatocellular adenomas and carcinomas (combined) in female B6C3F1 mice. In the present...
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PMID: 21316415
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Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is still used in Africa for the indoor control of malaria and it may represent a potential hazard for wildlife. The littoral sediments of two alkaline-saline lakes, Natron (Tanzania) and Bogoria (Kenya), in the Eastern Rift Valley, supporting lar...
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PMID: 21809777
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Characterization of the exposure-response relationship has identified that a dose range of 8 to 12 mg provides clinical benefit for the improvement in UPDRS total motor score in patients with early PD. Similarly, pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic analysis showed that, in patients with advanced PD, the...
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PMID: 18978485
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Cocoa, especially the water-insoluble cocoa fraction (WICF), is a rich source of polyphenols. In this study, sequential in vitro digestion of the WICF with gastrointestinal enzymes as well as its bacterial fermentation in a human colonic model system were carried out to investigate b...
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PMID: 21294250
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Over the past decade, the use of the monoclonal antibody alemtuzumab in chronic lymphocytic leukemia has expanded from administration as a single-agent therapy, into use in combination with fludarabine or rituximab, and further to use as a consolidation agent with the goal of eradica...
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PMID: 21685865
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PURPOSE. Topical biphasic vesicle delivery system encapsulating interferon alpha (IFN α) was developed as an alternative to injections used to treat human papillomavirus (HPV) infections. METHODS. Biphasic lipid vesicles encapsulating increasing doses of IFN α (biphasic IFN α) wer...
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PMID: 21291377
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Burned patients have altered vancomycin pharmacokinetics necessitating adjusted dosing. Published initial dosing recommendations to target troughs of 15-20mg/L for this population are lacking.
This study was conducted to develop initial vancomycin dosing recommendatio...
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PMID: 21095062
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We have created an ophthalmic time-release prodrug form combined with a muco-adhesive lubricant compound carboxymethylcellulose and other essential corneal absorption promoter excipients tailoring the increased intraocular absorption of L-carnosine in the aqueous humor and optimizing its specific ef...
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PMID: 20408504
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Drug delivery by inhalation is routine for the treatment of local pulmonary conditions like asthma, cystic fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Only recently, though, has the inhalation route been considered for administering drugs for systemic diseases. The pulmonary route is attrac...
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PMID: 19085124
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The main objective of present research study was to evaluate the potential of lipid nanoparticles for active delivery of an antiretroviral drug to lymphatic tissues. Stavudine entrapped drug loaded solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) were prepared and characterized for a variety of phys...
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PMID: 21612153
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Sanguinarine liposomes were prepared by a remote loading method using three different ammonium salts. A series of studies, including in vitro release, in vitro and in vivo anti-tumor effects and pharmacokinetics in rats, were conducted. The three liposomes showed pH-sensitive release...
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PMID: 21612152
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The use of artemisinin combination therapies to treat uncomplicated malaria is growing and, therefore, so is the number of children exposed to these agents. As a result, there is a huge drive to develop paediatric formulations. However, relatively limited data exist regarding the pharmacokinetic pro...
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PMID: 21320023
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We describe the design, production and characterization of a novel immunocytokine, in which murine interferon-alpha2 was sequentially fused with the tumor-targeting antibody fragment scFv(F8), specific to the alternatively-spliced EDA domain of fibronectin. The resulting fusion protein (F8-IFNa) cou...
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PMID: 21225052
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Activating mutations in BRAF, a constituent of the map kinase pathway, were first discovered as being most prevalent in melanoma in 2002. Only recently have potent and selective, orally available inhibitors of BRAF emerged for clinical testing and demonstrated clear evidence of tumor...
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PMID: 21393075
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We demonstrate the technique in dye infusion experiments that provide cylindrical and spherical distributions when infusing with porous membrane and conventional single-port catheters, respectively. This optical method incorporates important parameters, such as optimum camera exposure, captured came...
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PMID: 21342811
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A simple validated LC-UV method for the phytochemical analysis of four bioactive quassinoids, 13alpha(21)-epoxyeurycomanone (EP), eurycomanone (EN), 13alpha,21-dihydroeurycomanone (ED) and eurycomanol (EL) in rat plasma following oral (200 mg/kg) and intravenous administration (10 mg...
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PMID: 21485270
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To highlight the significant impact breakthrough cancer pain (BTcP) can have on patients' quality of life and to discuss potential management strategies that could improve pain control in clinical practice as well as effective strategies to manage risk.
BTcP can place...
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PMID: 21325998
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Obesity is a worldwide epidemic with increasing importance in both industrialised and developing countries. Anaesthesiologists will be increasingly challenged by the care for morbidly and super-obese patients. Prerequisites for an optimal perioperative care are a suitable and adapted environment both...
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PMID: 21516912
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A R A Razak,
S J Hotte,
L L Siu,
E X Chen,
H W Hirte,
J Powers,
W Walsh,
L-A Stayner,
A Laughlin,
V Novotny-Diermayr,
J Zhu and
E A Eisenhauer
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I study was carried out to determine the safety, dose-limiting toxicity, recommended phase II dose (RPTD), as well as pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) profiles of SB939 in a daily × 5 schedule in advanced solid tumours.
Sequential dose-escalating cohorts of patients wer...
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PMID: 21285985
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We randomly assigned patients to receive fidaxomicin (200 mg twice daily) or vancomycin (125 mg four times daily) orally for 10 days. The primary end point was clinical cure (resolution of symptoms and no need for further therapy for C. difficile infection as of the second day after the end of the c...
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PMID: 21288078
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We report on the development of a CpG ODN-loaded suture that can close up the wound following tumor excision and provide sustained localized delivery of CpG ODN to treat local disease recurrence. The suture was prepared by melt extruding a mixture of polylactic acid-co-glycolic acid (PLGA 75:25 0.47...
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PMID: 21206000
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We showed that arginine deprivation in vitro profoundly and selectively sensitized human cancer cells of different organ origin to low doses of canavanine, an arginine analogue of plant origin. In sensitive cancer cells arginine starvation led to the activation of caspase-9, caspase-3 and caspase-7,...
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PMID: 20717004
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These results suggest that the Gal-PHEA-DOX conjugate has great potential for use in hepatocellular carcinoma chemotherapy because of its enhanced antitumor effect with reduced systemic toxicity including hepatotoxicity....
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PMID: 20966743
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Increasingly, early phase clinical trials involve pharmacodynamic (PD) and pharmacokinetic (PK) assays as well as frequent imaging studies. The authors conducted a prospective study examining patients' willingness to undergo such tests and the number of tests the patients would tolerate.
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PMID: 21246533
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These results support hypotheses as to why certain Cu(i) binding amino acids are preferred over others in proteins expressed at different pH and exposed to oxidative environments. The results also have implications for interpreting site-directed mutagenesis studies aimed at identifying copper bindin...
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PMID: 21553704
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Risks to health from large-scale atmospheric nuclear weapons testing are still relatively unknown. A sample of 85,000 deciduous teeth collected from Americans born during the bomb-testing years assessed risk by in vivo measurement of residual strontium-90 (Sr-90) concentrations, usin...
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PMID: 21319726
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This article explores the issue of polypharmacy in older adults. The physiological changes in organ function in older people and the effect of this on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are discussed. The risks of adverse drug reactions and adverse drug interactions linked to polypharmacy are expl...
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PMID: 21706978
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Yasunori Sato,
Noboru Yamamoto,
Hideo Kunitoh,
Yuichiro Ohe,
Hironobu Minami,
Nan M Laird,
Noriko Katori,
Yoshiro Saito,
Sumiko Ohnami,
Hiromi Sakamoto,
Jun-Ichi Sawada,
Nagahiro Saijo,
Teruhiko Yoshida and
Tomohide Tamura
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Our goal was to identify candidate polymorphisms that could influence overall survival (OS) in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with carboplatin (CBDCA) and paclitaxel (PTX).
Chemotherapy-naïve stage IIIB or IV NSCLC patients treated with CBDCA (area unde...
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PMID: 21079520
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Xiaonan Hou,
Fei Huang,
Joan M Carboni,
Karen Flatten,
Yan W Asmann,
Cynthia Ten Eyck,
Takeo Nakanishi,
Jennifer D Tibodeau,
Douglas D Ross,
Marco M Gottardis,
Charles Erlichman,
Scott H Kaufmann and
Paul Haluska
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We generated a cell line that was resistant to the IGF-1R/InsR benzimidazole inhibitors, BMS-554417 and BMS-536924, and compared expression profiles of the parental and resistant cells lines using Affymetrix GeneChip Human Genome U133 arrays. Compared with MCF-7 cells, breast cancer resistance prote...
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PMID: 21220496
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We aimed to study the effects of gliadin and various intestinal bacterial strains on mucosal barrier integrity, gliadin translocation, and cytokine production.
Changes in gut mucosa were assessed in the intestinal loops of inbred Wistar-AVN rats that were reared under germ-free condi...
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PMID: 21249146
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We describe an improved fluorescent imaging approach to detect potential islet dysfunction. Using Cell Tracker Red (CTR, a mildly thiol-reactive fluorescent probe) to positively label particular islets, we measured intracellular free calcium with fura-2 AM in both CTR-labeled and unlabeled sets of p...
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PMID: 21266850
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Our results implicate that, when equipped with targeting ligands, liposomes are most suitable for the imaging of plaque-associated endothelial markers due to low background enhancement, whereas micelles, which accumulate extravascularly on a long timescale, are suited for imaging of less abundant ma...
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PMID: 20882509
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This pharmacokinetic (PK) study was designed to investigate the maximum intranasal insulin dose that could be achieved by repeated doses in a single nostril of a nasal spray of recombinant regular human insulin 1% in combination with cyclopentadecalactone (CPE-215) 2%, a compound tha...
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PMID: 21303633
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We outline key PK concepts relevant to PD, and then consider real-life experiments to illustrate the importance to the medicinal chemist of data obtained by PKPD. Useful assumptions and potential pitfalls are described, providing a holistic view of the plethora of determinants behind in vitro-in viv...
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PMID: 21320067
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The objective of this study was to develop an estimate of the percent dermal absorption of permethrin in humans to provide more accurate estimates of potential systemically absorbed dose associated with dermal exposure scenarios. Piperonyl butoxide (PBO) was used as a reference compo...
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PMID: 21271436
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To compare the subjective effects of oxymorphone extended release (OM-ER) versus oxycodone controlled release (OC-CR).
Randomized, double-blind, crossover study.
Inpatient unit.
Healthy, nondependent recreational opioid users....
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PMID: 21823549
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We have developed a statistical text-mining approach (BInary Characteristics Extractor and biomedical Properties Predictor: BICEPP) to help experts screen drugs that may have important clinical characteristics of interest....
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PMID: 21510898
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Nilotinib (Tasigna®), a highly selective and potent BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is approved for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia in the chronic phase (CML-CP) and the accelerated phase (CML-AP) in patients resistant or intolerant to prior therapy, including imatinib...
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PMID: 21184622
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