Effect of extracellular ATP on cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity in human ovarian carcinoma cells.

abstract：:Malignant tumors are known to exhibit high rates of glycolytic activity leading to high production of lactic acid. Hence, neoplastic cells have elevated activity of enzymes responsible for glycolysis. Echitamine chloride, an indole alkaloid extracted from the bark of Alstonia scholaris, has been reported to have a hig...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Saraswathi V,Ramamoorthy N,Subramaniam S,Mathuram V,Gunasekaran P,Govindasamy S

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of the dramatic situation of malaria in Africa, there is an urgent need to find new and cheap drugs, such as herbal medicines. Here we report the study of the in vitro and in vivo antimalarial activity of Momordica balsamina alone or in a traditional mixture used in Niger. METHODS:Extracts were obta...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Benoit-Vical F,Grellier P,Abdoulaye A,Moussa I,Ousmane A,Berry A,Ikhiri K,Poupat C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:T790M is a major cause of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) resistance, but the clinical significance of T790M disappearance is unknown. CASE REPORT:We report 3 cases of pulmonary adenocarcinoma which did not respond to EGFR-TKI retreatment even with T790M disappearance...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Kodama T,Watanabe K,Shinkai M,Kaneko T

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Itraconazole has emerged as an important new oral agent in the treatment of systemic fungal infections. This paper summarizes the data available on its use in aspergillosis, cryptococcosis and histoplasmosis, compiled in the United States with particular attention to the immunocompromised host. Data have been accrued ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Hostetler JS,Denning DW,Stevens DA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The affinity of meropenem for various known types of beta-lactamases and its stability to them were tested in comparison with other beta-lactams, including imipenem. Meropenem exhibited a marked stability to all beta-lactamases tested and was only hydrolyzed by Xanthomonas maltophilia beta-lactamase, as were other bet...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Nouda H,Harabe ET,Sumita Y,Okuda T,Fukasawa M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was conducted to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns among common pathogens in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a university hospital in Iran between 2006 and 2009. METHODS:The isolates cultured in appropriate media and antimicrobial susceptibility were determined by disk diffusio...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Mohammadtaheri Z,Pourpaki M,Mohammadi F,Namdar R,Masjedi MR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This phase II study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the chemotherapy combination of gemcitabine and vinorelbine in taxane-pretreated Japanese metastatic breast cancer patients. METHODS:In this multicenter, phase II, single-arm study, patients with recurrent or metastatic HER2-negative b...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Yamamura J,Masuda N,Yamamoto D,Tsuyuki S,Yamaguchi M,Tanaka S,Tsurutani J,Tokunaga S,Yoshidome K,Mizutani M,Aono T,Ooe A,Tanino H,Matsunami N,Yasojima H,Nakayama T,Nishida Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gallbladder cancer is a common and lethal digestive malignancy which is nonsensitive to routine chemotherapy. Doxorubicin (DOX) is one of the major chemotherapeutic drugs for patients with gallbladder cancer. We tried to evaluate if combined use of somatostatin (SST) and DOX could have synergistic effect in ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Quan ZW,Yue JN,Li JY,Qin YY,Guo RS,Li SG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nevirapine (NVP) is a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used in HIV patients and recently evaluated as a differentiating and antiproliferative agent in human malignancies. However, while NVP is a safe treatment in immunocompromised patients, NVP-containing regimens have been associated with sever...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Landriscina M,Fabiano A,Lombardi V,Santodirocco M,Piscazzi A,Fersini A,De Vis K,Barone C,Cignarelli M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rational choice of an antimicrobial agent must take into account not only the activity against the specific pathogen but also any possible negative or positive effects on the host defense system. Rokitamycin (RKM) is an orally active 16-membered-ring macrolide; there are no reports of specific investigations of thes...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Braga PC,Maci S,Dal Sasso M,Fonti E,Ghessi A

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings justify the opinion that Chlamydia psittaci is the reappearance of a forgotten pathogen. The clinical manifestation and the course of psittacosis are extremely variable, whereas the clinical spectrum of the infection with the different strains of C. psittaci is not known. Reactive arthritis during the ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Tsapas G,Klonizakis I,Casakos K,Koncouris L

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic effectiveness of pretazettine (PTZ) has been demonstrated in the intraperitoneally (i.p.) implanted Lewis lung carcinoma (LLC) in both syngeneic and allogeneic mice. The i.p. implanted LLC has been found to be sensitive to most standard drugs tested such as cyclophosphamide (CY), actinomycin D, 5-fluoroura...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Furusawa E,Furusawa E,Sokugawa L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:108 white rats weighing 170-250 G were given trimethoprim, sulphamethoxazole and the combination trimethoprim 1/sulphamethoxazole orally and parenterally in order to test the preventive effect of these substances on experimental hematogenous pyelonephritis due to Staphylococcus aureus. Oral applications of 48 mg/kg/24...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Obek A,Anğ O,Iplikçi A,Güvener Z,Eroğlu L,Güngör M,Yurtkuran M

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial agents may interact with polymorphonuclear leukocytes and directly modify the leukocyte functions, or bacteria can be modified by the antimicrobial agents causing them to be treated differently by phagocytic cells. Brief exposure of bacteria to high levels of antimicrobials can affect their interaction w...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Pérez P,Herrera I,Martín M,Martínez P,Gómez-Lus ML

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before appendectomy 36 adult patients were given an intravenous infusion of 500 mg of tinidazole. In the operation tissue samples were taken (blood, base of appendix vermiformis, muscle, fat) either 10, 20, 30, 60, or 120 min after cessation of infusion. The tinidazole concentrations were determined by liquid chromato...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Viitanen J,Auvinen O,Tunturi T

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial growth kinetic experiments have been performed to study the potentiating effect of trimethoprim (TMP) AND TMP derivatives on the antibacterial action of sulfonamides (SA). The TMP derivatives showed different inhibitory effects when used alone. Derivatives with decreased inhibitory activity excerted 'bacteri...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Seydel JK,Wempe E

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred symptomatic women with clinical bacterial vaginosis (BV) were enrolled in this study. The bacteriological epidemiology of BV and efficacy of oral or vaginal administration of antimicrobial agents for treatment of BV were investigated. The epidemiology of BV was investigated before antimicrobial therapy. Fi...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Mikamo H,Kawazoe K,Izumi K,Ito K,Katoh N,Watanabe K,Ueno K,Tamaya T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of sparfloxacin, a new fluoroquinolone, was compared with ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin against 166 consecutive isolates from the upper respiratory tract of outpatients. The strains were fully susceptible to three quinolones. The antibacterial activity of sparfloxacin was comparable or better than ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Malmborg AS,Ahlén S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective clinical evaluation to assess the efficacy of a 1-gram once-daily regimen of intravenously administered ceftriaxone in the treatment of a variety of bacterial infections. Of the 250 patients studied, 167 had infections of the lower respiratory tract, approximately 70% of which were diagnos...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Brown R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niridazole was shown to be an effective chemotherapeutic agent for mice infected intravenously with a niridazole-sensitive strain of Salmonella typhimurium. Death rates as well as bacterial counts per spleen were reduced, even in compromised animals. Histologic examination of spleens proved the reduction of inflammato...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Hof H,Müller KM,Heine WD

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic bone and soft tissue suppurations have become more frequent recently due to the increasing number of high-energy injuries. There are certain antibiotic beads available for local administration, but they cannot always be applied specifically against the pyogenic microorganisms. In the present study, a new techn...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Börzsei L,Mintál T,Koós Z,Kocsis B,Helyes Z,Kereskai L,Nyárády J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an unconventional frontline tuberculosis drug characterized by high in vivo sterilizing activity, but poor in vitro activity. The study on the mechanism of action of PZA has attracted significant attention because of the peculiarity of PZA and its ability to shorten the tuberculosis chemotherapy....

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Huang Q,Chen ZF,Li YY,Zhang Y,Ren Y,Fu Z,Xu SQ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) affects 400 million people worldwide and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. It is known that HBV DNA sequences were detected after the clearance of serum hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) often in serum, liver and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. The objectives of our...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Akhan SC,Yulugkural Z,Vahaboglu H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicenter study aimed at assessing the in vitro activity of sulbactam/ampicillin against a wide range of bacterial pathogens was performed using 2,209 clinical strains, all recently collected from inpatients in seven Italian centers and preliminarily screened as being ampicillin-resistant and beta-lactamase produc...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Varaldo PE,Ripa S,Nicoletti G,Covelli I,Satta G,Carlone N,Fontana R

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 30 hospitalized patients with upper and lower urinary tract infections were treated with cefotaxime (HR-756) by intramuscular or intravenous route. All patients had a monomicrobial infection, and the major part of bacterial isolates were gram-negative bacilli (83%) while gram-positive cocci accounted only f...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Paradisi F,Cristiano P,Mirone V,D'Armiento V,Iovene MR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of cis-ethylenediammine platinum (II) complexes were synthesized and their activity against Sarcoma-180 ascites tumour cells in mouse was tested. One of the compounds, Pt(HOCH2CH2NHCH2CH2NH2)Cl2, showed significant antitumour activity having little toxicity to the host. Like the parent compound, cis-DDP, it bi...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Chakraborty BK,Biswas N,Choudhury K,Neogy RK,Das Sarma B

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have treated 45 cases of urinary tract infection with cefazolin (i.m.) and cure was achieved in 35 (77.77%). 26 of the 28 patients (92.85%) with acute cystitis who received 250 mg every 12 h for 6-10 days were cured. 17 patients with pyelonephritis received 500 mg every 12 h during 10-14 days and therapeutical succ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Lus RG,Calvo MC,Lopez LG,Cancer RC,Molina AM,Sanchez ED,Parilla AC,Mur LL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis L) and ticks (Ornithodoros moubata) that had been infected with Rickettsia prowazekii received varying doses of erythromycin. The anti-rickettsial activity of this drug was evaluated with regard to the determination of the numbers of surviving microorganism (LID100) and the in viv...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Becla E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the therapeutic adult antibiotics prescribed by dental practitioners working in the Jordan University Hospital. METHODS:Adult dental prescriptions for therapeutic antibiotics issued between 1 January 2003 and 31 May 2004 by dental specialists working in the Jordan Unive...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Dar-Odeh NS,Abu-Hammad OA,Khraisat AS,El Maaytah MA,Shehabi A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple combined agar-strip test (CAST), involving filter paper strips charged with 20 micrograms of ampicillin or 40 micrograms of gentamicin, accurately detected high-level gentamicin resistance among 43 of 146 isolates of Enterococcus faecalis and additive activity of ampicillin plus gentamicin against 101 of 103 ...

journal_title：Chemotherapy

authors： Traub WH,Leonhard B

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00