Abstract：
:A number of patients with rheumatoid arthritis attending the Rheumatology Clinic at St Luke's Hospital are currently receiving the drug methotrexate as a second line disease-modifying agent. A survey has been conducted to assess the toxicity profile of methotrexate in 33 of these patients who were followed up for at least 1 year or until they developed side effects necessitating discontinuation of treatment. Adverse effects in this group of patients included haematological ones (6%), asymptomatic elevations of liver enzymes (57%), gastrointestinal (6%) and dermatological side effects (3%). These results have been compared to larger studies performed abroad. Regular monitoring of a complete blood count and liver function tests has helped to detect the more serious side effects of methotrexate at an early stage enabling successful intervention in these patients.
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Adv Exp Med Bioljournal_title
Advances in experimental medicine and biologyauthors
Coleiro B,Mallia Cdoi
10.1007/978-1-4615-4857-7_55subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-01-01 00:00:00pages
359-65eissn
0065-2598issn
2214-8019journal_volume
455pub_type
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pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/978-3-319-47313-0_4
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abstract：:The carbapenems have the broadest spectra of all beta-lactams but resistance still occurs, caused by target modification, impermeability or beta-lactamase production. Target modification or replacement is important in methicillin-resistant staphylococci, E. faecium and some pneumococci. These organisms present the gre...
journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
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doi：10.1007/978-1-4757-9203-4_3
更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Changes in tumor tissue oxygenation and acidity were determined using ultramicroelectrodes, and presented in histogram fashion. The effect of Hyperthermia and Hpd photo-therapy were tested. It was found that both modalities affect tumor microcirculation, causing a marked drop in oxygen availability. Tissue pH is decre...
journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/978-1-4684-7790-0_55
更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00
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doi：10.1007/978-0-387-79100-5_12
更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
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doi：10.1007/978-1-4613-2255-9_13
更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/978-1-4684-4790-3_20
更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/978-3-319-41334-1_11
更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00
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doi：10.1007/5584_2019_380
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doi：10.1007/978-0-387-39975-1_1
更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/978-3-319-67358-5_4
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/978-1-4615-5331-1_63
更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/978-1-4899-8032-8_10
更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have shown that the PC12 cell line is an excellent model system for investigations of the molecular and cellular processes involved in O2-chemosensitivity. We have identified an O2-sensitive K channel in this cell line that mediates membrane depolarization, an increase in intracellular free Ca2+, and dopamine relea...
journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/978-1-4615-5891-0_20
更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Fascioliasis is a major parasitic disease caused by the digenetic trematodes Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica. The disease is a well-known veterinary problem of worldwide distribution. Fascioliasis is the vector-borne parasitic disease presenting the widest latitudinal, longitudinal, and altitudinal distributi...
journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/978-3-030-18616-6_4
更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/978-1-4684-7790-0_27
更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:DNA methylation, occurring at cytosines in CpG dinucleotides, is a potent mechanism of transcriptional repression. Proper genomic methylation -patterns become profoundly altered in cancer cells: both gains (hypermethylation) and losses (hypomethylation) of methylated sites are observed. Although DNA hypomethylation is...
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pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/978-1-4419-9967-2_7
更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/978-1-4419-7347-4_12
更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/978-90-481-3271-3_10
更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Compared to controls receiving physiological saline, the i.p. administration of dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) on 5 consecutive days to rats fed a nutritionally adequate liquid diet resulted 24 hours after the last injection of significant increases in glutamic dehydrogenase (GDH), glutamic oxylacetate transaminase (GOT), ...
journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/978-1-4757-1419-7_25
更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The results of these studies indicate that voluntary activity suppresses the development of chemically and virally induced primary mammary tumors in rats and mice fed high-fat diets. These diets were chosen to mimic the current U.S. fat consumption of approximately 40% of calories as fat. It remains to be seen if acti...
journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/978-1-4684-7953-9_5
更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The pattern of contaminants in pharmaceutical and feed grade L-tryptophan (Trp) was investigated in a market survey of 22 lots of 6 different manufacturers. To date, 5 case associated contaminants in Showa Denko tryptophan (SD-Trp) known to cause the autoimmune disease eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) have been str...
journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/978-1-4615-4709-9_59
更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We present a review that considers the regulation of ovarian function by the ovarian renin-angiotensin system. Evidence is presented that shows the ovarian renin-angiotensin system can regulate normal ovarian function by paracrine and intracrine mechanisms. In addition, the complexity that is inherent in the renin-ang...
journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/978-3-030-16373-0_14
更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/978-3-319-47656-8_7
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/978-3-319-23603-2_12
更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Heterogeneously distributed hypoxic areas are a characteristic property of locally advanced breast cancers. Hypoxia results from an imbalance between the supply and consumption of oxygen (O2). Major pathogenetic mechanisms for the emergence of hypoxia are (i) structural and functional abnormalities in the tumor microv...
journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/0-387-26206-7_44
更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/978-981-13-0593-1_4
更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Osteoblasts and chondrocytes, which derive from a common mesenchymal precursor (osteochondroprogenitor), are involved in bone formation and remodeling in vivo. Determination of osteochondroprogenitor fate is under the control of complex hormonal and local factors converging onto a series of temporospatial dependent tr...
journal_title：Advances in experimental medicine and biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1007/978-0-387-34133-0_28
更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00
