Imatinib mesylate (STI571) is a promising new treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). The effect of imatinib mesylate on primitive malignant progenitors in CML has not been evaluated, and it is not clear whether suppression of progenitor growth represents inhibition of increased proliferation, induction of apoptosis, or both. We demonstrated here that in vitro exposure to concentratio...

Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant bone tumour characterized by osteoid production and/or osteolytic lesions of bone. A lack of response to chemotherapeutic treatments shows the importance of exploring new therapeutic methods. Imatinib mesylate (Gleevec, Novartis Pharma), a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, was originally developed for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. Several ...

Introduction: Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare disease that difficult to diagnose and treat. Clinical findings are similar with heart failure. New treatments needed in addition the treatment of 
 Case Report: A 32-year-old woman presented symptoms failure 4 days after first delivery. Chest X-ray showed cardiomegaly. Serum BNP level was high. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) indicate...

same adverse symptoms while taking pergolide but the remaining four were able to tolerate long term treatment with pergolide. One of this last group (case 17) had suffered a rash while taking bromocriptine, which did not recur on pergolide. In all, six patients stopped taking pergolide because of side effects; four had suffered the same symptoms during previous treatment with bromocriptine (nau...

The effect of the dopamine agonist, bromocriptine, and the dopamine antagonist, metoclopramide, on glucose tolerance was examined in maturity onset diabetics and normal subjects. After bromocriptine there was a lowered fasting blood glucose and improved glucose tolerance in the diabetics. The controls showed an initial improvement in glucose tolerance. A reduction in insulin levels and a marked...

Dopaminergic drugs affect a variety of cognitive processes, but the direction and extent of effects vary across individuals and tasks. Paradoxical effects are observed, by which the same drug causes cognitive enhancing as well as adverse effects. Here, we demonstrate that individual differences in impulsive personality account for the contrasting effects of dopaminergic drugs on working memory ...

BACKGROUND/AIM One reason of poor survival rate of patients with pancreatic cancer is the development of chemoresistance. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of eribulin mesylate in gemcitabine-refractory advanced pancreatic cancer cell lines. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three human pancreatic cancer cell lines (AsPC-1, Panc-1, and SUIT-2) and human pancreatic endoderm (hPE)...

PURPOSE In an effort to develop new therapeutic strategies to treat malignant gliomas, we have designed poly (lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) microparticles that deliver imatinib mesylate, a small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor. The local continuous release of imatinib mesylate at the tumor site overcomes many obstacles associated with systemic delivery. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Polymeric micr...

The purpose of the study was to investigate whether carvedilol has an antiproliferative effect alone and whether carvedilol provides an additive, synergistic or antagonistic effect on imatinib mesylate-induced cytotoxicity in both C6 glioma monolayer and spheroid culture. The C6 rat glioma chemoresistant experimental brain tumour cell line, that is notoriously difficult to treat with combinatio...

Imatinib mesylate, an inhibitor of the BcrAbl tyrosine kinase, has modest activity in refractory/relapsed Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)–positive acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). Use of concurrent chemotherapy and imatinib mesylate in newly diagnosed Ph-positive ALL was explored. There were 20 patients who received hyper–CVAD (cyclophosphamide, vincristine, Adriamycin, and dexamethasone) and ima...