A recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alert has raised further concerns about potential adverse effects of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) in anemic cancer patients who are not receiving chemotherapy [1]. The warning was issued following interim analysis of an investigator-led phase III trial of 989 patients with head and neck cancers randomized to receive darbepoetin alfa (...

Heart disease can be caused by many different insults and injuries and often terminates in death from heart failure, an inability of the heart muscle to adequately supply blood to the body. A major aim in today’s research is to define novel therapeutic strategies to limit myocardial damage and to enhance the ability of the heart muscle to regenerate and to heal itself. The anti-cancer drug doxo...

En un experimento efectuado durante 1992, se evaluó el efecto del temporal sobre la producción de ceras epicuticulares por hojas cinco genotipos sorgo (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) en diferentes etapas fenológicas. Se muestrearon segmentos hoja etapa vegetativas (53 días después siembra, DDS), antesis (68 DDS) y llenado grano (83 las que cuantificó cantidad mediante método colorimétrico. encontra...