The median overall survival in multiple myeloma is rapidly approaching 10 years; however, nearly a fifth of patients the prognosis remains poor. Therefore, modern-day management should be individualized, with more intense and continuous approach these high-risk patients. This includes first-line treatment based on multi-drug combinations employing most effective drug combinations, upfront autol...

abstract  introduction: hypertension is the most prevalent chronic disease encountered by physicians. its prevalence has been reported at 18% in isfahan province. hypertension control decreases the risk of stroke and coronary events by 50% and 15%, respectively. according to the world health organization (who), the rate of blood pressure control stands at 12.5%. effective hypertension control r...

Finding effective drugs to treat fungal infections has important clinical significance based on high mortality rates, especially in an immunodeficient population. Traditional antifungal drugs with single targets have been reported to cause serious side effects and drug resistance. Nowadays, however, drug combinations, particularly with respect to synergistic interaction, have attracted the atte...

the objective of this study was to evaluate several drug combinations for intraperitoneal anaesthesia in laboratory rats. following dose determination of anaesthetics in a pilot study, 45 healthy adult male rats were randomly assigned in 9 treatment groups and received propofol (alone or in combination with xylazine, midazolam, or ketamine) or ketamine (in combination with xylazine, midazolam, ...

The emergence of drug resistance to traditional chemotherapy and newer targeted therapies in cancer patients is a major clinical challenge. Reactivation of the same or compensatory signaling pathways is a common class of drug resistance mechanisms. Employing drug combinations that inhibit multiple modules of reactivated signaling pathways is a promising strategy to overcome and prevent the onse...

A sensitive high performance liquid chromathography (HPLC) analytical procedure was developed for the quantitive determination of trimethoprim (TM* and sulphamethoxazole (SM) in commercial dosage forms. C18 analytical column (stainless steel, 25 cm * 4.6 mm i.d.) was packed with 5-*m particles of the reversed phase material and used for assays. Mobile phase containing 0.025 M sodium phosphate...

Post-market withdrawal of medications because of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) could result in loss of effective compounds which are effective for treating a specific disease but have unfavorable benefit-to- harm ratio. Recent therapeutic successes have renewed interest in drug combinations, which could work synergistically to improve therapeutic efficacy or work antagonistically to alleviate t...

Drug combination is a critically important therapeutic approach for complex diseases such as cancer and HIV due to its potential for efficacy at lower, less toxic doses and the need to move new therapies rapidly into clinical trials. One of the key issues is to identify which combinations are additive, synergistic, or antagonistic. While the value of multidrug combinations has been well recogni...