In order to evaluate the efficiency and renal protective effects of glutathione during Ca(++)-EDTA chelation therapy for chronic cadmium intoxication, we measured the renal excretion of cadmium, β(2)-microglobulin, proteinuria, and hematuria during intravenous administration of glutathione with Ca(++)-EDTA in a 54-year-old patient with chronic cadmium intoxication. We administered 500 mg of Ca(...

(II) is spectrophotometrically determined with 4-(2-pyridylazo)resorcinol (PAR) 1–4 in the presence of EDTA. This color reaction can never be carried out by a batch method because the stability constant of copper(II)-EDTA (log K = 18.8) is larger than that of copper(II)-PAR (log K = 14.8). 1 Therefore, PAR is used as an indicator in the EDTA titration of copper(II). We found that a color reacti...

UNLABELLED Dental roots that have been exposed to the oral cavity and periodontal pocket environment present superficial changes, which can prevent connective tissue reattachment. Demineralizing agents have been used as an adjunct to the periodontal treatment aiming at restoring the biocompatibility of roots. OBJECTIVE This study compared four commonly used demineralizing agents for their cap...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of DJK-5, a newly developed cationic antimicrobial peptide, on oral multispecies and Enterococcus faecalis biofilms alone or combined with the endodontic chelating agent EDTA in vitro. METHODS Oral multispecies biofilms from 2 donors and E. faecalis VP3-181 biofilm were grown on collagen-coated hydroxyapatite disks. After incubatio...

I read with interest the two case reports by Kwon et al. on ‘‘New Treatment for Band Keratopathy: Superficial lamellar Keratectomy, EDTA Chelation and Amniotic Membrane Transplantation’’ (1). In their article, they describe two cases of calcific band keratopathy (CBK) that were treated with a combination of EDTA chelation, superficial keratectomy and amniotic membrane transplantation. The autho...

A 79-year old man presented with chest pain and fatigue. He was found to have anemia (hemoglobin 8.8 g/dL) and leukocytosis (white blood cell count 244x10/L) with a predominance of lymphocytes (94%). Flow cytometric study and flourescence in situ hybridization analysis of the peripheral blood lymphocytes were consistent with a diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma. A peripheral smear obtained from ...

Herein, we report a comparative study of photocatalytic (Xe-lamp) and sonocatalytic (345 kHz power ultrasound) degradation Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) Rhodamine B (RhB) in the presence Ti0 Ti@TiO2 core-shell nanoparticles (NPs). NPs have been obtained by sonohydrothermal treatment (20 kHz, 200 °C) commercially available pure water. The material is composed quasi-spherical particles (...

The mechanism of inhibition of the veratryl alcohol oxidase activity of lignin peroxidase H2 (LiPH2) by EDTA was investigated. It was found that EDTA was decarboxylated and that cytochrome c, nitro blue tetrazolium, ferric iron, and molecular oxygen were reduced in a reaction mixture containing LiPH2, H2O2, veratryl alcohol, and EDTA. The reductive activity observed with LiPH2 followed first or...