MK-927 is a novel topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitor (CAI). We present the first single-dose clinical trial of MK-927 in 24 patients with bilateral primary open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension. This investigation was conducted as a two-centre, double-masked, randomised, placebo controlled study. Patients received one drop of 2% MK-927 in one eye and placebo in the other eye. Modified di...

Internal friction and speed of sound were measured on a-SiO2 above 6 mK using a torsional oscillator at 90 kHz, controlling for thermal decoupling, vibrational heating, background losses, and nonlinear effects. Strain amplitudes epsilon(A) = 10(-8) mark the transition between the linear and nonlinear regimes. In the former, agreement with the tunneling model was observed for both internal frict...

Intermolecular interactions in cyclometalated Ru complex dye (FT89) dimers, carbazole organic dye (MK-45 and MK-111) dimers, FT89-MK-45 complexes, and FT89-MK-111 complexes were investigated using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) to elucidate the improvement mechanism of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) performance due to cosensitization with FT89 and MK dyes. All...

Nitroaromatic musks, including musk ketone (MK; 2,6-dimethyl-3,5-dinitro-4-t-butylacetophenone), are chemicals used as perfume ingredients in household products, cosmetics, and toiletries. Musk xylene (MX; 1,3,5-trinitro-2-t-butylxylene), another nitromusk, is not genotoxic but has been reported to produce mouse liver tumors in a chronic bioassay. In addition, MX has been shown to both induce a...

Stress is known to modulate sensitisation to repeated psychostimulant exposure. However, there is no direct evidence linking glucocorticoids and sensitisation achieved by repeated administration of the NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801. We tested the hypothesis that co-administration of RU486, a glucocorticoid receptor (GR) antagonist, prior to repeated daily MK-801 injections would block the exp...

BACKGROUND Hypochromic microcytic anemia associated with ineffective erythropoiesis caused by recessive mutations in divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT1) can be improved with high-dose erythropoietin supplementation. The aim of this study was to characterize and compare erythropoiesis in samples from a DMT1-mutant patient before and after treatment with erythropoietin, as well as in a mouse mode...

The current research aimed to investigate the effects of early postnatal exposure to low-level lead on the spatial learning of Long-Evans Hooded rats tested in the Morris water maze. To explore possible neurotoxic actions of lead on the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, the noncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist (+)-5-methyl-10,11-dihydroxy-5hdibenzo(a,d)cyclohepten-5,10-imine (MK-801) wa...

Epithelial cells are key players in the pathobiology of numerous hypoxia-induced lung diseases. The mechanisms mediating such hypoxic responses of epithelial cells are not well characterized. Earlier studies reported that hypoxia stimulates protein kinase C (PKC)δ activation in renal cancer cells and an increase in expression of a heparin-binding growth factor, midkine (MK), in lung alveolar ep...

Dizocilpine maleate (MK-801) is one of several NMDA receptor antagonists that is widely used to pharmacologically model the symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia in animals. MK-801 elicits behaviors in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) that are phenotypically consistent with behaviors observed in humans and rodents exposed to tbhe drug. However, the molecular and cellular processes that mediate t...