UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ), a tricarboxylic acid, has attracted attention as a growth factor, and its application to supplements and cosmetics is underway. The product used for these purposes is a water-soluble salt of PQQ disodium. Although in the past, PQQ disodiumpentahydrates with a high water concentration were used, currently, low hydration crystals of PQQ dis...

BACKGROUND Hypercalcemia of malignancy is a serious complication of cancer that affects patients with and without bone metastases. A single infusion of pamidronate disodium, a nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate, effectively normalizes serum calcium in the majority of patients treated for up to 1 month. Zoledronic acid is a new-generation, heterocyclic nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate and the ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the therapeutic efficacy and toxicity of samarium-153-ethylenediaminetetramethylene phosphonic acid ((153)Sm-EDTMP) and pamidronate disodium in patients with painful metastatic bone cancer. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Eighteen patients with histopathologically confirmed malignancy and multifocal bone metastases were randomized into two equal groups of 9 patients each. Group A was...

PURPOSE To assess the safety and efficacy of gadoxetate disodium-enhanced liver MR imaging in pediatric patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective, multicenter study including pediatric patients aged >2 months to <18 years who underwent contrast-enhanced liver MRI due to focal liver lesions. A single intravenous bolus injection of 0.025 to 0.05 mmol/kg body weight of gadoxetate disodium was...

We report that the ability of disodium 5'-deoxy-5'-thioguanosine-5'-monophosphate, Na(2)(5'-GSMP), to self-associate into a helical G-quadruplex structure in aqueous solution at pH 8 is significantly higher than that of disodium guanosine-5'-monophosphate, Na(2)(5'-GMP), which supports our earlier hypothesis regarding the importance of cation bridging.

Background Safety data on routine clinical use of gadoxetate disodium for liver magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is not reported yet. Purpose To assess the safety profile of gadoxetate disodium for liver MRI in the routine clinical setting. Material and Methods Six multicenter studies were performed in Europe, USA, Australia, and Asia to evaluate the safety and efficacy of gadoxetate disodium (...

Compounds that increase tissue concentrations of cyclic AMP inhibit the release of histamine from sensitized tissues when they are challenged with antigen. It has been proposed that the anti-asthmatic agent disodium cromoglycate exerts its anti-allergic properties by inhibiting cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase. This hypothesis was based on experiments where it was shown that the inhibition of antig...

In the present investigation, we investigated the in vitro interaction of ceftriaxone plus sulbactam with disodium edetate, a Non Antibiotic Adjuvant (NAA) against selected clinical isolates and in vitro susceptibility studies were also performed. The isolates were tested against a range of ratios of ceftriaxone and sulbactam using a microdilution checkerboard method. Having determined the appr...