SUMMARY DNA polymorphism detector (DPD) is a new web application developed to help automate the process of cDNA clone validation. DPD identifies and highlights discrepancies between any cDNA clone sequence and its expected reference sequence. To determine if these differences correspond to natural genetic polymorphisms (versus artifacts introduced during clone production or evaluation), DPD use...

A familial approach was used to elucidate the genetic determinants of profound and partial dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD; EC 1.3.1.2) deficiency in an Alabama family. In 1988, our laboratory diagnosed profound DPD deficiency in a breast cancer patient with grade IV toxicity after cyclophosphamide/methotrexate/5-fluorouracil chemotherapy (R. B. Diasio et al., J. Clin. Investig., 81: 47-51...

Digital predistortion (DPD) is a widely adopted baseband processing technique in current radio transmitters. While DPD can effectively suppress unwanted spurious spectrum emissions stemming from imperfections of analog RF and baseband electronics, it also introduces extra processing complexity and poses challenges on efficient and flexible implementations, especially for mobile cellular transmi...

Self-perception is disrupted in people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and depersonalization disorder (DPD), fluctuating with sudden shifts in affect in BPD and experienced as detached in DPD. Measures of implicit self-esteem (ISE), free from conscious control and presentation biases, may highlight how such disruptions of self-concept differentially affect these two populations on an...

Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) is the initial and rate-limiting enzyme in the catabolism of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). Thus, patients with a DPD deficiency are at risk of developing severe 5-FU-associated toxicity. A 37-year-old female with gastric cancer underwent a curative operation, followed by adjuvant chemotherapy consisting of 5-FU and epirubicin. After the first cycle of chemotherapy...

Depressive personality disorder (DPD) is highly studied and common in clinical settings. Nevertheless, it is rife with controversies and often overshadowed by major depression and dysthymia with which it shares many similarities but also is clinically distinct. Possibly as a result, DPD is underdiagnosed and misunderstood in clinical care. Thus the goal of this practice review is to present a c...

Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) is the rate-limiting enzyme for 5-fluorouracil catabolism. In this study, both the enzymatic activity and mRNA level of DPD were estimated in the tumor tissue and adjacent normal mucosa of 51 patients with colorectal cancer. Although no significant difference in enzymatic activity was observed between tumor tissue and normal mucosa (70.4 and 70.7 pmol/min/m...

To quantify osseous breakdown in multiple myeloma (MM), monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), and benign osteoporosis, we measured urinary levels of pyridinium cross-links of collagen in 50 patients with newly diagnosed and untreated MM, 40 patients with MGUS, 40 untreated patients with osteoporotic vertebral fractures, and 64 healthy adults. Ion-paired, reverse-phase high-...

PURPOSE Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) is the initial and rate-limiting enzyme catalyzing the metabolic degradation of the anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). Population studies of DPD activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were reported in healthy volunteers and cancer patients. Although these studies were done in mainly Caucasian and African American populations, only...