Both heterologous IgG and Fab fragments of appropriate affinity and specificity have been shown capable of reversing advanced cardiac glycoside toxicity. Fab fragments are more rapidly excreted and theoretically have a smaller risk of unwanted immunologic effects, but relative rates of toxicity reversal have not been established. Rates of reversal of advanced digoxin toxicity by digoxin-specifi...

BACKGROUND Frontal-type cognitive deficits are common in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) was developed to assess frontal lobe functions. However, many studies found that it also correlated with a variety of other general neuropsychological tests. OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether the FAB has an added value over the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) a...

INTRODUCTION Classically, the monocytic component of acute myelomonocytic (FAB-M4) and acute monocytic/monoblastic (FAB-M5) leukemias is demonstrated by nonspecific esterase positivity in cytochemical stainings. We have previously demonstrated that non-specific esterases from normal monocytes can be determined by a chemiluminescent method. In the present study, we investigated whether this assa...

OBJECTIVE Bites from the brown recluse spider and other arachnids from the genus Loxosceles frequently induce necrotic skin lesions that can be recalcitrant to treatment and disfiguring. The authors used a rabbit model of dermonecrotic arachnidism to address the therapeutic efficacy of intradermal (id) polyclonal anti-Loxosceles Fab fragments (alphaLoxd Fab) raised against Loxosceles deserta sp...

BACKGROUND The epidemiology of Functional abdominal bloating (FAB) and its impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Chinese people remains unclear. METHODS Randomised, stratified, multi-stage sampling methodology was used to select a representative sample of the general population from five cities in China (n = 16,078). All respondents completed the modified Rome II questionnaire; ...

background : acute myeloid leukemia (aml) is a disease in elderly patients, with a mean age of diagnosis of 70 years. we have analyzed the clinicopathology features and experimental variables in aml patients in eastern iran and the correlation between survival and fab subgroups of aml. materials and methods : during 2009 to 2014 in a retrospective study, 98 patients with aml referred to the cli...

multi drug resistance(mdr) is a major problem in the treatment of cancer and hemalological malignancies. this resistance is multi factorial and is the result of decreased intra cellular drug accumulation. this is partly due to the presence of a 170kd intra membranous protein termed p-glycoprotein(p-gp) that is an energy-dependent efflux pump which has increased expression on drug-resistance cel...

Single-chain urokinase plasminogen activator (scu-PA) that had been modified with N-succinimidyl-3-(2-pyridyldithio)propionate was covalently linked by disulfide bonds to the Fab' of a monoclonal antibody specific for the beta-chain of fibrin (antibody 59D8). scu-PA-59D8 Fab' conjugate was separated from free scu-PA and two-chain urokinase coupled to 59D8 Fab' by two-step affinity chromatograph...

The Drosophila bithorax complex Abdominal-B (Abd-B) gene specifies parasegmental identity at the posterior end of the fly. The specific pattern of Abd-B expression in each parasegment (PS) determines its identity and, in PS10-13, Abd-B expression is controlled by four parasegment-specific cis-regulatory domains, iab-5 to iab-8, respectively. In order to properly determine parasegmental identity...

BACKGROUND Studies indicate that digoxin toxicity often results in lengthy hospitalizations and considerable costs, both of which may be decreased through the routine use of digoxin immune Fab (FAB). METHODS A computer-based decision analysis model was developed to compare the treatment of non-life-threatening digoxin toxicity with either FAB or standard therapy from the hospital perspective....