STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The usage of glass ionomer cements (GICs) restorative materials are very limited due to lack of flexural strength and toughness. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of using a leucite glass on a range of mechanical and optical properties of commercially available conventional glass ionomer cement. MATERIALS AND METHOD Ball milled 45μm leucite...

Medroxyprogesterone Acetate To the Editor: I have read the article by Wakatsuki et al1 with considerable interest. The study showed that the continuous oral treatment of postmenopausal women for 3 months with conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) (0.625 mg/day) alone or with medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) at the dose of 2.5 mg/day, significantly increased serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and amylo...

M ycophenolic acid (MPA)-based therapies are widely used in combination with calcineurin inhibitors as maintenance immunosuppression for kidney transplant recipients (1). The two MPA therapies used in clinical transplantation are mycophenolate mofetil (MMF [brand name CellCept, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Nutley, NJ]) and mycophenolate sodium (MPS [brand name Myfortic, Norvartis Pharmaceuticals, Nut...

BACKGROUND The potent immunosuppressant mycophenolic acid (MPA) is metabolized to an inactive glucuronide (MPAG). The extent of metabolism varies among individuals, and the MPAG formed can be hydrolyzed to MPA and can displace MPA from serum albumin, creating a potential need to monitor both MPA and MPAG. METHODS After addition of the carboxybutoxy ether of MPA (MPAC) as internal standard, MP...

We describe a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging method that emphasizes pressure wave velocity to noninvasively assess pulmonary arterial hypertension. Both the blood flow and the corresponding vessel cross-sectional area (CSA) were measured by MR phase mapping in the main pulmonary artery (MPA) in 15 patients. MPA pressures were also measured, in the same patients, by right-side heart catheteriza...

Large between- and within-patient variability has been observed in the pharmacokinetics of mycophenolic acid (MPA). However, conflicting results exist about the influence of patient characteristics that explain the variability in MPA exposure. This population pharmacokinetic meta-analysis of MPA in renal transplant recipients was performed to explore whether race, renal function, albumin level,...

Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty o 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8 [email protected]; Fax: +81 45 566 155 SHOEI CHEMICAL INC., 2-1-1 Nishi-Shinju † Electronic supplementary information as-prepared CIS, CIS/ZnS, and CIS/ZnS photographs of CIS, CIS/ZnS, and CIS/ light and 365 nm near-UV light (Fig. S2 and CIS/ZnS-MPA QD powder samples un of as-prepared and MPA-modied QDs (...

Process algebras constitute one of the main tools for modeling and analyzing concurrent systems. Unfortunately, with classical process algebras only the functional aspect of the behavior of concurrent systems can be modeled and analyzed. Since the relevance of integrating the performance modeling and evaluation into the process of specification, design and implementation of concurrent systems h...