Elevation of urinary porphyrin levels following gemcitabine administration

Elevation of Properdin Levels in Mice following Administration of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides

The administration of a single small dose of bacterial lipopolysaccharide produces in mice a considerable rise in properdin levels. This is accompanied by an early, transient, non-specific increase in resistance to certain bacterial infections. Bacterial lipopolysaccharides were shown to possess far greater activity than other substances previously studied in bringing about an elevation of prop...

Urinary Porphyrin Profiling

Betamethasone receptor levels following betamethasone administration.

Betamethasone (BM) receptor cncentrations in the liver cytosol from adrenalectomized rats treated with 0. 2 and 2 mg BM were measured and correlated with BM concentrations in the serum and liver. The BM levels in the serum, liver cytosol and nuclei changed in a parallel fashion. One hr after BM administration, serum BM reached a peak, then decreased gradually and was undetectable at 24-48 hr. T...

Muscle spasms and creatine phosphokinase elevation following salbutamol administration.

The drug of choice for the treatment of occasional acute symptoms of asthma is an inhaled beta adrenergic agonist, such as salbutamol. The most frequent adverse reactions to salbutamol include nervousness, headache, tremor, tiredness and light-headedness [1]. The following report describes a patient with asthma from childhood, who developed creatine phosphokinase elevation associated with sever...

Determination of urinary formaldehyde following administration of methenamine salts.

C TJRRENT COLORIMETRIC METHODS for the measurement of formaldehyde in the presence of methenamine salts appear misleading. The principal problems with these technics include the release of formaldehyde (1, 2) from intact methenamine and the nonspecificity of the reaction producing color with other compounds present in urine. However, a modification of the method of Tannenbaum and Bricker (3) ap...