Phenolphthalein as a Purgative

Reproductive toxicology. Phenolphthalein.

Background: Projections of health and social care need are highly sensitive to assumptions about cohort trends in health and disability. We use a repeated population-based cross-sectional study from the Cambridgeshire centre of the UK Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study to investigate trends in the health of the young-old UK population Methods: Non-overlapping cohorts o...

An automated alkaline phosphatase assay with phenolphthalein monophosphate as substrate.

The manual procedure of Babson et al. (1) for the determination of serum alkaline phosphatase has been automated. The assay is based on the colorimetric determination of phenolphthalein formed on hydrolysis of phenolphthalein monophosphate. The procedure utilizes 0.16 ml. of serum without dialysis. Blanks are required only for turbid sera. Results are compared with those obtained by the manual ...

Fear of phenolphthalein?

Background: Taiwan's primary community care network (PCCN) demonstration project, funded by the Bureau of National Health Insurance on March 2003, was established to discourage hospital shopping behavior of people and drive the traditional fragmented health care providers into cooperate care models. Between 2003 and 2005, 268 PCCNs were established. This study profiled the individual members in...

Phenolphthalein highlights NTP bioassay review.

Background: The aim of the study was to determine the maximal tolerated dose (MTD) of gemcitabine every two weeks concurrent to radiotherapy, administered during an aggressive program of sequential and simultaneous radiochemotherapy for locally advanced, unresectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and to evaluate the efficacy of this regime in a phase II study. Methods: 33 patients with his...

Marked hypokalaemic rhabdomyolysis due to purgative abuse.