BACKGROUND Greater cumulative exposure to ribavirin increases response to interferon-ribavirin combination therapy for hepatitis C but also induces more severe anaemia. Polymorphisms in the ITPA gene protect against ribavirin-induced anaemia. The maximum dosage of ribavirin that can be tolerated by patients with different ITPA polymorphisms remains unknown. METHODS We developed a mathematical...

In order to optimize the process parameters of Cd removal in ZnSO4 production and study mechanism reaction, response surface methodology was used arrange experiments analyze optimal conditions, studied using kinetics. The results show that conditions for are as follows: reaction temperature 55 °C, time 13.43 min, zinc powder dosage should be 2.14 times Cd; main effects three variables from larg...

was found between digoxin dosage and plasma digoxin concentration. Patients who did not develop symptoms of digitalis intoxication until at high doses showed a slower increase ofplasma levels. At the first appearance of toxic symptoms 'steady state' values of about 6 ng digoxin/ml werefound. Excluding one divergent patient, a close inverse correlation wasfound between plasma digoxin concentrati...

Expansion of CH2THF pools in tissues of BALB/c mice bearing s.c.-implanted EMT6 mammary adenocarcinomas was measured after leucovorin administration. Twenty-four mice were treated with leucovorin at doses of 0, 45, 90, or 180 mg/kg/injection x 8 injections spaced over 48 h. Tumor and bone marrow cytosols were assayed for CH2THF by forming ternary complexes with thymidylate synthase and [3H]FdUM...

This study was performed to determine the optimal reversal dosage of atipamezole on medetomidine-ketamine combination anesthesia. The subject rabbits were divided into five groups (n=5/group), and all were anesthetized with intravenous medetomidine (0.35 mg/kg) and ketamine (5 mg/kg). Atipamezole was administered intravenously 35 min after administration of the medetomidine-ketamine mixture, at...

Lignocelluloses materials were selected for ethanol production, but certain problems occurred, such as the hydrolysis and detoxification process. A biological flocculation technology was to apply for the detoxification of acid hydrolyzate of lignocelluloses materials. Meanwhile chitosan was confirmed as the best biological flocculant which showed good detoxification effect. In order to reach th...

the pharmacokinetic parameters of ceftazidime, a third generation cephalosporin, were investigated in six buffalo calves after single intravenous (iv) and intramuscular (im) administration at a dose rate of 10 mg/kg body weight. ceftazidime concentrations in plasma and urine were determined by microbiological assay. ceftazidime disposition was best fitted by a two-compartmental and a one-compar...