BACKGROUND Psoriasis is a common and persistent disease characterized chiefly by marked epidermal and endothelial cell proliferation and inflammation. These changes are likely a result of activated T lymphocytes infiltrating skin tissue or, in the case of psoriatic arthritis, the joints. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the antimetabolite 6-thioguanine (Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, Mo) might...

The differential sensitivity of mammalian tissues to 6-thioguanine was studied by measuring the metabolic fate of this agent in the bone marrow and intestinal mucosa of rabbits. After the injection of thioguanine-S35, intestinal mucosa contained, per gram of tissue, a sixteen-fold higher level of 6-thiouric acid, but less than one-half the quantity of thioguanine mononucleotide than did bone ma...

The capacity of several purinethiol derivatives to produce prolongation of survival in mice bearing ascites-cell tumors and to produce feedback inhibition of purine synthesis in vivo in the tumor cells was investigated. Included were tumors susceptible and tumors resistant to treatment with 6-thioguanine. With susceptible tumors, certain of the purinethiols could increase survival of tumor-bear...

6-Thioguanine, at a dose of 40 mg/kg body weight, was administered to rats at 12 hr after partial hepatectomy; 6 hr later, liver polysomes and cell sap were isolated and utilized to measure the effects of this antimetabolite on protein synthesis in vitro. When radioactive leucine was used to label peptides synthesized in vitro, no difference was observed between polyacrylamide gradient gel scan...

The conducting polymers (CPs) are the important materials due to their large surface area, high thermal stability, good conductivity, easy shape, process and properties can be tuned by modifying structures or processing. Few have emerged as potential candidate for determination of a few anti-cancer drugs. In present study, sensing ability Poly-pyrrole (poly-py) has been investigated with withou...

Thioguanine and mercaptopurine are prodrugs requiring conversion into thiopurine nucleotides to exert cytotoxicity. Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT), an enzyme subject to genetic polymorphism, catabolizes thiopurines into inactive methylated bases, but also produces methylthioguanine nucleotides and methylmercaptopurine nucleotides from thioguanine and mercaptopurine nucleotides, respectiv...

1. The transport of 6-thioguanine and 6-mercaptopurine has been studied with isolated jejunal loops of mouse small intestine. H.p.l.c. was used to identify and quantify the thiopurines and their metabolites in the serosal secretions. 2. When the lumen of the intestinal loops contained either 6-thioguanine or 6-mercaptopurine at a concentration of 1 mmol/l, the concentration of unmetabolized dru...