streptokinase is a potent fibrinolytic agent which is widely used in treatment of deep vein thrombosis (dvt), pulmonary embolism (pe) and acute myocardial infarction (mi). major limitation of this enzyme is its short biological half-life in the blood stream. our previous report showed that complexing streptokinase with chitosan could be a solution to overcome this limitation. the aim of this re...

The half-life of 87Rb was measured by a liquid scintillation method according to the efficiency tracing method. The measuring sample of rubidium chloride was dissolved in a scintillation cocktail of Insta-gel, and the rubidium was determined by gravimetry as tetraphenylborate. The result was (5.56 +/- 0.025) x 10(10) years.

175Yb is a radionuclide that can be generated by neutron capture on 174Yb and whose decay properties make it useful for developing therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. As happens with many of the emerging radionuclides medical uses in recent years, its nuclear data were determined decades ago are not thoroughly documented nor accurate enough metrological purposes. The last reference half-life valu...