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Purpose: Two recent randomized, phase III trials in Asia (ACTS-GC and CLASSIC) documented the survival benefit of postoperative chemotherapy after D2 lymph node dissection in patients with gastric cancer. We sought to determine what factors influenced clinicians' choices of either S-1 or capecitabine plus oxaliplatin (CAPOX) as adjuvant therapy after curative D2 gastrectomy. Materials and Metho...

Our previous investigation demonstrated that ginsenoside Rg3 was active in promotion of the immune response. In this study, two epimers, 20(R)-Rg3 and 20(S)-Rg3, were compared for their adjuvant effects on the immune response against ovalbumin (OVA). BALB/c mice were immunized subcutaneously with 10 μg of OVA alone or with 10 μg of OVA mixed in 20(R)-Rg3 (50 μg) or 20(S)-Rg3 (50 μg) on days 1 a...

There remains a lack of consensus on the optimal adjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer. In general, chemoradiation is favored in the United States and gemcitabine based chemotherapy is favored in Europe. Both of these approaches have been shown by large prospective, randomized trials to improve disease free survivals and in some studies overall survival. We present the summary of three abstrac...

s) 2008;26:LBA4504. 25. Oettle H, Post S, Neuhaus P, et al. Adjuvant chemotherapy with gemcitabine vs observation in patients undergoing curative-intent resection of pancreatic cancer: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA

Despite the establishment of extensive and successful control programmes in some countries or regions, Echinococcus granulosus still has a very wide geographical distribution. Mature E. granulosus (n = 120) obtained from Parasitology Department, School of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (Iran). Soluble protein of whole body of parasite was prepared by freeze-thawing in liqui...

Eysenhardtia polystachya is widely used in folk medicine as an anti-rheumatic and analgesicagent, but no systematic study of its effects on several markers associated with rheumatoidarthritis and its ethnomedical use as analgesic agent has been performed. We evaluated theanti-arthritic and antinociceptive properties of an ethanolic extract of E. polystachya (EE) barkand its rich-flavonoids frac...

Objective: The effects of natural adjuvants were examined on total and differential WBC counts in lung lavage of sensitized guinea pigs. Materials and Methods: In three sensitized groups of guinea pigs including: untreated sensitized animals (S), sensitized animals treated with adjuvant G2 (S+G2) and G2F (S+G2F) as well as non-sensitized group (C) (n=6 for each group), total and differential WB...

adjuvant induced arthritis is a chronic crippling, skeleton-muscular disorder having nearest approximation to human rheumatoid arthritis for which there is currently no medicine available effecting a permanent cure. even modern drugs used for the amelioration of the symptoms, offer only temporary relief and also produce severe side effects. in the indigenous system of medicine, wood of premna s...

Synthetic muramyl dipeptide (MDP) could stimulate skin fibroblasts of the guinea pig to produce thymocyte-activating factor, which augments the proliferative response of thymocytes to phytohemagglutinin (PHA). Adjuvant-active analogues of MDP also stimulated fibroblasts to produce the factor, whereas adjuvant-inactive analogues failed to do so. Thus a marked parallelism was found between adjuva...