N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) is globally used as an organic solvent in the production of synthetic leather and resins because of its low volatility, making it an attractive industrial material. Despite its excellent property as a chemical solvent, utilization of DMF is somewhat controversial nowadays due to its hazardous effects on exposed workers in work places. Many toxification cases are bein...

BACKGROUND Psoriasis and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are chronic inflammatory diseases sharing similar pathogenic pathways. Intestinal microbial changes such as a decrease of bakers' yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been reported in IBD, suggesting the presence of a gut-skin axis. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the S. cerevisiae abundance was altered in psoriasis patients versus hea...

The cell surfaces of human colon cancer cells before and after exposure to .V..V-d¡ molliyIformam¡«li(DM1 ) were probed using radioiodination and immunofluorescent labeling techniques. Growth of the human colon carcinoma cell line HCT MOSER in DMF-supplemented culture medium resulted in monolayer culture growth and marked cell morphology alter ations consisting of cellular flattening and elo...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Fumaric acid esters have been proven to be effective for the systemic treatment of psoriasis and multiple sclerosis. We aimed to develop a new treatment for colitis. METHODS We investigated the effect of dimethylfumarate [DMF, 10-30-100mg/kg] on an experimental model of colitis induced by dinitrobenzene sulphuric acid [DNBS]. We also evaluated the therapeutic activity of 7...

Oxidative stress is central to the pathology of several neurodegenerative diseases, including multiple sclerosis, and therapeutics designed to enhance antioxidant potential could have clinical value. The objective of this study was to characterize the potential direct neuroprotective effects of dimethyl fumarate (DMF) and its primary metabolite monomethyl fumarate (MMF) on cellular resistance t...

UNLABELLED QUESTION UNDER STUDY/PRINCIPLES: Dimethylfumarate (DMF) had been reported to reduce asthma symptoms and to improve the quality of life of asthma patients. Therefore, we assessed the anti-inflammatory and anti-remodeling effect of DMF on isolated lung fibroblasts, which are relevant to inflammatory lung diseases. We determined the effect of DMF on platelet derived growth factor (PDGF)...

Two subpopulations of tumor cells obtained from a single human colon adenocarcinoma have been examined with regard to their intrinsic sensitivity to X-irradiation and to how this intrinsic radiosensitivity might be altered by growth in the polar solvent, A/,A/-dimethylformamide (DMF). These subpopulations, designated clones A and D, differ significantly in their radiation sensitivity. Using the...

In order to better characterize the toxicity of N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) and to provide its basic toxicity data for risk assessment of workers exposed to DMF, F344 rats and BDF1 mice of both sexes were exposed by inhalation (6 h/d x 5 d/wk) to 100, 200, 400, 800 or 1,600 ppm DMF for 2 wk, and 50, 100, 200, 400 or 800 ppm DMF for 13 wk. Three male and 7 female rats died during the 2-wk exposu...

BACKGROUND Delayed-release dimethyl fumarate (DMF) demonstrated efficacy and safety in the Phase 3 DEFINE and CONFIRM trials. OBJECTIVE To evaluate delayed-release DMF in newly diagnosed relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients, in a post-hoc analysis of integrated data from DEFINE and CONFIRM. METHODS Patients included in the analysis were diagnosed with RRMS within 1 year pr...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) shares an immune-mediated origin with psoriasis. Long-term safety and efficacy data generated in Europe from usage of fumaric acid formulations in the latter disease constituted grounds to investigate their effects in MS patients. Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) was found to be the active principle in those formulations and in vitro studies have demonstrated that DMF has immune-...