Background: Bacterial sepsis is highly prevalent among premature infants. Amikacin is an antibiotic widely recommended for the treatment of neonatal sepsis, one of the consequences of which might be nephrotoxicity. The present study aimed to compare the efficacy and nephrotoxicity of multiple daily dosing (MDD) and once-daily dosing (ODD) of amikacin in preterm infants suspected of sepsis. Met...

OBJECTIVE This article seeks to test the hypothesis that repeated 1mg intravenous epinephrine dosing intervals of 3-minutes and 5-minutes results in differences in the total drug exposure and the maximum epinephrine concentration using simulated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) dosing. METHODS Published population pharmacokinetic parameters were identified in the literature and pharmacokin...

In vitro biotransformation assays are currently being explored to improve estimates of bioconcentration factors of potentially bioaccumulative organic chemicals in fish. The present study compares thin-film and solvent-delivery dosing techniques as well as single versus multiple chemical dosing for measuring biotransformation rates of selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in rainbow trout (...

There is an increasing amount of research on microfluidic actuators with the aim to improve drug dosing applications. Micropumps are promising as they reduce size and energy consumption concepts enable new therapies. Even though there evident advantages, only few examples industrial microdosing units micropump technology has not yet found widespread application. To answer evoked question what l...

Protective effect of valsartan (Val), an angiotensin II (AII)-receptor blocker (ARB), against organ damage is reported to depend on the dosing time in hypertensive patients. Dosing-time-dependent effect of Val on survival of stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) under a 12-h lighting cycle was examined. Val (4 mg/kg per day) and olmesartan medoxomil (OM) (1 mg/kg per day), anothe...