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  • 1
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    Predictability of the clinical potency of NSAIDs from the preclinical pharmacodynamics in rats (1996)
    Springer
    Inflammation research 45 (1996), S. 531-540 
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    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Keywords: Antiinflammatory ; Analgesic ; Antipyretic ; pKa ; Octanol-water partition coefficient ; NSAIDs ; Animal models ; Carrageenin ED50
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Objective and Design: Relevance of the preclinical pharmacodynamic, toxicity and pharmacokinetic parameters predicting the clinical potency of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was evaluated. Material: Data for oral potencies of 24 NSAIDs in rats were collected from the literature and from New Drug Applications with respect to the following parameters: antiinflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, acute ulcerogenic activities, acute toxicity, in vitro inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis, acid dissociation constant (pKa), octanolwater partition coefficient and elimination half-life. Treatment: Data for most of the in vivo parameters in rats were collected following single dose administration with the exception of adjuvant arthritis. Single and daily clinical doses were considered. All of these NSAIDs have been approved for marketing although not all have been sold in the USA. Methods: The preclinical data were compared to human dose (unit or daily doses) using single and multiple stepwise regression analyses. Results: Analyses suggest that NSAIDs are effective in all models of preclinical tests for fever, pain and inflammation, however, carrageenin-induced rat paw edema model is clearly the best predictor of human dose. Rank order of preclinical models for predicting human dose is carrageenin 〉yeast induced fever〉pressure induced pain=adjuvant arthritis in rats. The analysis suggested that the pain and adjuvant arthritis models in rats may also involve a prostaglandin independent mechanism. Of the two physicochemical factors tested, pKa contributed best to the carrageenin model towards predicting the clinical potency of NSAIDs. Mathematical relationships between human dose, carrageenin ED50 and pKa were established that may assist in the future clinical development of NSAIDs. Conclusions: Carrageenin-induced paw edema model in rats is the most robust predictor of the clinical potency of NSAIDs. Acid dissociation constant (pKa) appears to be a secondary contributor to the potency of NSAIDs. The relevance of the data analyses for developing cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) selective NSAIDs is discussed.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02342223
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  • 2
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    Serotonergic modulation of the mudpuppy (Necturus maculatus) locomotor pattern in vitro (1996)
    Springer
    Experimental brain research 111 (1996), S. 57-67 
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    ISSN: 1432-1106
    Keywords: 5-HT ; Locomotion ; Motor control ; Pattern generation ; Spinal cord ; Mudpuppy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The aims of the present study were to: (1) study the role of serotonin (5-HT) in modulating the central pattern generator (CPG) underlying locomotion in the mudpuppy (Necturus maculatus); (2) investigate whether there is an intrinsic spinal serotonergic system. These aims were achieved by the use of pharmacological and immunocytochemical methods. To study modulation of the locomotor pattern and rhythm, we applied 5-HT, its uptake blocker zimelidine, and a variety of 5-HT receptor agonists and antagonists to an in vitro brainstemspinal cord preparation isolated from the mudpuppy. The preparation consisted of the first five segments of the spinal cord and the right forelimb attached by the brachial plexus. The spinal CPG for locomotion was activated chemically by adding NMDA to the superfusing solution. During locomotion, bipolar electromyographic (EMG) recordings were made unilaterally from flexor and extensor ulnae muscles. 5-HT on its own did not induce locomotion, but it did have a profound modulatory effect on NMDA-induced locomotion. 5-HT produced a dose-dependent increase in the overall cycle duration and enhanced the EMG burst duration. Use of zimelidine indicated that there is an endogenous release of 5-HT which modulated the locomotor rhythm. The endogenous release was antagonized by 5-HT1/5-HT2 receptor antagonist methiothepin. Immunocytochemical analysis, in which the entire spinal cord of the mudpuppy was used, revealed that there were more than one type of spinal serotonergic neuron. They were differentiated according to the cell diameter, shape, and arborization pattern of their processes. These neurons were located within the central gray matter ventrolateral to the central canal. Our results suggest that 5-HT plays an important role in modulating the locomotor CPG in the mudpuppy, by acting through a well-developed spinal serotonergic system. This is in contrast to what has been reported in higher vertebrates, where serotonergic innervation is derived from supraspinal structures.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00229556
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  • 3
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    Social integration, sexual behaviour and fertility in patients with bladder exstrophy – a long-term follow up (1996)
    Springer
    European journal of pediatrics 155 (1996), S. 678-683 
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    ISSN: 1432-1076
    Keywords: Key words Bladder exstrophy ; Interpersonal relations ; Sexual ; behaviour ; Fertility and education
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract After primary bladder closure or urinary diversion, other factors apart from the reconstruction itself gain importance for individuals with the exstrophy-epispadias complex: social integration and, after reaching puberty, sexuality and fertility. Between 1968 and July 1994 115 patients with bladder exstrophy or incontinent epispadias underwent surgery at our institution. A total of 104 patients could be followed, 2 of whom died in the meantime. Of the remaining 102 patients 48 attend school, 4 are in college, 40 have completed or are currently undergoing vocational training, 3 are unemployed, 1 lives in a therapeutic centre and 6 are younger than 6 years of age. A total of 95% of the patients with continent urinary diversion are continent day and night, whereas only three of five patients with a sling plasty (incontinent epispadias) or with primary bladder closure followed by a Young-Dees procedure are continent. None of the patients showed deterioration of renal function. In 25 females the external genitalia were reconstructed. Fixation of the uterus was done in 13 to correct or prevent uterine prolapse. Of the 17 women older than 18 years of age with genital reconstruction, 16 are satisfied with the cosmetic result. All adults engage in sexual intercourse. Five women have delivered seven children by Caesarean section. Of the 35 male adults 32 underwent reconstruction of the external genitalia and 34 males achieve erection. One developed necrosis of the penis early in life following primary bladder closure performed at an outside hospital. Penile deviation was present in 11 of the 32 patients with genital reconstruction, which is distressing in only 2. Thirty patients are satisfied with the cosmetic result. After genital reconstruction 9 males developed epididymitis, necessitating two orchiectomies and three vasectomies. No patient with reconstruction of the external genitalia can ejaculate normally or has fathered children, whereas ejaculation was normal in the three men who did not undergo genital reconstruction and in two patients prior to post-pubertal reconstruction. Furthermore, two of these three men have fathered four children. Conclusion Education, occupation and social development of patients with urinary diversion are uneventful. The cosmetic results achieved by genital reconstruction are satisfactory. In female patients, antefixation of the uterus should be performed before or together with an introitusplasty to prevent uterine prolapse. In male patients, however, surgery is performed at the expense of fertility. Detailed discussions with the patients and their parents should include not only the question of primary bladder closure versus urinary diversion, but also the pros and cons of correction of the external and – in females – the internal genitalia.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01957152
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  • 4
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    Social integration, sexual behaviour and fertility in patients with bladder exstrophy —a long-term follow up (1996)
    Springer
    European journal of pediatrics 155 (1996), S. 678-683 
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    ISSN: 1432-1076
    Keywords: Bladder exstrophy ; Interpersonal relations ; Sexual behaviour ; Fertility and education
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract After primary bladder closure or urinary diversion, other factors apart from the reconstruction itself gain importance for individuals with the exstrophy-epispadias complex: social integration and, after reaching puberty, sexuality and fertility. Between 1968 and July 1994 115 patients with bladder exstrophy or incontinent epispadias underwent surgery at our institution. A total of 104 patients could be followed, 2 of whom died in the meantime. Of the remaining 102 patients 48 attend school, 4 are in college, 40 have completed or are currently undergoing vocational training, 3 are unemployed, 1 lives in a therapeutic centre and 6 are younger than 6 years of age. A total of 95% of the patients with continent urinary diversion are continent day and night, whereas only three of five patients with a sling plasty (incontinent epispadias) or with primary bladder closure followed by a Young-Dees procedure are continent. None of the patients showed deterioration of renal function. In 25 females the external genitalia were reconstructed. Fixation of the uterus was done in 13 to correct or prevent uterine prolapse. Of the 17 women older than 18 years of age with genital reconstruction, 16 are satisfied with the cosmetic result. All adults engage in sexual intercourse. Five women have delivered seven children by Caesarean section. Of the 35 male adults 32 underwent reconstruction of the external genitalia and 34 males achieve erection. One developed necrosis of the penis early in life following primary bladder closure performed at an outside hospital. Penile deviation was present in 11 of the 32 patients with genital reconstruction, which is distressing in only 2. Thirty patients are satisfied with the cosmetic result. After genital reconstruction 9 males developed epididymitis, necessitating two orchiectomies and three vasectomies. No patient with reconstruction of the external genitalia can ejaculate normally or has fathered children, whereas ejaculation was normal in the three men who did not undergo genital reconstruction and in two patients prior to post-pubertal reconstruction. Furthermore, two of these three men have fathered four children.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01957152
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  • 5
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    The crystalline morphology of poly(vinylidene fluoride)/poly(methylmethacrylate) blends (1984)
    Stamford, Conn. [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Polymer Engineering and Science 24 (1984), S. 311-318 
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    ISSN: 0032-3888
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Chemical Engineering
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics , Physics
    Notes: Poly(vinylidene fluoride), PVF2, as well as blends of PVF2 with poly(methyl methacrylate), PMMA, develop a variety of crystalline morphologies at low undercoolings. Both the α and γ crystal forms grow from the melt and the former undergoes a solid-solid phase transition to the latter, though its morphology remains unaltered. Three melting temperatures which decrease with increasing PMMA content are observed. Hoffman-Weeks analysis shows the equilibrium melting points of the blends to be depressed. Using these equilibrium values, the thermodynamic interaction energy density is calculated to go from -5.40 × 106 to -2.96 × 107 j/m3 as the blend composition goes from 40.1 volume percent to pure PVF2. The band periodicity in the α form spherulites increases with crystallization temperature and PMMA content and it appears to be from a lamellar reorientation process with an apparent activation energy of 322 cal/mole. Electron diffraction patterns taken along the radial direction in a given spherulite reveal lamellar twisting which causes the banded appearance. Light scattering results suggest that the lamellar are formed into rod-like structures on a local scale but that on a larger scale they develop a disoriented spherulitic morphology.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.760240505
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  • 6
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    Structural interpretations of mechanical properties of polycrystalline polymers (1964)
    Stamford, Conn. [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Polymer Engineering and Science 4 (1964), S. 178-186 
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    ISSN: 0032-3888
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Chemical Engineering
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics , Physics
    Notes: Structural changes are considered in light of the two differing views of the structure of crystalline polymers involving either a two phase structure or a single phase structure involving detects. A compromise picture is proposed which appears consistent with existing experimental evidence. Optical methods are described for analyzing structural changes accompanying deformation of these polymers. These include x-ray diffraction, static and dynamic birefringence measurements and dynamic light scattering studies. The results are consistent with a two stage deformation process involving first the elastic deformation of a spherulitic or crystalline structure followed by an internal rearrangement of crystals within this structure, taking place by a number of mechanisms such as recrystallization, defect migration, plastic flow and crystal rotation. The time dependence of some of these processes is studied and related to structural features.
    Additional Material: 17 Ill.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.760040308
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  • 7
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    Time-dependence of crystal orientation in crystalline polymers (1968)
    Stamford, Conn. [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Polymer Engineering and Science 8 (1968), S. 259-266 
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    ISSN: 0032-3888
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Chemical Engineering
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics , Physics
    Notes: The results of two methods for studying molecular processes accompanying the deformation of polyethylene are described. The examination of spherulite deformation by observing light scattering patters along with measurement of the birefringence, stress and strain during the rapid extension of polyethylene shows that this initial structural deformation is essentially instantaneous. Dynamic x-ray diffraction shows that this is followed by a slower relaxation involving change in the orientation of the crystals by two processes, the lower temperature one involving slipping of lamellae past each other and the higher temperature one involving viscoelastic flow of the crystals.
    Additional Material: 12 Ill.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.760080405
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  • 8
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    1969 SPE international award paper. Rheo-optics on two continents - an example of international cooperation in sciencePrepared while the writer was serving as a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. The work described here has been supported by the Office of Naval Research, the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society, and the National Science Foundation. (1969)
    Stamford, Conn. [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Polymer Engineering and Science 9 (1969), S. 320-330 
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    ISSN: 0032-3888
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Chemical Engineering
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics , Physics
    Notes: Rheo-optical techniques for the study of crystalline polymers, developed primarily in the United States and Japan, include dynamic birefringence, X-ray diffraction, dichroism, light scattering, and fluorescence. These permit the characterization of the rates of orientation of crystals, amorphous regions, and crystalline superstructures. The application of these methods has permitted the formulation of a model for the deformation of crystalline polymers.
    Additional Material: 14 Ill.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.760090503
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