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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Parasitological serodiagnosis ; Specificity ; Autoimmune disorders ; Neoplasms ; HIV infection ; AIDS
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Sera from 120 patients with rheumatological disorders, neoplastic disease, infectious mononucleosis, and HIV infection, and from 30 healthy blood donors were tested for nonspecific reactivity in 13 routinely used parasite serological tests. Responses were detected in 3/30 healthy blood donors (10%) vs 25/120 patients (21%). Of 40 responses in these 28 responders most were weakly reactive, and 25 out of 40 responses were only at borderline level. Response rates were highest in patients with mononucleosis presumably due to heterophile antibodies. Only four patients had responses in at least two different serodiagnostic tests for the same parasitic infection. Response patterns indicative of a possible underlying, concurring, or superimposed parasitic infection, thus, were rare. Especially susceptible to nonspecific reactivity seemed to be immunofluorescent antibody tests for filariasis, schistosomiasis, and amebiasis. In conclusion, compared to healthy controls, false-positive serological responses seem to be more frequent in certain disease groups dependent on the test methods used. Second, the use of more than one serodiagnostic test for the same parasitic disease will substantially facilitate the identification of nonspecific reactivity. Third, for better defining the specificity of parasitological serodiagnosis, more studies should include control sera from patients with nonparasitic diseases that frequently show immunological abnormalities.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-0584
    Keywords: Key words Cytidine deaminase ; AraC ; AML ; Pharmacokinetics ; Pharmacodynamics
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract  The clinical effects of cytosine arabinoside (AraC) are highly dependent on schedule and dose. Many regimens administered to patients are derived from artificial model systems involving permanent leukemic cell lines. The differences in pharmacokinetics between the in vivo situation and such cell lines are largely neglected. However, cytidine deaminase activity in particular has a major impact on AraC pharmacokinetics by degrading AraC to its inactive metabolite AraU, and it has been shown to be of prognostic relevance in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. This study therefore investigated cytidine deaminase activities and AraC deamination in a variety of the most commonly used leukemic cell lines and fresh blasts and their impact on the results of an in vitro model system. It was found that cells from different cell lines (BLIN, CEM, HL60, K562, RAJI, REH, U937) vary greatly in cytidine deaminase activity (e.g., 1.89 nmol per min/mg in K562 versus 0.01 in BLIN cells) and degrade between 18.5 (BLIN) and 96.5% (REH) of AraC to AraU in the incubation medium. This degradation results in highly different AraC exposures for different cells (e.g., AUC of 960 ng per h/ml in REH versus 4048 ng per h/ml in BLIN cells) in spite of identical starting concentrations of the drug. Formation of AraCTP as the main cytotoxic metabolite of AraC is significantly influenced by the differences in cell type-dependent cytidine deaminase activity (e.g., 35.6 ng/107 cells in REH versus 180.2 ng/107 cells in BLIN cells). In contrast to permanent cell lines, fresh leukemic blasts and normal bone marrow mononuclear cells featured low AraC degradation in the model system.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-0584
    Keywords: Key words G-CSF ; AML ; Cytosine arabinoside ; Refractory disease ; Salvage therapy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract  Patients with primary refractory or relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who undergo intensive salvage chemotherapy carry a high risk of treatment failure due to infectious complications and early relapses. The study presented here assessed the effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on the duration of post-treatment neutropenia, the incidence of infection-related deaths, and the disease-free and overall survival. Sixty-eight evaluable patients with relapsed and refractory AML received G-CSF 5 μg/kg per day subcutaneously starting 2 days after the completion of salvage treatment with the S-HAM regimen, consisting of high-dose cytosine arabinoside twice daily on days 1, 2, 8, and 9 and mitoxantrone on days 3, 4, 10, and 11. Ninety-one patients who were treated with the identical S-HAM regimen but without G-CSF support during a preceding study served as controls. The application of G-CSF resulted in a significant shortening of critical neutropenia of less than 500 μl (36 vs. 40 days;p=0.008), which translated into a trend towards a lower early death rate (21% vs. 30%) and an increase of complete remissions (56% vs. 47%, p=0.11). In patients younger than 60 years a significant prolongation of time to treatment failure (159 vs. 93 days, p=0.038) and of duration of disease-free survival (203 vs. 97 days, p=0.003) was observed. These results indicate a beneficial effect of G-CSF on early mortality as well as on long-term outcome when administered after S-HAM salvage therapy for advanced AML.
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  • 4
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    New York : Wiley-Blackwell
    Die Makromolekulare Chemie 164 (1973), S. 1-5 
    ISSN: 0025-116X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
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  • 5
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    Die Makromolekulare Chemie 180 (1979), S. 2539-2542 
    ISSN: 0025-116X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
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  • 6
    ISSN: 0025-116X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Notes: N-Ethylaziridine (1) was polymerized in water with HCl as initiator and copolymerized with N-(2-hydroxyethyl)aziridine (2). Rapid propagation and termination reactions were observed. The maximum yield increases with the initiator concentration, whereas the molecular weight decreases. This is due to the difference in basicity between the tertiary N-atoms of the two monomers and the tertiary and the terminal secondary N-atoms of the polymers, which causes tranfer and termination reactions. Macrocycles with a side chain on a quaternary N-atom are formed. During the copolymerization, the more basic 1 is preferentially incorporated into the copolymer chain. The copolymerization parameters can be estimated roughly on the basis of basicity considerations: r1 〉 1; r2 〈 1. The ratio of the rate constants (propagation to termination) is lower for 1 than for 2. This is due to the fact that the basicity difference between the monomer and the tertiary N-atoms of the polymer is higher for 1 than for 2. By reaction of thionyl chloride with the copolymers the desired hydrochlorides of the N-(2-chloroethyl) derivatives are obtained. The neutralisation with alkali did not result the free bases, since the products formed are rather due to side reactions.
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  • 7
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Applied Polymer Science 16 (1972), S. 3123-3131 
    ISSN: 0021-8995
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    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 thermal stabilities of polybutadienyllithium, polyisoprenyllithium, and polystyryllithium solutions have been determined in hydrocarbon solvents. Kinetic analysis indicated that a complex mechanism was involved in the thermolysis of polybutadienyllithium. The thermal stability was observed to increase with increasing lithium concentration, suggesting the presence of competitive reactions in addition to the expected elimination of lithium hydride. The thermal stability of the three systems studied was consistent with their reported degrees of association: dimeric polystyryllithium was less stable than tetrameric polyisoprenyllithium or hexameric polybutadienyllithium.
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  • 8
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Applied Polymer Science 16 (1972), S. 3133-3144 
    ISSN: 0021-8995
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    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: In addition to the expected elimination of lithium hydride, metalation and addition reactions have been observed as competitive, thermolytic reactions of polybutadienyllithium. The importance of these reactions at temperatures frequently utilized for the polymerization of butadiene was illustrated and the effect of these reactions on the macrostructure of polybutadiene determined.
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  • 9
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    New York : Wiley-Blackwell
    Die Makromolekulare Chemie 165 (1973), S. 51-57 
    ISSN: 0025-116X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: Der Mechanismus strahleninduzierter Polymerisationen im festen Zustand gab bisher vielerlei Anlaß zu Spekulationen. Da energiereiche Strahlen normalerweise im festen Monomeren sowohl Radikale als auch Ionen erzeugen, ist es schwierig zu unterscheiden, welche Art dieser Spezies tatsächlich die Polymerisation auslöst.Wir haben eine Methode entwickelt, die es erlaubt, kationische und anionische aktive Zentren zu unterscheiden. Kationische Polymerisationen werden durch Zugabe einer Base wie Natriumalkoholat in einem geeigneten Lösungsmittel abgebrochen; die Alkoxygruppe wird dabei in das Polymere als Endgruppe eingebaut. Diese Endgruppe wird nach Isolierung und Reinigung des Polymeren analytisch bestimmt. Der Einbau von Alkoxy-Endgruppen in das Polymere beweist das Auftreten von Polymerketten mit kationischen Kettenenden. Mit dieser Methode wurde gezeigt, daß bei der γ-strahleninduzierten Polymerisation von kristallinem Trioxan bei 60°C Polyoxymethylen-Kationen vorliegen. Es wird angenommen, daß das Kettenwachstum wie bei mit LEWIS-Säuren initiierten Polymerisationen über diese kationischen Zentren erfolgt.Anionische Kettenenden können auf analoge Weise bestimmt werden. Die Polymerisa-tionen werden durch Zugabe eines Überschusses an Alkyljodid abgebrochen, das mit anionischen Kettenenden unter Bildung von Alkoxy-Endgruppen reagiert. Überraschend wurden bei der strahleninduzierten Polymerisation von kristallinem Trioxan auch anionische Kettenenden im Polymeren gefunden. Es wird angenommen, daß diese Anionen nur als Gegenionen zu den wachsenden kationischen Kettenenden fungieren und selbst nicht zu einem Kettenwachstum führen
    Notes: The mechanism of radiation-induced polymerizations in the solid state has been a subject mostly open to speculation. As radiation usually generates several kinds of active species (radicals and ions) it is difficult to find out, which of these actually causes polymerization.We have developped a method distinguishing between cationic and anionic active centers. Cationic polymerizations are terminated by addition of a base such as sodium alkoxide in a suitable solvent. The alkoxide is incorporated into the polymer as an endgroup. This endgroup is determined analytically after isolation and purification of the polymer. The incorporation of alkoxy endgroups into the polymer is a proof of the occurrence of polymer chains with cationic chain ends. It was shown by this method that crystalline trioxane, polymerized by γ-rays at 60°C, contains polyoxymethylene cations. It is assumed that with these cationic active centers propagation is similar to polymerizations initiated by LEWIS acids. Anionic chain ends can be detected by an analogous way. Polymerizations are terminated by addition of excess alkyl iodide which produces alkoxy endgroups from the anionic chain ends. Surprisingly, in the radiation-induced polymerization of crystalline trioxane some anionic chain ends were also found in the polymer. It is assumed that these anions do not propagate and that they are only counter-ions of the propagating cationic chain ends.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 0025-116X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: Linear oligourethanes with phenylurethane endgroups and cyclic oligourethanes were prepared from diethylene glycol and hexamethylene diisocyanate. The largest ring synthesized contains seven units of each, i.e., 119 ring atoms, with a molecular weight of 1920.An effective separation of the oligomers was achieved by adsorption column chromatography. An eluting solvent with solvent gradient was applied successfully. Melting points, transitions, long periods, and X-ray diffraction of the oligomers prepared are discussed with regard to their structure.
    Notes: Es wurden lineare Oligourethane mit Phenylendgruppen und cyclische Oligourethane aus Diäthylenglykol und Hexamethylendiisocyanat dargestellt. Der größte bisher isolierte Ring enthält je sieben Grundbausteine und besitzt 119 Ringglieder bei einem Molekulargewicht von 1920.Eine gute Trennung der Oligomeren wurde durch Adsorptionssäulenchromatographie erzielt. Hierbei wurde ein Elutionsmittel mit Lösungsmittelgradient verwendet. Schmelzpunkte, Umwandlungserscheinungen, Langperioden und Weitwinkeldiagramme der Oligomeren werden im Hinblick auf ihre Struktur diskutiert.
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