tetrahydrouridine and Colonic-Neoplasms

Between 82.8% and 92.5% of participants in any BMI group were responders by AS, and between 91.3% and 100% were responders by BBPS in the right colon. Efficacy was consistent across BMI groups, with no clear trends. Greater than 83% of participants in any BMI group found the preparation 'easy' or 'acceptable' to ingest, and the majority (>58%) rated SPMC oral solution as 'better' than a prior bowel preparation. In all BMI groups, safety data were similar to the overall cohort. Commonly reported, drug-related, treatment-emergent AEs were, by ascending BMI group, nausea (1.1%, 5.3%, 1.0%, 5.7%, and 0%) and headache (1.1%, 4.1%, 1.0%, 5.7%, and 0%).. Ready-to-drink SPMC oral solution had consistent, good quality colon cleansing, and favorable tolerability among participants of all BMI groups.. NCT03017235.. The pretreatment serum AST/ALT ratio predicts poor disease outcome and response rate in patients with advanced PDAC treated with gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel and might represent a novel and inexpensive marker for individual risk assessment in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.. Of the 98 patients included in the study, 58 had CR (59%), 28 had PR (29%), and 12 patients had NR (12%). The percent splenic tissue embolized was significantly greater in the CR group compared to the PR group (P = 0.001). The percent volume of splenic tissue embolized was linearly correlated with the magnitude of platelet increase without a minimum threshold. At least one line of chemotherapy was successfully restarted in 97% of patients, and 41% of patients did not experience recurrence of thrombocytopenia for the duration of their survival. The major complication rate was 8%, with readmission following initial hospitalization for persistent "post-embolization syndrome" symptoms the most common.. In cancer patients with hypersplenism-related thrombocytopenia, PSAE is a safe intervention that effects a durable elevation in platelet counts across a range of malignancies and following the re-initiation of chemotherapy.. Postoperative CRP elevation was a better predictor of prognosis in patients with gastric cancer than the occurrence of intra-abdominal infectious complications.. In clinical practice, mixed-species malaria infections are often not detected by light microscopy (LM) or rapid diagnostic test, as a low number of parasites of one species may occur. Here, we report the case of an 8-year-old girl migrating with her family from Afghanistan with a two-species mixed infection with

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Administration of high-dose uridine or cytidine (3500 mg/kg) resulted in severe hypothermia of 6-10 degrees C in mice. This effect of uridine was observed in three different mouse strains, C57B1/6, Balb/c, and Swiss. A high-dose of uridine also caused hypothermia in Wistar rats. Co-infusion of uridine with benzylacyclouridine, an inhibitor of uridine phosphorylase, partially prevented uridine-mediated hypothermia in mice. A low dose of uridine (100 mg/kg) resulted in a slight increase in temperature. Plasma pharmacokinetics of uridine (at 3500 mg/kg) were studied in two mouse strains, C57B1/6 and Balb/c, and those of cytidine only in C57B1/6 mice. Peak plasma concentrations of uridine in both strains after uridine administration were about 20 mM (at 30-60 min). The peak plasma concentration of cytidine in C57B1/6 mice after cytidine administration was about 12 mM and that of uridine, 1.3 mM. The mean residence time for uridine was about 105 min. The area under the plasma concentration-time curve for uridine was about 50 mmol h/l, and that for cytidine, about 25 mmol h/l. In various tissues of C57B1/6 mice the levels of uridine, uracil and total uracil and cytosine nucleotide pools were determined before and 2 h after uridine administration. Uridine levels increased about 53-fold in liver, about 70-fold in a colon tumor, and only about 7-fold in brain, while the corresponding uracil levels increased about 9-fold, 4-fold and 11-fold, respectively. Total uracil nucleotide pools increased about 8-fold, 3.2-fold and 1.6-fold, respectively. Cytosine nucleotide pools did not increase in the brain. In conclusion, high-dose uridine administration caused severe hypothermia. Plasma levels of uridine and uracil were enhanced to a considerably higher extent than the levels in the tissues. The hypothermia might be related to breakdown products of uridine, since inhibition of uridine breakdown partially prevented hypothermia and since in brain uracil nucleotide levels were only slightly increased after uridine administration, while those of uracil were more markedly increased than in other tissues.

Topics: Animals; Body Temperature; Brain; Colonic Neoplasms; Cytidine; Cytidine Deaminase; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Female; Hypothermia; Liver; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred BALB C; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Rats; Rats, Inbred Strains; Tetrahydrouridine; Thymidine; Uracil; Uridine; Uridine Phosphorylase