http://medicinebits.com www.MedicineBits.com Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:46:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://medicinebits.com/list-of-articles/ Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare non-neoplastic, frequently fatal disease of childhood. It has been divided into two categories, familial and secondary, but the distinction between the forms is not easily made2. J.I. Henter, G. Elinder and A. Ost, FHL Study Group of the Histiocyte Society. Diagnostic guidelines for hemophagocytic ... http://medicinebits.com/conditioning-regimen-hemophagocytic-lymphohistiocytosis-in-patients/ At the beginning of the century, urban rabies was adequately controlled in European countries through the use of vaccines obtained from the nervous tissue of various animal species infected with the rabies virus (Pasteur, Fermi, Semple). However, these vaccines contained myelin and other foreign protein residues and frequently produced neurological-type ... http://medicinebits.com/cases-of-human-diploid-cell-and-rabies/ Methicillin resistance in both Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) has been extensively studied over the past three decades. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) was first recognized as a condition of poor clinical significance before observing a sudden increase in European countries by 1968. In the United States, the first hospital ... http://medicinebits.com/presence-of-methicillin-resistance-mueller-hinton-agar/ Huntington's disease (HD) is a late-onset, progressive neurodegenerative disorder. It has an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern and is characterized by involuntary movements, psychiatric features, and cognitive deterioration. Symptoms usually present at 37 to 45 years of age and the disease has a fatal outcome 15 to 20 years later. European ... http://medicinebits.com/psychiatrists-prenatal-predictive-diagnosis-on-disease/ Cyclosporine is widely used as an immunosuppressive agent, especially in organ transplantation. Since its introduction, kidney graft survival has considerably improved. However, cyclosporine also produces serious side effects, such as nephrotoxicity, hypertension, and liver and cerebral toxicity. However, the wide intra- and interindividual variability of cyclosporine pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics makes ... http://medicinebits.com/conventional-microemulsion-formulation-bioavailability-of-cyclosporine/ Rocuronium is a non-depolarizing steroidal muscle relaxant with a short time to onset and of intermediate duration of action. The effects of an intravenous bolus dose of 600 ?g/kg of rocuronium in infants and children during halothane anesthesia have been previously described. Differences of response to neuromuscular blocking drugs occur ... http://medicinebits.com/neuromuscular-function-rocuronium-in-children/ Great progress has been achieved in the study of pituitary tumors during the last two decades regarding early and adequate treatment; nevertheless, how to determine the effectiveness of treatment is still being discussed. In the particular case of acromegaly, the standard rule to assess efficacy of treatment is now the ... http://medicinebits.com/igfbp-3-and-igf-i-glucose-load-test/ It is well known that activated macrophages generate a variety of cytotoxic factors, oxygen radicals, and nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is considered the major effector against tumoral cells. Even though activated macrophages are efficient tumoral cell killers, this macrophage property is abridged in some patients and experimental animals bearing malignant ... http://medicinebits.com/macrophage-rpmi-1640-medium-nitric-oxide/ Progesterone exerts multiple actions on the nervous system, including a neuroprotective action against cerebral infarct caused by experimental occlusion of the middle cerebral artery in rats, the promotion of myelination in the central and peripheral nervous systems, and the possession of anticonvulsant properties through potentiation of the GABA-evoked Cl? currents. From ... http://medicinebits.com/progesterone-in-animals-forced-swim-test/