(1) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
(2) Interferon alfa-2a appears to induce the early regression of life-threatening corticosteroid-resistant hemangiomas of infancy.
(3) Interferon alfa-n1 is not available in Australia except for use in a clinical trial in patients who are HIV seropositive.
(4) Recombinant interferon alfa-2a (Roferon-A, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, NJ) has been evaluated in clinical trials of more than 1300 patients with a broad spectrum of oncologic disease.
(5) It is concluded that prostaglandin F2 alfa may be safely given to patients who are going to be anaesthetized, but the patients must be considered as having a full stomach and therefore treated as such.
(6) Eleven patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma stages Ib-IV a were treated with a combination of interferon alfa-2a and photochemotherapy.
(7) In the original interferon alfa-2b study of 195 patients, only three of the 159 patients achieving a normalization of their blood counts have subsequently died.
(8) Further binding of one molecule of aldolase for each strand of 280 actin monomers halves the apparent viscosity of the alfa-actinin-F-actin system without any desorption of alfa-actinin.
(9) Recombinant human interferon alfa-A (rIFN alpha A) had a dose-related suppressive effect on human T lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) replication in vitro in normal peripheral-blood mononuclear cells (PBMC).
(10) Accordingly the maternal serum alfa fetoprotein may consider like fetal blood sediment examination.
(11) Among the rare hemoglobinopathies found in Cost Rica are those of the Alfa, Beta, and Delta chains.
(12) The efficacy of epoetin alfa (recombinant human erythropoietin) has been tested for treating the anemia associated with end-stage renal disease.
(13) To confirm the findings of pilot studies that interferon alfa is an effective treatment of Europid men with chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
(14) In 40 patients with diabetes mellitus type II without clinical signs of any organ complications and in the respective control group the following indices of hemostasis were assessed: 1) activity of AI-III, 2) activity of alfa-2-AP, 3) fibrinogen, 4) time of fibrinolysis, 5) platelets count, adhesiveness and spontaneous aggregation, 6) kaolin-cephalin and profil stipven-cephalin plasma times.
(15) Interferon Alfa proves to be of the most usefulness in this disease, studies should be continued up to one year after the treatment has ended.
(16) Because epoetin alfa does not produce therapeutic effects for at least 7 to 14 days, it is an ideal agent for formulary restriction.
(17) Interferon alfa (IFN-alpha), although able to enhance PBMC-mediated Lym-1 ADCC and non-ADCC lysis, had no effect on granulocyte activity.
(18) At this latter level a synergistic effect between penicillin and interfering alfa-streptococcal strains could be demonstrated.
(19) The data demonstrate that intralesional injection of the interferon alfa-n3 did not induce the development of HAMA.
(20) We conducted a phase II clinical trial of fluorouracil (5FU) and recombinant interferon alfa-2a (rIFN alpha-2a) in 52 previously untreated patients with bidimensionally measurable metastatic colorectal cancer.
Alma
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Almah
Example Sentences:
(1) Less well known is his collection of works by all the major artists of late 19th-century Britain, pre-Raphaelite painters such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, and later more academic painters, hugely popular and fabulously expensive in their day, including Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter and the grandest of them all, Frederic Leighton.
(2) He was slated to give a commencement speech at his alma mater in 2013, but withdrew after controversy arose in wake of his remarks comparing same-sex marriage to pedophilia.
(3) The world was caught by the phrase which emerged from this conference, "Health For All by the Year 2000" and many have examined the articles of the Alma-Ata declaration and tried to implement them in their corner of the world.
(4) Primary health care has developed well since the Alma Ata Declaration in 1978, but basic lifesaving interventions have received scant attention.
(5) Drawing upon data collected from a comprehensive field survey of community health activities in Hiketa, in Kagawa Prefecture in Shikoku, and other similar surveys carried out in Japan, as well as references such as the Report of the International Conference on Primary Health Care (Alma Ata), and the World Health Organization Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000, this background paper will outline the critical aspects to be considered in implementation of primary health care in comprehensive health systems, as a context for further discussion.
(6) The territorial-geographical character of migration also changed: so, in 1954 the basic flow of migrants came from Siberia and the European part of the USSR, while in 1984 they came from neighbouring regions of Alma-Ata.
(7) Like many Eurovision competitors, Inga and Anush are professionally trained; on this occasion their alma mater being the jazz-vocal department of the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan.
(8) 2,530 patients with chronic destructive tuberculosis, registered at the antituberculosis institutions of the Alma-Ata and Guriyev regions, were followed up for a period of three years.
(9) Clegg also signalled his disapproval at the behaviour of his alma mater.
(10) Five years have passed since the Alma Ata meeting, and with 17 years remaining in this century, one has to ponder whether the goal of health for all by the year 2000 through primary health care is achievable.
(11) 414 patients registered under O-group, 149-under VIIB and 129-under IA were observed by the antituberculosis dispensary of Alma-Ata.
(12) This approach contradicts the Declaration of the Alma-Ata Conference, which states that primary health care is an integral part of the socioeconomic development process and that health sector activities must be coordinated with nutrition improvement, increases in production and employment, a more equitable distribution of income, antipoverty measures, and protection of the environment.
(13) Active intervention aimed at preventing the mentioned risk factors, carried out in Kharkov (2 years) and in Alma-Ata (1 year) led to a decrease in the prevalence of arterial hypertension and smoking, and to an increase in the degree of the student's physical activity, but did not have a demonstrable effect on the development of overweight.
(14) A dedicated sequence editor, ALMA, was developed for aligning many sequences of proteins or RNA molecules or longer DNA fragments.
(15) "Health for all by year 2000" was the subject of the WHO Conference at Alma-Ata in 1978.
(16) Now the ombudsman at the University of Bayreuth, his alma mater, is investigating allegations of plagiarism made against Zu Guttenberg by a law professor.
(17) What has become clear in the 10 years since Alma-Ata is the global split between the health of the "haves" and the "have nots".
(18) In designing country health care programs to achieve the goals of the Alma Alta declaration of 'Health for All', developing countries have been confronted with the problem of increased health care needs and decreased available resources.
(19) Arguably, more than anything, you can detect in MYD's almost exhaustingly frenetic music the influence of early-80s Bristol and the skronking-sax-fuelled manic funk-pop of Neneh Cherry 's alma mater, Rip Rig and Panic.
(20) It is unlikely that the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata goal of health for all by the year 2000 will be realized by the turn of the century.