(1) Phagocytic activity of macrophages obtained directly from blisters induced by cantharide was studied in 19 normal women and 21 patients with untreated operable carcinoma of the breast.
(2) A fatal case of attempting to procure abortion by the ingestion of the crude extract of cantharides from over 200 dried Mylabris phalerata is presented.
(3) A case of fatal poisoning due to voluntary ingestion of cantharides powder for aphrodisiac purposes is reported.
(4) Two gonococcal strains with differing susceptibility to cefotiam and ceftizoxime, as expressed by the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), are exposed to continuously changing concentrations of these antibiotics as they are found in plasma and skin cantharidal blister fluid (CBF) after a single intramuscular application of 1 g. Under the conditions of the plasma level profiles, bacterial density is always greatly but not totally reduced, already during the first 1-1.5 h it declines by 99%.
(5) The pharmacokinetics of intravenous (bolus) temocillin 1 g were studied in 6 healthy male volunteers, and a cantharides blister method was used to estimate tissue penetration of the antibiotic.
(6) Skin blisters were produced by the cantharides technique, using patches with cantharidin ointment.
(7) Blood and urine samples collected during the 30 h of survival, as well as the cantharides product, were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
(8) Cantharide acantholysis may be useful model for studying desmosomal turnover.
(9) Suction- and cantharides-induced blister fluid levels declined in parallel.
(10) In order to find a less toxic analogue of cantharidin, its hydrolytic compound, disodium cantharidate, and its demethylated form, norcantharidin, were prepared.
(11) In clinical studies, antihepatoma effectiveness sequentially increased from cantharidin to disodium cantharidate to norcantharidin.
(12) To evaluate cefotiam concentrations at the active site in skin and soft-tissue infections, drug levels in skin suction blister fluid (SBF), cantharides blister fluid (CBF) and serum were determined.
(13) injection of cephalosporins may be of comparable gonocidal effect, levels of cefodizime, a new broad-spectrum cephalosporin, in serum and tissue fluid (suction blister and cantharides blister fluid) were determined in six healthy men.
(14) The results show that endothal and cantharidic acid act directly and cause similar biochemical changes in mouse liver in vivo.
(15) Disodium cantharidate showed less urinary irritation than cantharidin while norcantharidin showed little to no such irritation.
(16) Two Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) strains with differing susceptibility to penicillin G as expressed by the minimum inhibitory concentration were exposed in vitro over a period of 8 h to the continuously changing concentrations of ofloxacin achieved in human serum and cantharides blister fluid (CBF) after the single oral application of 600 mg.
(17) Theophylline levels in plasma, erythrocytes and cantharides-induced blister fluid (BF) have been correlated with peak expiratory flow (PEF) in asthmatic patients.
(18) Itraconazole binding in suction-induced blister fluid (99.54%) and cantharides-induced blister fluid (99.77%) was calculated from plasma protein binding (99.8%).
(19) Concentrations in serum, urine and cantharides-induced inflammatory fluid were determined by microbiological assay.
(20) To evaluate its active concentrations in skin tissue, serum, suction blister fluid (SBF), and cantharides blister fluid (CBF) levels of total and non-protein bound ketoconazole were determined.
Vesicant
Definition:
(n.) A vesicatory.
Example Sentences:
(1) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(2) One animal developed a lymphoma and none showed vesical tumors.
(3) This may be one mechanism in the development of a giant vesical calculus.
(4) Out of 75 vesical bacteriurias 39 infantile and 7 adult (together 61%) specimens contained antibody-coaded bacteria.
(5) Stress continence depends upon three factors: proximal urethral support, vesical neck closure, and urethral contractility.
(6) Surgical intervention beyond temporary vesical drainage is unnecessary.
(7) The authors present a case of scaly carcinoma, located in a vesical diverticulum.
(8) In an effort to relieve subvesical resistance in the established paraplegic with unacceptable neurogenic vesical dysfunction while simultaneously preserving potency, a radical Y-V-plasty was carried out in 5 patients.
(9) A case is presented on the use of extracorporeal lithotrity by shock waves to treat vesical lithiasis, using the desk module of a Lithostar-PlusR (Siemens) lithotripter.
(10) Of the patients 2 required periodic intermittent catheterization for more than a year postoperatively and 12 are managed by chronic intermittent self-catheterization on a planned basis for neurogenic vesical dysfunction.
(11) After different time intervals following a single or course-wise administration of the compound the level of total lipids was determined in the muscles and liver of the mice, and of the total lipids, beta-lipoproteins, phospholipids, cholesterol, fatty acids and 11-oxycorticosteroids levels in the blood serum of rabbits and of the bile acids content in the vesical bile of these animals.
(12) The development of the muscular tissue of the ureter, ureterovesical junction and vesical trigone in the human fetus has been investigated using serial histological sections.
(13) Three months after surgery, six patients had a vesical capacity of 300 ml or more and could excrete a maximum 200-300 ml urine at one voiding.
(14) At least some of these NPY-immunoreactive nerve fibres have an intrinsic origin in ganglion cells within the vesical wall.
(15) When a reflex bladder contraction occurred in response to filling (expulsion phase) the intravesical pressure exceeded the urethral pressure and at the top of the vesical contraction a series of rapid intraluminal pressure high frequency oscillations (IPHFO) were recorded at the urethral recording site, which were abolished by neuromuscular blocking agents as well as after acute sectioning of pudendal nerves.
(16) It is possible that endovesical lymphography will yield new information leading to more accurate treatment of vesical carcinoma in terms of tumor staging.
(17) A case of primary cancer of the vesical diverticulum in a patient with spinal cord injury is reported.
(18) From its results it can be seen that a diminished vesical accommodation is not a urodynamic fact restricted to vesicourethral neurogenic dysfunction, but it happens in several non-neurogenic conditions.
(19) This inhibition of the large contractions was caused by disappearance of the rhythmic burst discharges in the vesical branches of the pelvic nerves.
(20) By means of an extracellular glass microelectrode method, unitary discharges synchronized with the grouping discharges in the pelvic vesical branch with a rhythm of 2.2-2.5 Hz were recorded from the pontine micturition center in the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum.