(1) Either a mixture of laevulose 20%, glucose 10%, xylitol 10% (LGX) or glucose 50% were infused alternatively for four days in a randomized cross-over scheme.
(2) The decrease in activity of 5 u streptokinase, 1500 u streptokinase, and 50,000 u steptokinase dissolved in one milliltre of different solvents (NaCl solution, glucose solution, laevulose solution, dextran solution (Rheomacrodex), gelatin solution (Haemaccel, starch solution (Plasmasteril,albumin solution, Michaelis buffer, heparin-glucose solution) and incubated over various periods of time (15 min, 30 min, 45 min, 60 min, 4h, 8h, 12h, 48h) was investigated.
(3) Results in the Laevulose group were only half as good as in the Hydroxyethylstarch group while parameters remained unchanged in the whole-blood-group.
(4) A therapeutic regimen based on intravenous laevulose infusion was studied.
(5) The present investigation was performed in 24 pregnant subjects at term and in 14 women within five days after vaginal delivery, 10 and 7 of these subjects serving as controls (5% laevulose being infused without oxytocin).
(6) In four patients in acute attack and one in remission laevulose treatment was associated with a fall in delta-aminolaevulinate synthase activity, a rise in porphobilinogen deaminase and uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase activities, and a fall in urinary prophyrin precursor excretion (P less than 0-001).
(7) glucagon injections combined with laevulose infusion were applied.
(8) infusion of 300 mg of pentoxifylline (15 mL ampoules) or 15 mL of a 0.9% NaCl solution in 250 mL of 5% laevulose, administered over three hours twice daily.
(9) The group who received Hydroxyethylstarch presented a 20% increase in walking distance whereas the increase in the Laevulose group was 5% and approximately 1% in the group receiving whole blood.
(10) When laevulose only was used, the parameters measured did not alter on average.
(11) PGE1 led to an increase in the number of erythrocyte-filled capillaries per mm2, an improvement in the initial condition of the capillaries evaluated according to Fagrell and to a significant increase in the tcpO2, whereas no haemodynamic changes occurred at all after laevulose.
(12) Piracetam was applicated to 17 patients in the beginning of cervix dilatation, whereas the other patients got Laevulose as a placebo infusion.
(13) In an unselected group of 12 parkinsonian patients 40 mg of memantine diluted in 500 ml of laevulose were applied i.v.
(14) Capillary microscopy investigations and oxygen tension measurements were carried out before and immediately after i. v. infusion of PGE1 or a 5% solution of laevulose using an intra-individual comparison.
Levulose
Definition:
(n.) A sirupy variety of sugar, rarely obtained crystallized, occurring widely in honey, ripe fruits, etc., and hence called also fruit sugar. It is called levulose, because it rotates the plane of polarization to the left.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 1:1:1 glucose-levulose-xylitol ratio of the caloric carrier proved to be a favourable combination with respect to metabolic behaviour and the necessary daily supply of calories.
(2) In media enriched with 5% ovine serum, 5% bovine serum and 10% yeast extract, H. somnus fermented glucose, levulose, maltose, mannitol, mannose, sorbitol, trehalose and xylose, but failed to ferment arabinose, dulcitol, galactose, inositol, lactose, raffinose, rhamnose, salicin and sucrose.
(3) In intact rats fed the synthetic diet containing 30% each of glucose, lactose, galactose, sucrose and levulose for an interval of 10 days, the wet and dry liver--body weight ratios were significantly elevated only with the last two sugars but liver glycogen was increased in each instance.
(4) Less than 1.5% of the infused levulose, 2.0% of glucose and 2.4-4.1% of xylitol were found in urine.
(5) The state of the parenchymal organs is necessary to be followed up carefully in case of acute acetone intoxications and a timely treatment with hepato- and nephroprotective drugs in large doses to be applied: glucocorticoids, glucose and levulose solutions, cocarboxylase, lipovitan, vitamin "C", "B1", "B2", "B12", calcium gluconate.
(6) Glucose, levulose, sucrose, glycerol and several polyols are so detected.
(7) The drug (or placebo) was diluted in 500 ml of 10% Levulose, and administered intravenously; 1000 gamma of B12 vitamin were added to each bottle.
(8) In combination with the amino-acids we received a ratio of 1:1:1 for glucose, levulose and xylitole.
(9) Group II: Solvents displaying medium stabilizing properties (dextran and levulose solutions).
(10) All strains ferment glucose, levulose, and maltose and reduce nitrate to nitrite.
(11) The biochemical study on 170 of the strains have revealed that: more of them, belong to the 1 st, 4 c, and 5 th serotype break down dextrose, trehalose, levulose, salycin, esculin, ramnose, and glycerin.
(12) Naftidrofuryl provoked an increase in cutaneous partial oxygen pressure of 26.8 to 36.4 mm Hg (p less than 0.001) whereas no significant change was noted after 5% levulose.
(13) A significant correlation was found between the virulence of the fluid cultures for mice or guinea pigs and the coagulation of milk, production of gas (in deep agar), hydrogen sulfide production, and fermentation of glucose, sucrose, maltose, and levulose.
(14) All isolates failed to utilize arginine, lysine, ornithine or tryptophane but produced acid from glucose, galactose, levulose, maltose, melibiose, starch, and sucrose.
(15) Of the carbohydrate solutions, 5% levulose, 5% levulose+5% glucose and 10% sucrose increased the extent of liver regeneration as was also the case with the synthetic diet suplemented with 30 and 60% glucose, 30 and 60% levulose, 30% levulose+30% glucose, 30% each of galactose and the arabinoglactan, Stractan and 60% each of sucrose, honey and unsulphured molasses.
(16) 80 g L-amino acids and about 2,500 kcal in the form of a glucose-levulose-xylitol mixture together with electrolytes and trace elements were infused daily.
(17) The antagonistic effects of levulose and pyritinol against acute ethanol intoxication were confirmed.