dimethyl sulfoxide/fever

Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)incorporated into an agar overlay containing DEAE-dextran enhanced plaque formation in Vero cells by Naples sandfly fever virus passaged in mouse brain or Vero cell cultures. No plaques were visible when DMSO was used without the DEAE-dextran, some plaques were rarely

The patient was a 56-year-old female. She was referred to our department for further examination of right hydronephrosis in 2010. Computed tomography (CT) showed right hydronephrosis, and retrograde pyelography (RP) revealed stenosis of the right lower ureter. Urine cytology was negative.

Familial Mediterranean fever was diagnosed in a 34-year-old Turkish patient with severe nephrotic oedema. Immunohistochemical classification of a biopsy specimen showed amyloidosis of the AA-type. There was a definite increase of serum amyloid-A-protein (SAA). The typical recurrent fever, attacks of

The diagnosis of familial Mediterranean fever is often difficult. The typical symptoms of this disease have been observed in two Turkish patients. The diagnostic criteria are short attacks of fever recurring in varying intervals, and painful symptoms in the abdomen, chest, joints or skin. Since no

Eosinophilic cystitis is a rare and poorly understood disorder. We report the first case of an acute flare of eosinophilic cystitis in a 51-year-old woman after bladder instillation with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) for presumed interstitial cystitis. The patient presented with severe bladder pain,

Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) into erythroid differentiation, as characterized by the production of hemoglobin. Induction increased with DMSO concentrations up to 1.5% v/v, at which point about 90% of the cell population produced hemoglobin as measured by a

Trapezius muscle from normal and malignant hyperthermia (MH) pigs was used to investigate the effects of halothane on contractile properties and on the calcium transport system of isolated surface membranes. We observed that (i) halothane, diluted in dimethyl sulfoxide, induced a higher isometric

Despite the documented post-infectious neurological complications of a central nervous system (CNS) Mycoplasma infection in humans, very few studies have investigated the acute inflammatory responses and sickness behaviours induced by CNS Mycoplasma infections. We therefore determined the effect of

OBJECTIVE To study the role of protein kinase C-delta (PKC-delta) in hyperthermia-induced apoptosis in human tongue squamous cell carcinoma Tca8113 cells. METHODS Tca8113 cells were treated at 43 degrees C in a heating water bath for 0, 40, 80, 120 min after pretreatment with Rottlerin, a specific

The role of active oxygen species and lipid peroxidation in the antitumor effect of hyperthermia was studied in an experimental rabbit model. VX2 tumors were transplanted into rabbit hind legs, and the effect of hyperthermia on tumor growth was measured at 7 and 14 days after heating. As an index of

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a recessively inherited disorder characterized by recurrent, self-limited attacks of fever and serositis and by infiltration of affected tissues by large numbers of neutrophils. A candidate gene for FMF was identified by positional cloning and named "MEFV." The

We previously reported that recombinant human tumor necrosis factor (rhTNF) and hyperthermia had a synergistic effect against tumors, in vitro and in vivo. We have now investigated the mechanism of this synergy by measuring the lysosomal enzyme activity and hydroxyl radical production of L-M cells

BACKGROUND Hyperthermia and mitomycin-C (MMC) have given very encouraging results in several clinical studies for the treatment of superficial transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. However, a synergistic effect of hyperthermia and MMC on the decrease of cell proliferation has never been

Hemozoin production makes it possible for intraerythrocytic malaria parasites to digest massive quantities of hemoglobin but still avoid potential ferriprotoporphyrin IX (FP) toxicity, which they cannot decompose further. Some antimalarial drugs, such as chloroquine, work by inhibiting this