Twitter 101 and beyond: introduction to social media platforms available to practicing hematologist/oncologists.

Social media utilizes specific media platforms to allow increased interactivity between participants. These platforms serve diverse groups and purposes including participation from patients, family caregivers, research scientists, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies. Utilization of these information outlets has increased with integration at conferences and between conferences with the use of hashtags and "chats".

Online professional networks for physicians: risk management.

Background: The rapidly developing array of online physician-only communities represents a potential extraordinary advance in the availability of educational and informational resources to physicians. These online communities provide physicians with a new range of controls over the information they process, but use of this social media technology carries some risk.

Questions/purposes: The purpose of this review was to help physicians manage the risks of online professional networking and discuss the potential benefits that may come with such networks.

Identification of sulfate and glucuronic acid conjugates of the 5-hydroxy derivative as major metabolites of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline in rats.

New metabolites of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ), a potent mutagen and carcinogen formed during cooking of meat or fish, have been identified and quantitated in the urine and bile of rats. Administration was either by a pulse gavage dose of 40 mg/kg [2-14C]IQ or by dietary intake of 300 ppm IQ for 6 weeks. The metabolites were isolated by high-performance liquid chromatography and quantitated by radioactivity.

Metabolism of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline in the male rat.

The metabolism of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) was studied in the male rat using the radiochemical labels 14C and 3H at positions 2 and 5 of the molecule, respectively. Adult male Fischer 344 rats were administered [2-14C]IQ or [5-3H]IQ by oral gavage at dose levels of 20 or 40 mg/kg body weight. Rats were also given [2-14C]IQ in the diet at a dose level of 300 ppm for 2 days and after administration of unlabelled IQ (300 ppm) in the diet for approximately 6.

Comparison of XAD-2 column and blue cotton batch techniques for isolation of metabolites of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline.

In studies on the metabolism of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) in the rat, two methods were used to concentrate IQ and its metabolites in urine: XAD-2 columns and blue-cotton extraction. These methods were compared as to the total recovery of 14C-label and the results of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) of the main metabolites. In the HPLC analysis, three major peaks in the polar region and two adjacent peaks in the nonpolar region having radioactivity were found in the urine from rats given 14C-IQ.