Interactions between injectable anticancer drugs and polyvinyl chloride bags: Evaluation of the adsorption phenomenon after reconstitution.

Introduction: During the reconstitution of a drug and during its storage, there are risks of interactions between the drug and the bag used for the preparation. Polyvinyl chloride is a material used in the manufacture of a large part of chemotherapy infusion bags. It is subject to many interactions like sorption of drugs and release of phthalate additives.

Inventory of Toxic Plants in Morocco: An Overview of the Botanical, Biogeography, and Phytochemistry Studies.

Since they are natural, plants are wrongly considered nondangerous; therefore people used them in various contexts. Each plant is used alone or in mixture with others, where knowledge and the requirements of preparation and consumption are not mastered. Thus, intoxications due to the use of plants have become more and more frequent.

[Iodine status and the used of iodized antiseptics in the mother-newborn pair].

Iodine status was evaluated by assessment of urinary iodine excretion in 221 mothers and their 223 newborns. During the first month after childbirth, 59.3 per cent of the mothers and 26.

Retinoic acid receptors alpha and gamma mediate the induction of "tissue" transglutaminase activity and apoptosis in human neuroblastoma cells.

All-trans retinoic acid (RA) reduces human neuroblastoma growth by inducing either differentiation or apoptosis. The apoptotic program in these cells is regulated by RA and is paralleled by the transcriptional induction of "tissue" transglutaminase (tTG). tTG is a protein cross-linking enzyme, which specifically accumulates in cells undergoing apoptosis in various in vivo and in vitro systems.

Iliosacral screw fixation for pelvic obliquity in neuromuscular scoliosis. A long-term follow-up study.

Study Design: This was a retrospective review of a consecutive series of patients with neuromuscular spinal deformity who underwent posterior fusion and pelvic fixation using a long construct and an iliosacral screw.

Objectives: To evaluate the risks and benefits of iliosacral screw fixation.

Summary Of Background Data: Neuromuscular scoliosis with pelvic obliquity poses one of the most challenging instrumentation problems, mainly because of the poor bone quality frequently found within the sacrum.