Elastic stable intramedullary nails have been commonly used to treat unstable long bone fractures in children. The nail tip at the insertion site can cause problems. The nail tip should be of optimal length as a prominent nail tip or a short nail tip, or both, may cause different sets of problems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Tuberculosis is a major health problem worldwide. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is often secondary to some primary foci in lungs. There are reports of tuberculous osteomyelitis involving maxilla, ulna, femur, and shoulder joint but none have reported pathological fracture in humeral diaphysis due to tuberculosis osteomyelitis without shoulder joint involvement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLong chain L-2-hydroxy acid oxidase 2 (Hao2) is a peroxisomal enzyme expressed in the kidney and the liver. Hao2 was identified as a candidate gene for blood pressure (BP) quantitative trait locus (QTL) but the identity of its physiological substrate and its role in vivo remains largely unknown. To define a pharmacological role of this gene product, we report the development of selective inhibitors of Hao2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChiral separation method development was carried out for eslicarbazepine acetate and its (R)-enantiomer on diverse chiral stationary phases. Better chiral selectivity was observed on cellulose tris-(3,5-dichlorophenylcarbamate) immobilized column (Chiralpak IC-3). Under polar organic mode (POM), with 100% acetonitrile as mobile phase and 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPentoxifylline was subjected to various stress conditions and degradation profile was studied with conventional LCMS. Interestingly, under oxidative stress conditions the drug substance underwent distinct transformation to give rise to a single major degradation product. The structure of this product was elucidated using 1D, 2D NMR spectroscopy, high resolution mass spectrometry (Q-TOF LC/MS) and found to be a novel gem-dihydroperoxide, namely 1-(5,5-Bis-hydroperoxy-hexyl)-3,7-dimethyl-3,7-dihydro-purine-2,6-dione.
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