Rapid, biomimetic degradation in water of the persistent drug sertraline by TAML catalysts and hydrogen peroxide.

Iron TAML activators (oxidation catalysts based upon tetraamido macrocyclic ligands) at nanomolar concentrations in water activate hydrogen peroxide to rapidly degrade sertraline, the persistent, active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in the widely used drug Zoloft. Although all the API is readily consumed, degradation slows significantly at one intermediate, sertraline ketone. The process occurs from neutral to basic pH.

[Bone marrow as an organ of erythrocyte destruction in hematological disorders].

Bone marrow of patients with hematological diseases contains a great number of erythroclasic clusters characterized by exocytic lysis of the constituent erythrocytes by cluster-forming myelocaryocytes including erythrocaryocytes. The content of erythroclasic clusters with exocytic lysis of erythrocytes varied from 21% of total erythroclasic clusters in bone marrow of patients with aplastic anemia to 81% in bone marrow of patients with an active phase of acute lymphoblastic leukemia showing high intensity of hemolysis in the bone marrow. Most intensive lysis of erythrocytes in erythroclasic clusters took place in the bone marrow of patients in an active stage of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.

[Effect of long-term therapy with contemporary drugs on diastolic cardiac function in patients with chronic heart failure].

Bisoprolol, carvedilol, enalapril are widely used for the treatment of patients with chronic heart failure. Definite role in the treatment of these patients is also played by angiotensin-II receptor blockers. Diastolic left ventricular function is widely spread among patients with chronic heart failure and its important value for prognosis has been demonstrated.