Progressive Scoliosis and Syringomyelia - Questions of Surgical Approach.

Background: The rate of scoliosis in syringomyelia patients ranges from 25 to 74.4%. In turn, syringomyelia occurs in 1.

Increased efficiency of Lewis lung carcinoma chemotherapy with a macrophage stimulator--yeast carboxymethyl glucan.

The efficiency of chemotherapy of Lewis lung carcinoma with cyclophosphamide was affected by administration of the water-soluble yeast polysaccharide derivative--carboxymethylated (1 --> 3)-beta-D-glucan (CMG)-a well-known macrophage stimulator. It was found that while cyclophosphamide showed 57% growth inhibition of the intramuscular tumor implants in comparison with the control group, its combined administration with CMG led to 75-90% inhibition. Similarly, increased inhibition of occurrence of lung metastases (up to 92-94%) was observed using the combined application of the two compounds.