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Mueller NM, Hsieh A, Ramanadhan S, Lee RM, Emmons KM. The Prevalence of Dissemination and Implementation Research and Training Grants at National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Centers. JNCI Cancer Spectr 2022; 6:pkab092. [PMID: 35005429 PMCID: PMC8735751 DOI: 10.1093/jncics/pkab092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Dissemination and implementation (D&I) research is a key factor in the uptake and use of evidence-based cancer control interventions. National Cancer Institute (NCI)–designated cancer centers are ideal settings in which to further D&I knowledge. The purpose of this study was to summarize the characteristics of NCI-funded D&I science grants in the nation’s cancer centers to understand the nature, extent, and opportunity for this key type of translational work. Methods We used the National Institutes of Health Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool to identify active NCI-funded grants in D&I science at NCI clinical cancer centers (n = 13) and comprehensive cancer centers (n = 51) as well as their academic affiliates. Active projects were eligible for inclusion if they 1) were awarded directly to an NCI cancer center or an academic or research affiliate, and 2) identified D&I content in the abstract. Portfolio data were collected in February 2021. Results We identified 104 active NCI-funded D&I research or training grants across the 64 cancer centers; 57.8% of cancer centers had at least 1 NCI-funded D&I grant. Most awards (71.1%) were for research grants. Training grants constituted 29.1% of D&I-focused grants. Overall, 50.0% of grants (n = 52) concentrated on specific cancers. Almost two-thirds of grants (n = 68, 65.4%) had a stated health equity focus. Conclusions More than one-half of NCI-designated cancer centers have active funding in D&I science, reflecting a substantial investment by NCI. There remains considerable room for further development, which would further support NCI’s translational mission.
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- Nora M Mueller
- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA
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Hsieh A, Quenan S, Riat A, Toutous-Trellu L, Fontao L. A new mutation in the SQLE gene of Trichophyton mentagrophytes associated to terbinafine resistance in a couple with disseminated tinea corporis. J Mycol Med 2019; 29:352-355. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mycmed.2019.100903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Revised: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Davidson M, Hsieh A, Jones R, Hadker N, Suarez S, Stevenson M. How does burden of illness of fcs patients compare to a general population cohort? results of a psm study. ATHEROSCLEROSIS SUPP 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosissup.2019.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Hsieh A, Jiang S, Lin C, Seah T. Aesthetic occiput augmentation using CAD-CAM prefabricated customized polymethylmethacrylate implant. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2019.03.375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Luhn T, Chui S, Hsieh A, Yi J, Mecke A, Bajaj P, Hasnain W, Falgas A, Ton T, Kurian A. Comparative effectiveness of nab-paclitaxel vs. paclitaxel monotherapy as first-line (1L) treatment of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC) in US clinical practice. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy272.306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Arca M, Soran H, Digenio A, Hsieh A, Rosenblit P, Stevenson M. Assessing the disease burden among patients with familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) on volanesorsen: Results of the re-focus study. Atherosclerosis 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2018.06.467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Bronte-Tinkew DM, Dang F, Hsieh A, McGillis LH, Verapalan I, Murchie R, Capurro M, Greenfield LK, Philpott D, Jones N. A15 VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY PROMOTES INTESTINAL AUTOPHAGY DYSFUNCTION VIA EPIGENETIC REGULATION INVOLVING MIR142-3P IN VITRO AND IN VIVO. J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/jcag/gwy009.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- D M Bronte-Tinkew
- Departments of Paediatrics and Physiology, University of Toronto; Cell Biology Program, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Paediatrics and Physiology, University of Toronto; Cell Biology Program, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Paediatrics and Physiology, University of Toronto; Cell Biology Program, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Paediatrics and Physiology, University of Toronto; Cell Biology Program, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Paediatrics and Physiology, University of Toronto; Cell Biology Program, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Paediatrics and Physiology, University of Toronto; Cell Biology Program, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Paediatrics and Physiology, University of Toronto; Cell Biology Program, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Paediatrics and Physiology, University of Toronto; Cell Biology Program, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Paediatrics and Physiology, University of Toronto; Cell Biology Program, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Davidson M, Stevenson M, Hsieh A, Jones R, Issa B, Romeo S, Witztum J. Results of the Investigation of Findings and Observations Captured in Burden of Illness Survey in FCS Patients (IN-FOCUS) study: European Respondents. ATHEROSCLEROSIS SUPP 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosissup.2017.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Auger N, Rhéaume MA, Paradis G, Healy-Profitós J, Hsieh A, Fraser WD. Preeclampsia and the risk of cataract extraction in life. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2017; 216:417.e1-417.e8. [PMID: 27899314 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2016.11.1043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2016] [Revised: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Pregnancy-related risk factors for cataract are understudied, including the possibility that preeclampsia increases the risk of cataract later in life. OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the long-term risk of cataract extraction following a preeclamptic pregnancy. STUDY DESIGN We carried out a historic cohort study of 1,108,541 women who delivered at least 1 infant in any hospital in the province of Quebec, Canada, from 1989 through 2013, including 64,350 with preeclampsia and 5732 with cataract extractions. We categorized preeclampsia by onset time and severity, and followed up women for up to 25 years after delivery. We calculated the incidence of inpatient cataract extraction for women with and without preeclampsia, and used Cox proportional hazard models to estimate hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for later risk of cataract extraction, adjusting for age at first delivery, total parity, metabolic disease, asthma, socioeconomic deprivation, and time period. RESULTS Women with preeclampsia had a higher incidence of cataract extraction compared with no preeclampsia (21.0 vs 15.9/1000) and 1.20 times the risk (95% confidence interval, 1.08-1.34). Women with early-onset preeclampsia had 1.51 times the risk of cataract extraction compared with no preeclampsia (95% confidence interval, 1.14-2.00), whereas women with late-onset preeclampsia had 1.16 times the risk (95% confidence interval, 1.04-1.30). Risk was elevated by about 20% for both severe and mild preeclampsia. Preeclampsia with diabetes was associated with significantly greater risk (hazard ratio, 4.32; 95% confidence interval, 3.60-5.19). CONCLUSION Women with preeclampsia, particularly preeclampsia of early onset or with diabetes, may have greater risk of cataract later in life. The underlying pathways linking preeclampsia with cataract require further investigation.
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- Nathalie Auger
- Hospital Research Center, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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- Hospital Research Center, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Hospital Research Center, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sherbrooke University Hospital Research Center, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Hsieh A, Altman B, Stine Z, Gouw A, Venkataraman A, Li B, Goraksha-Hicks P, Diskin S, Bellovin D, Celeste Simon M, Rathmell J, Lazar M, Maris J, Felsher D, Hogenesch J, Dang C. TM-06 * MYC AND MYCN DISRUPTION OF THE MOLECULAR CLOCK IN CANCER CELLS. Neuro Oncol 2014. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nou278.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Hsieh A, Ong PX, Molyneaux L, McGill MJ, Constantino M, Wu T, Wong J, Yue DK, Twigg SM. Age of diabetes diagnosis and diabetes duration associate with glycated haemoglobin. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2014; 104:e1-4. [PMID: 24582460 DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2014.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2014] [Revised: 02/02/2014] [Accepted: 02/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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An earlier age of diagnosis (r=-0.28, p<0.0001) and longer duration of type 2 diabetes (r=0.26, p<0.0001) were each found to correlate with higher HbA1c level, on analysis of a diabetes centre database in people under regular shared care. When combined, these biological variables strongly associate with the current HbA1c level.
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- A Hsieh
- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Bolon B, Carter C, Daris M, Morony S, Capparelli C, Hsieh A, Mao M, Kostenuik P, Dunstan CR, Lacey DL, Sheng JZ. Adenoviral delivery of osteoprotegerin ameliorates bone resorption in a mouse ovariectomy model of osteoporosis. Mol Ther 2001; 3:197-205. [PMID: 11237676 DOI: 10.1006/mthe.2001.0245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Osteoprotegerin (OPG) regulates bone resorption by inhibiting osteoclast formation, function, and survival. The current studies employed a mouse ovariectomy (OVX) model of estrogen deficiency to investigate gene therapy with OPG as a means of preventing osteoporosis. Young adult females injected with a recombinant adenoviral (Ad) vector carrying cDNA of either full-length OPG or a fusion protein combining the hOPG ligand-binding domain with the human immunoglobulin constant domain (Ad-hOPG-Fc) developed serum OPG concentrations exceeding the threshold needed for efficacy. However, elevated circulating OPG levels were sustained for up to 18 months only in mice given Ad-hOPG-Fc. Administration of Ad-hOPG-Fc titers between 10(7) and 10(9) pfu yielded dose-dependent increases in serum OPG. Mice subjected to OVX or sham surgery followed by immediate treatment with Ad-hOPG-Fc had significantly more bone volume with reduced osteoclast numbers in axial and appendicular bones after 4 weeks. In contrast, animals given OVX and either a control vector or vehicle had significantly less bone than did comparably treated sham-operated mice. This study demonstrates that a single adenoviral gene transfer can produce persistent high-level OPG expression and shows that gene therapy to provide sustained delivery of OPG may prove useful in treating osteoporosis.
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- B Bolon
- Department of Pharmacology and Pathology, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California, 91320-1789, USA
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Shyh-Ming Chan, Jwo-Huei Jou, Hsieh A, Tai-Hong Chen, Jui-Nin Jao, Hua-Shu Wu. Internal stress and connection resistance correlation study of microbump bonding. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1109/6144.946498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Ochoa L, Hurwitz HI, Wilding G, Cohen D, Thomas JP, Schwartz G, Monroe P, Petros WP, Ertel VP, Hsieh A, Hoffman C, Drengler R, Magnum S, Rowinsky EK. Pharmacokinetics and bioequivalence of a combined oral formulation of eniluracil, an inactivator of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, and 5-fluorouracil in patients with advanced solid malignancies. Ann Oncol 2000; 11:1313-22. [PMID: 11106122 DOI: 10.1023/a:1008379802642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND This study was performed to evaluate the pharmacokinetics, bioequivalence, and feasibility of a combined oral formulation of 5-flurouracil (5-FU) and eniluracil (Glaxo Wellcome Inc., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina), an inactivator of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD). The rationale for developing a combined eniluracil/5-FU formulation oral dosing form is to simplify treatment with these agents, which has been performed using separate dosing forms, and decrease the probability of severe toxicity and/or suboptimal therapeutic results caused by inadvertently high or conversely insufficient 5-FU dosing. PATIENTS AND METHODS The trial was a randomized, three-way crossover bioequivalence study of three oral dosing forms of eniluracil/5-FU tablets in adults with solid malignancies. Each period consisted of two days of treatment and a five- to seven-day washout phase. Eniluracil at a dose of 20 mg, which results in maximal DPD inactivation, was administered twice daily on the first day and in the evening on the second day of each of the three treatments. On the morning of the second day, all patients received a total eniluracil dose of 20 mg orally and a total 5-FU dose of 2 mg orally as either separate tablets (treatment A) or combined eniluracil/5-FU tablets in two different strengths (2 tablets of eniluracil/5-FU at a strength (mg/mg) of 10/1 (treatment B) or 8 tablets at a strength of 2.5/0.25 (treatment C)). The pharmacokinetics of plasma 5-FU, eniluracil, and uracil, and the urinary excretion of eniluracil, 5-FU, uracil, and alpha-fluoro-beta-alanine (FBAL), were studied. To determine the bioequivalence of the combined eniluracil/5-FU dosing forms compared to the separate tablets, an analysis of variance on pharmacokinetic parameters reflecting eniluracil and 5-FU exposure was performed. RESULTS Thirty-nine patients with advanced solid malignancies had complete pharmacokinetic studies performed during treatments A, B, and C. The pharmacokinetics of eniluracil and 5-FU were similar among the three types of treatment. Both strengths of the combined eniluracil/5-FU dosing form and the separate dosing forms were bioequivalent. Mean values for terminal half-life, systemic clearance, and apparent volume of distribution for oral 5-FU during treatments A/B/C were 5.5/5.6/5.6 hours, 6.6/6.6/6.5 liters/hour, and 50.7/51.5/50.0 liters, respectively. The intersubject coefficient of variation for pharmacokinetic variables reflecting 5-FU exposure and clearance in treatments ranged from 23% to 33%. The urinary excretion of unchanged 5-FU over 24 hours following treatments A, B, and C averaged 52.2%, 56.1%, and 50.8'%, of the administered dose of 5-FU, respectively. Parameters reflecting DPD inhibition, including plasma uracil and urinary FBAL excretion following treatments A, B, and C were similar. Toxicity was generally mild and similar following all three types of treatments. CONCLUSIONS The pharmacokinetics of 5-FU and eniluracil were similar and met bioequivalence criteria following treatment with the separate oral formulations of 5-FU and eniluracil and two strengths of the combined formulation. The availability of a combined eniluracil/5-FU oral dosing form will likely simplify dosing and decrease the probability of severe toxicity or suboptimal therapeutic results caused by an inadvertent 5-FU overdose or insufficient 5-FU dosing in the case of separate oral formulations, thereby enhancing the overall feasibility and 0therapeutic index of oral 5-FU therapy.
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- L Ochoa
- Institute for Drug Development, Cancer Therapy and Research Center and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 78229, USA
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Ischemic osteonecrosis is a complication of certain traumatic and a number of idiopathic conditions. The course of the disease may result in collapse of the convex member of a joint and osteoarthritis, often requiring arthroplasty. Increasing incidence in young adults poses a challenge for development of long-term joint prostheses. Current status of research into the disease is discussed and three new models using intravital microscopy described. The first, an arterial occlusion (AO) model, creates ischemia by occluding the common iliac artery exclusively, avoiding direct trauma on other tissues in the limb. The second, a total occlusion (TO) model utilizes classical tourniquet occlusion of the thigh vessels. The third, a venous occlusion (VO) model, is also a tourniquet procedure but it blocks occlusion of the femoral artery with a protective sheath. Preliminary results from AO and TO studies are reported which show that reperfusion injury is detectible after ischemia doses as short as 4 h. This complication was confirmed by observation of leukocyte adherence, secondary ischemia, and abnormal vessel leakage. Also, a new quantitation of osteonecrosis is introduced whereby fluorescently-tagged dead osteocytes and computer-based image processing provide values for an "osteonecrosis index." Viewing of all vascular events is made possible by intravital microscopy through a bone chamber window implanted in rabbit tibias. It is proposed that such chronic visual techniques allow quantitation of events leading to osteonecrosis as well as the revascularization, resorption and bone apposition of creeping substitution which characterizes postischemia recovery.
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- H Winet
- Department of Orthopaedics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90007, USA.
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Lucas JN, Deng W, Moore D, Hill F, Wade M, Lewis A, Sailes F, Kramer C, Hsieh A, Galvan N. Background ionizing radiation plays a minor role in the production of chromosome translocations in a control population. Int J Radiat Biol 1999; 75:819-27. [PMID: 10489893 DOI: 10.1080/095530099139872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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PURPOSE To obtain a relationship between background chromosome translocation frequency and age with translocation frequency measured to a high statistical precision, and to identify the role of background ionizing radiation in the production of chromosome translocations in a control population. MATERIALS AND METHODS Lymphocytes from 35 healthy control individuals (15 females and 20 males) were scored, using fluorescence in situ hybridization, for the presence of chromosomal translocations. Translocation frequencies were measured to a high statistical precision (s.d. 25% or less for each individual). These control subjects were of varying ages, ranging from 0 (cord blood) to 98 years. RESULTS In a total of 521,492 metaphases (203,754 genome equivalent cells) scored, an average of 5,822 genome equivalent cells per individual, 764 translocations were observed in the 35 individuals. The translocation frequencies ranged from 0 (for cord blood) to 0.0167 (for a 98 year old) translocations per cell. The average age and translocation frequency was 50 years and 0.004 translocations per cell, respectively. The best fit of the relationship between translocations and age was: Y=7x10(-4)+6.9x10(-6)A+1.35x10(-6)A2, which does not obey the linear relationship expected from chronic background radiation alone. The curvilinear relationship observed clearly shows that other endogenous and exogenous clastogens or clastogenic events, in addition to radiation, serve to generate chromosome translocations in control populations. CONCLUSION The background translocation frequency in control individuals follows a curvilinear relationship with age. No significant variation was observed between individuals of the same age. Clastogenic processes of normal aging and physiological factors in additional to ionizing radiation play a major role in the production of chromosome translocations in a control population. Background radiation, however, appears to play a minor role in chromosome translocation production in control individuals living near sea level.
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- J N Lucas
- University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore 94550, USA
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Collins M, Hsieh A, Ohazama CJ, Ota T, Stetten G, Donovan CL, Kisslo J, Ryan T. Assessment of regional wall motion abnormalities with real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1999; 12:7-14. [PMID: 9882773 DOI: 10.1016/s0894-7317(99)70167-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Accurate characterization of regional wall motion abnormalities requires a thorough evaluation of the entire left ventricle (LV). Although 2-dimensional echocardiography is frequently used for this purpose, the inability of tomographic techniques to record the complete endocardial surface is a limitation. Three-dimensional echocardiography, with real-time volumetric imaging, has the potential to overcome this limitation by capturing the entire volume of the LV and displaying it in a cineloop mode. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of using real-time 3-dimensional (RT3D) echocardiography to detect regional wall motion abnormalities in patients with abnormal LV function and to develop a scheme for the systematic evaluation of wall motion by using the 3-dimensional data set. Twenty-six patients with high-quality 2-dimensional echo images and at least 1 regional wall motion abnormality were examined with RT3D echocardiography. For 2-dimensional echocardiography, wall motion was analyzed with a 16-segment model and graded on a 4-point scale from normal (1) to dyskinetic (4), from which a wall motion score index was calculated. Individual segments were then grouped into regions (anterior, inferoposterior, lateral, and apical) and the number of regional wall motion abnormalities was determined. The RT3D echocardiogram was recorded as a volumetric, pyramid-shaped data set that contained the entire LV. Digital images, consisting of a single cardiac cycle cineloop, were analyzed off-line with a computerized display of the apical projection. Two intersecting orthogonal apical projections were simultaneously displayed in cineloop mode, each independently tilted to optimize orientation and endocardial definition. The 2 planes were then slowly rotated about the major axis to visualize the entire LV endocardium. Wall motion was then graded in 6 equally spaced views, separated by 30 degrees, yielding 36 segments per patient. A higher percentage of segments were visualized with 2-dimensional versus RT3D echocardiography (97% vs 83%, respectively, P <.001). With the use of the 2-dimensional echocardiographic results as the standard, RT3D echocardiography detected 55 (96%) of 57 regional wall motion abnormalities. Analysis of the RT3D echocardiograms resulted in 3 false-negative and 5 false-positive findings. The total number of regional wall motion abnormalities was correctly classified by RT3D echocardiography in 19 (73%) of 26 patients. RT3D echocardiography detected 11 of 13 anterior, 19 of 20 inferoposterior, 9 of 9 lateral, and 15 of 15 apical wall motion abnormalities. An excellent correlation was found between the 2 techniques for assessment of the regional wall motion score index (r = 0.89, P <.001). This initial clinical study demonstrates the feasibility and potential advantages of RT3D echocardiography for the assessment of regional LV function. Compared with 2-dimensional echocardiography, this new method permits recording of the entire LV in a single beat, allowing the extent and location of the regional wall motion abnormalities to be determined.
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- M Collins
- Department of Medicine and the National Scientific Foundation Engineering Research Center on Emerging Cardiovascular Technologies, Duke University and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Masters GA, Hoffman PC, Hsieh A, Drinkard LC, Mick R, Samuels BL, Guaspari A, Golomb HM, Vokes EE. Phase I study of vinorelbine and ifosfamide in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. J Clin Oncol 1997; 15:884-92. [PMID: 9060524 DOI: 10.1200/jco.1997.15.3.884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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PURPOSE We designed a phase I dose-escalation study of vinorelbine on a novel (daily-times-three) schedule with ifosfamide with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) support to define the dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) and maximum-tolerated dose (MTD) of vinorelbine in this combination. PATIENTS AND METHODS Cohorts of patients with stage IIIB or IV non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and no prior chemotherapy received vinorelbine starting at 15 mg/m2 on days 1, 2, and 3, and ifosfamide starting at 2.0 g/m2 on days 1, 2, and 3 with G-CSF support for all patients. Cycles were repeated every 21 days. Plasma vinorelbine concentrations were also analyzed. RESULTS Forty-two patients were treated. The median age was 58 years (range, 34 to 75) and 41 had a performance status of 0 or 1. The DLT was neutropenia and sepsis at a maximum-administered vinorelbine dose of 35 mg/m2 for 3 days. The recommended phase II dose was vinorelbine 30 mg/m2 with ifosfamide 1.6 g/m2 both given on 3 consecutive days. The overall response rate was 40% (17 of 42; all partial responders). The median survival duration was 50 weeks, with a 1-year survival rate of 48%. Pharmacokinetic analysis showed that vinorelbine in this combination and on this schedule is cleared 1.5 to two times faster than in single-agent once-weekly studies. CONCLUSION Myelosuppression is the DLT of this regimen with no major subjective toxicities. With tolerable toxicity and an encouraging 1-year survival rate of 48%, further investigation of this new vinorelbine schedule is warranted in this and other combination regimens.
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- G A Masters
- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Cancer Research Center, IL 60637-1470, USA
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This report describes a patient with limited cutaneous scleroderma in whom calcific constrictive pericarditis developed. This complication of limited cutaneous scleroderma has not been reported previously.
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- P Panchal
- Division of Rheumatology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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The minimum inhibitory concentrations of antibiotics for bacterial pathogens are derived from broth suspensions (broth dilution) and from nutrient surfaces (agar dilution). These concentrations may not apply when bacteria are on a nonnutrient surface such as in a foreign body infection. We compared bacteria (Staphylococcus epidermidis and Escherichia coli) broth suspension MBCs with MBCs of the same bacteria when on a nonnutrient surface in broth the growing and nongrowing phases. Bacteria growing on cotton surfaces were much less susceptible to antibiotic killing than when freely suspended in the liquid nutrient. These results alone, independent of host factors, would explain the failure of antibiotics to eradicate infections involving bacteria on foreign body surfaces. The resistance of bacteria to antibiotic killing is not caused by a lack of antibiotic penetration to the site of the bacteria, but by an altered state of the bacteria when they are associated with a surface.
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- R H Eng
- Infectious Disease Section, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, East Orange, N.J. 07018-1095, USA
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Hollar C, Parris N, Hsieh A, Cockley K. Factors Affecting the Denaturation and Aggregation of Whey Proteins in Heated Whey Protein Concentrate Mixtures. J Dairy Sci 1995. [DOI: 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(95)76633-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Hwang MH, Lewis BE, Hsieh A, Jones PA, Leya F, Loeb HS. Restenosis presented with unstable angina and myocardial infarction: one explanation for late cardiac events following directional coronary atherectomy. Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn 1994; 33:234-6. [PMID: 7874717 DOI: 10.1002/ccd.1810330308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Three cases of restenosis after directional coronary atherectomy (DCA) presented with unstable angina and then myocardial infarction. Two of them were complicated with malignant ventricular dysrhythmia. A total or subtotal thrombotic occlusion at the DCA site was shown. This fulminating course of restenosis could partially explain the higher late cardiac morbidity and mortality after DCA than after percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty.
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- M H Hwang
- Hines V.A. Hospital, Cardiology Department (111G), IL 60141
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Liu JJ, Chen BS, Tsai TF, Wu YJ, Pang VF, Hsieh A, Hsieh JH, Chang TH. Long term and large-scale cultivation of human hepatoma Hep G2 cells in hollow fiber bioreactor. Cytotechnology 1991; 5:129-39. [PMID: 1369306 DOI: 10.1007/bf00365429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Long-term and large scale cultivation of an anchorage-dependent cell line using an industrial scale hollow fiber perfusion bioreactor is described. Hep G2 cells (a human hepatoma cell line) were cultivated in an Acusyst-P (Endotronic) with a total fiber surface area of 7.2 m2 6 x 1.2m2) to produce Hep G2 crude conditioned medium (CCM). Pretreatment of the cellulose acetate hollow fibers with collagen enhances the attachment of the anchorage-dependent cells. We have succeeded in growing the Hep G2 cells in an antibiotics- and serum-free IMDM medium, supplemented with 50 micrograms/ml of Hep G2 CCM protein at inoculation. The Hep G2 cells replicate and secrete CCM protein in quantities comparable to those produced in DMEM containing 10% fetal calf serum (FCS). The highest CCM protein productivity during the 80-day cultivation was 1.1 g/day with a total of 30 g of protein accumulated. Hep G2 CCM (20-40 micrograms protein/ml) was comparable to or even better than 10% FCS in supporting the growth of Molt-4 (a human T leukemia cell line) and FO (a mouse myeloma cell line) cells in vitro. The availability of this large amount of Hep G2 CCM will aid the further purification and characterization of growth factor(s) which could be used as serum substituents.
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- J J Liu
- Development Center for Biotechnology, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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Methyl esters of dimeric fatty acids were prepared by fractionating a mixture of conjugated linoleic and oleic acids that was heated for 24 hr at 300 C in the absence of air. Rats fed diets containing less than 1% dimers showed no significant difference (P less than 0.05) in the growth rate, feed efficiency, liver:body weight ratio, and lipid:liver weight ratio from those fed normal diets. A lymph cannulation study using 14C labeled dimers showed that ca. 0.4% of the dimers fed were absorbed within 12 hr and were transported as free acids in the lymph. Within a 28 hr period, 2% of the labeled dimers fed by gastric intubation were oxidized to 14CO2, and 1% radioactivity was recovered from the urine. The metabolism of methyl oleate appeared normal for rats prefed diets containing dimers.
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