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Busulfan
No full textBusulfan is a useful, sufficiently safe drug in the treatment of patients with CML. At higher dosages, busulfan is a fundamental part of myeloablative therapies for patients undergoing BMT. As the pharmacokinetics and metabolism of busulfan is further understood, there is great potential for improving treatment outcome. An assessment of maximal tolerated exposure determined by therapeutic drug monitoring may decrease the incidence and lethality of regimen-related toxicities
Disposition of high dose busulfan in pediatric patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation
No full textWe studied the pharmacokinetics of busulfan (16 mg/kg) in 16 pediatric patients affected by malignant and nonmalignant disorders between 6 months and 19 years of age (mean ± SD, 5.7 ± 6.5 years) who were undergoing allogeneic (15 patients) and autologous (one patient) bone marrow transplantation. In all children, the conditioning regimen consisted of busulfan given orally at a dose of 1 mg/kg every 6 hours for 16 doses (total dose, 16 mg/kg), associated with other drugs. The pharmacokinetics of busulfan was studied during the 6‐hour dosing interval on the third day of therapy by use of a high‐performance liquid chromatographie assay. The value for the time to reach maximum concentration, expressed as mean ± SD, was 1.1 ± 0.5 hour; maximum concentration was 609.6 ± 225.3 ng/ml; steady‐state concentration was 358.9 ± 135.5 ng/ml; area under the plasma concentration–time curve was 2153.6 ± 813.1 ng · hr/ml; oral clearance was 0.535 ± 0.226 L/hr/kg; and half‐life was 2.4 ± 0.8 hours. Age‐related differences in busulfan disposition were observed. The mean busulfan oral clearance in a group of 10 patients with an age range from 6 months to 3 years was 0.619 L/hr/kg, whereas six patients whose ages ranged from 7 to 19 years had a oral clearance of 0.396 L/hr/kg. The half‐lives for busulfan during infancy decrease continuously until early childhood but were prolonged in older children. No significant relationship between systemic exposure to busulfan and drug effect was observed. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (1993) 54, 45–52; doi: © 1993 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutic
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Evaluation of two buflomedil tablet formulations in patients with atherosclerotic disease.
No full textThe bioequivalence of a 600-mg methocel tablet containing buflomedil hydrochloride in sustained-release form was determined relative to a 300-mg CAP/carbovax-coated tablet of buflomedil hydrochloride in immediate-release form. The tablets were given to 20 patients in a double-blind placebo- controlled clinical study with cross-over between the administration plans. The 300-mg tablets were given b.i.d., at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. while the 600-mg tablets were taken once a day at 8 a.m. (+placebo at 8 p.m.). Plasma samples were collected at appropriate times up to 24 h after administration and were analysed for buflomedil with a validated high-performance liquid chromatographic procedure. Results showed an overall significant mean difference in absorption rate between the two formulations. The mean t(max) (5.5 ± 3.5 h) for the 600-mg tablet was longer (P<0.001) than the t(max) value (1.8 ± 0.8 h) seen after administration of the first 300-mg tablet. Analysis of AUC((O-∞)) values indicated that the sustained-release preparation (32.1 ± 20.7 μg/ml h) was not significantly different from the 300-mg tablet b.i.d. (28.7 ± 16.0 μg/ml h). Furthermore, it was seen that single administration of a 600-mg sustained-release tablet of buflomedil hydrochloride delivered the same amount of total drug as a 300-mg tablet given twice a day
Clinical pharmacokinetics of high dose busulfan in children undergoing bone marrow transplantation
No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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