Sentences with phrase «lead toxicity at»

Lead toxicity at low levels is very common.

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Liposomes, < 200 nm phospholipid vesicles, are longer retained in blood circulation and accumulate at pathological sites (tumours or inflamed tissues), leading to higher efficacy and lower systemic toxicity compared to the free drugs they encapsulate.

«Since cocaine works exclusively to modulate autophagy versus other cell death programs, there's a better chance that we can develop new targeted therapeutics to suppress its toxicity,» says Maged M. Harraz, Ph.D., a research associate at Johns Hopkins and lead co-author of the paper.

«This study, one of only a few large studies to have follow - up beyond five years, demonstrates that patients who have head and neck cancers and who are being treated with radiation therapy alone have improved local - regional control and no increase in late toxicity when radiation therapy is delivered twice a day in two smaller doses which we call hyperfractionation,» said Jonathan J. Beitler, MD, MBA, FASTRO, lead author of the study and professor of radiation oncology, otolaryngology and hematology / medical oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

In the meantime, Takebe and the rest of the team, led by Hideki Taniguchi, also a stem - cell biologist at Yokohama City University — who are collaborating on the project with researchers at Sekisui Medical, a biotechnology firm based in Tokyo — hope that his liver bud could be useful for toxicity testing in drug screening, for which bile ducts are not needed.

The use of these chemo - free drugs allowed us to obtain good results in relapse / refractory setting, in particular in Hodgkin disease, with a good toxicity profile,» said lead study author Ombretta Annibali, MD, PhD, who is with the Department of Hematology at University Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, Italy.

Second, Warfarin, a vitamin K inhibitor, produces a toxicity profile almost identical to that of vitamin D, but does not increase serum calcium levels.81 Third, one group used vitamin D to produce calcium deposition in the kidneys of chickens at doses that did not lead to hypercalcemia.104 This finding is consistent with a case report of four post-menopausal women who were taking undetermined doses of vitamin D without their knowledge in the form of supplements that appeared to be contaminated with large amounts of vitamin D2: these patients had abnormally high vitamin D levels, three times the calcium in their urine as is normal, and appeared, albeit inconclusively, to have associated bone loss.

And consider this: a 2016 study led by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health found that typical house dust contains 45 toxic chemicals, and that 90 % of the dust samples contained 10 extremely harmful chemicals that are known to cause cancer, hormonal disruption, reproductive harm, and nervous system toxicity.

This causes a build - up of the drug in the brain, which leads to toxicity and abnormal neurological symptoms and at times death, depending on the level of toxicity.

Other dogs can go deaf from a variety of causes, ranging from chronic ear infections or injuries to drug toxicity and old age, says George M. Strain, PhD, a leading veterinary researcher on the causes of deafness in dogs and a professor of neuroscience at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University.

There is a small catch in that you can not overdose on multiple potions at once, since each potion increases toxicity, which can lead to harmful consequences for Geralt.