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Emerging methods for valuing forest goods and services 220. Estimates of economic value of forest services tend to be based on a few economic valuation methods. The first of these is the `production function' approach whereby some output or service is measured. The output or service is then valued at market prices e.g. the price of timber, fuelwood, or medicinal plants, etc. ; . Some of these values can also be derived by stated preference techniques, notably contingent valuation. Stated preference techniques seek to elicit willingness to pay through the use of structured questionnaires. The advantage of these techniques is that they measure directly the total value that users of forest products are willing to pay for them. For tourism and.
99 Drug-induced shock. Jerzy Liebhart, Bernard Panaszek 104 Pharmacogenetics of asthma. Andrzej M. Fal, Marta 111 Sources of actions and efficacy of antiallergic drugs. 123 Therapy of stroke from experimental studies to clinical trials. Andrzej Czonkowski, Dagmara Mirowska-Guzel, 129 Extralipid effects of hypolipidemic drugs why do clinical trials weakly support experimental data? Witold Szkrbka, 134 Pharmaco-EEG-based assessment of interaction between ethanol and topiramate. Bogusawa Pietrzak, Elbieta 144 Antinociceptive effect of phenytoin in rats. Monika 150 Photofrin II-based photosensitization of human ovarian clear-cell carcinoma cell line OvBH-1 ; . Julia K. Bar.
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1 Dougherty TJ, Gomer CJ, Henderson BW, et al. Photodynamic therapy. J Natl Cancer Inst 1998; 90: 889 Smith SGT, Bedwell J, MacRobert AJ, et al. Experimental studies to assess the potential of photodynamic therapy for the treatment of bronchial carcinomas. Thorax 1993; 48: 474 Edell ES, Cortese DA. Photodynamic therapy in the management of early superficial squamous cell carcinoma as an alternative to surgical resection. Chest 1992; 102: 1319 McCaughan JS. Photodynamic therapy of endobronchial and esophageal tumors: an overview. J Clin Laser Med Surg 1996; 14: 223233 Cortese DA. Endobronchial management of lung cancer. Chest 1986; 89 suppl ; : 234S236S 6 Furuse K, Fukuoka M, Kato H, et al. A prospective phase II study on photodynamic therapy with photofrin II for centrally located early-stage lung cancer. J Clin Oncol 1993; 11: 1852 Edell ES, Cortese DA. Bronchoscopic phototherapy with hematoporphyrin derivative for treatment of localized bronchogenic carcinoma: a 5-year experience. Mayo Clin Proc 1987; 62: 8 Pass HI. Photodynamic therapy in oncology: mechanisms and clinical use. J Natl Cancer Inst 1993; 8: 443 and pilocarpine.
INTRODUCTION PDT2 is a therapeutic modality for the treatment of superficially localized tumors. In this approach, a photosensitive dye photosensitizer ; is injected i.v., whereafter it accumulates more or less selectively in the tumor. After exposure to laser light in the red or near-infrared region, the sensitizer is excited and is able to produce singlet oxygen, a cytotoxic form of oxygen 1 ; . Direct cell killing 2 ; and occlusion of tumor blood vessels 3 ; , as well as a strong acute inflammatory reaction 4 ; , can occur. These combined effects result in tumor necrosis. PDT has been applied for noninvasive treatment of many types of cancer, including colon, bladder, lung, and head and neck cancer 5 8 ; . Until now, Photofrin was one of the most frequently used photosensitizers. Photofrin, which has an absorption maximum at 630 nm, is the commercially produced photosensitizer purified from hematoporphyrin derivative. However, this sensitizer has some drawbacks. The skin toxicity observed with Photofrin-based PDT is rather long.
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Gentiana alba is a perennial herb. Flowering begins in mid August and continues through September, and October southward. According to Baumgartner and Baumgartner 1987 ; , in Oklahoma blooms have been observed as late as early December. Several species of Gentiana, including G. alba, easily hybridize and may produce hybrid swarms where the hybrids F1 generation ; are fertile and can cross with another hybrid F1 plant ; or backcross to either parent species Pringle 1963 ; . These hybrids, especially the hybrid swarms, produce populations with a wide range of morphological characteristics, complicating proper identification McGregor and Barkley 1986 ; . Gentiana alba frequently hybridizes with G. puberula and G. andrewsii in areas where these species overlap geographically Pringle 1963, Pringle 1964, Pringle 1971, Mason and Iltis 1965 ; . These hybrids have been named Gentiana X curtsii Pringle and Gentiana X pallidocyanae Pringle and pitocin.
Total NE removal rate pg min ; Q x NEa x 3 ; Regional NE clearance ml min ; Q x 4 ; Regional NE spillover pg min ; Q x [ NEv-NEa ; + NEa 5 ; where Q is the regional blood flow ml min ; , NEa and NEv are the arterial and regional venous NE concentrations pg ml ; , and [3H]NEa and [3H]NEv are the arterial and venous concentrations of tritiated NE dpm ml ; . The cardiac rate of removal of circulating NE by Uptake-1 was estimated by comparing the cardiac proportionate removal of radioactive NE in patients with Uptake-1 blockade with that of unblocked patients. The magnitude of the difference between the regional removal of NE and that of ISO provided a second means to estimate Uptake-i activity. If [3H]NEa - [3H]NEv ; [3H]NEa is the regional proportionate removal of NE, fxRemNE, and if [3H]ISOa - [3H]ISOv ; [3H]ISOa is the regional proportionate removal of ISO, fxRemISO, then Neuronal uptake rate pg min ; Total delivery rate x fxRemNE - fxRemISO ; 6 ; and Neuronal uptake rate dpm min ; Total [3H]NE delivery rate x fxRemNe - fxRem ISO ; 7 ; In a bed where blood flow was not measured, the neuronal uptake rate could not be calculated; however, the proportion of delivered NE that was removed by Uptake-i could be quantified by the value for fxRemNE -fxRemISO. A third technique was based on the regional release of radioactive DHPG during infusion of labeled NE until a steady state was achieved. Regional release of radioactive DHPG during infusion of radioactive NE would require uptake of the NE into sympathetic nerve endings. Because a substantial proportion of NE in the cytoplasm is removed by translocation into storage vesicles rather than by deamination to form DHPG, 6 the regional rate of release of radioactive DHPG would be expected to be less than the regional neuronal uptake rate. The relative activity of Uptake-1 among the beds could be assessed by measuring the arteriovenous increments in tracer-labeled DHPG, that is, by comparing values for [3H]DHPGv - [3H]DHPGa. The total body clearance of NE and the total body rate of spillover of NE, the sum of regional.
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FDA CLEARS QLT' PHOTOFRIN AS A PALLIATIVE TREATMENT S FOR LATE-STAGE LUNG CANCER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 23, 1998 VANCOUVER, Canada-- QLT PhotoTherapeutics Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA ; has given marketing clearance to QLT' PHOTOFRIN porfimer s sodium ; for Injection to include the palliative treatment of late-stage lung cancer. Specifically, the federal regulatory agency cleared PHOTOFRIN for the reduction of obstruction and palliation of symptoms in patients with completely or partially obstructing endobronchial nonsmall cell lung cancer. The FDA ruling, which follows a unanimous recommendation in early September by an FDA advisory panel, allows Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, Inc.-- QLT' U.S. marketing and distribution s partner-- to expand its current marketing efforts to a broader physician population. A U.S. commercial launch by Sanofi is expected in the first quarter of 1999. " Today' FDA decision-- the second U.S. regulatory approval for PHOTOFRIN this year, and s the third since 1995-- reflects our steady evolution toward commercial success, " said Dr. Julia Levy, QLT' President and CEO. " also marks another building block in QLT' campaign to s It widen the availability of photodynamic therapy to patients who can benefit from our innovative technology, and to expand our oncology franchise in the U.S." Sanofi is currently marketing PHOTOFRIN in the U.S. as a potentially-curative treatment for certain types of early-stage lung cancer in patients not eligible for surgery or radiotherapy, and as a palliative treatment for certain patients suffering from esophageal cancer. " Unfortunately, most of the estimated 171, 500 Americans who will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year will be diagnosed at a fairly late stage in the progression of this deadly disease, " said Dr. Harvey Pass, Professor of Surgery and Oncology at the Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan. " significant number of these lung cancer patients will eventually suffer bronchial obstruction A and hemorrhaging as the disease progresses, and photodynamic therapy with PHOTOFRIN offers patients and oncologists alike an effective alternative palliative treatment and pramlintide.
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Fig. 1. HPLC analysis of uptake retention of Photofrin II by tumor o ; , muscle f ; , and serum ; . A673 human sarcoma cells were s.c. injected into nude mice, and tumors were allowed to grow until they were 10 mm in diameter. Photofrin II 10 mg kg ; dissolved in 5% dextrose was injected by tail vein; mice were anesthetized, and tumor, muscle, and serum were harvested at 0, 12, 24, and 48 h after injection and analyzed by HPLC for PpIX concentrations expressed as g g tissue. Values in the graph represent mean values; bars, SE. Uptake by tumor was more than muscle at all time points and prevnar.
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