Pentamidine

...of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York. The five-member team reports that pentamidine, when tested in genetically altered mice, counters genetic splicing defects in RNA that lead to...

In this article: Myotonic dystrophy, Guanine, Muscular dystrophy, Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rochester, and Medical advice

...in New York have discovered a potential drug candidate that may help treat inherited muscular wasting disease. The compound called pentamidine carries approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating a severe type of...

In this article: Muscular dystrophy, Leishmaniasis, University of Oregon, Sleeping sickness, Baylor College of Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and University of Rochester School of Medicine

Pentamidine (formulated as a salt, pentamidine isethionate) is an antimicrobial medication primarily given for prevention and treatment of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii , also formerly known as Pneumocystis...

In this article: Co-trimoxazole, Pneumocystis pneumonia, Leishmaniasis, Hepatitis, Sleeping sickness, Creatinine, Symptomatic treatment, Skin disease, and Diabetes mellitus

...(e.g. cancer patients on chemotherapy, or persons living with AIDS with a CD4+ T-cell count below 200/mul), prophylaxis with regular pentamidine inhalations or sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (co-trimoxazole or TMP-SMX) may be necessary to...

In this article: Pneumocystis pneumonia, AIDS, Co-trimoxazole, Sputum, Oxygen, Carbon dioxide, Cancer, Exudate, and Sulfamethoxazole

...indapamide with lithium and nonantiarrhythmic drugs causing wave burst arrhythmia (astemizole, bepridil, IV erythromycin, halofantrine, pentamidine, sultopride, terfenadine, vincamine). Monitoring of potassium and uric acid serum levels is...

In this article: Potassium, Hypokalemia, Hypertension, Perindopril, Lithium, Sultopride, Orthostatic hypotension, Hypotension, Uric acid, and Terfenadine

...almost all of whom suffered permanent neurocognitive deficits . Several drugs (including ketoconazole, miconazole, 5-flucytosine and pentamidine) have been shown to be effective against GAE-causing organisms in vitro. In one case,...

In this article: Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis, Glioma, Miconazole, Ketoconazole, Brain biopsy, Cloxacillin, Ceftriaxone, and Paralysis

...as key to the development of antiseptic resistance. The researchers compared the effectiveness of NVC-422 with chlorhexidine, pentamidine and proflavine against S. aureus strains that expressed the resistance genes. Measurements were...

In this article: Antibiotic, Staphylococcus aureus, Proflavine, Chlorhexidine, Escherichia coli, and Albumin

...by Medecins Sans Frontieres ("Doctors Without Borders"), the manufacturer resumed production of eflornithine, melarsoprol, and pentamidine in sufficient amounts to cover existing needs. This 5-year agreement with the WHO also...

In this article: Eflornithine, Melarsoprol, Sleeping sickness, Aventis, Food and Drug Administration, Cancer, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Sanofi-Aventis, Suicide, and African trypanosomiasis

...identify a base pair. However there are some known narrow-groove DNA-binding ligands such as Netropsin, Distamycin, Hoechst 33258, Pentamidine and others . DNA-binding proteins include transcription factors which modulate the process of...

In this article: Amino acid, Phosphate, Dna-binding Protein, Zinc, Netropsin, Restriction enzyme, Dna-binding Domains, Nucleic acid, and Leucine

...same year treatment and prevention of pneumocystis pneumonia -- which is often fatal in people living with AIDS -- was found in aerosol pentamidine and Bactrim tablets, and the first FDA-approved antiretroviral drug -- zidovudine, also known...

In this article: HIV, AIDS, Whitman-Walker Clinic, Zidovudine, Kaiser Family Foundation, Jim Graham, and The Washington Post