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Self-deprecating behind the scenes with Markman will tickle devoted fans.
Marinated in hardboiled language, femme fatale "Cyn" is a small time crookette who's dead set on double-crossing an even crookeder Buné. (If any lesson's to be learned, it's that the usual suspects will always manage to mangle the slickest dialogue.)
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The Commerce Department reported weak September retail sales but restaurants enjoyed a fair increase. First-time jobless claims fell to a 14-year low. The Sysco/U.S. Foods merger may have hit a stumbling block. Malcolm Knapp is optimistic about casual restaurant sales. McDonald's is still searching for answers.
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Special Issue "Advances in Flame Retardant Polymers"
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2014)
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Prof. Dr. A. Richard Horrocks Institute for Materials Research and Innovation, University of Bolton, Bolton BL3 5AB, UK Website: http://www.bolton.ac.uk/IMRI/Staff/StaffPages/ProfessorRichardHorrocks.aspx E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Phone: +44 1204 903831 Fax: +44 1204 399074 Interests: polymer degradation; fire retardants; mechanisms; polymer flammability; fibers; textile flame retardants |
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Polymers is dedicated to Advances in Flame Retardant Polymers. I wish to dedicate the Special Edition to my colleague and friend of 30 years, Professor Dennis Price, who sadly died in December last year at the age of 79. He was well known across the world for his 40 years active research within the field of flame retardant polymers.
While the science and technical applications of flame retardant polymers have developed considerably during the last few decades, there remains an increasing need to develop novel flame retardant polymers and polymeric systems. This is because of continuing and increasing challenges required to balance society's desire to achieve higher levels of fire safety and technical performance on the one hand against its constraints posed by the need to minimize any potential toxicological properties and maximize environmental sustainability on the other. This issue invites original papers and reviews within the following areas:
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- Novel flame retardant treatments for textiles
- Characterization and testing of polymer burning behavior
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I for one am glued to my iPhone. I don't like Androids or Blackberry's, but I saw the announcement of the new Facebook phone coming out from FB and HTC.
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Some GOP House members in wind states have remained quiet on the issue. Other Republicans from Midwest and Great Plains states have voiced support for the PTC. Still more conservatives oppose the PTC because they want to completely revamp the federal tax code. Many resist the credit on ideological grounds, explaining the PTC interferes with the free market.
The PTC is set to expire Dec. 31, and wind power firms and the Obama administration have said its uncertain future has already caused layoffs.
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Reid also laid into climate change deniers and coal plants. He called for the closure of the Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant in Nevada's Moapa Valley. He added that climate change deniers are "not just on the other side of the debate, they're on the other side of reality."


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Rainham … Georgian manor on 31 hectares comes with a well-preserved wing that once housed convicts. Photo: Supplied
IT'S meant to be that time of year when buyers start eyeing off coastal properties, but many are being drawn inland by affordable historic homesteads.
The co-director of Raine & Horne Bathurst, John Fagan, said he is seeing an unprecedented number of historic homesteads hitting the market.
''I've been working around here since 1988 and it's the first time I've seen so many of these places on the market at the same time,'' he said. Five such properties were due to go for auction on the same day.
One property set to go under the hammer is a Georgian manor called Rainham, which is listed for sale for the first time in more than 150 years. The four-bedroom home on 31 hectares was built in 1832 by Captain Thomas Raine snr, father of Raine & Horne real estate co-founder, Tom Raine. The property comes with a well-preserved wing that once served as convict accommodation and horse stables with cobblestone floors. Mr Fagan will be seeking more than $500,000 at auction.
Being the first inland settlement in Australia, Bathurst is home to many historically significant houses, and in the $500,000 to $750,000 range there are numerous options for buyers.
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Penguin Ski Club is a family ski club located in Lincoln, NH, in the heart of the White Mountain "Ski 93" region. It is a fun and relaxing home base for parents and children to ski, hike, bike and enjoy one of New Hampshire's prime recreational areas. The club is located an easy walk from the downtown Lincoln and 3 miles from Loon Mountain ski area. Cannon, Bretton Woods and Waterville Valley are within easy drives. In the summer we share our building with actors in the North Country Center for the Arts.The Penguin Ski Club building is the former Lincoln High School. It was purchased by the member families in 1968 and converted into a comfortable 120 bed facility. Some classrooms are now male and female dormitories. Others have been turned into two kitchens, a large dining room, living room, adult and teen TV rooms, sauna, and a ski & boot room. The old gym has been maintained as a wonderful place to play ping pong or a pick up game of basketball after skiing. We are currently looking for new member families. Families interested in membership are first asked to make three visits to the club as guests to meet club members and become familiar with the club operation. One of the initial visits to the club may be for a work weekend in October. The other visits must be during the ski season. After filing an application new families are accepted as Associate Members for two years. Associates are allowed ski season use of the club and have no ownership or voting rights. Full membership is granted at the end the second Associate year by vote of the club Permanent membership.
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"A Woman Called Moses" (1978) is a powerful mini-series focusing on a true American hero. Based on the novel by Marcy Heidish, Cicely Tyson stars as Harriett Tubman, an escaped slave who was instrumental in the creation of the Underground Railroad, which created a pathway to freedom for hundreds of African American slaves. Narrated by Orson Welles, this inspiring story of one woman's courage is a an stirring triumph.
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Frank Martin has been pressured into transporting Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for the Ukraine, from Marseilles through Stuttgart and Budapest until he ends up in Odessa on the Black Sea. Along the way, with the help of Inspector Tarconi, Frank has to contend with the people who strong armed him to take the job, agents sent by Vasilev to intercept him, and the general non-cooperation of his passenger. Despite Valentina's cynical disposition and his resistance to get involved, Frank and Valentina fall for each other, while escaping from one life-threatening situation after another.


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Discrimination of one-photon and two-photon coherence parts in electromagnetically induced transparency for a ladder-type three-level atomic system |
Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 12, pp. 11128-11137 (2011)
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We present discrimination of the effect of one-photon and two-photon coherences in electromagnetically induced transparency for a three-level ladder-type atomic system. After the optical Bloch equations for a three-level atom, with either cycling or non-cycling transitions, were solved numerically, the solutions were averaged over the velocity distribution and finite transit time. Through this we were able to discriminate one-photon and two-photon coherence parts of the calculated spectra. We also found that the spectra showed peaks as the branching ratio of the intermediate (excited) state increased (decreased). The experimental results of previous reports [H. S. Moon, et al., Opt. Express 16, 12163 (2008); H. S. Moon and H. R. Noh, J. Phys. B 44, 055004 (2011)] could well be accounted for by this discrimination of one-photon and two-photon coherences in the transmittance signals for the simplified three-level atomic system.
OCIS Codes
(020.1670) Atomic and molecular physics : Coherent optical effects
(020.3690) Atomic and molecular physics : Line shapes and shifts
(020.4180) Atomic and molecular physics : Multiphoton processes
(300.6210) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, atomic
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Atomic and Molecular Physics
Original Manuscript: April 11, 2011
Revised Manuscript: May 16, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: May 17, 2011
Published: May 23, 2011
Heung-Ryoul Noh and Han Seb Moon, "Discrimination of one-photon and two-photon coherence parts in electromagnetically induced transparency for a ladder-type three-level atomic system," Opt. Express 19, 11128-11137 (2011)
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It's a good thing.
In real world terms, it means that, at current rates, the difference per $100,000 borrowed comes to about $12. a week.
Twelve bucks.
(FULL DISCLOSURE: I did the math on a $100,000 amount at 3.09% and the numbers came out to $477.88 a month for 25 years vs $425.41 for 30 years. The difference is $52.47 monthly = $629.64 per year, divided by 52 weeks = $12.11 a week.)
That's one less mocha choco grandé latté a week.
So on a $400,000. Mortgage, that's a smidgen over $50. a month, hardly a crippling amount.
For buyers very close to the line, it will force them to buy something a little smaller, a little cheaper, a little less ideally located.
Welcome to the real world that all of us inhabit. I make choices every day based, not on what I might ideally like, but on what I have in my wallet.
But in the broader scheme, it sends a very solid message to the rest of the world that we are a prudent country, that we are a managed country as opposed to one where unbridled market forces are permitted free reign and the winds of greed and profit blow rampant.
In short, it shows that we are paying attention to what we are doing, promoting growth instead of hysteria, encouraging ownership rather than speculation, supporting free markets but with sufficient oversight that those free markets unfold rather than unravel.
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I'm female and about to turn 17. I have wanted both my nostrils pierced for a very long time (~1-2 years) and have thought hard about it. I was planning on asking for permission for my birthday. I am almost certain my parents will be really against it because they are pretty strict so therefore I am afraid to ask them. They have vaguely disapproved of body mods and piercings in the past. They think that I try to be weird and deviant in my appearance and interests, however I just enjoy what I think looks nice. Any good points I should bring up when having the conversation? Anything else I should know?
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First off, if you think they'll be against it, do not ask them to pay for it. Save up your own money and pay for it yourself, but just ask them permission first. If they say no, don't freak out, just wait. Alternatively, most shops pierce people over sixteen without parent permission (Excluding genital piercings and the like) so you could just get it done and wait for them to notice, however, if they're as strict as you say they are, this probably won't go over so well.
Good luck though! :)
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The thing is, I would rather get their approval out of principle even though I feel what I do to my body isn't their business. I may just do it anyway, but I would rather they condone it.
I wasn't planning on asking them to pay for it. In my state I'm pretty sure the age is 18. Thanks!
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Where do you live? I've never been to a piercing shop in America that allowed people over 16 to get pierced without parent permission.
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I live in Canada, and that's usually how it works around here. All the shops are different though, and there's like, one APP certified piercer in the province.
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Oh well in America you have to be 18, I think thats true in each state.
[–]taboo007 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago (0 children)
Don't be afraid to hear no after you try everything. I would say paying for it out of your pocket is a good idea. Try to be sincere, nice, maybe do some extra chores around the house for a while before you mention it. (If it fails it still might work for something else that you want) And if anything else that you can thing of doesn't work then going to a shop on your own might be the only option! However, remember that piercings are not permeant like tattoos. They can still make you take it out!
I got both of my piercings without my parents permission (male, earlobe and eyebrow) My mom didn't really freak out too back for the ear but the eyebrow she did because I live with my cousin and go to college out of state so she took it out on her because "She took my baby away from me" sort of mentality. But she eventually got over it within a week or so and dually notes from time to time that she doesn't like it but says my jewelry I get looks nice. (My dad doesn't really care what I do, as long as I'm not gay or die I think he could care less.)
So just be nice, don't be afraid to speak your mind and prove your points and even prove your parents wrong with some of their arguments if that is possible, and don't be afraid of failure! If things don't work out you will hopefully and eventually be on your own and can do what you want for good!
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What about making a deal of some kind? I got most of my piercings before I was 18 by making deals with my mom. I accomplished something (usually good grades), I got a piercing.
Unfortunately good grades are a default for me. I've never made a b on any report card, so I don't get rewards anymore :(
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Well, it doesn't have to be grades. Worked for me because I really lacked motivation in school when I was 15 :P The piercings made me actually apply myself.
I got my belly button pierced when I was 16 for my birthday, my mom didn't want me to but agreed for my birthday. You could try that route. I got my tongue pierced at 17 with the agreement that if I got straight As for a certain amount of time my mom would let me. Maybe try just asking for 1 side, and then the other side at a later time so it doesn't freak them out too much. I know my mom who hates piercings would be okay with one side but not both. I paid for my tongue myself.
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Evidence of myocardial dysfunction in Bartter's syndrome. | |
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Bartter's syndrome (BS) is characterized by arterial normohypotension despite biochemical and hormonal abnormalities generally associated with hypertension. An abnormal intracellular calcium homeostasis due to a reduced capacity to increase intracellular calcium has been demonstrated by us in BS and proposed as the main pathophysiological factor of the vascular hyporeactivity in BS. The present study was designed to assess whether this altered intracellular calcium homeostasis could also impair contractile recruitment at the myocyte level. Left-ventricular function of patients with BS and normal subjects (C) were studied by quantitative 2-D echocardiography at rest and by postextrasystolic potentiation (PESP), an inotropic stimulus able to recruit the maximal contractile reserve. A group of patients with hypokalemia other than BS (PB) was also included in the study to evaluate the effect of hypokalemia on myocardial contractile recruitment. Baseline left-ventricular end-diastolic volume (EDV) and ejection fraction (EF) did not differ in the 3 groups: EDV: 62 +/- 6 vs. 64 +/- 9 and 60 +/- 12 ml/m2; EF: 64 +/- 9 vs. 67 +/- 8 and 64 +/- 8%. PESP determines an increase of EF in C and PB: 82 +/- 5%, p < 0.01 and 76 +/- 6%, p < 0.01, while in BS it is unchanged: 69 +/- 9% and is reduced in comparison with the increment of myocardial function shown by C and PB (p < 0.01). This study is the first demonstration in BS of a depressed inotropic recruitment causing an exercise-induced left-ventricular dysfunction likely due to an abnormal intracellular calcium homeostasis in the myocytes. |
L Calò; R Scognamiglio; S Nistri; M Palisi; M Miorelli; F Zerbo; S Cantaro; A Antonello; G Fasoli; A D'Angelo |
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Title: American journal of nephrology Volume: 17 ISSN: 0250-8095 ISO Abbreviation: Am. J. Nephrol. Publication Date: 1997 |
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##################### Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ##################### TSS Findings of MRC monitoring study of Pentosan Polysulphate treatment in CJD patients The chemical nature of PPS means that it is unable to enter the brain if administered orally or intravenously. For the purposes of this treatment, therefore, it has been administered directly into the ventricles of each patients brain - a route known as intraventricular delivery. Fluid circulating around the brain from the ventricles potentially provides a route to spread PPS around the brain tissue. Professor Bone carried out the study based on analysis of seven patients treatment and he stresses that the findings should not be taken as conclusive, because the report was based on a very small number of patients, treated in different ways, and because like-with-like comparisons with untreated patients were not possible. However any severe side-effects or clear benefit of PPS treatment in halting progression could have been revealed by this study. The findings are being made available now, to inform the debate over this treatment. The MRCs New Therapies Scrutiny Group endorsed the recommendations of Professor Bones report: Further experimental work in animals will provide the most immediate source of evidence of whether or not PPS is likely to extend survival. We need better information on the extent to which PPS penetrates and spreads through the infected brain. The Medical Research Council will take this forward. He went on: The patients treated with PPS appear to have survived for unusually long periods. However, we cannot conclude with certainty that the treatment has a beneficial effect, because it was impossible to make direct comparison with similar but untreated patients. Moreover, with such small numbers the results might be a matter of chance. The report recommends specific laboratory experiments to address the uncertainties. Professor Ian Bone said I am very grateful to the families and patients who participated in the study, and I hope that my report will help people who have to take difficult decisions about treatment in future. A report like this cannot always offer definite answers, and we urgently need further rigorous research to give scientists, doctors, patients and their families more information on which to base future treatment decisions. The co-chair of the committee, Professor Sir Michael Rawlins welcomed the study: Professor Bones observations have helped cast light on a little known and difficult-to-research area. He has shown that Pentosan Polysulphate itself does not appear toxic at the modest doses given and leaves open the intriguing possibility that it may have some effect on the duration of survival. Sadly it seems that a loss of brain function continues in patients being treated with PPS. Professor Bone has also confirmed what we knew at the outset that the surgical procedure needed to administer PPS carries a degree of risk, though is generally considered to be acceptable given the advanced stage of the disease in these patients. The recommendation that surgery be carried out in an experienced centre, and to an approved protocol, should help reduce complications associated with the surgery. Lester Firkins, the other co-chair, added: This is a very important report which will inform current and future patients and their families and also our collective knowledge of this tragic disease. I am very pleased that the MRC New Therapies Scrutiny Group agreed to advise MRC to carry out further research as a matter of urgency to fill in the gaps in the knowledge on PPS. Additionally, it should now be possible to help new patients and their families with better information on the risks of PPS by the publication of a balanced information leaflet. We are all indebted to the current patients and their families for participating in this study and of course they must continue to benefit from appropriate monitoring and support. If you would like to arrange an interview please contact the MRC press office on 020 7637 6011 firstname.lastname@example.com Notes for editors: MRC New Therapies Scrutiny Group for Prion Disease The MRC New Therapies Scrutiny Group for Prion Disease (NTSG) was established in 2005 at the request of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), to provide an independent source of advice on research into the development of potential therapeutics or preventative agents for prion disease. NTSG will build upon the previous work of the Department of Health CJD Therapy Advisory Group (TAG). NTSG reports to the Medical Research Council (and other bodies when appropriate). The Group will advise MRC on the development of new therapeutic agents that could possibly be brought to bear upon this disease and will also maintain an overview of other relevant research. The Medical Research Council The Medical Research Council (MRC) is funded by the UK tax-payer. It aims to improve human health. The research it supports and the scientists it trains meet the needs of the health services, the pharmaceutical and other health-related industries and universities. The MRC has funded work which has led to some of the most significant discoveries and achievements in medicine in the UK. http://www.mrc.ac.uk/index/public-interest/public-news_centre/public-press_office/public-press_2006/public-press_12_july_2006.htm TSS #################### https://lists.aegee.org/bse-l.html #################### CharlesWeissmann1 and Adriano Aguzzi2 1Department of Neurodegenerative Disease/MRC Prion Unit, Institute of Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom; email: email@example.com 2Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital, CH-8091 Z¨urich, email: email@example.com Key Words transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, proteinopathy, neuroblastoma ■ Abstract Devising approaches to the therapy of transmissible spongiform or prion diseases, is beset by many difficulties. For one, the nature of the infectious agent, the prion, is understood only in outline, and its and mode of replication are still shrouded in mystery. In addition, the of pathogenesis is not well understood. Because clinical disease affects brain parenchyme, therapeutic agents must be able to traverse the (BBB) or have to be introduced directly into the cerebrospinal fluid or And finally, because the disease is usually recognized only after onset of symptoms, the question arises as to whether the neurodegenerative processes reversed to any extent after a successful eradication of the agent. THE DISEASE snip... PRION DISEASE THERAPY 335 ATTEMPTS AT HUMAN THERAPY The earliest attempts to treat human prion disease, performed when the agent generally assumed to be a virus, were carried out with antiviral drugs, such amantadine, and were unsuccessful (137). Quinacrine Quinacrine, chlorpromazine, and some tricyclic derivatives with an aliphatic chain were described as efficient inhibitors of PrPSc formation in murine cells chronically infected with the Chandler scrapie isolate (138, 139). Because quinacrine and chlorpromazine have been used in human medicine as and antipsychotic drugs, respectively, and because they cross the BBB, they were proposed as therapeutic agents for CJD patients (139). No effectwas seen following quinacrine treatment of 20 patients (140) (A. quoted in Reference 141), although some transient improvement occasionally (142). Subsequent animal experiments failed to demonstrate efficacy in the treatment of TSEs (141), even after intraventricular infusion (135). Amphothericin B Amphothericin B and some of its analogues delayed the appearance of astrogliosis, and PrPSc accumulation in the brain of scrapie-infected (125). However, an attempt to treat a CJD patient with amphothericin B was (143). In view of its high systemic toxicity, these results dampen any hopes that amphothericin B will prove useful in prion disease therapy. Pentosan Polysulfate Data presented at two prion meetings in 2002, and published recently (135), that intraventricular administration of PPS to intracerebrally prolonged incubation time. PPS is marketed in some countries as a treatment for interstitial cystitis and as an anticoagulant, although its side effects hemorrhage and hypersensitivity reactions. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS Recently a legal case was brought by two families whose children JS and PA, aged 18 and 16 respectively, suffered from vCJD [DS v JS and an NHS Trust and The Secretary of State for Health, intervenor; PA v JA and an NHS Trust The Secretary of State for Health (2002) EWHC 2734 (Fam)]. They applied to the court to permit intraventricular administration of PPS, a treatment given only to rodents and dogs. The judge heard testimony from Doh-Ura, the Japanese researcher who had performed the animal studies; from a 336 WEISSMANN AGUZZI willing to administer the novel treatment; and from several respected who expressed reservations about it. The judge found that both young some enjoyment from life which is worth preserving and that the treatment, it was supported by medical opinion, would be in their best interest (the criterion for doctors to treat patients who lack capacity for personal (144). Treatment has been initiated, but no reports on the fate of the been issued. Physicians can thus come under pressure from the courts to to be used without having been tested in clinical trials, although the above implies that such decisions would have to withstand the Bolam test being acceptable to a reasonable body of medical opinion. The ruling also the application of the Human Rights Act in this area, citing Articles 2 and rights to life and to respect for family life. It is not inconceivable that could allow patients to circumvent clinical trials by asserting their rights innovative therapy, and this development is of concern, particularly in the field of human prion diseases. We may at some stage be confronted with a therapy that can eradicate prion infection without reversing the neural damage, which in extreme cases could patients to years or decades of severe disability and dementia. This would lead to an ethical dilemma as to whether treatment should be withheld if the has progressed to a severe stage. Such situations could be prevented if a test could detect prion disease in its preclinical stage. Whether such a ever became available, would be applied to detect a disease with an 1 in a million per year is a matter of debate; clearly it would be case of familial prion diseases. The Annual Review of Medicine is online at http://med.annualreviews.org LITERATURE CITED...snip...end...tss Benefits It is possible that this treatment will slow (or even halt) progression of On the basis of current understanding, there is no realistic possibility of To date, at least several human individuals with prion disease have been The best possible outcome from intraventricular PPS On the basis of the available evidence, the best possible outcome that could Naturally, a treatment which stabilises an individual's condition could Additional Comments Any conclusion concerning these above considerations, in the context of an Any decision about a given patient would have to be taken in an entirely There is, of course, an argument that such treatment should be evaluated in Advice from relevant professional bodies The Department of Health have statements on intraventricular PPS on their www.doh.gov.uk/cjd/pentosan_revised.htm This includes statements of advice from the CJD Therapy Advisory Group and The advice from the CJD Therapy Advisory Group can be summarised as follows: There are insufficient clinical data to support the claim that PPS is There are insufficient safety data on which to base a rational treatment Further animal model experimental work is warranted. Nevertheless, at the dosage used in at least one individual, there have been All patients with prion disease should undergo appropriate monitoring during The advice from the CSM is similar and states further that: "there is no evidence in support of its use as a treatment in late stage "In the light of the limited information on PPS treatment of clinically There was insufficient information to reach any conclusions about the They also recommended that further study of PPS should be undertaken in a Neither of these statements preclude the possibility of an individual The case of the first individual who received this treatment was referred to There are important issues of consent regarding such 'experimental' The Department of Health has sought to identify certain selected hospitals FLUPIRTINE Reference Otto M et al. Efficacy of flupirtine on cognitive function in patients with MRC PRION1 http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/TREAT.htm


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