Discipline of Pharmacology: Recent submissions
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Mechanisms underlying early rapid increases in creatinine in paraquat poisoning
Published 2015-03-27Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common after severe paraquat poisoning and usually heralds a fatal outcome. The rapid large increases in serum creatinine (Cr) exceed that which can be explained by creatinine kinetics ...Open AccessArticle -
Kinetic Estimation of GFR Improves Prediction of Dialysis and Recovery after Kidney Transplantation
Published 2015-05-04Background The early prediction of delayed graft function (DGF) would facilitate patient management after kidney transplantation. Methods In a single-centre retrospective analysis, we investigated kinetic estimated GFR ...Open AccessArticle -
Clinical and Pharmacological Investigation of Myotoxicity in Sri Lankan Russell's Viper (Daboia russelii) Envenoming
Published 2016-12-02BACKGROUND: Sri Lankan Russell's viper (Daboia russelii) envenoming is reported to cause myotoxicity and neurotoxicity, which are different to the effects of envenoming by most other populations of Russell's vipers. This ...Open AccessArticle -
Dexamethasone Modifies Cystatin C-Based Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury During Cisplatin-Based Chemotherapy
Published 2017-03-17BACKGROUND/AIMS: Plasma cystatin C (pCysC) may be superior to serum creatinine (sCr) as a surrogate of GFR. However, the performance of pCysC for diagnosing acute kidney injury (AKI) after cisplatin-based chemotherapy is ...Open AccessArticle -
Hippocampal glutamatergic/NMDA receptor functioning in bipolar disorder: a combined MMN and 1H-MRS study
Published 2015-08-30Disturbances in the hippocampal glutamate (Glu)/N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) system have been implicated in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder (BD). Here we aim to provide a targeted integration of two measures of ...Open AccessArticle