Skin Cultured Dermagraft

Sniff test

Schilling test

Spirometry Test

The gold standard in lung testing In the same way that blood pressure measurements provide a simple yet effective screening method for cardiovascular disease, spirometry tests can help to unmask t...

Western blot test

Shire's Dermagraft cleared in Canada; settles Intuniv litigation

Ireland headquartered Shire (LSE: SHP), NASDAQ: SHPG) says that its lead regenerative medicine product, Dermagraft (human fibroblast-derived dermal substitute) has received approval from medicines reg...

Dermagraft: Phase III started

Dermagraft regulatory update

High potency statins pose significantly higher risk of kidney injury than low potency, say experts

Patients taking high potency statins for high blood pressure are at a 34% higher risk of being hospitalised for acute kidney injury (AKI), compared with those taking low potency statins, a paper publi...

High potency statins pose 'bigger risk' of kidney damage

Patients taking “high potency” statins have a significantly higher risk of being admitted to hospital with acute kidney injury (AKI) than those who use “low potency” drugs, researchers said.

Expired Medications May Maintain Potency for Decades

Decades later, some medications retain active ingredients at full potency, a study finds. Medscape Medical News

Link Between Potency Of Statins And Muscle Side Effects

A study from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, published online by PLoS ONE, reports that muscle problems reported by patients taking statins were related to the strength or...

Potency of vitamin D pills ‘often at variance with labeling’

A survey of over-the-counter vitamin D tablets in the USA has revealed very wide variations in pill potency, with different tablets containing as little as 9% or as much as 146% of the stated dose.

Characteristics of serology-based vaccine potency models for foot-and-mouth disease virus.

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine potency testing involves hundreds of animals each year. Despite considerable efforts during the past decades, a challenge-free alternative vaccine potency test to...

Relative embryotoxic potency of p-substituted phenols in the embryonic stem cell test (EST) and comparison to their toxic potency in vivo and in the whole embryo culture (WEC) assay.

The applicability of the embryonic stem cell test (EST) as an alternative for in vivo embryotoxicity testing was evaluated for a series of five p-substituted phenols. To this purpose, the potency rank...

Two-stage model-free tests of synergy in drug combinations.

Laska et al. ( 1994 ) proposed a model-free method of detecting synergy in two drug combinations that requires no assumptions about the underlying dose-response curves of the drugs, just an estimate o...

Assessing the potency of oral polio vaccine kept outside of the cold chain during a national immunization campaign in Chad.

This study is the first systematic documentation of the potency of monovalent oral polio vaccine type 3 (mOPV3) kept at ambient temperatures during a polio immunization campaign in Chad. During the st...

Relative developmental toxicity potencies of retinoids in the embryonic stem cell test compared with their relative potencies in in vivo and two other in vitro assays for developmental toxicity.

The present study determines the relative developmental toxicity potencies of retinoids in the embryonic stem (ES)-D3 cell differentiation assay of the embryonic stem cell test, and compares the outco...