Cancer is a problem in Indonesia and its mortality rate is increasing. According to the Cancer Registration Council, in Indonesian women breast cancer is ranked second after cervix cancer. A medicinal plant which is called Jeruju (Acanthus ilicifolius) has been thought by traditional healers in Pasuruan and Probolinggo as effective for the treatment of breast cancer. A study has been done to in…
Euphillin (R) retard (EN) is a slow-release preparation of theophylline marketed in Indonesia. The usual dose for patients with chronic bronchial asthma is 1 tablet twice daily. Information on the steady-state serum concentration of theophylline after ER administration is still lacking. This information is important because theophylline has a narrow margin of safety and a large inter-and intra-…
Relaps often occur in typhoid fever. The main cause is the existence of Salmonella typhi that prevails within phagocyte cell in which chloramphenicol fails to enter. The purpose of this research is to find the prevalence of typhoid fever relaps. To determine the prevalence, a cohort study was carried out in Surabaya municipality for a period of two years (1992-1993). The first year is used for …
The purpose of this study is to know the effect of growth factors on target cells, such as splenocytes, thymocytes and bone marrow cells. The growth factors were obtained by induction of spleen lymphocyte cells with concanavalin A. These factors were then put into a 96-well flat bottom plate containing different target cells. After 72 hours incubation, H-Tdr were added and the plate was placed…