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Thomas J Helling. 2003-11-08. Hyperthyroidism.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(03)14759-9
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Abouthiouzine is a newly synthesized antithyroid agent with a proposed less adverse effects profile than other currently used drugs. A simple and rapid reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography assay was developed to determine the concentration of abouthiouzine in human plasma. The procedure involved extraction of the drug and propranolol (internal standard) from the plasma using ethylacetate. The extract was evaporated under nitrogen and the residue was constituted with the mobile phase and injected onto micro-Bondapack phenyl column (10 microm, 3.9 mm x 150 mm). The mobile phase consisted of 10 mM potassium dihydrogen phosphate buffer, acetonitrile, and methanol in the ratio of 60:25:15 (v/v/v, pH=3.0), which was delivered at a rate of 1.5 ml/min. Abouthiouzine and the internal standard were monitored using UV detection at 240 nm; the run time was less than 5 min. The detection limit of abouthiouzine is 0.5 microg/ml. The within- and between-day coefficients of variation were less than 7%. Our method has been successfully used to measure abouthiouzine plasma concentrations in a rabbit model following an intravenous administration of the drug.
OBJECTIVES: The study was designed to estimate the influence of hyperthyroidism and antithyroid treatment on oxidative stress peripheral parameters in Graves' disease patients with and without infiltrative ophthalmopathy. DESIGN AND METHODS: Free radical generation and scavenging plasma indices were determined in 47 patients with hyperthyroidism due to Graves' disease (22 with and 25 without infiltrative ophthalmopathy), as well as in 24 healthy volunteers after euthyroidism achievement with methimazole. RESULTS: In the hyperthyroid patients, hydrogen peroxide, lipid hydroperoxides, thiobarbituric acid-reacting substances, ceruloplasmin, superoxide dismutase, and catalase were increased. Glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase, however, were reduced. Methimazole treatment resulted in all markers being normalized in the patients without infiltrative ophthalmopathy, yet oxidative stress was still present in the ophthalmopathy group. CONCLUSION: We suggest that apart from the thyroid metabolic status influence, it is orbital inflammation that triggers changes in blood extracellular indices of reactive oxygen species metabolism.
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