Poster Presentations

Antiinfectives - new and known synthetic compounds
Antiinfectives - new and known non-synthetic compounds
Clinical studies and use of antibiotics
Antivirals - clinical studies
Antifungals - clinical studies
Antimalarial compounds - clinical studies
Pharmacokinetics and tissue penetration of antiinfectives
Pharmacodynamics and experimental therapy of antiinfectives
Microbiology
Adverse events, interactions and toxicity of antiinfectives
Mechanisms of pharmacological and biochemical action of antiinfectives
In vitro action of antimalarials
Antiviral agents
Resistance to antiinfectives
Analytical techniques
Antineoplastic agents - new and known synthetic compounds
Antineoplastic agents - new and known non-synthetic compounds
Antineoplastic agents - clinical studies
Pharmacokinetics and tissue penetration of antineoplastic agents
Mechanism of tumor development and growth
Mechanisms of action of antineoplastic agents including resistance
Vaccination
Mechanisms of pharmacological importance
Diagnostic tests in cancer / adverse events of cancer treatment
Adverse events of antineoplastic compounds
Blood brain barrier
Targeted delivery of antineoplastic agents
Role of cells and their staining by dyes
Agents involving the immune system
About mechanisms and Magic Bullets

Poster Presentations

Category:	Antiinfectives - new and known synthetic compounds

037	ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITIES OF SOME TETRAHYDRONAPTHALENE-BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVES.
	Z. ATEŞ-ALAGÖZ1, S. YILDIZ2, E. BÜYÜKBİNGÖL1
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry1, Department of Microbiology2, Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tandoğan, Ankara, Turkey.

057	Novel Pyrazole derivatives as Anti-inflammatory-Antibacterial Agents; Synthesis and Optimum Dosing in Experimental animals.
	Adnan A. Bekhit1, Elsayed Aboulmagd2, Azza M. Baraka3
1Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 2Department of Microbiology Faculty of Pharmacy, 3Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.

271	New Targets for Salmonella Treatment: RpoE Regulon of Salmonella typhimurium.
Kormanec J1, Miticka H1, Rowley G2, Rezuchova B1, Roberts M2
1 Institute of Molecular Biology, Centre of Excellence for Molecular Medicine, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic;
2 Department of Veterinary Pathology, Glasgow University Veterinary School, Glasgow, U.K.

503	Titanium Plate Anodized by Discharging in NaCl Solution Exhibits Antibacterial Activity against Oral Bacteria.
	SHIBATA Y. 1, TAKASHIMA H. 1, MIYAZAKI T. 1
1Department of Oral Biomaterials and Technology, Showa University School of Dentistry, Tokyo, Japan.

088	Synthesis and Antimicrobial Activities of Some New Flavonyl Pro-drug Esters of Ampicillin.
	CEYLAN-ÜNLÜSOY Ma, ALTANLAR  Nb, ERTAN Ra
Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Departments of aPharmaceutical Chemistry, bMicrobiology, Tandoğan, Ankara, Turkey.

396	Synthesis and Potent Antimicrobial activity of some novel 4-(5,6-dichloro-1H-benzimidazol-2-yl)-N-substituted BENZAMIDES.
	Seçkin Özden a,   Hacer Karatas a, Sulhiye Yıldız b, Hakan Göker a
a Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, b  Department of Microbiology,
Faculty of Pharmacy,  Ankara University, Tandogan,  Ankara-Turkey.

007	Synthesis and Biological Activity of CMP-KDO Synthetase Inhibitors in Lipopolysaccaride Biosynthesis of Gram-negative Bacteria.
	ADACHI H1, KONDO K1, DOI H1, KOJIMA F1, ISHINO, K2, HOTTA K2,  UMEZAWA Y1, NISHIMURA Y1
1Mirobial Chemistry Research Center, Tokyo, Japan; 2National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.

019	Synthesis & Potent Antimicrobial Activity of Some Novel N-(Alkyl)-2-Phenyl-1H-Benzimidazol-5-Carboxamidines.
	GOKER, H a., ALP, M a., YILDIZ, S b.
a Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, b  Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy,  Ankara University, Tandogan, Ankara-Turkey.

590	Structure and Blood Schizontocidal Activity of Various Analogues of Lumefantrine in Plasmodium falciparum, in vitro.
	Woitsch B1, Wernsdorfer WH1,4, Allmendinger T2, Sirichaisinthop J3, Wernsdorfer G4
1Division of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Physiology and Pathophysiology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; 2Department of Chemical and Analytical Development, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland; 3Bureau of Vector-Borne Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand; 4Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.

490	Effectiveness of “Quinoxaline derivatives” in vitro against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and non tubercolous Mycobacteria strains.
	Sechi LA., Pinna A.,* Deriu A., Molicotti P., Carta A.,° Paglietti G.,° Zanetti S
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy
*Department of Ophthalmology, University of Sassari
°Department of Chemistry, University of Sassari.

011	Zalcitabine (ddC) Induces Cellular Resistance Affecting its Antiviral Activity.
	AGARWAL RP, SARKAR M, HAN T
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.

552	Water soluble phenoxazines exert antimicrobial effects on poliovirus, bovine parvo virus, Helicobacter pylori and non-tuberculotic mycobacteria.
	TOMODA A1, YAMAGUCHI T2, KAMIYA S3
1Department of Biochemistry, Tokyo Medical University; 2Division of Cellular and Gene Therapy Products, National Institute of Health Sciences, 3Department of Infectioius Diseases, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

166	Antileishmanicidal Properties of Ferrocenyl Chalcones.
	WU X1, GO ML1 , KAYSER O2, KIDERLEN AF3
1 National Univerity of Singapore, Singapore; 2 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, 3 Robert Koch Institut, Germany.

167	Synthesis and Potent Antimicrobial activity of some novel Alkyl 1H-Benzimidazole-5-carboxylates carrYing AMIDE AND AmidineS.
	Hakan Gökera, Seçkin Özdena, Sulhiye Yıldız b
a Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, b  Department of Microbiology,
Faculty of Pharmacy,  Ankara University, Tandogan,  Ankara-Turkey.

190	Effect of Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors in Schistosoma japonicum Infection: Killing Effect of D-NAME.
	HIRATA M1, HIRATA K2, HARA T1, FUKUMA T1
1Kurume University, Kurume, Japan; 2Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

Category:	Antiinfectives - new and known non-synthetic compounds

089	COLOMYCIN – REVISITED.
	CHATTOPADHYAY B1,  ALI S2
1Department of Medical Microbiology and 2Department of Pharmacy, North Middlesex University Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

138	Development of New Cultivation Strategy to Improve the Production of Natamycin and to Minimize the Risk of Antibiotic Degradation During Submerged Cultivation of Streptomyces natalensis.
	EL-Enshasy, H.A.1; Farid, M.A.2; El-Diwany, A.I.2 and El-Sayed, E.A.3
1 Mubarak City for Scientific Research, Alexandria, Egypt, 2 National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt, 3 GBF, Braunschweig, Germany.

182	Antibiotic Resistance of staphylococcus aureus Isolated from an Aquatic Environment in Lebanon.
	Steve Harakeh†, Hadi Yassine†, S. Hajjar† and Mutasem El-Fadel‡
†Department of Biology, ‡Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

216 	Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oils of Nigella sativa and Artemisia sieberi.
MOHAMMAD JALALI, DARYOUSH ABEDI, GHANNADI ALI REZA MOHAMMAD REZA BAGHJERINEJAD
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.

349	Investigation of Antibacterial Potentiality of Methanol Extraction from Fungus Ganoderma applanatum.
Mohammad-Fata Moradalia, Hossien Mostafavi b, Ghorban- Ali Hejaroudea Mehrdad Abbasic, Shirin. Ghodsa and Ali Salahid
	aPlant Protection Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Tehran University, Karaj, Iran, bNational Research Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran, cPlant Pest & Diseases Research Institute, Tehran, Iran , dResearch Institute of Forests & Rangelands.

021	ANTILISTERIAL ACTIVITY OF BALLOTA SPECIES GROWING IN TURKEY.
	Nurten ALTANLAR1, Gülçin SALTAN ÇİTOĞLU2, Betül SEVER YILMAZ2
 Departments of Pharmaceutical Microbiology1 and Pharmacognosy2 
Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara, Turkey.

111	Antifungal Flavonoid Triglycosides: Importance of the Glycosydic Haptophoric Part in Determining the Biological Activity.
	CURIR P1, DOLCI M2, LANZOTTI V3
1Istituto Sperimentale Floricoltura, Sanremo, Italy; 2Di.Va.P.R.A. University, Torino, Italy; 3Di.S.T.A.A.M., Molise University, Campobasso, Italy.

327	In Vitro Growth Inhibition of Dermatophytes by Some Strains of Bacillus subtilis.
MELENTIEV AI1, MUCHAMADEEVA OR2, GALIMZYANOVA NF1, KUZMINA LYu1, YAKOVLEVA OV1
1Institute of Biology, Ufa Research Center RAS, Ufa, Russia; 2Ufa Dermatovenereologic Clinic, Ufa, Russia.

371	ANTIFUNGAL  ACTIVITY  OF Chromolaena odorata (L.) King & Robinson (Asteraceae)  OF  CAMEROON.
	A. NGONO  NGANEa, F. NDIFORa, R. EBELLE  ETAMEa, L. BIYITIb, P. H. AMVAM  ZOLLOb & Ph. BOUCHETc
aLaboratoire de Biochimie - Faculté des Sciences Douala - Cameroun.
bLaboratoire de Phytobiochimie - Faculté des Sciences Yaoundé - Cameroun.
cLaboratoire de Biologie Végétale et de Mycologie - U. F. R. de Pharmacie, Reims Cedex, France.

269	An antimalarial compound from Trichosanthes cucumerina.
KONGTUN S1, JIRATCHARIYAKUL W1, TAN-ARIYA P2, FRAHM AW3
1Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 2 Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 3Institute of Pharmacy, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany.

142	In vitro Pharmacodynamic Evaluation of Anti-viral Medicinal Plants using a Vector-based Assay Technique.
	ESIMONE CO1, GRUNWALD T1, WILDNER O1, NCHINDA G1, TIPPLER B1, PROKSCH  P2 and UEBERLA K2.
1 Department of Medical and Molecular Virology,Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany 2 Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany.

224	Anti-papilloma viral activity of Trichosanthes cucurmerina root.
KONGTUN S1, JIRATCHARIYAKUL W1, KUNACHAK S2, FRAHM AW3, KANCHALA UTID2
1Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 2 Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 3Institute of Pharmacy, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany.

422	In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of the Anti-prionic Activity of Newly Synthesized Congo Red Derivatives.
	Poli G1,3, Bareggi SR2,3, Ponti W1, 3 
1Dept. of Animal Pathology, Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health; 2Dept. of Pharmacology; 3Center of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Milan, Italy.

038	Antimicrobial and antiparasitic activity induced by Origanum minutiflorum and Angelica sinensis (Umbelliferae) essential oils, respectively, in Mediterranean aquaculture.
	F. ATHANASSOPOULOU*, E. KARAGOUNI** and J. PAPPAS***
*Laboratory of Ichthyology & Fish Pathology , Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece, **Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Institut Pasteur Hellenique, Athens, Greece, ***Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Thessaly, Karditsa , Greece.

091	Dose Dependent Therapeutic Antiinfectives from Ethnomedicines of Bay Islands.
	D Chattopadhyay
CMR Virus Unit, ID & BG Hospital, Kolkata, India.

087	Studies on the Synthesis of Some New Flavone Derivatives.
	CEYLAN-ÜNLÜSOY Ma, BOZDAĞ-DÜNDAR Oa, ALTANLAR N b, ERTAN Ra
Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Departments of aPharmaceutical Chemistry, bMicrobiology, Tandoğan, Ankara, Turkey.

039	NEW RESEARCH ON TREATMENTS FOR PARASITIC DISEASE IN MEDITERRANEAN AQUACULTURE.
	F. ATHANASSOPOULOU*, I. S. PAPPAS***, E. KARAGOUNI***
*Laboratory of Ichthyology & Fish Pathology and **Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece, ***Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Institut Pasteur Hellenique, Athens, Greece.

475	The crude latex of Crown-of-Thorns (Euphorbia milii var. hislopii) as a potent plant molluscicide and a promising alternative to schistosomiasis control: a Review of Laboratory and Field Studies in Brazil.
	SCHALL VT
	Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou - Fiocruz, Barro Preto, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.

561	In Vitro Growth Inhibiting Effect of Biologically Active Substances (BAS) from Parasite and Host Origin under Fascioliasis and Trichinellosis.
	Tsocheva-Gaytandzhieva NT1, Toshkova RA1, Nicolova EB2, Mihov LD1, Petkova SL2
1Institute of Experimental Pathology and Parasitology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria; 2Institute of Experimental Morphology and Anthropology, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria.

362	Ruthenium and Palladium Complexes with Planar Ligands. DNA Binding Study and biological activity against Leishmania mexicana.
	NAVARRO Ma, BETANCOURT Aa, CORONA Oa, MARCHAN Eb
aCentro de Química, IVIC, Caracas. bIIBCA-UDO, Cumaná, Venezuela.

Category:	Clinical studies and use of antibiotics

059	Consummation of glycopeptids in Hospital of Oran (Algeria) since the introduction of nominative dispensations.
	BENABDELLAH A1,KOUIAD-BELKADI S1,TAIEB Z1, AZZI N1,BENDIMERAD S1,TALEB M2
1Unit of infectious diseases.Hospital of Oran, 2Pharmacy-Hospital of Oran.

431	Misuse of antibiotics at the first contact setting: a Sri Lankan experience.
	Premaratna R. Halambarachchige L, Thilakaratne Y, Gunatilake S.
Department of Medicine, Facutly of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

103	Pulse ceftriaxone therapy in Lyme neuroborreliosis.
	GALEV A1, CHRISTOVA I2
1Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Military Medical Academy, Sofia
2National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria.

178	Concentrations of Chemokines in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Serum of Patients with Neuroborreliosis.
	Grygorczuk S1, Zajkowska J1, Swierzbinska R1, Pancewicz S1, Kondrusik M1, Hermanowska-Szpakowicz T1
1 Medical Academy in Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland.

367	Intravenricular vancomycin for treatment of persistent methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ventriculitis.
	Mirjana Nesin, Gary Laborada, Florencia Cruz
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City, USA.

558	Monoplegia due to brucellosis.
	TOPRAK O1, OZBAS G2, OZDEMIRKIRAN T3
1Internal Medicine, Government Hospital of Dogubeyazıt, Agri, Turkey; 2Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey; 3Second Neurology, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.

657	Treatment of Experimental Meningitis by Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa with Imipenem: Benefits From The Co-administration of Dexamethazone?.
	K. Papapetrou1, G. Laoutaris2, E. J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis2, T. Tsaganos2, f. baziaka2, D. Sakas2, H. Giamarellou.
1Department of Neurosurgery & 24th Department of Internal Medicine, Athens Medical School, Greece.

181	THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FLUOROQUINOLONES IN OPHTHALMOLOGY.
	HANIOGLU KARGI S1, UGURBAS SH1
1 Department of Ophthalmology, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, School of Medicine, Zonguldak-Turkey.

233	Patient compliance with once-daily versus twice-daily clarithromycin in acute bacterial exacerbation of chronic bronchitis.
	KARDAS P1
	1Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.

467	CONTINUOUS VERSUS INTERMITTENT BOLUS ADMINISTRATION OF IMIPENEM IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS WITH PNEUMONIA.
	Sakka SG1, Glauner A1, Bulitta J2, Kinzig-Schippers M2, Sörgel F2.
1Dept. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
2Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nuremberg, Germany.

259	Histopathologic Examination For Helicobacter Pylori As A Possible Etiopathogenic Factor In Laryngeal Carcinoma.
	Ahmet Kizilay1, Levent Saydam2, Abdullah Aydin3, M. Tayyar Kalcioglu4, Orhan Ozturan5, N. Engin Aydin6
	1,4,5Department of Otolaryngology; 5Department of Pathology; Inonu University Medical School, Malatya, 2Department of Otolaryngology, Bayindir Medical Center, Ankara; 3Department of Pathology, Gaziantep University Medical School; Gaziantep, TURKEY.

499	Prophylactic Antibiotics in Obstetric and Gynaecological Surgeries.
	SHARMA JB , MITTAL S
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

512	Comparative Randomized Pilot Study of Azithromycin and Doxycycline Efficacy and Tolerability in the Treatment of Prostate Infection Caused by Ureaplasma urealyticum.
	SKERK V1, MAREKOVIC I2, MARKOVINOVIC L1, BEGOVAC J1, SKERK V3, BARSIC N3, MAJDAK-GLUHINIC V1
1University Hospital for Infectious Diseases "Dr. Fran Mihaljević", Zagreb, Croatia; 2Jordanovac” University Hospital for Lung Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia; 3Medical faculty, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

557	Brucella epididymoorchitis treated with a combination of three antibiotics: evaluating two cases.
	TOPRAK O1, OZBAS G2
1Internal Medicine, Government Hospital of Dogubeyazıt, Agri, Turkey; 2Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.

171	Bacteriophage Therapy of Urinary Tract Infections, Including Transplant Recipients.
WEBER-DĄBROWSKA B1, BORATYŃSKA M2, KLINGER M2, LORENZ J3 , ŁUSIAK-SZELACHOWSKA M1, GÓRSKI A1,4.
1L.Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw;
2Department of Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine, The Medical University, Wroclaw; 3Department of Urology, The Medical University, Wroclaw; 4 Department of Clinical Immunology, The Transplantation Institute, The Medical University of Warsaw, Poland.

413	Long term antibiotic treatment of acute pyelonephritis: reduction of scar formation.
	COLLA L1, BURDESE M1, MEZZA E1, MARCUCCIO C1, MESIANO P1, GIRAUDI R1, MARENGO M1, CONSIGLIO V1, VERAS TAVAREZ J1, BESSO L1, SEGOLONI GP1, PICCOLI GB1.
Chair of Nephrology, Internal Medicine Department, University of Turin – Italy.

248	Ampicillin / Sulbactam in Comparison with Ceftriaxon for Pneunomia in a Medical ICU.
	Kibbel T 1, Süfke S 1, Fröhlich A 2, Dodt C 1, Djonlagic H 1
	1 Internal Medicine I, Intensive Care Unit, University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck
2 Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University of Luebeck.

249	Gender Specific Differences in Body Weight and QT Interval between Survivors and Nonsurvivors of Severe Bacterial Infections.
	Kibbel T, Süfke S, Dodt C, Djonlagic H
	Internal Medicine I, Intensive Care Unit, University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck.

250	Gender Specific Incidence and Mortality of Severe Bacterial Infections and Adjustment to Age and Normal Population.
	Kibbel T, Süfke S, Djonlagic H, Dodt C
	Internal Medicine I, Intensive Care Unit, University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck.

596	Multidrug-resistant Bacteria Isolated from Patients Hospitalized in the Intensive Care Units.
	WROBLEWSKA MM1, RUDNICKA J2, MARCHEL H2, LUCZAK M1,2
1Department of Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland; 2Microbiology Laboratory, Central Clinical Hospital, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland.

612	Cryptosporidiosis Treatment in Immunocompromised Host: a Still Open Question.
	1Zardi EM, 1Picardi A, 1Afeltra A
1Interdisciplinary Center for Biomedical Research (CIR), Laboratory of Internal Medicine and Hepatology, University “Campus Bio-Medico”, Rome, Italy.

329	Prospective study of empiric monotherapy with ceftazidime for low-risk grade IV febrile neutropenia after cytotoxic chemotherapy in cancer patients.
Pnina Chernobelsky1, Konstantin Lavrenkov1, Klaris Riesenberg2, Samuel Ariad1, Doron Rimar2, Francisc Schlaeffer2, and Wilmosh Mermershtain1
Dept. of Oncology1 and Dept. of Internal Medicine E2, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

535	Antibiotic Selection Patterns in Acutely Febrile New Outpatients with or without Immediate Testing for C-Reactive Protein and Leukocyte Count.
	Takemura Y1,2, Ebisawa K2, Kakoi H2, Saitoh H2, Kure H2, Ishida H3, Kure M2
1National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan; 2Nishi-Ohmiya Hospital, Saitama-City, Japan; 3Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan.

398	Efficacy of Ceftazidime (CTZ) plus Clavulanic acid (CA) against ESBL Producing Gram-negative Bacteria (GNB).
	SUNITA MALHOTRA, T. MATHUR, S.SINGHAL, M. PANDYA, P.BHATEJA, T. BHADAURIYA, E.P.MADHVI RAO, SACHIN MALHOTRA, D.J.UPADHYAY, A.RATTAN
Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

484	Thalidomide in intractable intracranial tuberculosis: report of 4 children.
	SCHOEMAN JF1, FIEGGEN G2, SELLER N1, HARTZENBERG HB3
1Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and 2Department of Neurosurgery, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa; 3Department of Neurosurgery, Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.

390	A Pharmacoeconomic Study of Antimicrobial Use for Surgical Prophylaxis on gastrectomy patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital.
	ONDA M1, ISE Y2, HAGIWARA K2, KAMEI M4, KATAYAMA S2, NISHIZAWA K2, HIRANO M2, KIYAMA T3
1Hiroshima International University, Hiroshima, Japan; 2Nippon Medical School Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; 3Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan; 4Nihon University, Chiba, Japan.

448	Review of Clinical Studies with a Modern Combination of Amoxicillin (Ax) + Sulbactam (Sb) (AxS).
	LOPEZ H1; BANTAR C2; SOUTRIC J3; CARUSO N3; HEGUILEN R3; CASELLAS JM JR4; CASELLAS JM5; FARINATI A6; ARENOSO HJ3; RODRIGUEZ MD1
1Centro de Infectologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires;  
2Hospital San Martin, Paraná, Argentina; 3Laboratorios Bago SA, Argentina;  
4FUNCEI Argentina; 5CEA-Buenos Aires; 6Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

280	Anthrax – Raising its Ugly Head in an Underdeveloped Country.
DUTTA TK, KANUNGO R, GHOTEKAR LH
Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Pondicherry, India.

399	Double Blind Placebo controlled study to evaluate the efficacy of Oral Penicillin (OP) or Diethyl-carbamazine (DEC) or both (along with Foot hygiene) in the prevention of episodic Adenolymphangitis (ADL) in filarial lymphoedema.
	PANI SP1, YUVARAJ J1, VIJAYALAKSHMI N2, ELANGO A1, PAILY KP1, SAMBASIVA RAO R2
1Vector Control Research Centre (ICMR), Pondicherry, India; 2Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India.

379	Review On Human Toxoplasmosis: The Past, Present And Prospective Future.
	NISSAPATORN VEERANOOT1, QUEK KIA FATT2, MAHMUD ROHELA1, ABDULLAH KHAIRUL ANUAR1
1Department of Parasitology, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

652	Dosing The Magic Bullets Against Intracellular Bacteria : Lessons From a Comparison between Beta-Lactams And Quinolones Against L. monocytogenes and S. aureus.
	M. BARCIA-MACAY, S. LEMAIRE, S. CARRYN, F. VAN BAMBEKE, M.P. MINGEOT-LECLERCQ and P.M. TULKENS
Unité de Pharmacologie cellulaire et moléculaire, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels – Belgium.

617	Relative Efficacy of Ciprofloxacin Dosing Regimens in the Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections.
	ZELENTISKY S1,2, ARIANO R1,2, HARDING GKM1,2, FORREST A3
1Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; 2St. Boniface General Hosp., Winnipeg, Canada, 3SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.

207 	Ten Years Experience with HACEK Infections – the Need to Standardize Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and to Develop Treatment Guidelines.
Hui M 1, Cheng AFB 1
1 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.

228	Therapeutic effect of 2-days vs. 3-days treatment of shigellosis with Ciprofloxacin in Albania.
	KALO T1 DAVACHI F2, NUSHI A1, BOJDANI R1, BEQO E1, PRIFTI S1, FEJZO E1, NOVI S1.
	1Mother Theresa University Hospital Center, Tirana, Albania, 2New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York.

Category:	Antivirals - clinical studies

571	The Cost-Benefit of Therapy with Ganciclovir for Perinatal Cytomegalovirus Hepatitis.
	VANČÍKOVÁ Z
Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic.

626	Relationship of Depression and Quality of Life in Interferon receiving Chronic Hepatitis Patients.
	Aytul Corapcioglu1, Sila Cetin Akhan2, Gulturk Koroglu1, Mine Ozkan3
1Kocaeli Universitesi Tip Fakultesi Psikiyatri AD. Sopali Kocaeli Turkiye
2Kocaeli Universitesi Tip Fakultesi Infeksiyon Hastaliklari ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji AD. Sopali Kocaeli Turkiye
3Istanbul Universitesi Istanbul Tip Fakultesi Psikiyatri AD. Capa Istanbul Turkiye.

627	Alteration of Hb, platelet and PNL to Interferon-alpha in Chronic Hepatitis B With and Without Precore Mutant Strain.
	Sila Akhan, Emel Azakkaraali, Huseyin Uckardesler
Kocaeli Universitesi Tip Fakultesi Infeksiyon Hastaliklari ve Klinik Bakteriyoloji AD. Sopali, Kocaeli 41900 Turkiye.

620	Clinical Pharmacokinetics of Adefovir Dipivoxil after Single and Multiple Oral Administration to Chinese Volunteers CHEN XY and ZHONG DF
	Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China.

176	Antiretroviral therapy as a model for determining the cost effectiveness of of anit-infective therapy. 
GRIMES RM, Helmy A
University of Texas Houston Texas and Spoknae internal Medicne Residency Program, Spokane Washington, USA.

634	Three-Year Results of an In-Home Palivizumab Prophylaxis Program for the Prevention of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection.
	GOLOMBEK SG1, BERNING K1 and BERNING F1
1The Regional Neonatal Center, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA.

Category:	Antifungals - clinical studies

474	A Possible Treatment for Oral Candidosis or Pressure Sores, Using Anti-inflammatory Naphthoquinone derivatives with Antifungal Activity Isolated from Lithospermum erythrorhizon.
	SASAKI K1, Abe H2, Yoshizaki F1
1Tohoku Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Japan; 2Senseki Hospital, Miyagi, Japan.

539	Fluconazole Prevents Multiple Organ Failure due to Septic Shock: an Experimental and Clinical Study.
	TARIQ M, JACOBS S, KHAN HA, EVANS DAP, AL MUSLIM O
Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Category:	Antimalarial compounds - clinical studies

116	The Plight of African children with Malaria.
	DAVACHI F1
1New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York.

Category:	Pharmacokinetics and tissue penetration of antiinfectives

492	Pharmacokinetic and average bioequivalence study of levofloxacin tablets in healthy Thai male volunteers.
	SERMSAPPASUK P, RUANGBANDIT T, POLNOK S, JIANMONGKOL P, INGKANINAN K, LOHITNAVY M
1Bioequivalence Test Center, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand

643	Clearance of Levofloxacin by Continuous-Veno-Venous-Hemodialysis (CVVHD): Influence of Dialyser Membrane and Dialysate Flow Rate – Implication for Dosing?
	Siewert S, Drewelow B, Mueller SC
Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Rostock, Germany.

653	Comparative bioavailability of two oral presentations of cefixime in healthy volunteers.
	SLANINKA-MICESKA M, LABACHEVSKI N, ZAFIROV D, JAKOVSKI K, KOSTOVA E, JOVANOSKA E 
Department of Preclinical and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical Faculty, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

579	Concentrations in Plasma and Urinary Excretion of Ciprofloxacin XR (1000 mg) versus Levofloxacin (500 mg) in Healthy Volunteers Receiving a Single Oral Dose.
	Florian M.E. Wagenlehner1, Uwe Tischmeyer1, Martina Kinzig-Schippers2, Christine Wagenlehner1, Fritz  Sörgel2, Kurt G. Naber1
Department of Urology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Straubing,1 and Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research (IBMP), Nürnberg-Heroldsberg,2 Germany.

082	Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Subcutaneous Interferon Alpha-2b.
	BULITTA J1, FUHR U2, LANDERSDORFER C1, TOMALIK-SCHARTE D2, SZYMANSKI J2, KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M1, SÖRGEL F1  
	1Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg; 2Institute for Pharmacology, University of Köln, Köln, Germany.

213	Limitations in the Use of Drug Cocktails (DC) to Compare the Pharmacokinetics (PK) of Drugs: Ciprofloxacin (CIP) vs. Levofloxacin (LEV).
	NABER KG2, BULITTA J1, JAKOB V1, KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M1, SÖRGEL F1
	1Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg; 2Urology Clinic, Straubing, Germany.

081	Self-Inhibition of Clarithromycin’s (CLA) Metabolism in Humans at Steady-state.
	BULITTA J1, HORKOVICS-KOVATS S2, BOREK M2, HÜTTNER S1, KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M1, SÖRGEL F1
	1Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg, Germany; 2Sandoz, Kundl, Austria.

214	High Sensitivity LC-MS/MS Analysis to Assess Phenotyping of a Drug Cocktail.
KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M, JAKOB V, RODAMER M, SKOTT A, SÖRGEL F
Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg, Germany.

331	Pharmacokinetic profile of danofloxacin (DAF) 18% solution in plasma, milk and tissues after subcutaneous (SC) injection in dairy cows.
MESTORINO N, PESOA J, LUCAS M, ERRECALDE J.
Department of Pharmacology, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

005	PHARMACOKINETICS OF iMIPENEM IN sHEEP WITH SPECIAL references to it’s HEPATO-RENAL EFFECTS.
	ABO EL-SOOUD K1, KHAMMAS W2, NADIR KADRI M2
1Pharmacology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt
2Dept. of Veterinary Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan.

242	Comparison of the Pharmacokinetics of Piperacillin and Sulbactam during Intermittent and Continuous Intravenous Administration.
	J LANGGARTNER1, N LEHN2, T GLÜCK1, H HERZIG1, F KEES3
1Department of Internal Medicine I, 2Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene and 3Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

255	Plasma Concentrations, Urinary Excretion and Bactericidal Activity of Linezolid (LIN) (600mg) versus Ciprofloxacin (CIP) (500mg) in Healthy Volunteers After a Single Oral Dose.
	WAGENLEHNER F1, NABER KG1, KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M2, BULITTA J2, SÖRGEL F2
	1Urology Clinic, Straubing; 2Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg, Germany.

493	Development of a levofloxacin pharmacokinetic model: Simulations in different populations, different dosing regimens and in AIDS and critically ill patients.
	SERMSAPPASUK P.1,2 , LOHITNAVY M.1,2
1 Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand
2Bioequivalence Test Center, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand.

375	Population Pharmacokinetics (PopPK) of Continuous (CI) and Intermittent Infusion (II) Piperacillin/Tazobactam (TZP) in Patients with Complicated Intra-abdominal Infection (IAI).
	C. Li1, J.L. Kuti1, C.H. Nightingale1, D.L. Mansfield2, A. Dana2, D.P. Nicolau1
1 Ctr. for Anti-Infective Res. and Dev., Hartford Hosp., Hartford, CT
2 Wyeth Pharma., Collegeville, PA.

622	Multicompartment Pharmacokinetic Models with Enterohepatic Circulation (EHC) and Remetabolization (RM).
	ZLATOŠ P1, HORKOVICS-KOVATS S2
1Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2Sandoz GmbH, Kundl, Austria.

029	Pharmacokinetic simulation of two formulations of amphotericin-B.
	ARIANO RE 1,2, ZELENITSKY SA 1,2
1 Department of Pharmacy, St. Boniface General Hospital, and 2 Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

576	Pharmacokinetics and Antileishmanial Activity of Piperine Encapsulated in Lipid Nanospheres.
	VOBALABOINA V1, VEERAREDDY PR1, AND ALI N2.
1.University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kakatiya University, Waranga, A.P-INDIA.
2. Indian Institute of Chemical Biology,Jadavpur, Kolkata, INDIA.

488	Pharmacokinetics of a Single and Multiple Doses of Ertapenem in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease.
	SCHÜTZE LM1*, MITCHELL A1*, BÜHRMANN S1, KAEVER V2, PHILIPP Th1, SCHÄFERS RF3,  WENZEL RR4, SCHNEEMANN H1
1Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany; 2Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany; 3KfH Kidney Centre Essen, Essen, Germany; 4Clinic of Internal Medicine, Zell am See, Austria

241	Comparison of the Pharmacokinetics of Meropenem during Intermittent and Continuous Intravenous Application in Patients with Renal Failure Treated by Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy.
	J LANGGARTNER1, T GLÜCK1, M RENG1, F KEES2
	1Department of Internal Medicine I, 2Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

068	Usefulness of Cutaneous Microdialysis to Evaluate Ciprofloxacin and its Desethylene Metabolite into Skin After Oral Administration of the Parent Drug.
	BIELECKA-GRZELA S., KLIMOWICZ A.
Dermatopharmacotherapy Division, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland.

478	Human Microdialysis: Urea as an Endogenous Reference Compound to Determine Relative Recovery of Drugs.
	Schwalbe O1,2, Buerger C1, Plock N1, Scheerans C1, Kloft C1
1Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institute of Pharmacy, Berlin, Germany; 2Universitaet Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

416	Special Characteristics of Microdialysis with Vancomycin – pH Dependence of Microdialysis Recovery.
	Plock N, Kloft C
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institute of Pharmacy, Berlin, Germany.

417	Tissue Pharmacokinetics of Linezolid Assessed by Microdialysis.
	BUERGER C1, Plock N1, Joukhadar C2, Mueller M2, Kloft C1
1Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institute of Pharmacy, Berlin, Germany; 2University School of Medicine, Vienna, Austria.

090	Tissue Penetration, Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Profile of Linezolid, a Novel Oxazolidinone Antibiotic for the Treatment of Serious Gram-Positive Infections – A Review.
	CHATTOPADHYAY B1,  ALI S2
1Department of Medical Microbiology and 2Department of Pharmacy, North Middlesex University Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

583	The Effect of Liposomal Surface Charge on the Disposition of Liposome-Encapsulated Gentamicin to the Rat Liver, Brain, Lungs and Kidneys after Intraperitoneal Administration.
	A. ABRAHAM AND A. WALUBO
Department of Pharmacology, University of the Free State, South Africa.

529	Tissue and Serum Concentrations of Levofloxacin 500 mg Administered Intravenously or Orally for Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Biliary Surgery.
	SWOBODA S1, OBERDORFER K1, KLEE F2, GEISS HK1, HOPPE-TICHY T1
1University of Heidelberg, Germany; 2Salem Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

446	Tissue Penetration of Cefditoren (CEE) into Bronchial Mucosa (BM) and Epithelial Lining Fluid (ELF) in Patients Undergoing Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy.
	RODAMER M1, LANDERSDORFER C1, JAKOB V1, SKOTT A1, HINDER M2, KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M1, SÖRGEL F1
	1Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg; 2Grünenthal GmbH, Aachen, Germany.

288	Determination of Moxifloxacin in Bone by HPLC-FLUO.
LANDERSDORFER C1, SKOTT A1, KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M1, HOLZGRABE U2, SÖRGEL F1
1Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg; 2Institut für Pharmazie und Lebensmittelchemie, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.

043	Pharmacokinetic Studies of Fluconazole in Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) in Children with Hydrocephalus Using Solid-Phase Extraction (SPE) and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC).
	BAFELTOWSKA JJ1, BUSZMAN E1
1Medical University of Silesia, School of Pharmacy, Katowice, Poland.

050	Population Pharmacokinetics of Gentamicin in Neonates.
	BARCIA E1, GARCIA B2, PEREZ F2, MOLINA IT1
1Departamento de Farmacia y Tecnología Farmacéutica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; 2 Hospital Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain. 

447	Personalized Isoniazid (INH) Dosing Based on Genotyping for Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase Type 2 (NAT2).
	RODAMER M1, FUHR U2, TOMALIK-SCHARTE D2, JETTER A2, BULITTA J1, KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M1, SÖRGEL F1
1Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg; 2Inst. of Pharmacology, Univ. of Köln, Köln, Germany.

517	Dosing of Antiinfectives - “ONE SIZE FITS ALL” vs. Individualized Therapy.
	SÖRGEL F, BULITTA J, KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M, HÜTTNER S
Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg, Germany.

268	Therapeutic drug monitoring of Aminoglycoside Antibiotics – Retrospective Study.
KOMZAKOVA I, BROZMANOVA H, KORISTKOVA B, KACIROVA I, GRUNDMANN M
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital and Medico-Social Faculty, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

352	Treatment Strategy for MRSA Infection in Critically Ill Patients Using Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM): Our Experience in Japan.
	MORIWAKI Y1, SUGIYAMA M1, SUZUKI J1, ARATA S1, TAHARA Y1, TOYAMA H1, IWASHITA M1, FUKUYAMA H1, NAKAMURA K1, SHIMOYAMA T1, MATSUZAKI S1, AMANO S1, SUZUKI N1
1Critical Care and Emergency Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.

360	Amphotericin B Dosing Guidelines and Target Steady State Trough Concentrations in Children with Malignant Diseases.
	NATH CE1,2,3, MCLACHLAN AJ3, SHAW PJ2, COAKLEY JC1 AND EARL JW1
Departments of Biochemistry1 and Oncology2, The Childrens Hospital at Westmead, NSW, Australia; 3Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Category:	Pharmacodynamics and experimental therapy of antiinfectives

063	Pharmacodynamics of Antibiotics in the Respiratory tree.
	E Bergogne-Berezin
	Bichat University, Masson, France.

449	Review of Pharmacodynamic/Pharmacokinetic (PD/PK) Studies with a Modern Combination of Amoxicillin (Ax) + Sulbactam (Sb) (AxS).
	LOPEZ H1; BANTAR C2; SOUTRIC J3; CARUSO N3; HEGUILEN R3; CASELLAS 
JM JR4; CASELLAS JM5; FARINATI A6; ARENOSO HJ3; RODRIGUEZ MD1
1Centro de Infectologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires; 
2Hospital San Martin, Paraná, Argentina; 3Laboratorios Bago SA, Argentina; 
4FUNCEI Argentina; 5CEA-Buenos Aires; 6Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

473	Comparative studies on pulse and continuous oral norfloxacin treatment in broilers and turkeys.
	Géza Sárközy
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary.

628	Identification of potential markers of microfilaremia in Mandrillus sphinx/Loa model of infection.
	Akue JP , Blampain Azzibrouck G, Mbou Moutsimbi R;  Moukana H
Filarial research unit, Centre International de Recherche Médicales de Franceville ( CIRMF), Gabon.

616	Peritoneal Fluid Inhibitory Titre (PFIT) Test to Compare Antibiotic Regimens for Peritonitis.
	ZELENTISKY S1,2, STRIJACK C1, ARIANO R1,2, KLER K1, HARDING GKM1,2
1Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; 2St. Boniface General Hosp., Winnipeg, Canada.

055	Bactericidal activity of oral antibiotics in ex vivo model.
	BEDENIC B1, TOPIC M2
1»A. Stampar» School of Public  Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 2student-Biotechnology Faculty, Zagreb, Croatia.

629	The Killing of Multidrug Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (MDRSP) by Gatifloxacin (GA), Gemifloxacin (GM), Levofloxacin (Lfx) and Moxifloxacin (Mfx) Over a Range of Bacterial Inoculums Using 2 Different Drug Concentrations.
	BLONDEAU JM1,2, BORSOS S1, HESJE C2, BLONDEAU LD1
1Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, 2University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

649	Targeted Novel Therapeutics for Dental Biofilms.
	GAFFAR A1, BOYD T1, SREENIVASAN P1
1Colgate-Palmolive Corporate Technology Center, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
252	Oral Administration of Clarithromycin (CAM), a Macrolide Antibiotic of Erythromycin, Stimulates Mucosal Immunoresponse and Elevates IgA Levels in the Airway of Mice after Infection with Influenza A Virus (IAV).
	IDE K, MIZUNO D, ICHINOMIYA T, KIDO H
	Institute for Enzyme Research, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan.

309	Determination of PK/PD Parameters Correlating With In Vivo Efficacy of RBx 7644 In Neutropenic Murine Thigh Infection Model.
SUNITA MALHOTRA, T. BHADAURIYA, E.P.MADHVI RAO, SONALI KAKKAR, J.K.PALIWAL A.RATTAN
Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

410	Anticryptosporidial Activity of Mangiferin in Neonatal Mice Experimentally Infected with Cryptosporidium Parvum.
	PERRUCCI S1, FICHI G1, BUGGIANI C1, ROSSI G2, FLAMINI G3, MORELLI I3
1Dipartimento di Patologia Animale, Profilassi ed Igiene degli Alimenti-University of Pisa, Italy
2Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie- Università di Camerino, Italy
3Dipartimento di Chimica Bioorganica e Biofarmacia-University of Pisa, Italy.

361	Clindamycin Is Neuroprotective in Experimental Streptococcus pneumoniae Meningitis Compared to Ceftriaxone.
	BÖTTCHER T1/2, REN H3, GOINY M4, GERBER J2, LYKKESFELDT J5, KUHNT U6, LOTZ M2, BUNKOWSKI S2, WERNER C2, SCHAU I2, SPREER A2, CHRISTEN S3, NAU R2
1University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany; 2Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany; 3University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; 4Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; 5Royal Veterinary University, Copenhagen, Denmark; 6Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.

317	Combined Immunomodulating Effects of BCG and Lentinan after Intranasal Application in Guinea Pigs.
DRANDARSKA I1, KUSSOVSKI V2, NIKOLAEVA S1, MARKOVA N2
1 NCIPD, Sofia, Bulgaria
2 Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.

538	Complete Remission after Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in 118 Falcons using Potassium Arsenite 0.05%.
	TARELLO W1
1International Veterinary Hospital, Ahmadi, Kuwait.

537	Successful Thiacetarsamide Sodium Therapy against Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcus spp. Bacteraemia in 3 Amazon Parrots Diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).
	TARELLO W1
1International Veterinary Hospital, Ahmadi, Kuwait.

Category:	Microbiology

187	Bacterial Susceptibility to Antibiotics in Wildlife in Iran.
	Hemmatzadeh F1
1 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

198	Effects of Mupirocin at Subinhibitory Concentrations on Biofilm Formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
HORII T, Morita M, Ishikawa J, Takeshita A, Maekawa M
Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.

219 	Antimicrobial Activity of Ciprofoxacin Against Nosocomial Infection Bacteria.
ABSS ALI JAVADI, MOHAMMAD JALALI, SINA MOBASHERI, ALI FARZAM
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.

597	Epidemiology and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Strictly Anaerobic Bacteria Isolated from Patients Hospitalized in a Tertiary Care Hospital.
	WROBLEWSKA MM, KOT K, ROKOSZ A, SAWICKA-GRZELAK A, LUCZAK M
Department of Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland.

003	Experimental Studies on Synergism between Nitrofurantoin and Piperitone by Checkerboard Titer Test.
	ABDOLPOOR F1, SHAHVERDI AR1, FAZELI MR1, JAMALIFAR, H1, RAFII F2 
1Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran Medical Sciences University, Tehran Iran; 2 Division of Microbiology, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. FDA, Jefferson, AR, USA.

148	Susceptibilities of UrinaryTract Isolates of Extended-Spectrum (ESBL) and AmpC-Type (AmpC) β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) against Six First-line Oral Antibiotics Commonly Used for Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs).
	FARHAT SE1, BROWN S2, NOORPOUR L1, JAMIESON F2, SIMOR AE1,3,4
1Alpha Laboratories Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada; 4University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

323	Antimicrobial activities of various antimicrobials against various types of Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) in Escherichia coli in Japan.
MATSUMOTO T, MURATANI T, YAMADA Y, and TAKAHASHI K
University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.

012	Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases in Teaching Hospitals in Nigeria.
	AIBINU IE1, 2, ODUGBEMI TO2, ADEYEBA JP1 and MEE BJ3
1Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria; 2College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria; 3The University of Western Australia, Australia.

016	Susceptibility of Different MRSA Clones to Metals and Biocides.
	Al-DOORI Z1, D MORRISON1, G EDWARDS1 and C GEMMELL2
1Scottish MRSA Reference Laboratory , Department of Microbiology, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. & 2Glasgow University Department of Bacteriology, Glasgow.

395	Time-series Analysis Based on Genotyping and Antibiotic Susceptibility for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infection in a University Teaching Hospital.
	K. Osawa1, 2, T. Chida2, N. Okamura2
1Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan; 2 Graduate School of Health Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.

436	Comparison between molecular epidemiology, geographical region and drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain isolated from Iranian and Afghan patients.
	RASHID RAMAZANZADEHa,b, PARISSA FARNIAa, NOUR AMIR MOZAFARIb , ZEINAB GHADER TOYONCHIa, JABER KAMRANa, FROUZAN MOHAMMMADIa, MEHDI MIRSAEDIa, MOHAMMAD REZA MASJEDIa
aNational Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRILTD) Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 
bMicrobiology Department of Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.

536	Drug susceptibility test of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates by simple fibroblast assay.
	TAKII T 1, HAMASAKI S2, HIRANO K2, ABE C 2, ONOZAKI K 1
1Department of Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan, 2Research Institute of Tuberculosis, JATA, Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan.

351A	Inhibition of Treponema enzymes with Salvarsan and derivatives.
	Morgan HW1, Ronimus, RS1, Lloyd, N2, Nicholson, B K2
	1Dept of Biological Sciences,2Dept of Chemistry, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

497	Studies on Antimicrobial Activities of Berberis aristata DC., a Medicinal Plant Species of the Himalayas and Nilgiris Hills in India.
	SHAHID M1, MALIK A1, SHAHZAD A2, RAHEEM T3, FATIMA T3, TAJUDDIN M3, LATIF A3 & ANIS M2
1Microbiology Laboratory, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College & Hospital, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India; 2Biotecnology Unit, AMU Aligarh, India; 3 Faculty of Unani Medicine, AMU Aligarh, India.

Category:	Adverse events, interactions and toxicity of antiinfectives

530	Cutaneous Adverse Effects after Terbinafine Intake.
	SZEPIETOWSKI JC
Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University of Medicine, Wroclaw, Poland.

290	Respiratory Responses to Central Penicillin Microinjection in the Medullar Structures of the Rat.
LEBEDEVA M A
Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

659	Protection of Inner Ear Sensory Hair Cells from Aminoglycoside Toxicity by Serofendic Acid.
	NAKAGAWA T1, KITA T1, KIM TS1, IWAI K1, TAKEBAYASHI S1, HIGASHI T1, AKAIKE A2, ITO J1
1Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine and 2Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Kyoto, Japan.

556	Summer Flounder (Paralichtys dentatus) Cytochrome P450 Responses to Combination Ormetoprim-Sulfadimetoxine Treatment.
	TOPIC POPOVIC N1, BABISH JG2, BOWSER PR3
1Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia; 2Ashni Proteomics, Ithaca, NY, USA; 3Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

Category:	Mechanisms of pharmacological and biochemical action of antiinfectives

351	Review: Anti-inflammatory effects of fosfomycin.
	MORIKAWA K1, NONAKA M1, YOSHIKAWA Y1, TORII I2
1Depatment of Nutrition, Sagami Women’s University, 2Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Shimane University.

424	Drug resistance to ABC transporter blockers modulates glucose transport in Leishmania.
	Machuca, C. 2, Rodríguez, A. 2, Herrera, M. 2 and Ponte-Sucre, A1,2
1Institut für Molekulare Infektionsbiologie, Universität Würzburg, Germany
2Laboratorio de Fisiología Molecular, IME, Universidad Central de Venezuela.

006	How Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis Reaches Central Nervous System?
	ABREU-SILVA, AL1/2 AND CALABRESE, KS2
1Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, São Luís – Maranhão Brazil
2Laboratório de Imunomodulação (DP) do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

147	Structure Genomic of Pathogenic Protozoa.
	Erkang Fan
Biomolecular Structure Center, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

381	Participation of the inhibition of the MexAB-OprM transporter in expression of the quorum-sensing system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
	NOMURA N1, SAWADA I1, MASEDA H1, NAKAE T2, UCHIYAMA H1
	1University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; 2Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan.

465	A New Interpretation on the Intestinal Transport of Bacampicillin and Its Inhibitory Effect on P-Glycoprotein.
	SAITOH H
Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido, Japan.

114	Dependency of Aminoglycoside 3’-Phosphotransferase (APH) VIII Activity and Antibiotic Resistance on Protein Serine/Threonine Kinases (Ser/Thr-PKs) in Actinomycetates.
	DANILENKO VN, ELIZAROV SM, SIZOVA IA, ALEKSEEVA MG
The State Research Institute for Biotechnology of Protein Biosynthesis, Moscow, Russia.

115	Cell Energy State and Drug Dose Effects on the Efficiency of Polycationic Antibacterials.
	DAUGELAVIČIUS R
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vilnius University, Lithuania.

320	Effect of Antimicrobial Agents on the Expression of E. coli 0157:H7 Genes Encoding the Shiga-like Toxins.
Ghassan M. Matar*, Elias Rahal. and Ali Kanbar
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

369	The Application of Raman Spectroscopy for the Investigation of the Impact of Antiinfective Agents.
	NEUGEBAUER U1, HOLZGRABE U2, POPP J1,
1Institut of Physical Chemistry, FSU Jena, Jena, Germany
2Institute of Pharmacy, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, Germany.

380	p38 MAPK Associates Stereoselective Priming by Grepafloxacin on Superoxide Production in Human Neutrophils.
	NIWA M1,2, HIROTA M4, KOZAWA O2, AND FUJIMOTO S3
1Medical Education Development Center and Department of 2Pharmacology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan, 3Department of Environmental Biochemistry, Kyoto pharmaceutical University, Kyoto, Japan, and 4Department of Drug Metabolism, Drug Safety Center, Tokushima Research Institute, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan.

564	Effect of Fluoroquinolones on Gene Expression of Endothelial Cells Stimulated with Tumor Necrosis Factor-α.
	URIARTE SM1, MOLESTINA RE1, MILLER RD1, RAMIREZ JA1, SUMMERSGILL JT1.
1University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA.
Category:	In vitro action of antimalarials

026	Antimalarial Activity of Malaysian Plasmodium falciparum Clones after Three Years of Continuous In Vitro Culture.
	ANG HH1, CHEANG HS1, MAK JW2
1School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University Science Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia; 2Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

062	Antimalarial activities of Trioxaquines, new modular molecules generation.
	BENOIT-VICAL F1, 2 , DECHY-CABARET O1, ROBERT A1, LOUP C1, BERRY A2, MAGNAVAL JF2, SEGUELA JP2, MEUNIER B1
1Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS, Toulouse, France ; 2Service de Parasitologie - Mycologie, Rangueil University Hospital, Toulouse, France.

136	Chloroquine Accumulation Properties of Plasma Membranes Vesicles Isolated from the Malarial Parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
	ELANDALLOUSSI LM1, SMITH PJ2
1CCMar, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal; 2Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

601	Functional and Genetic Analysis of the Human Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Promoter and Its Predisposition to Malaria.
	WEIMING XU & LIZHI LIU
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London.

Category:	Antiviral agents

531	Potential for immunostimulaion of Cytokine Response in Hepatitis Chronic B.
	SZKARADKIEWICZ A, JOPEK A, WYSOCKI J
Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.

165	The Effects of Genom Mutations in HCV-1b on IFN sensitivity in Hungarian Patients.
	GERVAIN J1, SIMON J2, CZIBULA A3, KALMAR T3
1Szent Gyorgy County Hospital, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
2 University of Oxford, UK
3 Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary.

262	The Human CD81 Receptor as Target for the Development of Anti-HCV Drugs: Computer-Aided Search for Ligands and Preliminary Experimental Results.
	KLEIN CD1, HARTMANN RW1, HOLZER M1, KRONENBERGER B2, NEUGEBAUER A1, ZEUZEM S2
	1FR 8.2 Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. 2Klinik für Innere Medizin II, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar, Germany.

196	Impact of Erythrocyte Ribavirin Concentration in Hemoglobin Reduction induced by Interferon and Ribavirin Combination Therapy.
HOMMA M1, INOUE Y2, HOSONO H2, MATSUZAKI Y1, TANAKA N1, SHIBATA M3, MITAMURA K3, HASEGAWA Y1, NAGASAWA T1, KOHDA Y1
1University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; 2Tsukuba University Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan; 3Showa University, Tokyo, Japan. 

354	Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) pseudoparticles as a powerful tool to develop new HCV entry inhibitors.
	KIRCHHOFF F1, STÄNDKER L2, MÜNCH J1
1Department of Virology, University of Ulm, Ulm; 2IPF Pharmaceuticals, Hannover.

391	Antiviral Potential of Soluble Form of Herpesvirus Entry Mediators to Alphaherpesvirus Infection.
	ONO E1, AMAGAI K1,2, TAHARAGUCHI S1, TOMIOKA Y1, WATANABE Y1,2, YOSHINO S1,3, CHEREL P4, UEDE T1
1Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; 2Sankyo Labo Service Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; 3Gene Techno Science, Sapporo, Japan; 4France Hybrids, St Jean De Braye, France.

123	Antipicornavirus Activity of Synthetic Flavanoids and Flavonoids.
	DESIDERI N1, QUAGLIA MG1, CONTI C2
1Dipartimento di Studi Farmaceutici, 2Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica, Università “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy.

040	MDR1 P-gp Activity In Intact Human Placental Tissue; Up- regulation by Retroviral Transduction.
	Diane E. Atkinson1, Colin P. Sibley1 , Leslie J. Fairbairn2 and Susan L. Greenwood1
1University of Manchester, Manchester England 2Paterson Institute of Cancer Research, Manchester England.

032	THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE TRIPHOSPHATE FORMS OF AZIDOTHYMIDINE AND THYMIDINE.
	M. Arissawa1*, J. Felcman1 and J. O. Machucca Herrera2
1 Departamento de Química, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro – Rua Marquês de São Vicente 225, Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2 Departamento de Química Inorgânica, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

058	Negatively charged albumins are fusion inhibitors in HIV infection and can be used as therapeutically active carriers for other anti-HIV.
	BELJAARS L, POELSTRA K, MEIJER DKF.
Dept. Of Pharmacokinetics and Drug Delivery, GUIDE, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

192	A Novel pH Responsive Lipid-Drug Nanoparticle Composed of an HIV Protease Inhibitor, Indinavir, Enhanced Drug Localization and Viral Load Reduction In Lymphoid Tissues:  A Proof of Concept Study in HIV-2287-Infected Macaques (new data).
	KINMAN L, BRODIE SJ, TSAI CC, BUI T, LARSEN K, SCHMIDT A, ANDERSON D, MORTON WR, HU SL, HO RJY
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

506	A Rapid and Low-Cost Microfluidic Device for Monitoring Disease Progression in Response to Drug Therapy.
	SIA SK, LINDER V, SIEGEL A, NAROVLYANSKY M, PARVIZ BA, WHITESIDES GM
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA).

034	SARS Coronavirus E Protein Forms a Highly Unusual Palindromic Transmembrane Helical Hairpin that Explains its Role in Viral Budding.
	Arbely E1, Khattari Z2, Brotons G2, Salditt T2, ARKIN IT1
1Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; 2Institut für Röntgenphysik, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.

577	Salvarsan then – Sialidase Inhibitors now –both Chemotherapeutics.
	VOGEL GE, BLASINI R, HECKLER R, HOFSCHNEIDER  P.H, KLENK H.D, KOMM CH, PRAGER J, SCHÄFER B, SCHAUER R, SCHÖTTLER M, SCHOTTDORF B, VASOLD M, WUTZLER P 

Category:	Resistance to antiinfectives

069	Monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance among Bacteraemic Clinical Isolates in Slovakia.
	Blahova J., Kralikova K., Krcmery V. Sr., Babalova M.
Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

073	Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections : Prevalence of Uropathogens and Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance in an Italian Hospital (1996-2003).
	Bonadio M., Pichierri G., Costarelli S., Tanzilli P., Morelli P., Mori S., Tagliaferri E.
Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Pisa.

096	Present status of drug resistance for conventional and newer drugs among gram negative bacilli isolated from hospitalized patients in central India.
	Chitnis S, Chitnis V, Hemwani N and Chitnis DS.
Medical University of Bialystok, Poland.

145	Standard Treatment Guidelines and Antibiotic Resistance in South Africa.
	ESSACK, SY1, CONNOLLY C, 2 STURM, A.W.1
University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa.

150	Molecular Mechanism of Resistance to Ampicillin among Isolates of Enterococcus faecium Recovered from Patients in Tehran, Iran.
	FEIZABADI MM1, SHAYEGH MM 1, ASADI S2, GHARAVI S1 and ALIABADI K3
1Alzahra University1, Tehran, Iran; 2Labbafinejad Hospital2 Tehran, Iran; 3National Research Center for Genetic Enginerring and Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran.

158	The Spread of Metallo-b-Lactamase producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Japanese Small Hospitals.
	SHIGERU FUJIMURA1, TOSHIO SATO2, KEIKO SHIRAHATA2, YOSHIHISA NAKANO1, YUTAKA TOKUE3, AKIRA WATANABE3.
1 Department of Microbiology, Miyagi University, Miyagi pref., Japan; 
2 Japan Microbiology Laboratories, Sendai, Japan; 
3 Institute Development Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

234	Typhoid Fever in Africa: Emerging Flouroquinolone Resistance.
	S KARIUKI1,3, G REVATHI2, J MUYODI1, J MWITURIA1, A MUNYALO1,  S MIRZA3, CA HART3
	1Centre for Microbiology Research, KEMRI, Kenya, 2Department of Medical Microbiology, Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya, 3Department of Medical Microbiology and Genito-Urinary Medicine, Liverpool, UK.

651	Cellular Pharmacokinetics of Quinolones Revisited : Role of the MDR Efflux Pumps Expressed in Macrophages.
	J.M. MICHOT, M. HEREMANS, F. VAN BAMBEKE, M.P. MINGEOT-LECLERCQ and  P.M. TULKENS.
Unité de Pharmacologie cellulaire et moléculaire, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels – Belgium.

263	Distribution of Aminoglycoside Resistance Genes in Recent Clinical Isolates of Enterococci in Japan.
	KOBAYASHI N1, ALAM M1, ISHINO M1, MISE K1, SUMI A1, UEHARA N2, WATANABE N2 　
	1Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan; 2Sapporo Medical University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.

496	Study of multi drug resistance in Serrstia marcescene and cloning of responsible genes.
	Shahcheraghi Freshteh (PhD)1, TSUCHIYA TOMFUSA(PhD)2
1-Department of Bacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, IR, Iran
	2- Faculty of pharmaceutical science- Okayama University Japan

585	Antibiotic and Antimicrobial Resistance, and Efficiency Disruption by Teas and Nutraceuticals.
	PL WARD, M DONNELLY, A FRANKLIN, J HONG  SE KATZ
Cook College, NJAES, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

161	Analysis of the Plasmid that Can Transfer Antibiotic Resistance Genes from Fish Farm Bacteria to Clinical Bacteria.
	FURUSHITA M1, 2, MAEDA T1, AKAGI H1, OHTA M2, SHIBA T1
1Department of Food Science and Technology, National Fisheries University, Shimonoseki, Japan; 2Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.

036	Presence of Virulence genes and Antimicrobial resistance in Shiga toxin producing E.coli(STEC) and Enteropathogenic E.coli (EPEC).
Mohammad Mehdi Aslani , F .Shoraj, J . Rehisi 
	Microbiology Dept., Institute Pasteur of Iran

501	ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND CLASS 1 INTEGRONS in Escherichia coli ISOLATED from Human and WATER  SOURCES.
	SHEHABI AA1, ODEH FJ1, FAYYAD M2	
1Department of Pathology-Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, 2Water Research Center2,University of Jordan, Amman and Jordan.

314	Loss of fitness in vitro and in vivo associated with multiple mutations to fluoroquinolone resistance in Escherichia coli.
Marcusson LL1, Komp Lindgren P1, Sandvang D2, Frimodt-Møller N2, Hughes D1
1)Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Microbiology Programme, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. 2)Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.

656	Susceptible Escherichia coli Isolates Are More Virulent Than Multidrug-Resistant Isolates: An Experimental Study.
	A. Antonopoulou, C. Panagou, D. Plachouras, F. Baziaka, T. Tsaganos, E. J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis.
4th Department of Internal Medicine, Athens Medical School, Greece.

077	Rational Approaches to Overcome Selectivity and Multidrug Resistance Problems in the Design of Antifungal Agents.
	BOROWSKI E1, CYBULSKA B1, MAZERSKI J1, BAGIŃSKI M1, GRZYBOWSKA J1, MILEWSKI S1, ANDRUSZKIEWICZ R1, BOLARD J2
1Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland; 2CNRS ESA 7033 Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France.

056	Evolution of resistance to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins due to extended-spectrum -lactamases in Dubrava Hospital, Zagreb.
	BEDENIC B1, SCHMIDT H2, HEROLD S2, MONACO M3, PLECKO V4, KALENIC S4
1”A. Stampar” School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene, Technical University Dresden, Germany, 3Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy, 4Clinical Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia.

131	Conjugative Transfer of Plasmid Encoding Extended-Spectrum -Lactamase (ESBL) between Clinical Salmonella Isolates.
	SAROWSKA J1, DRULIS-KAWA Z 2 , JANKOWSKI S1, DOROSZKIEWICZ W2
1 Departament Biology and Medical Parasitology, Medical University, Wrocław, Poland;
2 Institute of Genetic and Microbiology, University of Wroclaw, Poland.

495	Drug resistance patterns of bacterial pathogens causing urinary tract infection at Tehran Torfeh Hospital during 2002-2003.
	Shahcheraghi Freshteh1, FEIZABADI MOHAMAD MEHDI2
1-Department of Bacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, IR, Iran
2-Department of Biological science, Alzahra University, Vanak, Tehran, Iran.

Category:	Analytical techniques

287	Low Level Quantitative Analysis of Amoxicillin (AMO) in Plasma.
LANDERSDORFER C1, KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M1, HOLZGRABE U2, SKOTT A1, SÖRGEL F1
1Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg; 2Institut für Pharmazie und Lebensmittelchemie, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.

516	Sensitive Analysis of Roxithromycin in Human Plasma by LC-MS/MS.
	KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M1, LANDERSDORFER C1, JAKOB V1, RODAMER M1, SKOTT A1, HOLZGRABE U2, SÖRGEL F1
1Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg; 2Institut für Pharmazie und Lebensmittelchemie, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.

194	Methods of rapid detection of urinary tract infections, The CAPILLARY ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING and direct micropy.
	V. Holá1, F. Růžička1, M. Horká2, K. Šlais2
1Institute for Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
2Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic.

254	Determination of Tolbutamide and its Two Metabolites in Human Urine by LC-MS/MS.
	KINZIG-SCHIPPERS M1, FAST D2, BREAU A2, HOLZGRABE U3, SÖRGEL F1
	1Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, Nürnberg, Germany; 
	2G. D. Searle & Co., Skokie, IL, USA;
	3Institut für Pharmazie und Lebensmittelchemie, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.

335	Rapid and Sensitive Determination of an Anti-infective AgNO3 in Biological Samples using Electrospray Mass Spectrometry.
MINAKATA K, SUZUKI O
Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.

372	Chemical stability  of Caspofungin in concentrates and infusion bags determined by High-Pressure liquid chromatography.
	Nguyen TH, Rosenhagen M, Hoppe-Tichy T
Pharmacy of the University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

376	HPLC Determination of Tigecycline in Human Samples.
	C. Li, C. Sutherland, C.H. Nightingale, D.P. Nicolau
Ctr. for Anti-Infective Res. and Dev., Hartford Hosp., Hartford, CT.

461	IdentifiCaTION of the yeasts by capillary electrophoretic techniques with use of dynamic modification of the cells by fluorescent stain.
	F. Růžička1, V. Holá1, M. Horká2, K. Šlais2
1Institute for Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
2Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic.

464	Staining Plasmodium falciparum Histidine Rich Protein II (Pf HRPII) for High Through Put (HTP) Discovery of Blood Stage Antimalarials.
	SAHAL D, KANNAN R, KUMAR K, CHAUHAN V S
Malaria Research Laboratory, International Center for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, New Delhi, India.

654	Real Time RT-PCR: A method for the assessment of immun-response on mRNA level. A case study on fosfomycin.
	JOKHADAR C1,2, JILMA B1, STEINER I1, MÜLLER M1, WAGNER O3, MARSIK C1,3
1Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Division of Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 2Institute of Pharmacology, 3Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics; all Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
661	Determination of the Extent of the Protein Binding of Antibiotics by Means of Automated Continuous Ultrafiltration.
HEINZE A, HOLZGRABE U
Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Germany.

Category:	Antineoplastic agents - new and known synthetic compounds

208	Studies on New Tumour Active Compounds with Three Metal Centres.
	HUQ F1, DAGHRIRI H2, BEALE P3, YU JQ1
1School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; 2RPAH, Camperdown Sydney Australia.

544	Metal-Complexes as Chemotherapeutic Agents.
	THEOPHANIDES T1,2 ANASTASSOPOULOU J1 THEODORACOPOULOU O1
1National Technical University of Athens, Chemical Engineering School, Radiation Chemistry and Biospectroscopy, Zografou Campus, Zografou Athens.
2International Institute of Anticancer Research, Kapandriti-Kalamou, Greece.
184	The Influence of Ring-Closing Processes on the Activity of New pH-Sensitive Platinum Anti-Tumour Agents.
	HARTINGER CG1, SCHLUGA P1, GALANSKI M1, JAKUPEC MA1, KEYSERLINGK N GRAF VON2, KEPPLER BK1
1Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2Faustus Forschung Austria Translational Drug Development AG, Vienna, Austria.
031	Correlation of In Vitro Potency and Reduction Potential of Tumour-Inhibiting Ruthenium Complexes.
	ARION VB, JAKUPEC MA, REISNER E, EICHINGER A, PONGRATZ M, GALANSKI M, HARTINGER CG, KEPPLER BK
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

532	Interaction of Radiation and Anticancer Drug (Cisplatin, Etoposide) on Two Cell Lines with Different Radiosenseitivities In Vitro (especially Apoptosis.
	Takahashi T1, Mitsuhashi N2, Akimoto T3, Matsumoto H3, Ishikawa H3, Nakano T3
1Dept. of Radiol., Saitama Med. Center, Saitama Med. Sch., Kawagoe, Japan; 2Dept. of Radiol., Tokyo Women,s Medical Univ., Tokyo, Japan; 3Dept. of Radiol. & Radiat. Oncol., Gunma Univ. Sch. of Med., Maebashi, Japan.

025	Quinoxaline Derivatives, FM-04 and FM-05, Inhibit DNA Topoisomerase I and Induce Apoptosis in a Panel of Human Cancer Cell Lines.
	Andoh T1, Yamamoto M1, Kato T2, Yamori T3
1Soka University, Tokyo, 2Tohoku Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, 3Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan.

273	3-Carboxy-4-(1H)-quinolones as Inhibitors of Human Protein Casein Kinase 2 (CK2).
KOSTENKO A, YAKOVENKO O, GOLUB A, BDZHOLA V, SAPELKIN V, and YARMOLUK S
Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine, Kyiv.

527	Sulfonamides as anti-tumor agents: novel mechanisms of action and new pharmacological agents in development.
	Claudiu T. Supuran
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Polo Scientifico, Laboratorio di Chimica Bioinorganica, Sesto Fiorentino (Florence).

553	Antitumor effects of water soluble phenoxazine on various carcinoma cells in vitro and in vivo.
	TOMODA A
Department of Biochemistry, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.

140	Invention of a novel oral antimetabolite named TAS-102 by biochemical modulation of trifluorothymidine (FTD) with newly synthesized thymidine phosphorylase inhibitor (TPI).
	EMURA T, YOKOGAWA T, KITAZATO K, FUKUSHIMA M, TERADA T
Hanno Research Center, Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Saitama, Japan.

Category:	Antineoplastic agents - new and known non-synthetic compounds

321	Anti-angiogenic activity of vitamin B6.
KIMINORI MATSUBARA1, REIKO AKAGI1, MASAHARU MORI1, NORIHISA KATO2
1Okayama Prefectural University, Okayama, Japan; 2Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.

607	Anti-metastatic effects of polysaccharide-K (PSK) in colorectal carcinoma cells by protein microarray analysis.
	Yoshikawa R1,2, Yanagi H1, Noda M1, Yamamura T1,2 , Okamura H2, Hashimoto-Tamaoki T2,3.
1Second Department of Surgery; 2Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences; 3Department of Genetics, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, JAPAN.

313	Could FGF-1 be a “magic bullet”? A very preliminary studies in vitro.
MARCINKOWSKA E, SUPERAT K.
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Wroclaw, Poland.

156	Antitumour Activity of Cyanidin-3-O--Glucopyranoside: Effects on Human Transformed and Non-Transformed Cell Lines.
	FIMOGNARI C1, BERTI F1, NÜSSE M2, CANTELLI-FORTI G1, HRELIA P1
1University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; 2GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany.

154	Plant Jasmonates – A Novel Class of Anti-Cancer Molecules.
	FLESCHER E
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

307	The Effect of Phorbol Ester in a Wide Range of Concentration on the Membranes of Ehrlich Ascite Carcinoma Cells in vitro.
MAL’TSEVA EL, Pynzar EI, Pal’mina NP
Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of  Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

613	An overview of anticancer phytotherapy using Viscum album extract Isorel: Novel findings of simultaneous anticancer and anti-diabetic effects in mice bearing solid form of Ehrlich Ascytic Tumor.
	Neven Zarkovic
Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Div. of Molecular Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia:

075	Effect of recombinant human interleukin 2 (rIL2) pretreatment on oral paclitaxel toxicity and activity on murine Lewis Lung Carcinoma.
	BONHOMME-FAIVRE L1,2, HOSTEN B2, ABBARA C1, GIL S2, MARION S1 CHALLUAU D3, ARDOUIN P3, FARINOTTI R2
1 Paul Brousse Hospital, Department of Pharmacy, Villejuif, France AP-HP; 2Laboratory UPRES EA 2706, Chatenay Malabry, France ; 3 Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif , France.

528	Combined Antitumor Activity of Extracts from Cyanobacterium Anabaena cylindrica with Some Anticancer Agents.
SUZUKI T1, EZURE T2, NAKAMURA Y2, POMATI F3, MANAROLLA G3, ROSSETTI C3, FABIAN WMF4 
	1Toyo University, Asaka, Japan; 2Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan; 3University of Insubria, Varese, Italy; 4Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, Graz, Austria.

386	Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor (G-CSF) Mobilizes Bone Marrow (BM)-Derived Endothelial Progenitor Cells (EPCs) for Ischemic Neovascularization.
	Ohsaka A1, Ohki Y1, Heissig B2, Hattori K2, Daida H1
1Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; 2Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

197	Antineoplastic Strategy: Irreversible Tumor Blood Flow Stasis Induced by the Combretastatin A-4 Derivative AVE8062 (AC7700).
HORI K1 
1Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Category:	Antineoplastic agents - clinical studies

134	Thermochemotherapy: combining hyperthermia with cytotoxic chemotherapy.
	Dvorak J, Zoul Z, Melichar B, Vesely P
Charles University Medical School & Teaching Hospital, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.

611	Non-organ Specific Cancer Preventive Effects of Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer: A Prospective Study for 10 Years.
YUN T-K
Korea Institute for Cancer Chemoprevention, Seoul, Korea.

083	Clinical Application of Body Epigenetic System. Multi-Targeted Therapy for Primary Brain Tumors.
	BURZYNSKI SR, JANICKI T, WEAVER R, JURIDA G, SZYMKOWSKI B, KHAN M, DOLGOPOLOV V.
Burzynski Clinic, Houston, USA.

402	Trifolium Pratense  for breast diseases – clinical studies (a case series).
	PÂRVU E.
The Acupuncture and Homeopathic Centre ,Bucharest, Romania.

444	Identification and Validation of Biomarkers of Phyto-oestrogen Exposure and their Application in Breast Cancer Investigations.
	RITCHIE MR1, MORTON MS2, DEIGHTON N3, BLAKE A3, STEWART D3, CUMMINGS JH4, STEEL,CM1, RICHES A1
1Bute Medical School, University of St. Andrews, Scotland; 2Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Wales, Cardiff; 3Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Scotland; 4 Division of Pharmacology and Neurosciences, University of Dundee, Scotland.

189	Water-in-Oil-in-Water Emulsion for Transcatheter Arterial Embolization Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
	HINO T1, KAWASHIMA Y2, SHIMABAYASHI S1
1The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan; 2Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan.

509	Molecular Markers Identify High Grade Prostatic Intraepithelia Neoplasia (HGPIN) Precursor to Prostate Cancer (PC): Selection of Patients for Repeat Biopsy.
	SINHA AA1, 2, Betre, K1, Lall V1, Ewing SL2, 3, Wilson MJ3, Qian J4, Bostwick DG4, 5  
1Depts. of Genetics, Cell Biol. & Develop., 2VA Research Service, 3Lab. Med. & Pathol., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and 4Bostwick Laboratories, Richmond VA and  5Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.

647	Activity of cladribine combined with etoposide in heavily pretreated patients with indolent lymphoid malignancies.
	ROBAK T, SZMIGIELSKA-KAPLON A, BLONSKI JZ, KASZNICKI M, CHOJNOWSKI K.
Medical University of Lodz and Copernicus Memorial Hospital, Lodz, Poland.

648	The Place of Cladribine in the Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia – Polish Experience.
	ROBAK T.
Medical University of Lodz and Copernicus Memorial Hospital, Lodz, Poland.

Category:	Pharmacokinetics and tissue penetration of antineoplastic agents

277	DOXO-EMCH, the First Albumin-binding Doxorubicin Prodrug to Enter Phase I Clinical Trials.
Medinger M, Mross K, Kratz F, Häring B, Unger C, Drevs J
Tumor Biology Center, Freiburg, Germany.

407	The Blood-Testis Barrier as a Target of some Chemotherapeutic Agents.
	Pereira ML1 and Garcia e Costa F2
1University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; 2 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.

074	Population Pharmacokinetic (PK) Modeling and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) of High-dose (HD) Methotrexate (MTX) for Osteosarcoma.
	BONDAREVA I1, SINGIN A2
1The Research Institute of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia; 2Russian Research Cancer Center, Moscow, Russia.

291	Population Pharmacokinetics of Intravenous Etoposide: Is there an Influence of Dose?
CHARANEK W1, LENTZ F1, GRASMAEDER K1, REIF S2, JAEHDE U1
1Inst. of Pharmacy, Dept. Clinical Pharmacy, University of Bonn, Germany; 2Inst. of Pharmacy, Dept. Clinical Pharmacy, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

130	Dose Individualization Can Minimize Nephrotoxicity Due to Carboplatin Therapy in Ovarian Cancer Patients.
	DONADIO C1, LUCCHESI A1, ARDINI M1, COSIO S2, FANUCCHI A2, GADDUCCI A2
1Department of Internal Medicine – Nephrology; 2Department of Gynecology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

Category:	Mechanism of tumor development and growth

457	Therapeutic Effects of Local Administration of Caroverine on Noise-induced Hearing Loss in Guinea Pig.
	CHEN  Zhiqiang a, b,DUAN  Maoli b,RUAN Runsheng a,ULFENDAHL Mats b, TAN Luke a
a Department of Otolaryngology, National University of Singapore, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore
b Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Center for Hearing and Communication Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

638	Specific DNA Labelling Based on Cooperative Hybridization of the Functional DNA Conjugates.
	IHARA T1, FUJII T1, MUKAE M1, KITAMURA Y1, OKADA K1, TAZAKI M2, JYO A1
1Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan; 2Sojo University, Kumamoto, Japan.

295	Hypermethylation of hMLH1 Promoter Represents a Major Mechanism for the Presentation of High-Frequency Microsatelite Instability （MSI-H）in the Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer of Taiwan.
LIANG JT
Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.

572	The Significance of Serum Copper Levels in the Myelodysplastic Syndromes.
JUDIT VÁRKONYI 1, TERÉZIA SZABÓ 2, PIROSKA SEBESTYÉN 2, ATTILA TORDAI3, HAJNALKA ANDRIKOVICS3, PÉTER FARKAS 1, SZABOLCS BENEDEK 1, GÁBOR TARKOVÁCS 1, ISTVÁN KARÁDI 1.
1. Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
2. Heim Pál Hospital, Budapest, Hungary
3. National Institute of Hematology and Immunology, Budapest, Hungary.

163	Reactivity of Novel Albumin-Binding Platinum Complexes.
	GARMANN D1, WARNECKE A2, KRATZ F2, JAEHDE U1
1Inst. of Pharmacy, Dept. Clinical Pharmacy, University of Bonn, Germany; 2Tumor Biology Center, Freiburg.

534	Circumvention of Antifolate-Resistance by Rationally Designed New Analogues: the Relationship between Structural Modification and Pharmacological Property and Its Clinical Implications.
	TAKEMURA Y
National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan.

520	Chemosensitivity changes at different ribosomal protein (S3a) mRNA levels and cell densities in various cell lines.
	SORIMACHI K, NEMOTO K, AKIMOTO K, SUNAGAWA M
Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Mibu, Japan.

642	Choice of Bleomycin on the Basis of Polyamine Level in Various Regions of the brain in rats.
	NAGASE S1, WATANABE S2, SATO S1, OHKUMA S2
1 Kawasaki College of Allied Health Professions, Okayama, Japan,　 2 Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan.

Category:	Mechanisms of action of antineoplastic agents including resistance

125		Cellular Factors of Multidrug Resistance (MDR) – New Strategies of Evaluation.
	DIACONU C.C1, CHIVU M1, BLEOTU C1, ALEXIU A1, ANTON G1, PLESA A1, BRASOVEANU L2, AND CERNESCU C1
1”Stefan S. Nicolau” Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania, 2Center of Immunology, Bucharest, Romania.

460	The Cancer Cell’s “Bullet Proof Vest”: Inactivation of Ceramide Signaling Pathways Promotes Chemoresistance.
	Ruvolo, PP1
1University of Texas Health Science Center, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Houston, USA.

507	High-level functional expression of human P-glycoprotein in yeast cells with high fluidity plasma membranes leads to resistance against Aureobasidin A.
	SIEVERS JG1, AL-SHAWI MK2, WIESE M1
1 University of Bonn, Germany, Medical Chemistry 2 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics.

Category:	Vaccination

127	Delivery of DNA Vaccines by Attenuated Live Bacterial Vaccines.
	Dietrich G.
Berna Biotech Ltd, Berne, Switzerland.

476	Cytoskeletal Targets for the Development of Vaccines in Apicomplexan Parasites.
	SCHATTEN H1
1Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA.

Category:	Mechanisms of pharmacological importance

220	The Nociception/Antinociception of Sodium Channels Modulators Originating from Buthus martensi Karsch (BmK) Venom on the Inflammatory Pain.
Jin CHEN, Xu-Ying ZHANG, Zhan-Tao BAI, Zhi-Yong TAN, Yong-Hua JI
The Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Institute of Physiology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, P.R. China.

312	AN APPROACH TO ASSESS HAZARD OF CHEMICAL MIXTURES IN A QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE MANNER USING EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS AND DEFINITE DOSES.
SAMEEH A. MANSOUR
Pesticide Chemistry Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt.

454	Chemotherapy for Osteoarthritis?
	ROZIN AP, MILITIANU D, EDOUTE Y
Rambam Medical center and B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

533	A new polysaccharide lyase that acts on a basic polysaccharide, producing an oligosaccharide terminating in unsaturated amino sugar residue.
	TAKEDA M, MAKITA H, NAKAHARA Y, NOGAMI T, KOIZUMI J
Division of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan.

110	Leukocytes as “Magic Bullets” Against Cancer Cells in Cancer-resistant SR/CR Mice.
	Zheng Cui, Mark C Willingham and Amy M. Hicks
Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.

462	Estimation of Chemotherapy Effectiveness Using Chromosome Aberration Analysis in the Peripheral Human Blood Lymphocytes.
	DYOMINA EA, RYABCHENKO NM
Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv.

Category:	Diagnostic tests in cancer / adverse events of cancer treatment

143	Diagnostic Value of Silver Nitrate Staining for Nucleolar Organizer Regions (NORs) in Selected Head and Neck Tumors.
	Eslami B1, Rahimi F1, Rahimi H2, Moradzadeh Khiavi M3, Tahernia R2
1Shahid Behesti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2Iran Center for Dental Research, Tehran, Iran, 3Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.

Category:	Adverse events of antineoplastic compounds

258	Caffeic acid phenethyl ester ameliorated ototoxicity induced by cisplatin in rats.
Ahmet Kizilay1, M. Tayyar Kalcioglu2, Elif Ozerol3, Mustafa Iraz4, Mukaddes Gulec3, Omer Akyol5, Orhan Ozturan6
	1,2,6Departments of Otorhinolaryngology; 3,5Department of Biochemistry; 4Department of Pharmacology; Inonu University School of Medicine, Malatya, TURKEY

602	Efficacy of Shakuyaku-kanzo-to in the Treatment of Paclitaxel-induced Muscle Pain —VAS Assessment.
	Yamamoto K1, Hirano F1, Ikoma N1, Abe K, Hoshiai H, Noda K
Sakai Hospital1, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.

599	Cancer Chemotherapy-Induced Intestinal Mucositis: Mechanisms of Mucosal Damage and Healing.
	XIAN CJ
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and University of Adelaide Department of Paediatrics, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, Australia.

Category:	Blood brain barrier

045	Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics an Relation with Blood Flow.
	OLIVIER BALéDENT
Department of Imaging and Biophysics, Teaching Hospitals, Jules Verne University of Picardie, Amiens, France.

609	Nanoparticles for Chemotherapy across the Blood Brain Barrier – Effects of Emulsifier and Particle Size.
	YU Q, CHEN L, FENG SS
Chemotherapeutic Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

342	Distribution of the Aquaporin Water Channels AQP1, AQP3 and AQP4 in the Human Choroid Plexus; Implications for Water Transport in the Brain.
	MOBASHERI A1, MARPLES D2
1Molecular Pathogenesis and Connective Tissue Research Groups, Department of Veterinary Preclinical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom. 2School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.

443	Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) Delivery  Across the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB).
	R S RIIKONEN 
Children`s Hospital, University of Kuopio, FINLAND.

009	Applications of a Blood-Brain Barrier Technology Platform to predict CNS penetration of drugs in various series of therapeutics families. II. In vitro model of rat blood-brain barrier.
	PERRIERE N1,2, ADENOT M1, LAHANA R1, SCHERMANN JM2, ROUX F2
1Synt:em, Nîmes, France;  2 INSERM U26, Hôpital F.Widal, France.

511	Etoposide Pharmacokinetics in Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) After Different Intraventricular Dosage Regimens.
	SIRISANGTRAGUL C1, HENKE G1, FLEISCHHACK G2, REIF S3, BODE U2, JAEHDE U1
1Inst. of Pharmacy, Dept. Clinical Pharmacy, University of Bonn 2Dept. of Paediatric Haematology/Oncology, University of Bonn 3Inst. of Pharmacy, Dept. Clinical Pharmacy, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Category:	Targeted delivery of antineoplastic agents

044	Cryopreservation of Peripheral Blood Stem Cells (PBPC) Frozen with 5% instead of 10% DMSO Give Better or no Differences in Colony Formation and Less Apoptosis and Necrosis in CD34+ Cells.
	BAKKEN AM1, Abrahamsen JF1, Bruserud Ø2
1The Blood Bank and 2Division of Hematology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.

274	Enhanced Cell-Surface Expression of MMPs and Their Inhibitors, and Tumor-Induced Host Response in Progression of Human Gastric Carcinoma.
KOYAMA S.
Institute of Clinical Medicine, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.

650	Gene Manipulation by Photo-Sensitive Chemical Agents.
	HIDEKI ANDO1, TOSHIAKI FURUTA2, HITOSHI OKAMOTO1
1Lab. for Developmental Gene Regulation, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan. 2Dep. Biomolecular Science, Toho University, Japan.

392	Non-Transcriptional Functions of STATs in Tumor Cells – Possible Target for Antineoplastic Therapy?
	ORZECHOWSKI A, PAJĄK B
Department of Physiological Sciences, Warsaw Agricultural University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.

546	Novel Acoustic Liposomes for Drug Encapsulation.
TIUKINHOY SD, HUANG SL, KHAN AA, MACDONALD RC, MCPHERSON DD.
	Northwestern University, Chicago/Evanston, Illinois, USA.

393	Behind the Scenes of Cycloheximide-Mediated Sensitization of Colorectal Cancer Cells to TNF-Induced Apoptosis.
	1PAJĄK B, 2GAJKOWSKA B, 1ORZECHOWSKI A
1Department of Physiological Sciences, Warsaw Agricultural University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw, Poland; 2Department of Cell Ultrastructure MRC, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

429	Alpha-fetoprotein-vehicled targeted delivery of doxorubicin and antisenses to tumor cells.
	1POSYPANOVA GA, 3NITSVETOV MB, 1MOSKALEVA EYu, 2KIREEVA NN, 1RODINA AV, 1POPOVA ON, 1SEVERIN SE, 2SEVERIN ES.
1Moscow Research Institute of Medical Ecology, 2Russian Research Center for Molecular Diagnostics and Therapy, 3IM Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow, Russia

587	Chemotherapeutic Targeting of Ranimustine (MCNU) or Nimustine (ACNU) to Various Tissues on the Basis of Polyamine Level.
	WATANABE S1, SATO S2, NAGASE S2, OHKUMA S1
1Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan, 2Kawasaki College of Allied Health Professions, Okayama, Japan,

Category:	Role of cells and their staining by dyes

405	New Antiulcer and Antiinflammatory Agents Inhibit Compound 48/80-Induced Mast Cell Degranulation.
	PENISSI AB1, RUDOLPH MI2, PIEZZI RS1
1Insituto de Histología y Embriología (IHEM-CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina; 2Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Concepción, Chile.

645	Mast cell (MC) as a significant contributor to the physiological response under different extreme exposures.
	GRAEVSKAYA EE1, ACHALAYA MY1, YASUTAKE A.2, ARAMAKI R.2, RUBIN AB.1
1Dept. Biophysics, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 2National Institute for Minamata Disease, Minamata, Kumamoto, Japan.

Category:	Agents involving the immune system

169	GANGLIOSIDES-BASED CANCER VACCINES: TOXICOLOGICAL ASSAYS.
	A Bada1, A Casacó2, A Mancebo1, B González1*, D Fuentes1, O Hernández1, ME Arteaga1, J Hernández1, C González1, N Subirós1, Y González1, C Mesa2, LE Fernández2
1Expositor address . National Center for Breeding of Laboratory Animals, CENPALAB. Finca Tirabeque, Bejucal, La Habana. Cuba. 2Center of Molecular Immunology.

170	Perspectives of combined radioimmunotherapy and anti- EGFR antibody, h-R3, therapy for the treatment of solid tumors of neuroephitelial origen.
	Barbara O. Gonzalez Navarro1*, Angel Casaco Paradas2, Nelvis Subiros Martinez1, Rene Leyva Montana3, Mariela Leon Perez3, Osvaldo Hernandez Sosa1, Juana Hernandez Estrada1, Irene Bosulei2, Alejandro Perera Pintado4, Magdalena Legro Soto1
1National Center for Breeding of Laboratory Animals, CENPALAB. Finca Tirabeque, Bejucal, La Habana. Cuba. 2Center of Molecular Immunology 3 Isotopes Center 4 Clinical Research Center.

523	Overview of Effectiveness of Rabies Antibodies in Rabies Postexposure Prophylaxis.
	STANKOV S, VRANJES N, AND DESNICA J
Pasteur Institute, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro.

Category:	About mechanisms and Magic Bullets

066	The Efficacy of Tacrolimus in the Management of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis.
	R Bhimma, M Adhikari, K Asharam, CA Connolly.
	University of Kwazulu-Natal, Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

456	Protective Effects of Local Administration of Caroverine on Noise-induced Hearing Loss in Guinea Pigs.
	CHEN  Zhiqiang a, b,DUAN  Maoli b,RUAN Runsheng a,ULFENDAHL Mats b, TAN Luke a
a Department of Otolaryngology, National University of Singapore, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore
b Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Center for Hearing and Communication Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

658	Th1/Th2 cytokine balance: in what way pregnancy is similar to cancer?
	JACEK R. WILCZYNSKI1
Polish Mother’s Health Center Research Institute, Lodz, Poland.