But air-travel restriction won't help slow a flu pandemic much, three model studies concluded earlier this year--especially when compared to the judicious use of vaccines, antiviral drugs, isolation, and quarantine (ScienceNOW, 2 May).
Heavier users of either alcohol or cigarettes also exhibited enhanced sensitivity to the effects of either drug in isolation.
Thomas Eric Duncan was being treated with an experimental drug in isolation in a Dallas hospital, after becoming infected in Liberia.
They contend that ultrasound allows more of a therapeutic antibody into the brain, improving Alzheimer's-like pathology and cognition more than when using ultrasound or the antibody drug in isolation.
In an era of increasing drug resistance, isolation of M. tuberculosis from respiratory specimens is important for drug sensitivity test.
Nevertheless, the two muscle-invasive urinary bladder-cancer cell lines presented a similar and improved pattern response, when compared with each drug in isolation.
"It's worth pointing out that the guidance is written as if the concern is for a single drug in isolation," says Christian Daughton, chief of the environmental chemistry branch at the Environmental Protection Agency National Exposure Research Laboratory.
This screen might inform both the appropriate treatment of tumour cells that carry CNVs of the candidate cancer-related genes, and also suggest novel combinations of specific inhibitors which may prove more effect than either drug in isolation.
The simultaneous treatment of urinary bladder-cancer cells to cisplatin (3, 6, and 13 μM) and sunitinib malate (1, 2, and 4 μM) decreased the cell viability rate in the three cell lines when compared with each drug in isolation.
