All patients had received previous involved-field radiotherapy with 45 to 61 Gy and 94% of patients had been pretreated with chemotherapy, most often nimustine (ACNU) and teniposide, a combination protocol favored by the Neuro-Oncology Working Group of the German Cancer Society [ 9].
Specimens are often culture positive even those from patients pretreated with effective antimicrobial drugs (22 ).
CSF was significantly more often culture negative in patients who were pretreated with antimicrobial agents before admission (Table 5).
However, patients entered in these trials often had bulky metastatic disease and had been heavily pretreated with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy in most cases.
Since the beads often aggregate and rapidly clog the injection capillary, they were pretreated with 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA).
Pretreated with a cleaning solution, they clean and disinfect with only one product.
Filters were pretreated with 0.1% BSA in Mg-HEPES.
All samples were pretreated with puromycin before RNA extraction.
e, Normalized social preference in mice pretreated with i.p.
Cows were pretreated with progesterone for 3 d.
To test this possibility, neutrophils were pretreated with TLR4 inhibitor before stimulated with OO extract.
