In vitro studies of ME-344 in combination with topotecan have demonstrated that these drugs act synergistically (data on file).
In comparison, studies of MEs in US and UK hospitals found that incorrect doses were the most common type of error [ 71].
This review showed that there have been relatively few studies of MEs in the Middle East compared to the number from the US and Europe [ 61].
13 Therefore, a phase 1B study of ME-344 in combination with iv topotecan as treatment of patients with ovarian, cervical, and small cell lung cancers currently is ongoing (http://ClinicalTrials.gov identifier 02100007).
The current phase 1, open-label, dose escalating, first-in human study of ME-344 in patients with refractory solid tumors found that the maximum tolerated dose of once-weekly 10-mg/kg administration of the drug was generally well tolerated.
This model has been used elsewhere to study causes of MEs. 9 16 17 23 24 Data were coded as active failures and latent failures, including error and violation provoking conditions and high-level organisational decisions.
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8 The new European legislation, introduced in 2007, recognises the need to study all new medicines where appropriate, but does not endorse the study of numerous me-too drugs in children.
Indeed, our NMR study of 2-ME-SOD1 in solution indicates that the copper ion state is largely Cu2+ (S. Hanashima, N. Fujiwara, K. Matsumoto, N. Iwasaki, G.-Q. Zheng, H. Torigoe, K. Suzuki, N. Taniguchi and Y. Yamaguchi, unpublished work).
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