Example sentences for: propylthiouracil

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  • The number of CD-1a staining cells showed an apparent increase after propylthiouracil therapy.

  • IL-12, a product of Langerhans cells and skin monocytes plays a pivotal role in T-cell activation that leads to formation of the psoriatic plaque [ 22 ] . IL-12 levels are also significantly raised in patients with Graves' hyperthyroidism and are reduced following treatment with propylthiouracil [ 23 ] .

  • [ 1 2 ] Treatment of the disease results in costs that range between 0.7 to more than 4 billion dollars annually in the US alone [ 3 ] . One of the most cost-effective forms of potential treatment for the disease is the use of antithyroid thioureylenes such a propylthiouracil.

  • Many people who can taste propylthiouracil are also ‘supertasters’—they have more fungiform papillae, structures containing taste buds, on their tongues than non-tasters (Figure 2).

  • The drugs have been studied with relation to their effect in Graves' hyperthyroidism which, like psoriasis, is an autoimmune disorder [ 9 10 11 12 ] Antithyroid thioureylenes, of which propylthiouracil, methimazole and carbimazole are used in clinical practice, have known immunomodulatory properties [ 13 14 ] and, in the case of psoriasis, also have antiproliferative effects as demonstrated by their ability to produce a decline in markers of cellular proliferation such as proliferative cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) [ 15 ] .


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