The sugar-alcohol compound mannitol improved the therapeutic effectiveness of human umbilical cord blood cells injected into neonatal rat models of cerebral palsy, reports a new international study ...

Mannitol is widely used as an artificial sweetener in gum and candy, and, with FDA sanction, is also used as a diuretic. Now medical researchers have found that mannitol could also be a novel therapy ...

The Appraisal Committee considered evidence submitted by the manufacturer of mannitol and a review of this submission by the Evidence Review Group (ERG). DPM-CF-301 included 295 patients (190 adults) ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have uncovered the mechanism by which osmolytes used to treat high fluid pressure in the eye and skull can cause kidney damage. Using rat kidney cells ...

Adding inhaled dry powder mannitol to standard therapy for cystic fibrosis produced sustained improvement in lung function for up to 52 weeks, according to a new study. Along with the treatment's ...

THE use of mannitol for osmotic diuresis has largely been confined to the laboratory and has so far had only limited clinical application. Recently, however, its clinical usefulness in the diagnosis ...

The sugar-alcohol compound mannitol improved the therapeutic effectiveness of human umbilical cord blood cells injected into neontal rat models of cerebral palsy, reports a new international study.

Adding inhaled dry powder mannitol to standard therapy for cystic fibrosis produced sustained improvement in lung function for up to 52 weeks, according to a new study. Along with the treatment's ...

Also, taking into consideration the treatment pathway survey provided by the manufacturer in response to the ACD, the Committee acknowledged that mannitol was unlikely to be used in most patients, and ...