Abstract: Cervical Acid Phosphatase-Papanicolaou Test Kit (CPK) is an assembly of reagents, controls and instructions for visualization of cervical acid phosphatase on smears or monolayers of cervical specimens, and for performing the CAP-PAP Test (CPT).

Abstract: A specialized derivative of fructose in which the compound is a fructose ester complexed with .beta.-cyclodextrin. Preferably, the fructose derivative is fructosehexanoate .beta.-cyclodextrin complex, and more preferably the fructose derivative is fructose-1-O-hexanoate .beta.-cyclodextrin complex. Fructose pentanoate and fructose heptanoate .beta.-cyclodextrin complexes are also included within the scope of the invention, and the fructose ester and the .beta.-cyclodextrin must be combined in approximately molar equivalent amounts. The present invention also includes a method for treating animals and humans with the instant fructose derivatives, to protect against tissue damage caused by doxorubicin cytotoxicity (particularly doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy or mucositis), ischemia, radiation damage and other sources of free oxygen radical cellular damage to the tissue of living animals and humans.

Abstract: A cyto(histo)chemical technique for determining inosine 5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPD) presence and concentration within one or more morphologically classified or classifiable cells taken from an animal or a human subject. Cell monolayers are prepared, fixed and stained according to a specified procedure in which inosine 5'-monophosphate (as enzyme substrate), nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), phenazine methosulfate (PMS) and nitro blue tetrazolium (NBT) as a diazonium salt together produce a granular, dark blue deposit of formazan generally proportional to the IMPD activity in the cell. Cells are evaluated either visually or by image analysis, with a computerized image analyzer or other imaging system, according to accepted biostatistical methods and standards.