Sensitive biomarkers are needed to detect kidney injury at the earliest stages. The objective of this study was to determine whether the appearance of kidney injury molecule-1 (Kim-1) protein ectodomain in urine and kidney injury molecule-1/hepatitis A viral cellular receptor-1 (Kim-1/Havcr1) gene expression in kidney tissue may be more predictive of renal injury after exposure to nephrotoxican...

Fecal samples were collected from 655 passerine birds representing 190 species from 13 collection sites in Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina from August, 1990 August, 1997. The fecal samples were stored in 2.5% K2Cr2O7 and examined for coccidian oocysts within six weeks after collection. The overall prevalence of coccidian parasites in the samples was 20.9% (137/655). The one-sample test of ...

Neospora caninum is a coccidian protozoan that causes abortion in dairy and beef cattle and neurological disorders in dogs and horses. To identify N. caninum oocysts in the dog feces the molecular approaches are known as sensitive methods that specifically detect the oocysts. In present study, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting N. caninum specific Nc5 genomic fragment was performed to ...

We studied whether arsenic, nickel, and chromium compounds that are human carcinogens could induce transformation of cultured primary human diploid foreskin cells (HFC). All nickel compounds tested, PbCrO4, K2Cr2O7, CrO3, Na2HAsO4, NaAsO2, and N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) caused significant (p = 0.001) dose-dependent inductions of anchorage-independent colonies in HFC. KH2AsO4, C...

The present study was aimed to investigate whether Lactobacillus casei strain17 could protect the chromium (Cr) VI-induced oxidative stress in female reproductive system of rats and to explore the underlying mechanism of the same. A total of 24 Wistar adult female rats were equally divided into four groups. Group 1 served as control, while groups 2 and 3 were administered K2Cr2O7 (10 mg/kg b.wt...

An 82-year-old woman had had pruritic papules on her entire body for 4 years. Her medical history included hypertension controlled with cilnidipine. On examination, there were numer ous red-brown lichenoid papules on her trunk and extremities. The papules tended to aggregate or coalesce to form diffuse erythematous plaques with sparing flexors, mimicking papuloerythroderma (Fig. 1). Laboratory ...

FT-IR spectroscopy is a nondestructive technique that can be utilized for the qualitative characterization of natural dyes and dyed substrates through structure elucidation. This work aimed at dye extract from Beta vulgaris peels pomaces surface analysis optimally dyed-mordanted cotton (cellulosic) fabric using Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, as well colour fastness tests (ligh...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the potential harmful effects of potassium dichromate and magnesium sulphate causing oxidative stress and reproductive toxicity in adult male mice model. METHODS The experimental work was conducted on sixty male mice (Mus musculus) divided into three groups. Mice in group B and C received potassium dichromate and magnesium sulphate of 5.0 and 500 mg/Kg body weight/ml ...