This study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary black cumin (Nigella sativa L.) oil on growth performance, hemato-biochemical, and histopathology cypermethrin-intoxicated Nile tilapia. After determining LC50 (96 h) value cypermethrin, cypermethrin added water at a ratio 1:20 this concentration, fish were fed for 42 days. To reduce 1% feed as potential protectant. Growth parameter...

Eleven cases of pyometra were diagnosed in a captive exotic felid collection over 3 yr in seven African lions (Panthera leo), two tigers (P. tigris), one liger (lion-tiger crossbreed), and one leopard (P. pardus). Clinical signs included anorexia, lethargy, vulvar discharge, and vomiting. Diagnosis was based on clinical signs, complete blood cell counts, plasma biochemistry and electrolyte valu...

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE (BLOOD PRESSURE LOWERING) EFFECTS OF STEVIOSIDE, FROM STEVIA REBAUDIANA BERTONI, ON RATS, DOGS AND HUMANS – A SHORT REVIEW HIMANSHU MISRA1,2*, DARSHANA MEHTA1, B. K. MEHTA1* and D. C. JAIN2 1Natural Products Research Laboratory, School of Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Vikram University, Ujjain-456 010, Madhya Pradesh, India. 2Green Technology Department, Ipca Laborator...

lin Measurements: Octanoyl Modification of Ghrelin Is Rapidly Hydrolyzed to Desacyl Ghrelin in Blood Samples, Hiroshi Hosoda, Kentaro Doi, Noritoshi Nagaya, Hiroyuki Okumura, Eiichiro Nakagawa, Mitsunobu Enomoto, Fumiaki Ono, and Kenji Kangawa ( Department of Biochemistry, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, and 2 Department of Internal Medicine, National Cardiovascular Center, O...

Tamio Yamakawa isolated a glycosphingolipid from horse erythrocyte membrane, named it hematoside, and reported the results in Journal of Biochemistry. This was the first paper to report that glycosphingolipids are located in the cell membrane. He also isolated a glycosphingolipid, globoside, from human erythrocytes and demonstrated for the first time that ABO blood group antigens are glycosphin...

Although automation was introduced into biochemistry in 1957 (Skeggs, 1957), it was not until 1963 that McNeil, Helrick, and Ferrari (1963) first described a mechanized technique forABO grouping. This was followed a few months later by a method employing the AutoAnalyzer continuous flow principle by which up to 40 samples per hour could be both ABO and Rh (D) grouped (Sturgeon, Cedergren, and M...

morphology at the macroscopic, microscopic and ultrastructural levels. Wherever appropriate, he goes from structure into function and introduces concepts involving histochemistry, biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering. The book is easy to read and presents the material in a very concise fashion and focuses upon the need for more extensive microcirculatory research. As an introduction to t...

morphology at the macroscopic, microscopic and ultrastructural levels. Wherever appropriate, he goes from structure into function and introduces concepts involving histochemistry, biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering. The book is easy to read and presents the material in a very concise fashion and focuses upon the need for more extensive microcirculatory research. As an introduction to t...

A method for the computation of low Reynolds number dynamic blood cell systems is presented. The specific system of interest here is interaction between cancer cells and white blood cells in an experimental flow system. Fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, six-degree-of freedom motion control and surface biochemistry analysis components are coupled in the context of adaptive octree-based grid ...

For second year medical students, we redesigned an original laboratory experiment and developed a combined research-teaching clinical biochemistry experiment. Using an established diabetic rat model to detect blood glucose and triglycerides, the students participate in the entire experimental process, which is not normally experienced during a standard clinical biochemistry exercise. The studen...