...............................................................................................ii Acknowledgements.................................................................................iii List of Figures........................................................................................v List of Tables..................................................................................

OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy, safety and cost of treating patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) and diabetic nephropathy (DN) with continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) or sustained low-efficiency daily diafiltration with hemofiltration (SLEDD-f). SUBJECTS AND METHODS Medical records of patients with AKI/DN from January 2006 to December 2012 were reviewed. Fifty-five patients...

Polyphenolics and sugar are the components of many fruit juices. In this work, the performance of ultra-filtration (UF) for separating phenolic compounds from apple juice was studied by performing batch experiments in a membrane module with an area of 0.1 m and fitted with a regenerated cellulose membrane of 1 kDa MWCO. The effects of various operating conditions: transmembrane pressure (3, 4, ...

The physical and chemical changes of 4x milk concentrates prepared by ultrafiltration (UF) microfiltration (MF) combined with diafiltration were studied after heating in situ to 85 °C subsequent cooling. Skim (1x) was analyzed as control. had comparable pH, colloidal casein calcium phosphate, but differed whey proteins serum allowing investigating the effect soluble phase composition on viscosi...