In the present study, aberration, body weight, food consumption, haematology, organ coefficients, and both gross and microscopic appearance of some histiocytes were compared between the test and control groups. A sperm abnormality test, bone marrow cell micronucleus test, and a haematology study were conducted at levels of 1.25 g/kg, 2.5 g/kg, and 5 g/kg of trehalose. In both the sperm abnormal...

All diseases result from our genes and from the environment. This is conventional teaching for first year medical students: and if the medical school is in Africa it is hard to find a better example than blood diseases, given that in Africa, on one hand, haemoglobinopathies affect millions of people (WHO Working Group, 1982), while on the other hand, malaria, hookworm and nutritional deficiency...

T he diamond anniversary of the Journal of Clinical Pathology (JCP) provides the opportunity to reflect of the past 60 years of haematology. It offers the chance to look back as well as forwards. This has been a time of unforeseeable advances, of which I remember only those of the past 40 years. Review of the articles published by the journal in its first decade immediately makes evident the ch...