A case is reported of a young patient who presented to University Department of Pediatrics in Prishtina with a newly diagnosed diabetes in December 2006. On admission, the patient showed severe ketoacidosis due to the late diagnosis, in spite of two prior visits to a general practitioner. Biochemistry results on admission included serum glucose 35 mmol/L, venous pH 6.9, bicarbonates 4.8 mmol/L,...

Collapsed titania nanotubes (cTiNT) were synthesized by the calcination of titania nanotubes (TiNT) at 650 °C, which leads to a collapse of their tubular morphology, a substantial reduction in surface area, and a partial transformation of anatase to the rutile phase. There are no significant changes in the position of the XPS responses for Ti and O on oxidation or reduction of the cTiNTs, but t...

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL CONSIDERATIONS Definitions: Van Slyke72 has defined acidosis as a condition in which the bicarbonate of the blood or serum, or, more exactly, the base available for combination with bicarbonate, is diminished. Alkalosis is a condition in which there is in the blood or serum an abnormal excess of bicarbonate, or base available for combination with bicarbonate. These de...

A 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate cycle operates in autotrophic CO(2) fixation in various Crenarchaea, as studied in some detail in Metallosphaera sedula. This cycle and the autotrophic 3-hydroxypropionate cycle in Chloroflexus aurantiacus have in common the conversion of acetyl-coenzyme A (CoA) and two bicarbonates via 3-hydroxypropionate to succinyl-CoA. Both cycles require the reductiv...

OBJECTIVE To assess if the bilateral mediastinal lymphadenectomy results in lymphatic congestion in the lungs producing clinically significant impairment of respiratory function. METHODS In the prospective, randomized, double-blind clinical study, non-small cell lung carcinoma patients underwent preoperatively mediastinoscopy or the transcervical extended mediastinal lymphadenectomy (TEMLA). ...

The purpose of the review. To systematize literature data on changes in structure intestinal microbiota patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP). Key findings. human is a dynamically changing system that constantly undergoing qualitative and quantitative changes, especially several pathological conditions digestive system. At present, differences pancreatic diseases are poorly understood. severe...

This work aims to assess the main factors that determined variability of environmental and biological variables in wastewater reservoirs Right-Bank Sorbulak Canal system (South-Eastern Kazakhstan). We used standard methods for collection analysis data, as well principal components (PCA) relationship between indicators. The average depth surveyed was 4.1–10.0 m, temperature—21.7–25.7 °C, pH—9.41...

The investigation of a Lewis base catalyzed asymmetric allylic amination of Morita-Baylis-Hillman carbonates derived from isatins afforded an electrophilic pathway to access multifunctional oxindoles bearing a C3-quaternary stereocenter, provided with good to excellent enantioselectivity (up to 94% ee) and in high yields (up to 97%).

Electrofusion of evacuolated with vacuolated mesophyll protoplasts of Nicotiana tabacum was performed as part of the German Sounding Rocket Program (TEXUS 17, 1988). The results indicate a significant increase not only in the yield of 1:1 hybrids, but also in homo- and multifusion products. Hybrids obtained under microgravity have been shown to be viable to a higher degree with respect to their...

Simultaneous measurements of CO(2) and O(2) fluxes from wheat (Triticum aestivum) shoots indicated that short-term exposures to elevated CO(2) concentrations diverted photosynthetic reductant from NO(3)(-) or NO(2)(-) reduction to CO(2) fixation. With longer exposures to elevated CO(2), wheat leaves showed a diminished capacity for NO(3)(-) photoassimilation at any CO(2) concentration. Moreover...