background: similar to inflammatory cells, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmcs) can also infiltrate in to kidney and urinary tracts and subsequently excreted by urine. in this study we determined the viability rate and response to phytohemagglutinin-a (pha) of human pbmcs in normal urine. methods: a number of 1×106 ficoll-hypaque isolated pbmcs were dispensed in 1 ml normal urine and 6 mo...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study is to analyze national and institutional trends in shoulder arthroplasty utilization by race. METHODS The Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) was analyzed to determine racial trends in shoulder arthroplasty utilization nationally. An institutional database was then utilized to retrospectively identify all patients undergoing shoulder arthr...

black humor plays a crucial role in fulfilling langston hughes's anti-racist purposes as an integral notionin his poetry. accordingly, translation(s) of his poetry are to benefit from the same indexes onthe basis of equivalent effect principle. on this account, 33 black-humor-rich poems of hughes, translatedby ahmad shamloo, yaghma golruee and hassan fayyad, were selected to be analyzed contras...

IT IS now over 30 years since Sheldon's classical monograph on haemochromatosis, but in spite of much intensive research, many aspects of this condition remain enigmatic. We have recently observed a case of haemochromatosis secondary to sideroblastic anaemia in which the appearance of the clinical signs of haemochromatosis were unusually rapid and paralleled by a dramatic and fatal deterioratio...

The illegal use of anabolics in 1989-1990 and its control in Belgium are reviewed. After a short presentation of the Belgian legislation and EEC directives, a recent hormone scandal published by a consumer magazine is related and the composition of 17 hormone cocktails found on the black market is given. The strategy of control involves screening of the main artificial anabolics in urine by rad...

In congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (cNDI), polyuria and polydipsia are present from birth, as the kidney is unable to concentrate urine despite elevated concentrations of the antidiuretic hormone arginine-vasopressin.1 In ancient Greek medicine, physiology was, needless, to say, an as yet fairly undeveloped specialty among medico-philosophers, based as they were mainly on the Hippocra...

ALKAPTONURIA (AKU) is a rare inherited genetic disorder of tyrosine metabolism characterized by the triad of homogentisicaciduria, ochronosis and arthritis. It is one of the conditions in which Mandelian recessive inheritance was proposed.1 It was also one of the four inborn errors of metabolism described by Garrod in his croonian lectures of 1908.2 The clinical manifestations are that urine tu...

An Ayurvedic preparation consisting of dried ginger, black pepper, pippali and leadwort root fermented in cow's urine was given internally and a paste made of several meical herbs including Psoralea corylifolia for external application was tried in patients with vitiligo. 4 out of 10 patients had relief within six months of treatment. Three patients had relief with adverse reaction on the skin ...

This study was undertaken to formulate reliable confidence limits for the relationship between nocturnal and 24-hour urine sodium (Na) excretion for use in population compliance studies. Urine excretions were measured in 12 white and 12 black men at three levels of sodium (Na) intake (10, 200, and 400 mEq/day) for 7 days. Nocturnal Na, chloride (Cl), and Cl determined by titrator stick were all...