The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impacts of diets supplemented with different lipid sources on growth performance, body composition, fatty acid profile, and hepatic antioxidant enzyme activity of juvenile black sea bream, Acanthopagrus schlegeli (initial mean weight, 1.1±0.02g). Four isonitrogenous and isolipidic diets were formulated with either fish oil (FO), soybean oil (SO),...

hemophagocytic syndrome (hps) is an uncommon manifestation in systemic lupus erythematosus (sle). clinical features of hps include fever, pancytopenia, abnormal liver enzyme, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, and coagulation disorder. hps comprises primary and reactive forms. herein, we describe a case of untreated sle with hps as one of the first manifestations of systemic lupus.

Glyoxalase I has been purified from the livers of normal DBA/1J mice (565-fold) and mice bearing a lymphosarcoma (348-fold). There was a significant difference in the fractionation patterns of the glyoxalase I activities from the two sources. Molecular weight determinations for which Sephadex gel filtration was used were conducted on the purified enzymes. The estimated molecular weights are 48,...

conclusions the prevalence of abnormal lfts in iranian morbid obese patients is in high status especially the level of alkp. liver ultrasonography has high sensitivity for the fatty liver in morbid obese patients but lfts rise only in few patients with fatty liver. background obesity, a major risk factor for fatty liver disease, is increasing worldwide. morbid obese patients have a higher preva...

BACKGROUND Urinary trypsin inhibitors (UTI) have been widely used for the treatment of diseases including disseminated intravascular coagulation, shock, and pancreatitis. Since UTI synthesis is likely to be reduced in patients who have undergone liver resection, the incidence of inflammatory reactions may be increasing accordingly. For such patients, the liver enzyme increases after the operati...

1. The 'xanthine oxidase' activity of rat liver supernatant, most of which behaves as an NAD+-dependent dehydrogenase (type D) can be rapidly converted into an oxidase (type 0) by thiol reagents such as tetraethylthiuram disulphide, copper sulphate, 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid), N-ethylmaleimide and p-hydroxymercuribenzoate. Treatment with copper sulphate, if prolonged, leads to almost c...

PURPOSE To study temporal pattern of serum liver enzymes levels in newborns with hepatic injury associated with birth asphyxia (BA). METHODS Singleton term newborns with BA and ≤72 hours of age admitted to neonatal intensive care unit were prospectively enrolled. Term newborns with physiological jaundice and without BA were studied as controls. Serum liver enzymes were measured at <24 hours, ...