statement of the problem in recent years, amalgam has been considered a danger for dentistry personnel due to toxicity of mercury (hg) purpose this study aimed at investigating the relationship between scientific indices and dentists’ urine hg level through measuring its concentration rate among dentists with over four years of experience materials and methods thirty dentists with over four yea...

It is known that the eating of most fruits leads to the formation of less acid urines due to the excess of base-forming elements in the fruits. The organic acids contained in the various fruits are oxidized within the body to carbon dioxide and water, so that the net result to the organism is a gain in base. However fruits such as cranberries, prunes, and plums, which contain benzoic acid or it...

INTRODUCTION Recommended by the National Advisory Council of the Disabled, the Ministry of Health of Singapore supported a nationwide study of inherited metabolic disorders (IMDs). When the 5-year project ended, investigations were provided as a diagnostic service. This paper documents our 13-year experience. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with symptoms suggestive of an IMD were referred. Inv...

Purslane has many benefits as food or raw material for medicine. It is rich in beneficial compounds, such omega-3 and vitamins. However, it not been cultivated yet. Organic input cultivation essential to ensure safety humans. Using organic inputs can avoid the yield from chemical biological contaminants that threaten health. Thus, source of growing media fertilizer must be considered. Because u...

ReDuNing injection, prepared from a combination of Gardenia Jasminoides fruits, Lonicera japonica flower buds, and the Artemisia annua aerial part, is extensively used for treatment of viral upper respiratory tract infections in China. Iridoids, organic acids, and flavonoids are likely important compounds of the herbal injection because of their reported pharmacological properties. This study w...

Lithium (Li) treatment for bipolar affective disorders is associated with a variety of renal side effects. The metabolic response of the kidney to chronic Li treatment has rarely been studied. We applied a novel method of (1)H-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabonomics to integrate metabolic profiling and to identify the changes in the levels of metabolites in the kidney and urine from...

The fate of bacteria in human urine was studied after inoculation of small numbers of Escherichia coli and other bacterial strains commonly implicated in urinary tract infection. Urine from normal individuals was often inhibitory and sometimes bactericidal for growth of these organisms. Antibacterial activity of urine was not related to lack of nutrient material as addition of broth did not dec...

The available evidence suggests that most of the steriod hormone endproducts which are eliminated from the body by way of the urine are conjugated with an inorganic or organic acid. This conjugation presumably facilitates their transportation and excretion by rendering them soluble in water or urine. Examples of such conjugated steroids which have been isolated from urine as sulfates are andros...

Glutaric aciduria type II (GA II) was proved in a neonate who presented shortly after birth with respiratory distress, metabolic acidosis, non-ketotic hypoglycaemia and a sweaty-feet-like odour. The diagnosis was based on elevated levels of glutaric and other acids in the urine and on studies on cultured skin fibroblasts where defective metabolism of fatty acids of varying chain length was demo...

The metabolic products of propionate metabolism in man were studied by determining the pattern of isotope in the urine following the intravenous injection of [lJ%]propionate. A major peak of radioactivity not present in control subjects was found in an organic acid in two patients with propionic acidemia and a patient with methylmalonic acidemia. This labeled compound was characterized as methy...