Iodine‑131 is known to destroy residual thyroid tissue following surgical resection of differentiated thyroid carcinoma and is widely used to treat hyperthyroidism. However, the mechanism by which iodine‑131 induces apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in the human thyrocyte cell line, Htori‑3, remains to be elucidated. In the present study, the cytotoxic effect of iodine‑131 on the HTori‑3 cell lin...

OBJECTIVE Much controversy relates to the risk of non-synchronous second primary malignancies (NSSPM) after radioactive iodine treatment (RAI-131) in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients. This study evaluated the relationship between RAI-131 and NSSPM in DTC survivors with long-term follow-up. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective analysis of 413 DTC cases was performed; 252 received RA...

Formanyyears,t he Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the United States required hospitalization for purposes of radiation isolation of patients receiving 1.11 GBq (30 mCi) or more of 131 I. Furthermore, admission for purposes of radiation isolation was required even if the patient was an adult who lived alone or had a separate bedroom and bathroom and was capable of self-care. Once admitted, thes...

BACKGROUND Animal wastes are of particular environmental concern due to greenhouse gases emissions, odor problem, and potential water contamination. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an effective and widely used technology to treat them for bioenergy production. However, the sustainability of AD is compromised by two by-products of the nutrient-rich liquid digestate and the fiber-rich solid digestate...

Despite extensive use of iodine-131 ((131)I) treatment for Graves' hyperthyroidism, the optimal regimen of pretreatment with antithyroid drugs is still a matter of discussion. Our aim was to evaluate the success of (131)I treatment in patients with Graves' disease without and with pretreatment with methimazole (MMI). In a prospective randomized study 156 patients with Graves' disease were treat...

Temple puja wastes are released in water bodies or land creating severe environmental pollution and health hazards. The temple wastes extract was used to isolate the Bacillus megaterium for the production of enzyme penicillin amidase as it recorded the largest zone of activity. The result obtained showed that on nutrient agar medium the grown colonies were confirmed by gram staining as Bacillus...

UNLABELLED In this study we compared whole body scintigraphy with Tc-99m-methoxyisobutylisonitrile (MIBI) and Iodine-131 NA (131I) for detection of residual and/or metastatic disease in well differentiated thyroid carcinoma. METHODS MIBI and I-131 scans were obtained in 60 patients. TSH measurements were done in all the patients prior to scintigraphy. RESULTS Out of 60 patients, for whom bo...

Proteolytic and/or lipolytic lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were isolated from visceral wastes of different fresh water fishes. LAB count was found to be highest in case of visceral wastes of Mrigal (5.88 log cfu/g) and lowest in that of tilapia (4.22 log cfu/g). Morphological, biochemical and molecular characterization of the selected LAB isolates were carried out. Two isolates FJ1 (E. faecalis NC...

Most of the methods adopted for processing of decayed fruits and degradation of wastes are not economical. In order to achieve 100% resource recovery from wastes, a novel type of waste treatment is to be followed, so that, the recovered byproducts could be used as biofertilizers. The objective of this study is identification of bacteria for studying their phenotypic and genotypic characters usi...