BACKGROUND Literature abounds linking one's job to certain unpalatable health outcomes. Since exposures to hazardous conditions in industrial environments often results in sundry health effects among workers, we embarked on this study to investigate the hepatic health effects of occupational activities in the petroleum refining and distribution industry. METHOD Biochemical markers of liver fu...

Less than 25% of asymptomatic adults have elevated levels of transaminases on a first evaluation, one third of these patients have normal values on a retest. From those who have elevated ALT on retest, some prove to suffer from an acute liver disease (with normal ALT in less than 6 months), and the others represent the category of chronic (more than 6 months) elevation of transaminases. The eti...

SUMMARY OBJECTIVES To estimate the reference intervals for commonly used blood haematology and biochemical parameters in an adult (18-55yrs) population of residents of Mampong Akuapem. DESIGN This was a population based cross sectional study of a randomly selected sample of the adult population of Mampong. The sample was selected from an updated census list of the Mampong area. RESULTS Medi...

The present study examined the impact of Lufenuron on biochemical parameters of albino mice.The biochemical parameters such as Alanine aminotransferase (ALT), Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and Total protein in serum were observed. The mice exposed with Lufenuron 0.1520 mg/kg) for 30 days. The present study suggests that the level of AST, ALT and ALP were increa...

Few epidemiological studies have examined the association between serum aminotransferase levels and hypertension, and have yielded inconsistent results.A cross-sectional study was performed in a Chinese rural elderly population. A total of 2174 participants with normal range of aminotransferase levels and without excessive drinking were included in the present study. Alanine aminotransferase (A...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of laser beam on reminiscent liver after partial hepatectomy 90%. METHODS Wistar rats, (N=42), were divided into six groups with seven specimens each. The partial hepatectomy (HP) was performed in all animals through exeresis of approximately 90% of the liver parenchyma. The animals from groups HP and Laser application, HPL24, HPL48 and HPL72 undertook laser irr...

The purification procedure, some properties and the mode of action of glutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT) from pig heart muscle have been reported in the pre vious papers (1,2). The presence of GPT and glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT) activities in the mitochondrial fraction has been reported by Rosewell (3,4), who qualitatively demonstrated the formation of glutamic acid from ƒ¿-ketoglu...

Tongue features are important objective basis for clinical diagnosis and treatment in both western medicine and Chinese medicine. The need for continuous monitoring of health conditions inspires us to develop an automatic tongue diagnosis system based on built-in sensors of smartphones. However, tongue images taken by smartphone are quite different in color due to various lighting conditions, a...

Metabolic syndrome (MS) could be associated with liver function. Our study aimed to investigate the association between liver function and MS in a large cohort of Chinese men and women. We enrolled 32,768 ostensibly healthy participants. The associations between liver function and MS of both genders were analyzed separately after dividing total bilirubin (TBIL), gamma glutamyltransferase (GGT),...

The levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST/GOT) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT/GPT) in serum can help people diagnose body tissues especially the heart and the liver are injured or not. This article provides a comprehensive review of research activities that concentrate on AST/GOT and ALT/GPT detection techniques due to their clinical importance. The detection techniques include colorimet...