1. In previous studies we have shown that, after the administration of adriamycin, hypertension developed in rats who became pregnant (adriamycin-pregnant rats), whereas virgin animals remained normotensive. Subsequently, we showed that this hypertension was prevented by administration of L-arginine, suggesting that deficient synthesis of nitric oxide may be pathogenetic in this model. 2. To fu...

admitted with a bulky, right lower abdominal mass. She was known to have end stage renal disease and had received a cadaveric renal transplant eight years previously. Further investigation with imaging confirmed an irregular, soft tissue mass in the right iliac and pelvic region with mass effect compressing on the ureter of the graft kidney. There was significant hypercalcaemia with a serum cal...

Let k be a field of characteristic 6= 2, and let L be a Galois extension of k with group G. Let us denote by qL : L × L → k the trace form, defined by qL(x, y) = TrL/k(xy). Let (gx)g∈G be a normal basis of L over k. We say that this is a self–dual normal basis if qL(gx, hx) = δg,h. If the order of G is odd, then L always has a self–dual normal basis over k (cf. [1]). This is no longer true in g...

We have previously shown that enhanced antitumor cytotoxicity is generated when thymocytes from melphalan (L-phenylalanine mustard; L-PAM)-treated MOPC-315 tumor bearers, but not thymocytes from normal mice, are added to the immunization culture of syngeneic normal spleen cells and MOPC-315 tumor cells (Bartik et al.. Cancer Res., 47: 4848-4855,1987). Here we show that normal spleen cells produ...

A cross-sectional study of thyrotropin (TSH), thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) in human serum was performed aiming to define their normal values. In total, 201 assays were performed on 70 normal individuals, 26 men and 44 women, with ages ranging from 2 to 84 years. Serum TSH was measured with a highly sensitive immunoradiometric assay (IRMA) kit and T4 & T3 were determined with commerc...

Earlier we reported the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among patient attending our multi-specialty hospital in Sharjah UAE and results were presented at Endo society meeting Houston 2012. Vit or insufficiency was found to be highly prevalent patients (96.8%). Since then there has been better awareness increased use vit supplements population. The objective this study is determine status now...

In this paper we consider several generalizations of the skew t-normal distribution, and some of their properties. Also, we represent several theorems for constructing each generalized skew t-normal distribution. Next, we illustrate the application of the proposed distribution studying the ratio of two heavy metals, Nickel and Vanadium, associated with crude oil in Shadgan wetland in the south-...

A 72-year-old man was admitted with a 3-week history of general debility and diarrhoea, passing copious amounts of watery, brown stool through the day and Question night. He had had no abdominal pain and had started to vomit the day before presentation. On examination What is the most likely diagnosis? Why is the patient he was dehydrated and mildly disorientated. He had a polyuric in the face ...

A 41-year-old man with a history of significant alcohol use presented to an outside hospital with complaints of nausea, vomiting, epigastric pain, and subjective fever for 4 days. He also complained of dizziness and weakness that began 1 day prior to presentation. The patient stated that he drank in excess of one case of beer the night prior to presentation. There was no history of recent traum...