Recent studies indicate that hematuria of renal parenchymal origin can be differentiated from hematuria of other origin by the presence of dysmorphic urinary erythrocytes (cells exhibiting irregular membranes or small surface blebs). We investigated the utility of this simple screening assay in a routine clinical laboratory. Dysmorphic erythrocytes in urine from 69 patients (18 with renal-paren...

The article is devoted to the study of short poems and by Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet Ran (1902-1963), reflecting images Soviet Russia. analyzes frames subframes that construct image Russia; studies specificity realities Russian culture; observations, ideas impressions about way life in Russia first half 20th century; reveals correlation created with archetypes works Ran. purpose this identify la...

Molecular Pathways Brain Database (MPDB), is a novel database for molecular information of the brain pathways and is an initiative to provide an organized platform for researchers in the field of neuro-informatics. The database currently has information from 1850 molecules for three different sensory pathways namely olfactory transduction, photo transduction and long-term potentiation. The usef...

Some factors affecting results of digoxin determinations using one commercially available radioimmunoassay kit are described and discussed. Serum of pregnant women, cord blood, amniotic fluid and serum of patients taking spironolactone may show erroneously high digoxin activity due to lack of specificity of the antiserum. Cross-reaction with digitoxin was found to vary substantially with antibo...