Renal ischemia as a course of renal transplantation is a common cause of renal dysfunction as renal failure. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of ascorbic acid on blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine (Cr) and resistive index (RI) for dog models with renal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. Renal ischemia was induced on 6 Beagle dogs. The left kidney was exposed to norm...

Reactions of the dianion [Te((t)BuN)P(μ-N(t)Bu)2P(N(t)Bu)Te](2-) with I2 or [Cp*RhCl2]2 unexpectedly produced complexes of the novel spirocyclic Te5 dianion [{(t)BuN(Te)P(μ-N(t)Bu)2P(Te)N(t)Bu}2μ-Te](2-), which is N,N'-coordinated to two Na(+) ions in the disodium derivative and adopts a Te,Te',Te''-bonding mode in the Cp*Rh complex.

Simple gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods were developed for quantifying eight volatile compounds and 10 sesquiterpenoids, respectively. GC-MS analysis was performed on an HP-5MS capillary column (30 m×0.25 mm i.d.) coated with 0.25 μm film 5% phenyl-95% methylpolysiloxane and selected ion monitoring was used for quantification...

The measurement of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) as serum or plasma urea is one of the most frequently ordered laboratory tests for evaluating renal functions. Conventional analysis of reactions of urea with diacetyl monoxime or urease with the Berthelot reaction [1] is rapidly giving way to the totally enzymatic reactions that are more convenient to perform and more easily adapted to modern instru...

Trephine biopsy was performed which showed hypercellular marrow space and several ill-defined granuloma lesions composed of histiocytes. Yeast-like organisms were seen stuffed within the histiocytes as well as in the interstitial space. Grocott and PAS stain revealed the presence of single, centrally located transverse septum in some of the organisms. These Date: 12 July, 2000 Venue: Yaumatei S...

Separated have always been a pleasure because of her intelligence and sensitivity. All this may have made me over-optimistic. Whatever the causes, the book proves disappointing. It is stuffed full of factual and straightforward advice on law, sex, housing, in-laws and children, which is good. But the pages are scattered with potted biographies of broken marriages, which read like 'cases' rather...

What is the longest rope on the unit sphere? Intuition tells us that the answer to this packing problem depends on the rope’s thickness. For a countably infinite number of prescribed thickness values we construct and classify all solution curves. The simplest ones are similar to the seamlines of a tennis ball, others exhibit a striking resemblance to Turing patterns in chemistry, or to ordered ...

BACKGROUND Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are rare remote effect of cancer. The antibodies and tumors associated with PNS have been well described, but there are still many clinically suspected cases in which no tumor or antibody can be identified. This is the first report of PNS showing hot cross-bun sign and caused by exceptionally rare underlying malignancy, such as burned-out t...

Head movements allow birds with laterally placed eyes to move their centers of acute vision around and align them with objects of interest. Consequently, head movements have been used as indicator of fixation behavior (where gaze is maintained). However, studies on head movement behavior have not elucidated the degree to which birds use high-acuity or low-acuity vision. We studied how European ...