conclusions the lee is a common finding among kidney transplant recipients. serial monitoring of aminotransferases, particularly alt, should be performed in all patients after kidney transplantation. patients and methods liver enzymes and other biochemical parameters were measured in all recipients. patients were divided into three groups, according to laboratory test time since transplantation...

the energy minima of systems made of an alanine molecule, a lithium cation and a various number of watermolecules have been determined with the help of quantum mechanical computations at the b3lyp densityfunctional theory level of computation and the standard 6-311++g (d,p) basis set. several structures, close inenergy are found and the presence of one or two water molecules around the cation m...

aim: the healthy ranges for serum alanine aminotransferase (alt) levels are less well studied. the aim of this study was to define the upper limit of normal (uln) for serum alt levels, and to assess factors associated with serum alt activity in apparently healthy blood donors. methods: a total of 1939 blood donors were included. alt measurements were performed for all cases using the same labor...

â  â  background non-alcoholic fatty liver disease/steatohepatitis (nafld/nash) is the most common form of chronic liver disease woldwide and is no longer considered a benign disease. its prevalence has not been deterâ­mined in a large-scale population-based study in iran. me t hod s a total of 6583 individuals aged 18 to 65 were randomly selected from three geographically distinct provinces in...

previous studies indicated that endurance exercise decreases levels of liver enzymes. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of endurance exercise on liver enzymes in eight weeks in iranian women who are stopping the drug with methadone. sixty iranian women prisoners including 30 cases as experimental group and 30 volunteers served as control. the mean age, height, weight, percent of...

The energy minima of systems made of an alanine molecule, a lithium cation and a various number of watermolecules have been determined with the help of quantum mechanical computations at the B3LYP DensityFunctional Theory level of computation and the standard 6-311++G (d,p) basis set. Several structures, close inenergy are found and the presence of one or two water molecules around the cation m...

Among the archaea, Methanococcus maripaludis has the unusual ability to use L- or D-alanine as a nitrogen source. To understand how this occurs, we tested the roles of three adjacent genes encoding homologs of alanine dehydrogenase, alanine racemase, and alanine permease. To produce mutations in these genes, we devised a method for markerless mutagenesis that builds on previously established ge...