BACKGROUND There is limited data on objectively determined habitual physical activity (PA) in 16-year old South African adolescents. The purpose of this study was to objectively determine the habitual PA of adolescents from the North West Province of South Africa by race and gender. METHODS Adolescents (137 girls, 89 boys) from the ongoing Physical Activity and Health Longitudinal Study (PAHL...

A collection of 37 rabies-infected samples, 10 human saliva and 27 animal brain, were recovered during 2001-2004 from the cities of Bangalore and Hyderabad in southern India and from Kasauli, a mountainous region in Himachal Pradesh, northern India. Phylogenetic analysis of partial N gene nucleotide sequences of these 37 specimens and 1 archival specimen identified 2 groups, divided according t...

Herbal plant compounds were used in the inhibition of inflammation from traditional period and its main benefit is less side effects. The aim this study to determine anti-inflammatory potential Amherstia nobilis by albumin denaturation method. leaves collected, dried powdered. egg albumin, phosphate buffer different concentrations extracts incubated at 37°C for 15 minutes heated 70°C 5 minutes....

The intravenous administration of 100 mg. per kilogram of acetazolamide produced a 0.9 mv. abrupt fall in the 7 mv. resting potential, and was followed by a 1.4 mv. rise that persisted for more than 20 minutes. This alteration was not influenced by the previous injection (50 minutes) of 100 ng per kilogram of strophanthin K or nephrectomy (18 hours). One hundred milligrams per kilogram of ammon...

When small tubes (75 by 10 mm), containing 1 or 2 ml of SIM medium (Difco) or Trypticase Agar Base (semisolid) (BBL), are preheated to 37 C, "stabinoculated" from a young agar slant culture, and incubated in a water bath at 37 C, motility may be observed in a fraction of the time required by the methods usually employed with these media. In a series of cultures which were studied, motility coul...

Apgar score remains the most effective measure of newborn health outcomes in first few minutes delivery and it is useful diagnosing perinatal asphyxia metabolic acidosis . This retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted on 3011 women at Baptist Medical Centre North East Region Ghana. Binary logistic regression models were used to determine factors associated with low fifth minute score. ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate delays in the presentation to hospital and evaluation of patients with suspected stroke. DESIGN Multicentre prospective observational study. SETTING 22 hospitals in the United Kingdom and Dublin. PARTICIPANTS 739 patients with suspected stroke presenting to hospital. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Time from onset of stroke symptoms to arrival at hospital, and time from a...

in 60 minutes after the smear preparation . 4) Expose the smears to air for 1 hour to remove formalin. 5) Prepare the incubating solution as follows . Fifty mg of a-naphthylphosphate, 50 mg of Fast-Garnet-GBC salt, 50 ml of acetate buffer (pH 5.0, 0.1 M) are mixed, shaken well , and filtrated. 6) Incubate in it for 90 minutes at 37•Ž. 7) Wash well in distilled water . 8) Counterstain nuclei wit...