The serum transferrin concentration is usually overestimated when assessed as total iron binding capacity, because iron binds not only to transferrin but also, non-specifically, to other serum proteins [l-3]. Transferrin concentration can be measured directly by immunochemical methods including: radial immunodiffusion [ 1,2,4-61, immunonephelometric assay [6,7] and immunoturbidimetric assay [8,...

Original Article Background & objectives: To assess the nutritional iron status and anemia prevalence in rural children of Warangal district, A.P. INDIA. Methods: We have studied serum iron, total iron-binding capacity (TIBC) relation ship in 50 rural children in the age group of 8-12 years. Results: As expected there was a highly significant increased levels of serum iron and a lower TIBC. The...

Although subjective global assessment (SGA) is a widely used tool for nutritional investigation, the scores are dependent on the inspectors' subjective opinions, and there are only few studies that directly assessed the usefulness of SGA and modified SGA in incident peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. A total of 365 incident PD patients between 2009 and 2015 were enrolled and measured with SGA a...

the removal of copper (ii), zinc (ii), and chromium (iii) from wastewater by carrot residues(cr) was investigated to evaluate cation exchange capacity. the effects of solution ph and co- ions werestudied in batch experiments. adsorption equilibria were initially rapidly established, and then decreasedmarkedly after 10 min. column experiments were carried out in a glass column filled with cr toe...

Background: It is clear that Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a spiral bacterium that infects human and causes gastritis and peptic ulcer. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between H .pylori infection and the iron status of the body. Methods: This study was conducted in Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran from August 2007 to July...

BACKGROUND/AIM To investigate whether spontaneous preterm labor (PTL) with intact membranes is associated with changes in maternal serum prohepcidin concentrations. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study consisted of patients with spontaneous PTL with intact membranes (n = 25), a control group of healthy pregnant women between the 24th and 37th gestational weeks (n = 22), and uncomplicated term preg...

OLIVIER GASCUEL1 AND TANJA STADLER2 1Institut de Biologie Computationnelle (IBC), LIRMM, UMR5506, CNRS and Université de Montpellier, France and 2Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 4058 Basel, Switzerland Correspondence to be sent to: Institut de Biologie Computationnelle (IBC), LIRMM, UMR5506, CNRS and Université de Montpellier, CC 05...