the aim of this study was to evaluate antitumour activity of the roots of hibiscus tiliaceus linn. against dalton’s ascitic lymphoma (dal) in swiss albino mice. a significant enhancement of mean survival time (mst) of h. tiliaceus treated tumour bearing mice was found with respect to control group. h. tiliaceus treatment was found to enhance peritoneal cell counts. when these h. tiliaceus treat...

The mean packed cell volume is higher in the smoking population than in non-smokers.'' Chronic hypoxaemia, from whatever cause, tends to cause a rise in the packed cell volume.4 The obvious temptation is to invoke hypoxaemia, resulting from lung disease induced by smoking, to explain the high values found in smokers-but is this apparently straightforward explanation correct? The increase in pac...

The aim of the present study is to evaluate the antitumor effect and antioxidant role of Mucuna pruriens (Family: Fabaceae) against EAC bearing Swiss albino mice. The effect of methanol extract of Mucuna pruriens (MEMP) on tumor growth and hosts survival time was studied by the following parameters: tu-mor volume, packed cell volume, viable and non-viable cell count and life span of the host. M...

Because raised plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide indicate volume expansion, we studied the effect of red cell transfusion on plasma atrial natriuretic peptide concentration, packed cell volume, and intravascular volume in eight preterm infants. Red cell transfusion increased red cell mass, packed cell volume and erythrocyte count, but decreased plasma volume. Total blood volum...

The aim of this study was to evaluate antitumour activity of the roots of Hibiscus tiliaceus Linn. against Dalton’s Ascitic Lymphoma (DAL) in Swiss albino mice. A significant enhancement of mean survival time (MST) of H. tiliaceus treated tumour bearing mice was found with respect to control group. H. tiliaceus treatment was found to enhance peritoneal cell counts. When these H. ti...

Previous studies have found that there is a correlation between mothers' haemoglobin concentration or packed cell volume and infants' birth weight, and that iron supplementation increases mothers' haemoglobin concentration. The purpose of this study, using the data of a large randomised trial on iron prophylaxis during pregnancy, was to find out whether iron supplementation causes fetal growth ...