serum iron and total iron binding capacity anti percentage saturation were measured in 100 apparently normal individuals (50 men and 50 women) , the ages of the men were from ?2• 50 and of the women from 19-30, average serum iron in men was i33amgjloo ml and in women 112.5mg/ 100 ml, the average values for total iron binding ca paci ty were 306,?mg/ for men and ?90mg/ 100 rnl, for women, percen...

2,4,6-Tripyridyl-s-triazine (TPTZ) is a color reagent for ferrous ion in the pH range 2 to 10,when ascorbic acid is used as the reducing agent. In this range TPTZ and ferrous ion combine in the ratio of two to one. Tris buffer is commonly used to maintain an alkaline pH, but it reacts with other reducing agents, rendering them ineffective. These observations suggested a method for the joint det...

With the increasing availability of programmable calculators and minicomputers, it is desirable to demystify radioimmunoassay calculations, and make them available to laboratories lacking massive computing facilities. Recently I modified the Hewlett-Packard 67/97 logit-log radioimmunoassay program to include weighting (submitted to the HP Program Library). I provide here a description of this p...

Ferritin iron, hemosiderin iron, total iron stores and transformation rate were determined by serum ferritin kinetics. The transformation rate between ferritin and hemosiderin is motivated by the potential difference between them. The transformer determines transformation rate according to the potential difference in iron mobilization and deposition. The correlations between transformation rate...

Unsatisfactory results obtained by histological evaluation of liver tissue in iron loading diseases prompted us to study the distribution of the total liver iron, haem iron and ferritin iron in post mortem human liver tissue from two different sites of the same liver. The total liver iron content was measured by flameless atomic absorption spectroscopy in native liver homogenates and in acid di...

Six green leafy vegetables and herbs - spinach, amaranth, bengal gram, cauliflower, mint, coriander and carrots - were analyzed for moisture, protein, ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, total iron, ionizable iron (as % of total iron) in vitro iron (% of total iron), copper, manganese and zinc. Moisture content of the leaves and carrots varied from 75.1 percent (bengal gram) to 95.4 percent (carrot) ...

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...