A 9 months old Fayumi layer, having 2.5 kg body weight with distended abdomen was examined. On physical examination, the hen was found anaemic, dyspnoeic and recumbent with pulpy abdomen distended with fluid. Upon aspiration, about 800 ml of straw-coloured fluid was collected which contained proteinitious casts but no fibrin. Haematological examination revealed that RBC counts, haematocrit and ...

Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL) is a rare subtype of acute myeloid leukemia. Although known as a distinct entity for a very long time, because of lack of distinct clinical features and morphological criteria, it is difficult to diagnose this variant correctly. We herein present the clinical, morphological, cytochemical, and immunocytochemical features of five cases of AMKL. Certain morph...

BACKGROUND Most laboratory parameters change during pregnancy. A serial study of a large number of routine haematological and biochemical blood parameters and biochemical urine parameters was conducted in a group of 66 healthy nulliparous pregnant women, who had an uncomplicated pregnancy. METHODS Blood samples and 24-h urine samples were obtained at four weeks intervals during pregnancy and ...

Patients with miliary tuberculosis accompanied by a pancytopenia rarely survive their disease. If the peripheral blood picture does recover it has been taken as an indication that there is no underlying haematological disease, and so re-examination of the bone marrow is not performed. A case is described where resolution of the pancytopenia occurred but a persisting haematological disease remai...

The acetone and ethanol extracts from the leaves of Sida Veronicaefolia i.e. AESV and EESV respectively were evaluated for antitumor activity against Ehrlich Ascites Carcinoma (EAC) bearing Swiss albino mice. The extracts were administered at the doses of 500 mg/kg body weight per day for 14 days after 24 h of tumor inoculation. 24 h after the last dose, with fasting, the mice were sacrificed. ...

Aquatic ecosystems are the ultimate descend of natural and anthropogenic inputs of contaminants into the environment. Many of the environmental pollutant especially pesticides enter into aquatic ecosystem through agricultural run off and ultimately affects the different non target aquatic animals like bivalves, crustaceans, molluscs, prawn and fish, which are of great economics important to hum...

SMA-DMSO (RISUG) is a high efficacy male anti-fertility drug, currently in clinical trial phase III. To evaluate the allergenicity of SMA-DMSO, invivo skin allergenicity and sensitivity tests were conducted using Charles foster rats and guinea pigs. Skin Sensitization test was conducted in Charles foster rats in two phases – induction phase and Challenge phase. After the induction phase, there ...

Described are the susceptibility of the Indian langur (Presbytis entellus) to Leishmania donovani and the consequent haematological and serum biochemical changes. The host response to antileishmanial chemotherapy and the immunological profile were also examined. Each langur was inoculated intravenously with 1 x 10(8) amastigotes; a spleen biopsy carried out on day 35 post-infection (p.i.) revea...

The growth rate of neoplastic cells has been the subject of numerous scientific and diagnostic approaches. The study presented here analyses the relationship between mitotic activity in standardised cytogenetic bone marrow preparations from three haematological diseases and diagnostic and clinical parameters, most importantly the outcome. The disorders studied were: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia...

A characteristic feature of fish is the wide physiological range of blood parameters and also the large individual variations. The aim of this study was to compare the haematological profile, glucose and lactate levels of four teleost fish species (Gobius niger, Mugil cephalus, Sparus aurata, Dicentrarchus labrax) and to establish the similarities and differences between these species which are...