By C. R. DAS GUPTA, M.B. D.TJ\i. AND J. B. CHATTERJEA, M.D. P ERNICIOUS ANEMIA (PA) is essentially a disease of the temperate climate, affecting chiefly the w’hite races. Friedlander’ reviewed the racial incidence of the disease and showed that it is rare in Negroes and comparatively rare in the dark-skinned w’hite races such as Italians and Greeks. It is rather uncommon in Jew-s and is very ra...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Antispasmodics including otilonium bromide (OB) are recommended to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). However, reports about OB experience in Asia is sparse. The purpose of present study was to provide the efficacy of OB in treating Asian IBS patients. METHODS Overall, 117 IBS patients meeting Rome II criteria were enrolled in an 8-week, double-blind, active-controlled and ...

The hepatitis B vaccine is considered to be highly immunogenic and has a good safety profile. In adults, it has a primary non-response rate of 5%-10%. Causes of nonresponse to hepatitis B vaccine include age, sex, obesity smoking. Certain human leucocyte antigen (HLA) phenotypes have been known to be associated with responsiveness to the vaccine, and found to be different in different ethnic gr...

To reveal the effects of different land-use types on soil enzyme activities, samples were collected from 0–10, 10–20 and 20–30 cm layers to compare analyze β-glucosidase (BG), urease (URE), protease (PROT) catalase (CAT) activities in farmland (FL), abandoned land (AL) three plantation forests: Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco (PO), Robinia pseudoacacia L. (RP) Quercus variabilis Bl. (QV) roc...

More than a decade ago, several investigators found serum PSA levels in cancer-free men to correlate directly with age and prostatic volume. This provided the basis for the establishment of age-specific reference ranges for PSA constituting an attempt to improve sensitivity and specificity of serum PSA as a marker for prostate cancer. Differing age-specific reference ranges for PSA were establi...

OBJECTIVE To determine if there is any association between autoantibody profile and damage in a cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS A prospective cohort of SLE patients attending two SLE clinics in Birmingham was analysed. All patients fulfilled ARA criteria for SLE. Detailed clinical and serological information was recorded at each visit. Damage according to t...