Kinin studies were performed in six patients with vasomotor dumping after gastric surgery and in six control patients who had had similar surgical procedures without subsequent dumping. Depletion of the precursor, kininogen, was found in all the patients with dumping and increased free plasma kinin activity in four after a 50-g carbohydrate meal which precipitated an attack. No significant chan...

In Asian developing countries, large amounts of municipal wastes are dumped daily in open dumping sites without proper management. This practice may cause several adverse environmental consequences and increased health risk to local communities. To elucidate contamination by persistent organic pollutants (POPs)--including dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane and its metabolites (DDTs), hexachloroc...

BACKGROUND The purposes of this paper were to examine whether patient dumping has occurred under the National Health Insurance and to explore hospital administrators' attitudes toward the practice of patient dumping in Taiwan. METHODS The study subjects were administrators in general hospitals that were accredited by the Taiwan Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation as medical centers, re...

dumping (Walker et al., 1962; Howe, 1964; Silver et al., 1965; Zeitlin and Smith, 1966). In two patients raised free plasma kinins were not found during a dumping attack. This is probably due to loss of activity during collection of samples owing to the extremely short half-life of bradykinin in vivo (15 seconds). Our results support the findings of Zeitlin and Smith (1966) and provide further ...

Normative solutions to reform the Anti-Dumping Agreement include a comprehensive amendment of Agreement. Such revision has already been suggested in literature, but this study departs from most others by prioritizing procedural issues rather than substantive ones. The proposes changes enhancing justice anti-dumping processes. Due constraints on short timescale, other possibilities are also disc...

ITO, S., IWASAKI, Y., MOMOTSU, T., TAKAI, K., SHIBATA, A., MATSUBARA, Y, and MUTO, T. Neurotensin and Substance P and Dumping Syndrome. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1981, 135 (1), 11-21 To investigste the pathophysiological relation between releases of gut hormones and dumping syndrome, plasma radioimmunoassayable neurotesin, substance P, glucagon-like immunoreactivity (GLI), insulin and blood sugar we...

The dumping of dredged sediments represents a major stressor for coastal ecosystems. The impact on the ecosystem function is determined by its complexity not easy to assess. In the present study, we evaluated the potential of bacterial community analyses to act as ecological indicators in environmental monitoring programmes. We investigated the functional structure of bacterial communities, app...

In this study, concentrations of dioxins and related compounds (DRCs)--such as polychlorinated dibenzo- p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, and coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls--were found in human breast milk from women living near dumping sites of municipal waste and reference sites in India, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines during 1999 to 2000. DRCs were detected in all human b...