UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The prevalence of obesity is increasing exponentially world over. Leptin resistance/hyperleptinemia is attributed to its cause in majority of the obese humans where mutation in genetic component or ob gene has not been found operative. The generation of oxidative stress was suggested as its cause. In our previous study, we have reported that the inclusion of antioxidant...

The relationship between total and ionic serum magnesium in health and chronic disease across different ethnicities has not been well studied. Accordingly, we have examined the interrelationship between total magnesium and ionic magnesium, as well as ionic calcium to ionic magnesium ratio, in 286 patients made up of indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, with or without diabetes. Significan...

seventy six high and low producer cows were selected to determine the composition of theblood and milk parameters, and their interrelationships to determine the indices which could beuseful to improve the milk yield. the highest mean blood concentrations were found in highproducer cows. mean values for blood urea nitrogen (bun), serum protein (sptn), creatinine,triglycerides (tgs), cholesterol,...

in this study the effects of the most popular anaesthetics including: ms222, clove oil (eugenia caryophyllata) and 2-phenoxyethanol, on some haematological and serum enzymes of cyprinus carpio were investigated. firstly the effective dose of each anaesthetics (3 minutes for anesthesia and 5 minutes for recovery ) and lc50 of them were calculated in c. carpio. fish were anaesthetized with the ef...

objective whatever the health field, compliance with the recommended practice guidelines or parameters for diagnosis by specialists and expert health professionals benefits the patients. this study was conducted to determine the whether or not these guidelines or parameters are applied to the evaluation of children with first simple febrile convulsion (sfc) in a regional teaching hospital. mate...

an ultrasound-assisted surfactant-enhanced emulsification microextra- ction (uaseme) coupled with high performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection has been developed for the extraction and determination of thiopental in serum and urine samples. a simple microextraction method based on emulsification of organic extraction solvent in aqueous sample using an ionic surfactant and withou...

backgrounds and aims: stroke incidence rate has increased during the past 2 decades. the question of whether calcium, chloride, potassium, sodium levels are associated with stroke has remained controversial. the present study aimed to evaluate the serum levels of potassium, sodium, calcium, and chloride within stroke patients. materials and methods: the study participants consisted of 53 cconse...