Zinc is essential in the metabolic activities body including protein, DNA and RNA synthesis. It plays a role neurogenesis, maturation, migration of neurons synapse formation. high hippocampal which involved learning memory. Deficiency zinc during pregnancy has been related to many congenital abnormalities foetal nervous system. Furthermore insufficient levels children associated with lowered ab...

Testosterone deficiency or hypogonadism is a common finding in men undergoing dialysis, to a great extent a consequence of the failing kidney per se. Testosterone restoration in hypogonadism is common practice among endocrinologists. However, there is currently little awareness of this condition among both uremic patients and nephrologists, and in many cases, testosterone deficiency remains uns...

Aim of the study was to assess the Vitamin D levels in the antenatal women in pregnancy, to find out the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and to correlate that with obstetrics complications like Preeclampsia, GDM, Anemia and IUGR. Vitamin D levels were done by measuring 25hydroxy vitamin D in the serum by Chemiluminescent Immunoassay and accordingly patients were grouped as sufficient, insuff...

the green revolution fulfilled the food demand of crowded millions. from the time of green revolution to till date high yielding and fertilizer responsive varieties have evolved to increase the production per unit area. to improve the productivity only major nutrients are concentrated almost in all crops. though the importance of micronutrient realized during past decades in most of the crops b...

Iron is a vital nutrient to promote the availability of tissue oxygen, cell growth and control differentiation, energy metabolism. Preventing Deficiency Anemia (IDA) necessary because iron central nervous system development especially in first years life. Iron-rich complementary foods are recommended infants around 6 months age store depleted. Better understanding absorption process factors aff...

common variable immunodeficiency (cvid) and selective iga deficiency (sigad) are the most common primary antibody deficiencies. these two diseases may have coincidence in one family and sigad can progress to cvid which suggest common underlying genetic defects between sigad and cvid. this study was designed to find the prevalence of multiple cases in families of iranian patients with cvid or si...

fennel (foeniculum vulgare mill.) is widely cultivated for its edible, strongly-flavored leaves, fruits, seeds andmedicinal uses. as the wild and cultivated plants are influenced by environmental stresses, the effects of salt (25, 50 and 75 mm nacl), nitrogen and iron deficiency (0 n, 0.5 n of hoagland’s solution, 0 fe and 0.5 fe ofhoagland’s solution), 2°c cold (2, 3 and 4 h) and drought (3, 5...

The objectives of this study were to investigate the status of vitamin D in Korean adolescents and to determine the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentration and consumption frequencies of vitamin D food sources by season (June to November and December to May). The subjects were 1,579 adolescents aged 12-18 years participating in the 2008-2009 Korean National Health ...