Also described as low viscous or low viscosity dextran, dextran 40 is prepared by acid hydrolysis and differential fractionation of a crude macromolecular polysaccharide produced from the fermentation of sucrose by the bacterium, Leuconostoc mesenteroides (strain B-512). The crude material is composed of linked glucose units. In the fraction represented by dextran 40, 80% of the molecules have ...

Blood samples are extensively used for PCR-based diagnosis of microbial infections and screening for blood banking1. It is not possible to do PCR with fresh blood samples each time. This preliminary study is aimed to compare the effect of blood storage (–20oC) on PCR for detecting Plasmodium falciparum in the two most commonly used anticoagulants such as ethylenediaminetetra acetic acid (EDTA) ...

CONTEXT Use of prolotherapy (injection of growth factors or growth factor stimulators). OBJECTIVE Determine the effects of dextrose prolotherapy on knee osteoarthritis with or without anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) laxity. DESIGN Prospective randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. SETTING Outpatient physical medicine clinic. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS Six months or more ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of in ovo injections of albumin, ami-no acid and dextrose into the amnion on the hatchability, growth performance and slaughter yield of ross 308 broiler chicks. fertile eggs (n=360) were assigned to 6 treatment groups (4 replicates of 15 eggs each) including: non-injected eggs (control), and eggs injected with 0.7 ml distilled water (sham), ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of dextrose prolotherapy on pain levels and degenerative changes in painful rotator cuff tendinopathy against 2 potentially active control injection procedures. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial, blinded to participants and evaluators. SETTING Outpatient pain medicine practice. PARTICIPANTS Persons (N=73) with chronic shoulder pain, examination findings of...

PURPOSE To present the results of dextrose prolotherapy undertaken for chronic non-responding coccygodynia in 37 patients. METHODS 14 men and 23 women (mean age, 36 years) with chronic coccygodynia not responding to conservative treatment for more than 6 months were included. 27 of them had received local steroid injections. A visual analogue score (VAS) was recorded for all patients before a...

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of dextrose injection on controlling pain associated with knee osteoarthritis. Methods: To achieve the research objectives, available sampling was done using 80 patients with knee osteoarthritis referring to Taleghani Hospital in 2017 and samples were divided into two groups: 15% dextrose injection and 25% hypertonic dextrose in...

In the presence of animal fluids or their protein constituents, Type I Pneumococcus survived and multiplied at acid hydrogen ion concentrations which in the plain broth were bactericidal for these organisms. Minimal numbers of these cells readily produced pneumococcus growth in serum broth when adjusted at hydrogen ion concentration as great as pH 5.5 with hydrochloric, or to pH 6.5 with acetic...

Antigens for Mycoplasma gallisepticum were prepared from organisms propagated in media with and without dextrose supplementation. The antigens made from organisms produced in medium enriched with dextrose were less sensitive than the others in slide agglutination tests.

Intraoperative hyperglycemia has been observed to be associated with increased morbidity and mortality after cardiac surgery. Dextrose cardioplegia is used for its cardioprotective effects but may lead to intraoperative hyperglycemia and more postoperative complications. This was a retrospective observational study. Patient records (n = 2301) were accessed from a large database at a tertiary ca...