BACKGROUND AND THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY There are strong evidences linking overproduction of reactive oxygen species and periodontal diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate efficacy of Angipars a natural potent anti oxidative agent on markers of the oxidative damages and periodontal inflammation in the rat. METHODS Periodontitis was induced by single injection of lipopolysaccharide (L...

CASE REPORT First admission A 69 year old white woman was admitted to the Norwalk Hospital April 15, 1968 complaining of left upper quadrant pain and vomiting of two days' duration. She was acutely ill, temperature 101°F., with a somewhat distended abdomen. There was generalized abdominal tenderness particularly in the left upper and right lower quadrants. A large firm,' tender mass was felt in...

Case Report A male taxi-driver, aged forty-seven, was admitted to the Dorset County Hospital on 7.9.60. He was a diabetic of five years standing on I8o g. of carbohydrate and 8o units of lente insulin daily. Following an attack of diarrhaea and vomiting he gave a five days' history of increasing weakness in the legs. Examination. He was thin, slightly icteric, with sparse axillary and pubic hai...

S 753 in the majority of the animals. The following four consecutive phases of changes in organs and blood could be distinguished: (I) a nonspecific phase with accumulation of leukocytes in the lymph nodes, accompanied by increase in the numbers of polymorphonuclear leukocytes in the peripheral blood: (2) preliminary phase with stimulation of the granulocytic system in the spleen and lymph node...

angiogram, the inferior vena cava was severely comCase Report pressed in its suprahepatic segment. Injection of contrast into the hepatic vein showed no occlusion. Mrs G. F. had the first manifestation of polycystic Collateral circulation in the lower part of the inferior kidney disease in 1973 when she was 37 years of age. vena cava confirmed a functional obstruction Gross haematuria revealed ...

MENINGITIS due to organisms of the typhoid-salmonella group is comparatively rare. 'T'he case presently recorded was caused(by bact. enteritidis (Gaertner), and several examples of similar origin have been culled from the literature. R. M., a male infant aged 21 months, the second child of healthy parents. The father was a milk vendor, and the child livedl witlh its parents on a dairy farm just...

For some time after intravenous inoculation into rabbits the BCG multiplies in various organs of the body. As with more virulent tubercle bacilli, the greater the primary deposition of bacilli the more rapid is their initial growth and the earlier is the beginning of their destruction. Destruction sets in synchronously with the development of definite hypersensitivity to tuberculin. With the sm...

The association of chloroquine and proguanil is widely used for antimalarial prophylaxis in Plasmodium falciparum – endemic countries with limited to moderate chloroquine resistance [1]. We report the 1st case of acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) due to this drug combination. A 34-year-old woman with a previous history of maculopapular skin rash induced by mefloquine in 1995 was...

This study of the lesions produced in the skin of guinea pigs inoculated intracutaneously with Mexican typhus virus, shows that there is an early polymorphonuclear response at the point of inoculation. As early as 24 hours after the virus is given, a mononuclear phagocytic infiltration, which is more pronounced around the larger vessels of the corium, vascularis, and muscularis, replaces the po...