CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Malnutrition in cancer patients has many causes. Nutritional status is usually assessed from weight/height indices. These present limitations for the nutritional assessment of cancer patients: their weights include tumor mass, and lean mass changes are not reflected in weight/height indices. The objective was to evaluate differences between two anthropometric methods and c...

Effects of Cypermethrin and their reversal by Leucoverin following oral administration were evaluated in mice. Mature male swiss mice were orally administered cypermethrin (15 mg/kg body wt), leucoverin (50mg/kg body wt) or both daily for 4 weeks. At the end of fourth week, hematological & serum biochemical were studied. Subchronic exposure to cypermethrin significantly reduced, when the co-con...

OBJECTIVES Pioglitazone (Actos) is one of the most controversial recent oral antidiabetic drugs. It was originally authorized in the European Union in 2000, and approved as an oral monotherapy for overweight second type of diabetic patients in 2002. It belongs to the thiazolidinedione group which some of its members have been withdrawn from the market due to the hepatotoxicity or cardiotoxicity...

Most animals are concurrently infected with multiple parasites, and interactions among these parasites may influence both disease dynamics and host fitness. However, the sublethal costs of parasite infections are difficult to measure and the effects of concomitant infections with multiple parasite species on individual physiology and fitness are poorly described for wild hosts. To understand th...

Reference intervals for common hematological and clinical chemistry parameters constitute an important basis for health care. Moreover, with increasing priority in drug and vaccine development for infectious diseases in Africa, the first priority is the safety evaluation and tolerability of the candidate interventions in healthy populations. To accurately assess health status and address advers...

The aim of this study was to examine the adverse effects of zinc nanoparticles on hematological indices of trout and investigate the improvement of these indices after vitamin C treatments. This study assesses the protective role of vitamin C in fish exposed to ZnO NPs. Two concentrations of ZnO-NPs (40 and 80 mg L-1) and two doses of vitamin C (400 and 800 mg per kg of feed) were used to treat...

Background: The double heterozygous state of α/β thalassemia may alter the hematological indices and modify the phonotype. In addion, definite characterizaon of co-inheritance of α- and β-thalassemia heterozygous carriers may change the process of genec counseling. Materials and Methods: An Iranian couple with low hematological indices was analyzed for α-globin gene deleons using mulpl...

Corresponding Author: Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Fajr Medical Laboratory, Keshavarz Blvd. Sari, Iran. Phone: +98-1133292929 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Background: Alpha Thalassemia is one of the most prevalent disorders worldwide with a high carrier rate in Mazandaran province (north of Iran). Carriers of --MED double gene deletion are at risk of having a child with haemoglobin H (HbH)...

In order to provide a reference range for hematological parameters and red blood cells indices in Thai children, we analyzed data from 395 healthy non-anemic Thai children age from 1-16 years old, who all had normal pattern of hemoglobin typing (Hb A and Hb A2 less than 3.5%). Hematological analysis was performed using an automated cell counter and the hemoglobin studies were carried out by ele...