A human intervention study was carried out using male volunteers attending a General Practice Clinic in New York City involving comparison of individuals supplemented with 350 mg x 2 C-Med-100 daily dose for two months with untreated controls for their abilities to respond to a 23 valent pneumococcal vaccine. C-Med-100 is a novel nutraceutical extract from the South American plant Uncaria tomen...

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I. Fortuin NJ, Friesinger GC: Exercise-induced S-T segment elevation: Clinical, electrocardiographic and arteriographic studies in twelve patients. Am J Med 49: 459, 1970 2. MacAlpin RN, Kattus AA, Alvaro AB: Angina pectoris at rest with preservation of exercise capacity: Prinzmetal's variant angina. Circulation 47: 946, 1973 3. Gorlin R, Klein MD, Sullivan JM: Prospective correlative study of ...

Fig. 1. Pseudo gray platelets. (A) Blood collected in EDTA 4 hours prior showing aggregated agranular gray platelets (arrow). (B) Blood collected into EDTA showing large and pale agranular platelets. (C) Blood collected into sodium citrate showing normally stained platelets with tiny purple granules. Blood films were prepared immediately after venipuncture (×1,000, Wright-Giemsa stain). hospita...

Pregnant women often develop anemia concomitant with the increase in serum erythropoietin levels, which are actually lower than those of non-pregnant anemic women due to the possible suppressive effect of endogenous estradiol on erythropoietin induction. The anemia, derived from hemodilution, does not act as a drive for erythropoietin induction, but iron deficiency, often observed during pregna...

In this paper, we propose a ball tracking and catching strategy called GAG (short for “gaining angle of gaze”) that enables a mobile robot to track and catch a ball flying in three-dimensional space. The GAG strategy does not require the information of the ball’s position in three-dimensional space, but instead requires only the angle of elevation of gaze captured as two-dimensional visual info...

BACKGROUND MCAD-deficiency is the most common inborn error of fatty acid oxidation now included in many newborn screening programms using MS/MS. During prolonged catabolic episodes, patients may suffer from metabolic decompensation with dysfunction of liver, skeletal- and heart muscle as well as brain. In anabolism, neither clinical symptoms nor biochemical signs of organ dysfunction occur. C...

Anemia is considered to be one of the major health problems. According to the World Health Organization, about 30 percent of people throughout the world suffer from anemia. The most common cause of anemia is iron deficiency; however, recent work has shown that reactive oxygen species (ROS) of erythrocytes are one of the principal causative factors of anemia. Elevation of ROS in erythrocytes cou...

Pregnant women often develop anemia concomitant with the increase in serum erythropoietin levels, which are actually lower than those of nonpregnant anemic women due to the possible suppressive effect of endogenous estradiol on erythropoietin induction. The anemia, derived from hemodilution, does not act as a drive for erythropoietin induction, but iron deficiency, often observed during pregnan...