Somatotropin (ST) treatment promotes animal growth and allows for the conservation of amino acids by increasing nitrogen retention and reducing ureagenesis and amino acid oxidation. To determine whether the improvement in amino acid conservation with ST treatment involves regulation of urea cycle enzyme activities in both liver and intestine, growing swine were treated with either ST (150 g kg ...

Patients with chronic kidney disease and heart failure (HF) have been shown to be at higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events and death. Recent studies have demonstrated that blood urea nitrogen (BUN) might serve as a powerful predictor of mortality in acutely decompensated HF. The goal of this study was to determine the impact of BUN on long-term mortality in patients with stage B a...

BACKGROUND Admission measures of renal function (blood urea nitrogen [BUN], estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR]) in patients hospitalized for worsening heart failure are predictors of in-hospital outcomes. Less is known about the changes and relationships among these variables and the postdischarge survival rate. METHODS AND RESULTS In a retrospective analysis of 949 patients from the...

BACKGROUND Identifying reversible renal dysfunction (RD) in the setting of heart failure is challenging. The goal of this study was to evaluate whether elevated admission blood urea nitrogen/creatinine ratio (BUN/Cr) could identify decompensated heart failure patients likely to experience improvement in renal function (IRF) with treatment. METHODS AND RESULTS Consecutive hospitalizations with...

Seventy six high and low producer cows were selected to determine the composition of the blood and milk parameters, and their interrelationships to determine the indices which could be useful to improve the milk yield. The highest mean blood concentrations were found in high producer cows. Mean values for blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum protein (SPtn), creatinine, triglycerides (TGs), choleste...

Abstract Introduction Renal dysfunction is one of the most important comorbidities in patients with chronic heart failure (HF) and frequently accentuated setting acute HF (AHF). Serum creatinine blood urea nitrogen (BUN) have been classically used as markers renal dysfunction, despite having several limitations. High (BUN)/creatinine ratio has associated higher mortality HF. We aimed to predict...

BACKGROUND Nephrotoxicity is one of the most important limitations of cisplatin-based chemotherapies which associated with many complications and high mortality rate. OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of lycopene on cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity in patients with cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this double-blind, randomized clinical trial, 120 patients were randomly assigned to two gro...

An evaluation of the Kodak glucose/BUN analyzer including experience with proposed testing protocols An evaluation of the analysis of serum urea and plasma_glucose on the Kodak Ektachem GLU/BUN()analyzer is described. It incorporates the experimental design and statistical methods outlined in the Proposed Standard for Establishing Performance Claims (PSEP) (1) for clinical chemical methods PSEP...

Background and aim: Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The accuracy of scoring scales is lower regarding the evaluation of mortality and need for ICU treatment. This study aimed to evaluate the role of the albumin level and Blood urea nitrogen /Albumin (BUN/Alb) ratio in the prediction of disease severity and one-month mortality. Mater...

Abstract Background Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (NH) is among the common neonatal morbidities. Phototherapy its most used therapeutic intervention. Different delivering systems and types are currently available. This study aimed to detect compare effects of different phototherapy on serum electrolytes blood glucose effect duration them. Results Five hundred healthy newborns with indirect NH wer...