OBJECTIVE Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP), characterized by skin pruritus and elevation of serum aminotransferase activity and bile acid concentration in the mother, is one of the most common liver disorders in pregnancy. It was proved that ICP might lead to fetal distress by triggering oxidative damage. Total bile acids (TBA) are an established marker for assessment of the severity...

Intracranial pressure (ICP) and continuous transcranial Doppler ultrasound signals were monitored in 20 head-injured patients and simultaneous synchronous fluctuations of middle cerebral artery (MCA) velocity and B waves of the ICP were observed. Continuous simultaneous monitoring of MCA velocity, ICP, arterial blood pressure, and expired CO2 revealed that both velocity waves and B waves occurr...

Non-spectral matrix effects in ICP-MS are often corrected by the method of internal standardisation. In the case of discrete sampling a common algorithm refers to the ratio of either maxima or areas of both analyte and internal standard peaks. The current work describes a protocol for internal standardisation across the transient peak based on the calculation of analyte-to-internal standard rat...

Wetland snakes, as top predators, are becoming globally recognised bioindicators of wetland contamination. Livers the traditional test organ for contaminant exposure in organisms, but research is moving towards a preference non-lethal tissue sampling. Snake scales can be used an indicator exposure, many metals bind to keratin. We laser ablation with inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission sp...

The influence of glucose and yeast extract (YE) as carbon and nitrogen sources, respectively, on the metabolic processes involving growth, insecticidal protein synthesis and sporulation were studied in batch bioreactor. Significant changes in the metabolic process were observed with different concentration level of glucose and YE. Higher concentration of glucose has resulted in heterogenous pop...

The determination of Pb, Se and As in wine has a great interest due to health risks and legal requirements. To perform the analysis of wine, two considerations must be taken into account: (i) the low concentration level of the analytes; and (ii) the risk of interferences due to wine matrix components. The goal of this work is to evaluate electrothermal vaporization (ETV) sample introduction for...

PURPOSE Bisphosphonates have been used to treat osteoporosis for more than ten years. However, complications associated with long-term administration of bisphosphonates, such as nonunion after pelvic insufficiency fracture or osteonecrosis of the jaw, have been recently reported in the literature. We investigated the relationships among the mechanical properties of the intact rat femur as well ...

the effect of chloride ions concentration on the electrochemical behavior of aisi 410 stainless steel in thesimulated concrete pore (0.1 m naoh + 0.1 m koh) solution was investigated by various electrochemicalmethods such as potentiodynamic polarization, mott–schottky analysis and electrochemical impedancespectroscopy (eis). potentiodynamic polarization curves revealed that increasing chloride ...