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background and objective: diagnosis of hirschsprung’s disease (hd) as the most common cause of neonatal intestinal obstruction is based on the presence of aganglionosis from seromuscular or full thickness biopsy. due to the complication of full thickness or seromuscular rectal biopsy, mucosal-sub mucosal biopsy is more intended. however, interpretation of these biopsies stained with hematoxylin...

background: the interaction between serum neuron-specific enolase (nse), biogenic amino-acids and neurobehavioral function with blood lead levels in workers exposed to lead form lead-acid battery manufacturing process was not studied. objective: to evaluate serum nse and biogenic amino-acids (dopamine and serotonin) levels, and neurobehavioral performance among workers exposed to lead from lead...

introduction: we evaluated the incidence and clinical outcome of patients with hypertensive acute ischemic stroke (ais) admitted to a tertiary care center in central india. in addition, we examined the status of stroke biomarkers namely neuron-specific enolase (nse), glial specific protein (s-100ββ), and inter-α-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain 4(itih4) in the serum of patients suffering from ais ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to systematically review the importance of neuron-specific enolase and S100 beta for diagnosing and monitoring septic encephalopathy. METHODS A PubMed database search was performed to identify studies that evaluated S100 beta and neuron-specific enolase serum levels in patients with sepsis and that were published between January 2000 and April 2012. Only hu...

background and objective: neuroendocrine differentiation has not been proved to have effects in behavior of colorectal carcinomas. the aim of this study was immunohistochemical evaluation of neuroendocrine differentiation in colorectal cancer. patients and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 83 paraffin blocks from patients admitted in rasoul-e-akram hospital, tehran, iran, during 2003 to 2...

Neuron-specific enolase concentrations were measured in samples of rat cerebrospinal fluid obtained repeatedly before and after occlusion of the middle cerebral artery. A method for reliable, repeated sampling of cisternal cerebrospinal fluid was developed for this purpose. Occlusion of the middle cerebral artery induced cerebral infarcts of slightly variable size with good correlation to raise...

The development of a radioimmunoassay for S-100 protein is described. This method was used in combination with a recently developed radioimmunoassay for neuron-specific enolase in cerebrospinal fluid and serum from 47 patients with cerebral infarction, transient ischemic attack, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and head injury. In cerebrospinal fluid, increased concentrations ...