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Relationship between serum copper & ceruloplasmin level and dependence on sample

The correlation between the serum level of copper and ceruloplasmin was determined among sarcheshmeh copper workers and compared with Kerman blood bank diners samples. Serum copper was analyzed by atomic absorption spectrophotometry and ceruloplasmin was determined by a caloric enzymatic assay. The concentration of serum copper in the test group was 93+_20.4 mg/ DL which was significantly lower...

Physicalism, Supervenience, and Dependence: A Reply to Campbell

1. In a recent article in this journal, Neil Campbell has argued that certain problems with the doctrine of psycho-physical supervenience can be overcome if supervenience is viewed as a relation between predicates rather than as a relation between properties. Campbell suggests that, when properly understood, this predicate version of supervenience "expresses a form of psycho-physical dependence...

Alcohol Dependence and Mortality: Implications for Treatment — Authors' Reply

a Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69100 Villeurbanne, France b Lundbeck SAS, 37-45, Quai du Président Roosevelt, Issy-les-Moulineaux, 92445 Paris, France c Costello Medical Consulting, City House, 126-130 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1RE, UK d Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK e Univer...

Left ventricular beat to beat performance in atrial fibrillation: dependence on contractility, preload, and afterload.

OBJECTIVE To assess independent determinants of beat to beat variation in left ventricular performance during atrial fibrillation. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING University hospital. PATIENTS Seven patients with chronic non-valvar atrial fibrillation. INTERVENTIONS Invasive and non-invasive haemodynamic variables were assessed using a non-imaging computerised nuclear probe, a balloon...

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