in previous years, identification of fetal cells in maternal blood circulation has caused a new revolution in non-invasive method of prenatal diagnosis. low number of fetal cells in maternal blood and long-term survival after pregnancy limited the use of fetal cells in diagnostic and clinical applications. with the discovery of cell-free fetal dna (cffdna) in plasma of pregnant women, access to...

three antituberculosis medications are investigated in this work consist of rifampicin, isoniazid and pyrazinamide. the ultra violet (uv) spectra of these compounds are overlapped, thus use of suitable chemometric methods are helpful for simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of them. a generalized version of net analyte signal standard addition method (gnassam) was used for determinatio...

in the present work, an adsorptive stripping voltammetric method using a hanging mercurydrop electrode (hmde) was described in order to determine the ultra trace of thiosemicarbazidein different real samples. the method is based on accumulation of thiosemicarbazide on mercuryelectrode. the potential was scanned to the negative direction and the differential pulse strippingvoltammograms were rec...

a new and simple method followed by atomic absorption spectrometry has been developedfor indirect determination of ascorbic acid (aa). the proposed method was based on the oxidationof aa to dehydroascorbic acid with cu2+cation(200mgl-1)in an ammonium thiocyanatesolution atph2.4. aa reduces cu2+to cu+followed by the precipitation of cu+ with scn-. then, the excess ofcu2+in the solution was measu...

this study was intended to evaluate the quality of 30 honey samples, in terms of physicochemical properties such as moisture content, electrical conductivity, ash content, reducing sugars and sucrose, free acidity, ph, diastase activity, and hydroxymethylfurfural (hmf) content. moreover, three methods recommended by the international honey commission for the determination of hmf, including 1) h...

A rapid, simple and sensitive high-performance liquid chromatography method was developed for determination of ciprofloxacin in plasma by means of ultraviolet detection. Ofloxacin was used as an internal standard and separation carried on a Novapak C18 column using a mobile phase of 0.01 M phosphate buffer (pH =2.6): methanol (82: 18 v/v). Extraction of drug was performed from plasma by liquid-...

In a previous paper some of us presented the structure and properties new family ionic liquids, ILs, with common cation, 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium (the popular [C4C1Im]+ or [BMIM]+) variety anions based in thiocyanate (SCN)−: one reference sample ten anionic metal complexes different valences: AlIII, MnII, FeIII, CrIII, NiII, HgII, ZnII, CoII CuI, resulting, respectively, [BMIM](SCN), [BMIM]...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of two electronic apex locators (smarpex and novapex) in detecting apical perforation. materials and methods: after access cavity preparations, the working length was determined by the first examiner before and after perforation with a stereomicroscope by introducing a k-file size 10 into the canal and size 25 k-file up to the per...

introduction: the existence of sexual dimorphism in human skeletons especially skull and its medico-legal importance had long been studied [3] [2,1]. this study has investigated the existence of sexual dimorphism in cranial dimensions of nigerian population. methods: a total of 100 adult dry skulls, (78 males, 22 females) free from damage and deformity fully ossified from departments of anatomy...