Long-term continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) often causes peritoneal fibrosis and sclerosis with a loss of function, and some CAPD patients develop sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis. Glucose-based peritoneal dialysis fluids readily produce glucose degradation products by heat sterilization, and glucose degradation products accelerate the formation of advanced glycation end-prod...

A capillary electrophoresis method was used for assay of some degradation products of carvedilol. The optimized parameters were as; running buffer 80 mM acetate dissolved in methanol/ethanol mixture (65:35 v/v), applied voltage of 19 kV, temperature is 20 ºC and the wavelength range of 200-350 nm. The results indicate that the proposed CE method could effectively separate carvedilol from its de...

THE work of Harden [1901] and of Grey [1919, 1, 2] and others has shown that the end products of the bacterial degradation of glucose and of mannitol are qualitatively the same, but differ considerably in the relative quantity of the substances formed. Thus, under similar conditions of fermentation, B. coli communis produces twice as much alcohol from mannitol as it does from glucose, but much ...

the metabolic syndrome (ms) recognized as a major cause of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, has become one of the major public health challenges worldwide. the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome is multiple and still poorly understood. no single factor has yet been identified as an underlying causal factor. there is a growing belief, however, that obesity, specially visceral obe...