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OBJECTIVE To determine a pulmonary injury model in rats that is associated with moderate mortality after extubation. DESIGN AND SETTING An experimental study in an animal model of ventilator-induced lung injury in the animal research laboratory in Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital. SUBJECTS AND METHOD A total of 45 male Wistar-Kyoto rats weighing 250-300g received food and water ad l...

CONTEXT Systemic inflammation is thought to have a central role in diabetic long-term complications. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of vitamin D either with or without extra calcium on certain inflammatory biomarkers in the subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2D). DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This was a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial conducted ov...

OBJECTIVE To provide information regarding the management of group B streptococcal (GBS) bacteriuria to midwives, nurses, and physicians who are providing obstetrical care. OUTCOMES The outcomes considered were neonatal GBS disease, preterm birth, pyelonephritis, chorioamnionitis, and recurrence of GBS colonization. EVIDENCE Medline, PubMed, and the Cochrane database were searched for artic...

Synthetic cannabinoid drugs do not cross react on traditional marijuana immunoassay tests, preventing their use in large scale drug screening programs. This paper describes the validation and performance characteristics of two enzyme linked immunosorbent assays designed to detect the use of two common synthetic cannabinoids in urine, JWH-018 and JWH-250. The JWH-018 assay has significant cross-...

The accidental transmission of Chagas' disease by donor blood is recognized as a serious problem in the Latin America. This paper describes the screening of natural products as possible new chemoprophylactic additives in blood banks. Ten plant-derived alkaloids, three terpenes, three quinones and 14 crude plant extracts were tested against bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma eruzi Y strain irr vit...

A system for the rapid screening of urines for the presence of bacteriuria has been devised using a Coulter Counter Model ZBI linked to a multichannel pulse-height analyser (Coulter "Channelyser") with computer analysis of the output. In a series of 215 urines containing growth of a single pathogen of more than 100 x 10(6)/l (greater than 100 000/ml) satisfactory level of sensitivity (99.1%) wa...

The interstellar gas in spiral galaxies can constitute a significant fraction of the baryon mass and it has been demonstrated that sum stellar components correlates well with kinematic signature total content, widths HI line profiles. correlation baryonic is used here to obtain distances for 9984 extending ~0.05c. sample flux limited correction required account an selection bias. absolute scale...

We have measured the amounts of different molecular forms of y-glutamyltransferase(EC 2.3.2.2), leucine aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.2), and alkalinephosphatase(EC 3.1.3.1) in serum of patientswithdifferenttypes of liverdisease.A highmolecular-mass (greater than 1 000 000 Da) form of yglutamyltransferaseand of each of the other enzymes is present in greatest amounts in patients with jaundice from ...

The aim of this paper was to evaluate the effects associated with intramammary infection (IMI) by a bacterium or a group of bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus dysgalactiae, Streptococcus uberis, coliforms, Staphylococci other than S. aureus, and Corynebacterium bovis) on the somatic cell count (SCC) in quarter milk of dairy cows. Papers selected for analysi...