BACKGROUND Although the co-burden of injection drug use and HIV is increasing in Africa, little is known about the laboratory markers of injection drug use and anti-retroviral treatment (ART) in Kenyan injection drug users. This study, therefore, aimed at determining the clinical chemistry profiles and identifying the key laboratory markers of HIV infection during ART in injection heroin users ...

Brazil nut storage proteins, 2S albumin, 7S vicilin, and an 11S legumin, were purified using column chromatography. Analytical ultracentrifugation of the purified albumin, vicilin, and legumin proteins, respectively, registered sedimentation coefficients of 1.8, 7.1, and 11.8 S. Under reducing conditions, the major polypeptide bands in 2S albumin were observed at 6.4, 10-11, and 15.2 kDa. The 7...

A feeding trial with twenty-seven male weaned Zandi lambs (initial body weight 27.1±0.38 kg) was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of Saccharomyces cerevisiae SC47 in diet containing high concentrate (85%) on the growth performance, blood parameters and immune system status. Lambs were allocated to one of three treatment diets in a completely randomized design with 3 replicat...

This study was conducted to determine the effect of age on blood biochemical profile of racing pigeons (Columba livia domestica) in Egypt. One hundred healthy racing pigeons of five different age groups (week old, 2 week old, 3 week old, 4 week old as young age and 30 week old as adult age) were used in this experiment. Blood values of packed cell volume (PCV), hemoglobin (Hb), differential leu...

A method is presented for the rapid determination of the fluorescein content, protein content, and fluorescein-to-protein ratio for immune globulin conjugates with fluorescein isothiocyanate as the fluor. This method is based on the absorbance of the fluorescent antibody at those wavelengths primarily associated with the fluorescein and gamma-globulin fractions, and permits these materials to b...

The aim of this study was to determine for reference purposes the values of serum albumin, alpha 1-globulin, alpha 2-globulin, beta-globulin, gamma-globulin, and alpha-lipoprotein (high density lipoprotein), pre-beta-lipoprotein (very low density lipoprotein) and beta-lipoprotein (low density lipoprotein) fractions of normal ostriches (Struthio camelus) in Turkey. Five male and five female ostr...

In serum of patients with nephrosis both albumin and globulin showed by osmotic pressure nearly double the molecular weights of normal albumin and globulin. In the urines of such patients, on the other hand, both proteins showed molecular weights lower even than in normal serum. The colloidal osmotic pressures were measured by the author's method at such dilutions that the van't Hoff law relati...

This study was conducted to compare the bio-efficacy of herbal methionine (H-Met) relative to DL-methionine (DL-Met) on 160 “Ross 308” broiler chickens. DL-Met and H-Met were added to the basal diet in eight experimental treatments with three and four concentrations respectively in starter, grower and finisher period. Blood parameters which were measured at 24 and 42 days of age consisted of: s...

Biochemical compositions (total protein = TP, total lipid = TL, globulin = Gl, albumin = Al and albumin/globulin = A/G ratio) of Oreochromis niloticus liver, kidney and brain exposed to 0.5 ppm aqueous extracts of Raphia vinifera (AERV) were investigated. The various biochemical compositions fluctuated with time of exposure to AERV. TP ranged between 0.91-4.64 mg/dl, Al between 0.41 – 3.02 mg/d...

Polychlorinated biphenyls exposure damages the rat liver cells. Hematological parameters such as hemoglobin, packed cell volume, red-blood cells, white-blood cells, neutrophils, platelet counts, and RBC indices were significantly decreased. Polymorphs, eosinophil counts, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate were significantly increased. Serum liver enzymes such as aspartate transaminase, alanine ...