BACKGROUND Several epidemiological studies have reported that long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is associated with higher mortality. Evidence regarding contributions of PM2.5 constituents is inconclusive. OBJECTIVES We assembled a data set of 12.5 million Medicare enrollees (≥ 65 years of age) to determine which PM2.5 constituents are a) associated with mortality controlli...

A 90 day study was conducted on twenty four indigenous non-descript goats allocated into four groups. They were fed ad libitum basal complete feed constituted rice straw: rhea (60:40) grass hay and concentrate mixture @ 250/animal/day. Basal complete feed contain 11.07% DCP and 54.21% TDN. Groups were control (T0) basal diet without polyherbal supplementation, treatment 1 (T1) diet with Ruchama...

background & aim: elaeagnus angustifolia and elaeagnus orientalis have a lot of medical utilization. in folk medicine, the fruit and flower of these plants are used as a tonic and antipyretic agent. the aim of the present study was to chemical analysis of volatile constituents of e. angustifolia and e. orientalis flowers.  experimental: the essential oils of e. angustifolia and e. orientali...

Haematological profile for 17 constituents of blood were determined in 998 healthy school children (8-19 years old) and 2246 healthy adult persons (20-70 years old) residing permanently or at least 5 years in a defined geographic region of Zagreb, Croatia. Physiological variations corresponding to age and sex were studied as the most important factors affecting biological variation in haematolo...

NUMBER OF PREVIOUS SURVEYS (1,2, 3, 4) have indicated wide discrepancies of analytic results obtained by various clinical laboratories on the same standard samples. These surveys emphasized the prevailing need for substantial improvement in this field of analysis. One attempt to do this has been through the publication of Standard Methods of Clinical Chemistry by the American Association of Cli...

MANY methods for the determination of bile acids in blood have been published. Most of them have been tested here and have all been found to give bad results, when small amounts of bile acids were added to the blood. This is due chiefly to two circumstances which interfere with the exact determination; one is the difficulty of separating the bile acids from other blood constituents, and the oth...