BackgroundMany studies reported that copper, zinc and magnesium play important roles in the pathogenesis and development of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Exchange transfusion and intensive phototherapy are known two modalities of therapy for severe neonatal hyper bilirubinemia, but the effect of them on those trace elements is unknown.Materials and MethodsCopper, Zinc and Magnesium serum levels ...

background: it seems that serum vitamin d levels are one of the potential environmental factors affecting the severity of multiple sclerosis (ms). in this study, we aim to evaluate vitamin d levels in ms patients and healthy subjects and assess the relationship between vitamin d level and disability. methods: in this case-control study, 168 rapid relapsing ms patients and 168 matched healthy co...

purpose: to evaluate the effects of silver nanoparticles on some serum parameters in mice. materials and methods: forty mice, including twenty male and twenty female, were randomly divided into eight groups: c1 and c2 (male and female control groups, respectively), t1, t2 and t3 (male treatment groups), t4, t5 and t6 (female treatment groups). after the acclimatization period, the treatment gro...

515 and prompt intrathecal administration of antiserum would make such adjuvant therapy problematic. Morton N. Swartz, M.D. Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 1. Fothergill LD. Hemophilus influenzae (Pfeiffer bacillus) meningitis and its specific treatment. N Engl J Med 1937;216:58790. 2. Flexner S. The results of the serum treatment in thirteen hundred cases of epidemic meningitis...

Giardiasis is a common disease of the small intestine of man caused by the flagellated protozoan parasite. The influence of host immunity on infection and on modulating its clinical course remains uncertain. Infection in some hosts may be short lived and spontaneously self-limited, while in others it may result in prolonged debilitating illness. Though specific antibody msponse occurs in the ho...

Increasing interest in serum enzyme levels in various conditions has led to recognition of the value of the estimation of creatine phosphokinase activity in muscular disorders. Interpretation of the results obtained has been hampered by the lack of adequate information about the ;normal range'. Data for the normal levels of creatine phosphokinase in cord blood, children, and adults are presented.