Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The publishes independently refereed research articles It promotes perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial post-developmental debates special references (Southern) Africa. thereby support scholarly work that examines how humanities twenty-first century ...

background : coronary artery diseases are one of the causes of early death all over the world. in developed countries, ischemic heart disease is responsible for the half of the entire mortalities; however in developing countries it is estimated from 9 million deaths per year annually 32 percent of all deaths due to coronary artery disease. acute coronary syndromes are responsible for over 250,0...

Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from Northern, particularly American, on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them terms a standard vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way seeing. We need that is able to accommodate their experience. This special issue contributes work building vocabulary. select five keywords soc...

A ngiography has been used to monitor the effects of thrombolytic therapy on coronary artery anatomy and flow during the early hours of acute of myocardial infarction since the early 1980s.1-3 Several early investigators noted a spectrum of responses of initially occluded coronary arteries to thrombolytic therapy using angiographic assessment.4,5 The Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI)...

The pharmacokinetic and thrombolytic properties were determined of two recombinant single-chain chimeric plasminogen activators (PA) consisting of u-PA-33k, a low-molecular weight derivative of single-chain urokinase-type PA (scu-PA) comprising amino acids Ala132 through Leu411, and of either a single-chain variable region fragment (Fv) derived from the fibrin fragment D-dimer-specific monoclon...

background : immunogenicity of streptokinase (stk), as a thrombolytic drug, have limited its clinical use. elimination of the amino acid residues that are responsible for immunogenicity while don’t affect the bioactivity of stk is worthy. recently, we modified the stk through elimination of 42 amino acids from its’ c-terminal and assessed its bioactivity in vitro . objective : in this study, bi...

Background: Thrombolytic therapy used in patients with acute myocardial infarction may increase the risk of stroke. Scant information is available from community-based studies. Summary of Report: Among 5,635 consecutive patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction to hospitals in Seattle and surrounding suburban King County, Washington, 116 (2.1%) experienced strokes during hospitalizatio...