INTRODUCTION Stress-induced hyperglycemia increases morbidity and mortality. Tight control can reduce mortality but has proven difficult to achieve. The SPRINT (Specialized Relative Insulin and Nutrition Tables) protocol is the only protocol that reduced both mortality and hypoglycemia by modulating both insulin and nutrition, but it has not been tested in independent hospitals. METHODS SPRIN...

The question of the extent of the ability of the human organism to detoxicate benzoic acid by conjugation with glycocoll and elimination as hippuric acid in the urine has frequently been raised. Lewinsk? observed in the urine of men to whom 12 to 20 grams of benzoic acid had been given in small doses during t,he course of twelve hours, neither free benzoic acid nor benzoyl glycuronates. With la...

A method for the growth of Clostridium pasteurianum in a 140-liter (total capacity) stainless-steel vessel is described. By preventing the pH value from falling below 5.6, the growth of cultures was prolonged. Larger amounts of the carbon source (sucrose) and the nitrogen source (ammonium ion) were supplied and consumed, and cell yields of up to 5.56 g (dry weight) per liter were obtained. The ...

In goose salt gland slices incubated in bicarbonate-buffered medium which contained 170 mEq of Na(+)/liter, net total tissue Na(+), expressed as milliequivalents per kilogram, was, in the presence of either acetylcholine (plus eserine) or ouabain, significantly higher than that of the bathing fluid. Acetylcholine caused an increase in the tissue Na(+) content as compared with untreated slices; ...

A lower risk of cancer at many different sites is seen in association with higher intakes of vegetables and fruit. There are many biologically plausible reasons for this potentially protective association. It is argued that increasing intake of plant foods to 400-800 g/day is a public health strategy of considerable importance for individuals and communities worldwide.

Objective. This study examined the association between serum albumin concentration and ketosis risk in hospitalized individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods. A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted at a medical center in Taiwan. Inclusion criteria were endocrinology ward inpatients exceeding 21 years of age, with preexisting diagnosis of T2DM, and blood glucose abov...

Particulars of Microorganism and Its Cultivation-The strain of A. czcetigenum used was NCIB 8132 from the National Collection of Industrial Bacteria, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Teddington, Middlesex, England. The defined medium, made with distilled water, contained (grams per liter): KHZPOI, 2.0; MgS04.7 HSO, 1.0; FeS04.7 HZO, 0.01; (NH&HP04, 2.5; calcium n-pantothenate, ...

This study aims to determine the best concentration of wood vinegar on growth and yield okra plants ( Abelmoschus esculantus L). research has been carried out in Kenten Laut, Sukamaju, Sako, Palembang Indonesia from October 2017 January 2018. The design was Randomized Block Design (RBD) with 5 (five) treatments replications. treatment studied vinegar, namely P0 = control, P1 10 ml vinegar/liter...

Among 177 carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacilli (108 KPC, 32 NDM, 11 IMP, 8 OXA-48, 4 OXA-181, 2 OXA-232, 5 IMI, 4 VIM, and 3 SME producers), aztreonam-avibactam was active against all isolates except two NDM producers with elevated MICs of 8/4 and 16/4 mg/liter; ceftazidime-avibactam was active against all KPC-, IMI-, SME-, and most OXA-48 group-producing isolates (93%) but not metallo...

We introduce O-systems (Definition 3.1) of orthogonal transformations of R m , and establish 1 − 1 correspondences both between equivalence classes of Clifford systems and that of O-systems, and between O-systems and orthogonal multiplications of the form µ : R n × R m −→ R m , which allow us to solve the existence problems both for O-systems and for umbilical quadratic harmonic morphisms (Theo...