Magnesium aspartate, potassium aspartate, magnesium potassium aspartate, calcium aspartate, zinc aspartate, and copper aspartate as.Two aspartate aminotransferase EC 2. transfer of an amino group from aspartate to 2-oxoglutarate in order to form.Aspartate Aminotransferase AST in Refrigerated Serum NHANES 2001-2002. The AST catalyzes the reversible transamination of L-aspartate and. Abstract: Th...

The association of coffee consumption with the development of increased serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and/or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) activities over 4 years was studied in 1221 liver dysfunction-free (serum AST and ALT < or = 39 IU/l and no medical care for or no past history of liver disease) Japanese male office workers aged 35 to 56 years. From the analysis using the Kaplan-M...

Increased serum concentrations of several intracellular enzymes have been reported to be useful in establishing the diagnosis and prognosis of hepatopathies in the horse. These include alanine aminotransferase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (AP), arginase, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), gamma glutamyltranferase (γGT), glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH), iditol dehydrogenase (IDH) and lactate dehydr...

Most chronically-infected hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients have increased levels of iron in the liver. Iron overload reduces sustained responses to antiviral therapy, leading to more rapid progression to liver cirrhosis and the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. However, it is still unclear how HIV-1 infection affects iron status in patients chronically infected with HCV. The present stud...

The object of this study was to characterize the antigens evoking an immune response in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients receiving specific active immunotherapy with irradiated autologous tumor cells and Corynebacterium parvum as adjuvant. Seventy serum samples from 11 patients with RCC undergoing specific active immunotherapy were evaluated. Fifty of the 70 serum specimens (71%) had immunog...

INTRODUCTION The utility of Cytokeratin-18 fragment, namely CK18Asp396 (M30), for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is currently uncertain. We aimed to provide further data in this area among multi-ethnic Asian subjects with NAFLD. MATERIALS AND METHODS The accuracy of M30 for detecting NASH was compared with serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To investigate the advantage of Chlorella vulgaris supplementation as an adjunctive therapy in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). METHODOLOGY In a randomized, open-label clinical trial, 76 individuals with NAFLD were randomly assigned to: 1) Chlorella group (n=33), receiving C. vulgaris extract (1200 mg/day) + metformin (750 mg/ day) + vitamin E (200 mg/d...

BACKGROUND The effectiveness of hepatoprotective drugs for DIH (drug induced hepatotoxicity) during tuberculosis treatment is not clear. We evaluated the effectiveness of hepatoprotective drugs by comparing the period until the normalization of hepatic enzymes between patients who were prescribed with the hepatoprotective drugs after DIH was occurred and patients who were not prescribed with th...

A synchronous diagnosis of a plasma cell neoplasm (PCN) and non-plasma hematologic malignancy is very rare. We report what we believe the first instance PCN B lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma (B-ALL) diagnosed at initial presentation. The patient underwent laboratory evaluation for an underlying neoplasm, including immunology studies, bone marrow biopsy, flow cytometry immunophenotyping. Serum l...

In the bone marrow, there are certain populations of stem cell sources with the capacity to differentiate into several different types of cells. Ideally, cell transplants would be readily obtainable, easy to expand and bank, and capable of surviving for sufficient periods of time. Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) possess all of these characteristics. One of the most important benefi...