The heat precipitation method (Aberdeen method) was compared with the Ratnoff and Menzie method of fibrinogen assay in 320 donors, including normals and patients suffering from malignant melanoma, renal failure, hypertension, multiple myeloma, etc. Excellent correlation (r=0-8287, p less than 0-000 000 1) was found between these two methods. However, on some occasions individual low results wer...

Oral food and fluid restriction and parenteral fluid substitution are unanimously accepted in the therapy of acute pancreatitis. Most other measures are controversial. The pros and contras of the modern therapeutical recommendations are discussed: gastric tube, antacids, atropine, cimetidine, glucagon, calcitonin, somatostatin, antienzymtherapy with aprotinin, and phospholipase A inhibition, th...

In Vitro Fermentation of Linear and -1,2-Branched Dextrans by the Human Fecal Microbiota Shahrul R. Sarbini, Sofia Kolida, Thierry Naeye, Alexandra Einerhand, Yoann Brison, Magali Remaud-Simeon, Pierre Monsan, Glenn R. Gibson, and Robert A. Rastall* Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, P.O. Box 226, Reading RG6 6AP, United Kingdom; Tate and Lyle Inno...