BACKGROUND Most studies on blood donors are centered on the selective evaluation of red blood cell parameters with little or no regard to white blood cells and platelets. METHODS One hundred and twelve male blood donors comprising 43 first-time and 69 regular blood donors, drawn from a tertiary health facility in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, participated in the study. Their hematological param...

BACKGROUND The prognostic values of preoperative neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), monocyte/lymphocyte ratio (MLR), and platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have been previously described. This study assessed the prognostic values of other pretreatment complete blood cell parameters in Chinese patients with curatively resected NSCLC. METHODS A total of 1466 c...

background: rosa damascena is a traditional medicinal plant used in asia to treat several ailments. this study reports in vitro and in vivo antioxidative properties and toxicity of methanolic and aqueous extracts of white rose, an indigenous variety of rosa damascena from iran. methods: the antimicrobial activities, total phenolics, antioxidative properties and the blood sera ferric-reducing an...

Mariani et al. add to a growing body of the literature associating elevated white blood cell counts to adverse outcomes in the setting of ST-elevation MI (STEMI). For the first time, the authors highlight the association of elevated monocytes counts particularly with late left ventricular (LV) functional recovery following primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for STEMI. A wealth of ...

to assess the effects of pre-analytical handling (storage time and temperature) on selected hematological parameters, whole blood samples were collected in edta coated tubes from each of 30 clinically normal male adult beagle dogs. each sample was separated in 2 aliquots, of which one was stored in ambient temperature (25 ˚c) and the other one was refrigerated (2 to 4 ˚c). complete blood counts...

blood brain barrier (bbb) is a specialized non fenestrate barrier that formation by the endothelial cells and controls the transportation of the cells and molecules in to the brain. reducing in function of bbb is one of disruptions in neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis. endothelial progenitor cell (epc) help to the bbb to control the diapedesis of inflammatory cells & molecules in to...

introduction: neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in children, accounting for 8% to 10% of all childhood cancers. significantly, autologous transplantation appeared to have the largest impact on survival for the high risk subset of patients, such as those with n-myc amplified metastatic disease diagnosed after age 2 years. patients and methods: this study includes high ris...