PURPOSE We determined the prevalence and predictors of sexual and excretory dysfunction in patients 1 year after pelvic fracture. MATERIALS AND METHODS The multicenter Pennsylvania Trauma Outcomes Study enrolled 1,238 patients and contacted them 1 year after injury. Sexual limitations and excretory dysfunction (bladder/bowel incontinence) were defined based on responses from the Functional Ca...

BACKGROUND Indocyanine green (ICG) excretory defect is a dye excretory disorder, and it is characterized by the selective impairment of plasma ICG clearance with normal liver histology. The pathophysiology involves selective loss of active transporters for ICG in the hepatic cell membrane. Several cases of hepatectomy in patients with ICG excretory defect have been reported, but the expression ...

morphological and morphometric characters of two species of superfamily sphaerularioidea, recovered in southwestern iran namely deladenus durus and prothallonema obtusum are given. the recovered specimens of d. durus are characterized by having a valvular chamber in metacorpus and excretory pore posterior to the hemizonid.the iranian population of p. obtusum is characterized by having four line...

UNLABELLED Leishmaniasis infection may involve destruction of nasal tissues resulting in lacrimal drainage system alteration. PURPOSE To evaluate the frequency of lacrimal excretory system sequelae in patients treated for leishmaniasis. METHODS Forty-five leishmaniasis-treated patients (90 nasolacrimal ducts) were submitted to lacrimal excretory system evaluation. All were evaluated by Jone...

Nitrogenous excretion by the terrestrial anomuran crab Birgus latro L. was examined. The main excretory product was uric acid, representing 79-5 % of total excretory nitrogen. It was eliminated as white faeces separate from undigested food material and made up 82-6% of excretory faecal nitrogen. The faeces were the principal route of nitrogenous excretion, accounting for 96-2% of total excretio...

histological and histochemical studies on the pancreas of goose (anser albifrons) were carried out using special staining and light microscope. the pancreas in goose is serous tubuloacinar gland having exocrine and endocrine part. smooth muscle fibres were absent in capsule of pancreas. acinar cells have bizonal shape. intralobular ducts, interlobular and main excretory ducts were present withi...

Insects have a slowly operating excretory system in which the passive rate of movement of haemolymph solutes into a slowly secreted primary excretory fluid is restricted by a reduction in the area available for passive transfer. They may have come to possess such an energy-saving system as a result of their evolution as small animals in osmotically and ionically stressful environments. Although...

Excretory-secretory products of Toxocara canis larvae have been considered as a major functional antigen in immune responses against toxocariasis. We studied ultrastructural localization of T. canis second-stage larval antigen using a seropositive human serum under immunogold electron microscopy. High-density gold particles were observed in the secretory cells, excretory duct, intestinal epithe...

background : ascaridia galli , the largest nematode of small intestine of birds, especially the native poultry, may give rise to serious illness, pathological defects and economical losses even in modern poultry production systems. although various measures have been undertaken to vaccinate poultry against a.galli , no satisfactory results were obtained so far. however, there is no report on th...

background: to evaluate the immunological properties of leishmania major excreted- secreted (e-s) products on the progress of leishmaniasis in susceptible balb/c mice. methods: promastigotes of the leishmania major were cultured and e-s products were collected during the culture preiod. groups of balb/c mice (n= 12) were immunized with e-s products or whole antigen. animals were challenged with...