Although the toxicity of lead and zinc to birds is widely recognized by veterinarians and bird owners, these metals are frequently found in the environments of pet and aviary birds, and intoxications are common. Clinical signs exhibited by intoxicated birds are often nonspecific, which makes early diagnosis difficult. Fortunately, lead and zinc analyses of whole blood and serum or plasma, respe...

Lead (Pb) intoxication in horses is usually a chronic phenomenon with clinical signs associated with central nervous dysfunction. This report gives details of a case of acute Pb intoxication in a 9-year-old American Saddlebred mare with severe, progressive and ultimately fatal neurological deterioration. During the 4 days of hospitalisation, clinical signs progressed from intermittent headshaki...

a sexual contact by gonorrhoea patients is a valid candidate for the procedure known as " epidemiologic treatment " even when cultures (which may miss 20%, or more of such gonococcal infections) are negative. If chemotherapy is adequate, a link in a chain of infection may thus be broken. A patient who would refuse a diagnosis of venereal disease may willingly accept this precautionary measure, ...

The isospin dependence of the spin-orbit potential is investigated for an effective Skyrme-like energy functional suitable for density dependent Hartree-Fock calculations. The magnitude of the isopin dependence is obtained from a fit to experimental data on finite spherical nuclei. It is found to be close to that of relativistic Hartree models. Consequently, the anomalous kink in the isotope sh...

Lead poisoning in childhood has been reported mainly from Japan, France, the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. Attention is drawn in this paper to the incidence of lead intoxication in childhood in Ceylon, seen and diagnosed within the past three years. Whereas in past reports the principal mode of lead intoxication in childhood has been from ingestion, in the present series inhalati...

pomegranate is an ancient edible fruit with various pharmaceutical bioactivities such as antioxidant, lipid regulation and anti-inflammation. in this study the effectiveness of pomegranate pith and carpellary membrane (ppcm) extract in treatment of experimental lead intoxication was assessed in rats. female wistar rats were exposed to 1000ppm lead acetate in drinking water for 35 days and treat...

stereologic methods are used to abtain quantitative information about 3-dimensional structures from histologic sections. the aim of the present study was using new and unbiased stereologic techniques to investigate changes in volume and number of glomeruli after chronic lead acetate intoxication both quantitatively and in 3-dimensional spaces.lead is one of the heavy metals that has adverse eff...