BACKGROUND Immunosuppression due to pregnancy may lead to higher susceptibility to infections and reactivation of latent infections, such as BK polyomavirus (BKPyV). There is lack of information about the prevalence of novel human polyomavirus 9 (HPyV9), WU (WUPyV) and KI (KIPyV) during pregnancy. OBJECTIVES To study whether pregnancy results in higher prevalence of HPyV9, WUPyV, KIPyV and th...

BACKGROUND Dengue laboratory diagnosis is essentially based on detection of the virus, its components or antibodies directed against the virus in blood samples. Blood, however, may be difficult to draw in some patients, especially in children, and sampling during outbreak investigations or epidemiological studies may face logistical challenges or limited compliance to invasive procedures from s...

Objective(s): The present study evaluates the protective effects of myricitrin and its solid lipid nanoparticle (SLN) on diabetic nephropathy (DN) induced by streptozotocin-nicotinamide (STZ-NA) in mice. Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, 108 adult male NMRI mice were divided into 9 groups: control, vehicle, diabetes, dia...

Etamiphylline camsylate (Millophylline V) was administered intravenously to two horses at a dose of 2.8 mg/kg. Urine and blood samples were taken up to 32 h post administration. Unhydrolyzed plasma and urine was extracted using solid phase extraction (SPE). The identity of the parent drug and metabolites was confirmed using a linear ion trap mass spectrometer and accurate mass analysis on an or...

patients and methods this cross-sectional study included a total of 120 adult predialysis ckd patients. forty patients were allocated in each predialysis ckd group of stages 3, 4, and 5. serum ctnt and hs-crp, plasma nt-probnp, and single spot urine albumin creatinine ratio (acr) were measured. ultrasonographic examination of carotid artery was done with 7.5 mhz linear probe in b mode ultrasono...

the present study was conducted on five healthy male cross bred calves to study the kinetic dispositionand urinary excretion of levofloxacin following its single subcutaneous administration at the dose of4 mg.kg-1. the concentration of levofloxacin in plasma and urine samples was estimated by microbiologicalassay. peak plasma level of levofloxacin (2.8 ± 0.3 μg.ml-1) was observed at 45 min and ...

Urine and plasma specimens fortified with 82 drugs and metabolites were prepared and analyzed by liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (QTOF) instrumentation from three different vendors using the instrument manufacturers' methods and workflows for drug screening. No prior knowledge about the compounds included or their concentrations were provided. Samples were prep...

A simple, sensitive isocratic method for the detection and quantification of ciprofloxacin in plasma and urine has been developed. The assay consisted of reversed-phase HPLC with ultraviolet detection. Plasma proteins were removed by a fast and efficient procedure. For the urine samples, the only required sample preparation was dilution. Separation was achieved on a C18 reversed-phase column. T...