Endemic nephropathy is a chronic tubulointerstitial disease characterized by early damage to the proximal tubule, with low-molecular weight proteinuria being an important hallmark and possible tool for early diagnosis. The aim of this retrospective cohort study was to assess the risk of developing endemic nephropathy in subjects with proteinuria from the endemic region in Croatia. The cohort st...

Four manual micromethods for protein determination, two turbidimetric (trichloroacetic and sulfosalicylic acid-sodium sulfate) and two colorimetric (Lowry and Coomassie Brilliant Blue--sodium dodecyl sulfate, CBB-SDS) were used to compare the standard curves for total protein (0.30 to 3 g/L) produced with three reference materials: bovine serum albumin, human serum albumin, and diluted human se...

Until pure erythropoietin was available, estimation of its molecular size depended on measurement of biological activity, with the inherent inaccuracy characteristic of bioassay methods. Previous measurements of molecular weight, by means of radiation inactivation (1)) gel permeation chromatography (2, 3), and a combination of density gradient centrifugation and gel permeation (4) have ranged f...

Titanium dioxide nanoparticles surface-modified by 5-sulfosalicylic acid 5-SA-TiO2 were prepared in ethanol by the chemisorption process. The effects of surface improvement on the photocatalytic degradation and adsorption of methyl orange MO were studied in a batch system by considering the various parameters, such as contact time, adsorbent dosage, pH, initial dye concentration and temperature...

1’TIIE FORMULA of an indicator strip test* for proteinuria, which utilizes the protein error of indicators, was modified in 1959. There have been few reports of experiences with the modified test. Because this strip test is designed to indicate only protein concentrations in excess of about 30 mg./100 ml., it might be thought that the test would readily differentiate a normal cerebrospinal flui...