hypokalemic disease is a disorder in which the amount of serum’ s potassium declines and the patient faces limbs weakness. in this disease, eye muscle and respiratory muscles rarely become involved and death may follow due to respiratory paralysis and heart conducting disturbances. since this disease is treatable and progressive weakness can be prevented, therefore in the study conducted we att...

background: one of the most common endocrine problems in major beta-thalassemia is hypothyroidism (ht). the aim of this study was to evaluate thyroid function status in major beta-thalassemia patients older than 10 years old. methods: this cross sectional study was carried out on thalassemia major patients registered on thalassemia center of amirkola children hospital in babol. a questionnaire ...

background patients, who survived from shotgun injuries, often have some retained lead pellets in their bodies. several cases of lead toxicity have been reported regarding these patients. objectives this study seeks to compare the serum lead level in patients who have retained lead pellets in their bodies with the control group. patients and methods in this case-control study, we gathered the s...

deproteinisation with acetonitrile (along with methanol or other reagents) is a useful and rapid technique in analysis of drugs or their metabolites in human serum. in this paper application of this simple technique in biopharmaceutical analysis using capillary electrophoresis (ce) is evaluated. some drugs with different ionic and protein binding properties were selected and dissolved in human ...

serum ferritin (sf) levels in 734 seven-year-old children was measured by a radioimmuno assay method, and its possible relation-ship with hemoglobin, hematocrit and mchc was investigated. the results showed there was positive correlation between sf with hemo-globin, hematocrit and mchc values.

migraine is one of the common varieties of headache. it involves 4 to 6 percent of men and 13 to 16 percent of women under 30 years in more than 80% of cases. some studies have shown that in 50% of patients serum magnesium level decreases during attacks of headache and using magnesium tablets and intravenous magnesium sulfate is more effective for treatment of migraine attack, than placebo. thi...

introduction and objective: zinc as the second trace element of the human body plays an important role in numerous functions. a large number of research studies have showed serum zinc deficiency and excess urinary excretion in patients with major beta thalassemia, but few studies revealed excess urinary zinc excretion in minor beta thalassemia and no study investigated serum zinc levels in this...

objective: the entry of toxoplasma gondii into the bloodstream and other tissues (such as liver, muscle, cardiac muscle, …) of intermediate hosts and its multiplication in nucleated cells may cause changes in plasma levels of various enzymes due to tissue damage. in present study the serum levels of ast, alt, alk/p, cpk, ldh, and acp in rats infected experimentally with toxoplasma gondii have b...

the copper level in the serum of 1280 and liver of 200 goats raised in the mountain areas of khuzestanprovince, iran were determined. copper, molybdenum and iron content of soil and pastures as well as sulfurcontent of the pastures were seasonally estimated. mean serum copper levels of goats in behbahan,ramhormoz, eizeh and masjed-soleyman districts were 8.14 ± 0.21, 1.98 ± 0.12, 7.74 ± 0.11 an...