Serum copper concentrations were measured in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), osteoarthritis (OA), and in healthy controls. Median serum copper concentrations were raised significantly in RA and AS, but not in OA. Serum copper in RA correlated significantly with a number of disease activity markers--for example erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactiv...

serum level of zinc, copper, β-carotene, vitamin a, and concentrations of zn and cu in hoof of 97multiparous holstein dairy cows with different locomotion scores (lss) were evaluated. simultaneously, znand cu concentrations of close up, fresh and high yielding cattle rations were 77, 94, 75 and 31, 28, 22 ppm, respectively. based on lss, despite normal serum copper levels in all three groups, w...

A nested, matched case-control study was conducted to assess the relationship between serum levels of copper and the subsequent risk of cancer. One hundred thirty-three cases of cancer were identified during 1974-1984 among 5000 members of a northwest Washington State employee cohort from whom serum specimens had been previously obtained and stored. Two hundred forty-one controls were selected ...

A nested, matched case-control study was conducted to assess the relationship between serum levels of copper and the subsequent risk of cancer. One hundred thirty-three cases of cancer were identified during 1974-1984 among 5000 members of a northwest Washington State employee cohort from whom serum specimens had been previously obtained and stored. Two hundred forty-one controls were selected ...

Sixty five patients (20 children and 45 adults of both sexes) having hepatomegaly were subjected to serum copper, hepatic copper and hepatic cuproprotein analysis from October 1982 through September 1983. Higher levels of serum copper were encountered in 17/20 children suffering from Indian Childhood Cirrhosis (ICC), values ranging from 151 ug/dl to 350 ug/dl. Hypercupremia was also detected in...

MEYER, B. J., A. C. MEYER AND M. K. HORWITT. Fuctovs zh$uencing serum copper and cevuloplasmin oxidative activity in the rat. Am. J. Physiol. 194(3): @I-584* 19.58. -The effect of turpentine, estradiol benzoate and epinephrine hydrochloride on the copper concentration and paraphenylenediamine oxidase activity of serum were studied in the male albino rat. All three of these substances raised the...

Adverse outcomes of pregnancy increase among women with high density of hemoglobin. This study evaluates the effects of iron supplementation on serum copper level in pregnant women with hemoglobin higher than 13.2 g/dl. Sixty two pregnant women with Hemoglobin >13.2 g/dl and normal serum copper levels in their 13-18 weeks of gestation were randomized into case and control groups. From 20th week...

OBJECTIVE There are some reports in which a condition of zinc deficiency and its associated outcomes with a change in concentration of serum copper among the thalassemic patients has been highlighted. The aim of this prospective study was to determine the serum zinc and copper levels in children with beta-thalassemia major. METHODS In this cross sectional study all children under 12 years aff...