In spite of a large number of investigations, one encounters in the current literature the most diverse statements concerning the fate of salts of benzoic acid in the human organism. Only one fact is apparently accepted by all as settled beyond question, namely, that part of the benzoate is converted into a hippurate through union with glycocoll. Upon the question as to horn nearly this reactio...

1. Regele H, Mougenot B, Brown P et al. Report from Pathology Consensus Meeting on Renal Biopsy Handling and Processing, Vienna, February 25, 2000 (http://www.kidney-euract.org/ Rbpathologyconsensus.htm) 2. Thut MP, Uehlinger D, Steiger J, Mihatsch MJ. Renal biopsy: standard procedure of modern nephrology. Ther Umsch 2002; 59: 110–116 3. Paone DB, Meyer LE. The effect of biopsy on therapy in re...

Manifested hypoglycemia is relatively frequent cause of out-patient office visit at general practitioner, diabetologist and in severe cases represents emergent situation requiring transport to hospital and hospitalization. Severe and untreated hypoglycemia can even lead to death. The aetiology of hypoglycemia is variable, and includes drugs, insulinoma, liver failure, renal failure, hormonal de...

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IN THE LAST of March 1941, my associate at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. H. R. Butt, gave a lecture at the weekly meeting of the staff of the 1\layo Clinic on the use of vitamin K to correct deficiency of prothrombin associated with jaundice and disease of the liver. In the course of that lecture he mentioned a comI)ound that had been prepared which was capable of producing a deficiency of prothrombin i...

Aim of this study was to evaluate in patients with progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO) the left ventricular function by standard echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) analysis. Twenty patients with PEO (55.4 ± 17.5 years) and 20 ageand sex-matched healthy subjects underwent standard echocardiography with TDI analysis to assess left ventricular function. TDI was performed by p...

The present investigation deals with histopathological and histochemical studies of profenophos on liver and kidney of male albino rats and the protective effects of vitamin C and ginseng to reduce the deleterious effect induced by profenophos. Oral administration of profenophos at dose level of 1 /10 LD50 for 15 successive days induced histological changes in liver and kidney. No histological ...