Various chemicals can be added to urine specimens collected for drug analysis to abnormally elevate ionic concentrations and/or interfere with either immunoassay urine drug-screening procedures or gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric confirmation techniques. One such adulterant, "Urine Luck" (formula 5.3), has been identified in our previous research to contain potassium dichromate. Screening...

Melanin may interfere with immunohistochemical staining. The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA) bleaching, potassium permanganate bleaching, and potassium dichromate bleaching on melanin, tissue antigen, and 3,3'-diaminobenzidine (DAB) using melanin-containing and melanin-free tissue samples. Our results demonstrated that all 3 bleaching method...

BACKGROUND As a modification of patch testing, the strip patch test was established to obtain more sensitive and reliable test results. Comparative data on diagnostic accuracy for both tests are missing. OBJECTIVES To compare the diagnostic accuracy of strip patch tests and patch tests in detecting sensitizations in patients with suspected allergic contact dermatitis by using patient history ...

A a Abstract. The evaluation of the effect of ginger on the modulation of toxic effects induced by chromate is the objective of our study. 50 male rats Albinos wistar were divided to five groups as follow: group I (T) is served as control, received a mineral water by gavage (per os); group II (G) received an experimental diet with 2% of ginger; group III (Cr) received an oral dose of potassium ...

BACKGROUND Patch testing is an essential procedure in the investigation of eczema in children. OBJECTIVES To analyse the frequency of contact hypersensitivity and allergic contact dermatitis among Polish children with eczema. PATIENTS/METHODS During an allergy screening programme involving 9320 children aged 7 and 16 years, 12.6% reported symptoms of chronic/recurrent eczema. From this grou...

Article history: Received on: 21/06/2016 Revised on: 12/07/2016 Accepted on: 28/07/2016 Available online: 30/08/2016 Even though whey protein complex derived from milk, is being touted as a functional food with a number of health benefits, so far its full mechanistic effect has not been deeply explicated, which is the target of this study. For this reason, we observed the 2 months protection in...

THE writer has previously described [1914] a method for the volumetric estimation of carbon, the essence of which is oxidation by a mixture of phosphoric acid and potassium dichromate and the measurement of the 002 produced. It was shown that where methyl groups are present the substance is not oxidised to carbon dioxide alone but to a mixture of carbon dioxide and acetic acid; for example, lac...

A sensitive method is presented for the spectrophotometric determination of phenothiazine derivatives of biological importance. The drugs namely, chlorpromazine hydrochloride (CPH), promethazine hydrochloride (PH), trifluoperazine hydrochloride (TFPH), prochlorperazine maleate (PCPM) and fluphenazine hydrochloride (FPH) are reacted with a fixed amount of dichromate in acidic conditions. After t...