Lactose-positive Vibrio is a recently recognized marine organism that has pathogenic potential for humans. An organism was isolated from the sputum and blood of a man who was resuscitated after drowning in the sea. The isolates from both sources had the characteristics of lactose-positive Vibrio, which include positive oxidase, citrate, indole, and o-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside reactio...

Isolating and purifying new therapeutic agents from plants and marine sources is essential to the continued success of the pharmaceutical industry. One out of four prescription drugs sold in the United States contains active ingredients extracted or derived from plants. 50% of the top selling drug products are derived from natural products. More than 40 different plant species are used, and yet...

A tremendous increase in the use of genetically engineered mice as experimental animals has led to increased scrutiny of mouse models generally and mouse behavioral paradigms specifically. Although mice are nocturnal, for practical reasons, most experimental procedures, including behavioral studies, are conducted during their inactive, sleep phase. Accumulating evidence indicates that myriad be...

Twenty-three tinnitus patients between the ages of 25 and 66 years (mean age, 47.6) were examined completely in the neurootological clinic of the Medical University, Sofia. Heart rate variability measurements were obtained to reveal the relationship between tinnitus and the autonomic equilibrium. Some biochemical indicators (serotonin and the colored sedimentary uric reaction of Kimbarovski [CS...

INTRODUCTION One of the problems of today and probably this century is obesity, which is classified by the WHO as a disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed a prospective cross-sectional study of the body weight impact on certain biochemical indicators in menopausal women living in the municipalities Cazin and Velika Kladusa. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The study included 334 women aged 40-60 ...

Discriminant function analysis was used to determine the optimum combination of haematological and biochemical tests which gave the best discrimination between hospital patients with high and low alcohol intakes. We studied 265 patients with alcohol-related disease, 133 gastroenterology outpatients drinking less than 20 g of alcohol per day, and 104 patients with a variety of non-alcoholic live...

The processes by which insects cope with toxic chemicals in their environment are commonly classified as class 1 and 2 reactions (Dauterman and Hodgson 1978). Class 1 reactions include oxidations, reductions, and hydrolyses. By these processes, a hydrophilic group is added onto the foreign molecule and the molecule is then eliminated. Class 2 reactions consist of conjugations, i.e., glutathione...