• EBRI/Mercer survey of retirement plan sponsors: In the spring of 2007, EBRI and Mercer Human Resource Consulting surveyed defined benefit (pension) sponsors to gauge their recent activity as well as planned modifications with respect to both defined benefit and defined contribution (401(k)-type) plan design and investment behavior within the defined benefit plans. The survey also was able to ...

Cystolithiasis merupakan keadan ditemukan urolith/kalkuli pada vesika urinaria (VU) yang disebabkan oleh multifaktorial yaitu dipengaruhi pH urin, pakan, dan infeksi bakteri. Seekor kucing ras campuran berwarna orange, jenis kelamin jantan, berumur empat tahun, dengan bobot badan 5,2 kg diperiksa di Klinik Hewan Prema, Dalung, Bali, keluhan tidak kencing selama 5 hari, lemas, penurunan nafsu ma...

(+/-)-Phenylpropanolamine (PPA), a widely available anorectic and decongestant, was evaluated in several behavioral paradigms rhesus monkeys for central nervous system neurotoxicity rats. PPA (1-30 mg/kg intragastric) reduced food intake but not self-administered i.v. (0.3-10 mg/kg/injection) by experienced drug self-administration. (30-100 resulted amphetamine-like responding two of four train...

Toxicity of heavy metals and the genetic porphyrias (most commonly acute intermittent porphyria, AlP) produce increased concentrations of &-aminolevulinic acid (SALA) or porphobilinogen in plasma and urine. The quantitative test for S-ALA or porphobilinogen in urine described by Mauzerall and Granick (1) involves column separation and is recommended (2). For monitoring patients more closely, it...