Department of Chemical Pathology, College of Health Sciences, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Osogbo. ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) has been linked with smoking and alcohol consumption as well as abnormality in serum levels of a number of trace elements, and study reports have suggested that both smokin...

background the altered levels of some essential trace elements and antioxidant minerals have been observed in diabetic patients. objectives the aim of the present study was to compare the concentrations of essential trace elements, copper (cu), zinc (zn), and iron (fe) in the serum of patients who have type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm) with those of their non-diabetic first-degree relatives (fdr)...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease with the absence of markers for diagnosis. Several studies on PD reported the elements imbalance in biofluids as biomarkers. However, their results remained inconclusive. This study integrates metallomics, multivariate and artificial neural network (ANN) to understand element variations in CSF and serum of PD patients from the largest coho...

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a major depressive disorder that most often emerges within 6 to 12 weeks of delivery, but can happen any time up to 1 year after birth. In developed countries, the incidence of postnatal depression is about 10-15% in adult women depending upon the diagnostic criteria, timing of screening and screening instruments used. Mothers with depressive symptoms have been fo...

Trace elements which are essential components of biological structures may also be toxic when present at levels above the amounts required for biological function. In our study, trace element levels were measured with furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry in 33 newly diagnosed renal cell carcinoma cases (preoperative) and 32 healthy controls. When compared with the control group, it was f...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease globally. The absolute risk of breast cancer increases with age and is higher in postmenopausal women. This study tried to find out role of serum trace elements (cadmium, cobalt, copper and zinc) and biomarkers in diagnosis of breast malignancy. METHODS Levels of serum trace elements were estimated by atomic absorption spectrophotomet...

INTRODUCTION Trace elements are primary components of biological structures; however, they can be toxic when their concentrations are higher than those needed for biological functions. MATERIALS AND METHODS In the present study serum levels of trace elements were measured in 30 patients (mean age was 26.9±11.2 years) newly diagnosed with germ cell testicular cancer and 32 healthy volunteers (...

Background: Accumulation or deficiency of trace elements can occur in hemodialysis patients and it increases risk of cardiovascular or other organs disorders. Special ions levels such as sodium and bicarbonate in dialysis fluid are accurately regulated but the remaining elements are not regularly measured. Aluminum and lead belong to the biologic performance free heavy metals .They also has a t...