polycystic ovarian syndrome is a hetrogenous condition with a broad clinical and pathologic spectrum that may reflect the effects of diverse etiologic factors. polycystic ovarian syndrome is an abnormality in the maturation of the follicles which can result in abnormal composition of follicular fluid. by analysis and comparison of the biochemical composition of human follicular fluid in normal ...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect of Ramadan fast (RF) on body composition, plasma constituents, hematology, and cardiorespiratory responses to constant submaximal exercise. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Sixteen sedentary healthy Kuwaiti adult males were included in the study. The subjects were tested under thermo-neutral conditions during a spring-like month of Ramadan and 2 months thereafter. They were ...

of a jail is always of grave import. It is attributed in our Indian jails chiefly to a deficiency in the protein and alkaline constituents that enter into the composition of the prescribed jail diet, the alkaline constituents being chiefly potash salts.* These factors tend to induce a change in the composition of the blood, followed by a train of symptoms, that have special reference to the gum...

Lessons from more than 100 years of immunohematology exemplify that many critical discoveries were made serendipitously and their more rapid implementation could have benefited transfusion recipients and pregnancies. Constituents of blood that are not essential for the attempted therapeutic benefit of a transfusion are largely removed from today's blood products. We are now moving on to avoid u...

FREATMENT of phenylketonuric infants with low phenylalanine diet requires frequent measurements of blood phenylalanine, since diet must be adjusted to changing phenylalanine requirements. The amount of blood required for repetitive determinations by the usual methods may be excessive. The need for frequent and rapid determinations led us to modify the method for serum phenylalanine (1) to permi...