two hundred and forty patients, who had undergone vasectomy from 1977 to 1985 and subsequent vasovasostomy ,were studied for the presence of sperm-specific antibodies by using the kibrick's gelatin agglutination test. the number of successful pregnancies and the presence of agglutination were also considered in this survey. sixty-nine pregnancies occurred in total and agglutination was present ...

The standard method for the determination of serum calcium based upon the precipitation of calcium oxalate and titration with permanganate does not lend itself to a micromethod because of the difficulty in handling very small precipitates. This difficulty is not encountered in the direct titration of calcium with the chelating agent, disodium dihydrogen ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA). Schwa...

objective: seeking for fertility after previous vasectomy is increasing. vasectomy may break the blood testis barrier and in this way the level of antisperm antibody increases. it is suggested that increase in antisperm antibody decreases spontaneous pregnancy even after successful vasovasostomy. in this study we evaluated antisperm antibody formation 3 months after vasectomy. method: this stud...

Concept of autoimmune basis of infertility is still controversial, particularly regarding the presence of non-organ specific autoantibodies. Non-organ specific anticardiolipin (aCL) and antithyroglobulin (TgAt) antibodies were detected in infertile women. Both partners were evaluated according to the criteria of The American Society for Reproductive Medicine. All the results were normal in case...

Dr. Harold D. Appleton, a Dedicated Beginning When Dr. Harold D. Appleton took over the small, semi-regular newsletter, The Clinical Chemist, from Dr. Andre Kibrick, he “ate, drank and slept ‘The Clinical Chemist,’” according to Irving Sunshine, PhD. Dr. Appleton took over as editor in 1950 after working for 1 year as assistant editor under Dr. Kibrick. During his editorship, Appleton developed...

an altered immunologic reactivity, different of that of normal controls (Creger, Choy, and Rantz, 1951; Miller, Kibrick, and Massell, 1953; Quinn, Seastone, and Dickie, 1953; Kuhns and McCarty, 1954), but the results of their experiments proved mostly negative or inconclusive. A convincing proof of this altered reactivity seems to have been furnished only after attention had been focused on inc...

In various papers it is suggested that up to now 20-30% of drivers regularly use drugs which can act and interact on skills related to driving (Kibrick & Smart, 1970; Glauz & Blackburn, 1975; Linnoila, 1976; Lukkari et al. 1976). For this reason, extensive research in the field of drugs and driving has become an absolute necessity. One of the most commonly detected drugs among drivers arrested ...

Beginning with the report of Ziff, Kibrick, Dresner, and Gribetz (2), evidence accumulated in recent years has indicated that urinary hydroxyproline excretion reflects collagen metabolism, since collagen is the only protein in the body that contains hydroxyproline in significant amounts (3). Ziff and co-workers, observing that the excretion of this amino acid in peptide form was greater in chil...