Acute liver failure (ALF) remains an extremely poor prognosis and high mortality; with no effective treatments. The endotoxin tolerance (ET) phenotype has been reported to exhibit protective activities in several sepsis models. We now investigated the effects and underlying intraperitoneal injection of the same volume of pyrogen-free 0.9% sodium chloride instead of LPS for five consecutive days...

Serum biochemical indices reflect dynamic physiological and pathophysiological processes within the body, the associations between these markers and the number of stenotic coronary arteries have been rarely studied. 627 healthy controls and 1,049 coronary heart disease (CHD) patients were sequentially recruited in our hospital. The association patterns between serum biochemical markers and the ...

Objective: This study was set to investigate whether the administration of ruminally protected methionine as a supplement on lactating goats could have been some toxic effects on serum biochemistry. Methods: Thirty adult (3-4 years old) female Rayeni goats were randomly divided into two groups as follow: control and treatment groups each contain thirty goats. Goats in both groups were fed on th...

Objective: Commonly used biochemical tests in blood samples may be measured at any time of day. This study investigated the existence and clinical significance diurnal variations some routine parameters to facilitate accurate reliable decision-making diagnosis follow-up.
 Materials Methods: Blood were collected from 17 healthy volunteers who 18-50 years age (11 men, 6 women) on same day 9:...

Abstract The present study aimed to evaluate the changes in concentrations of some biochemical parameters, as well macro and microscopic alterations during Eimeria stiedae infection rabbits. experiment was performed using 12 three-month-old healthy rabbits, randomly allocated into 2 equal groups: G1 (controls, uninfected animals) G2 (rabbits infected with E. ). Blood samples were collected at t...

Psoriasis as a systemic inflammatory disease may be associated with some liver dysfunctions. We conducted a seven-year retrospective study focusing on the detailed indexes of liver functions and searching for some differences among different types of psoriasis. We investigated the liver functions and medical records of first-time hospitalization inpatients (n=211) with psoriasis including serum...

Danshen was able to reduce the risk of the patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), but the mechanism is still widely unknown. Biochemical indices (lipid profile, markers of renal and liver function, and homocysteine (Hcy)) are closely associated with CHD risk. We aimed to investigate whether the medicine reduces CHD risk by improving these biochemical indices. The patients received 10 Dansh...

BACKGROUND Bacterial infection is a frequent complication and severe burden in cirrhotic patients. We determined the utility of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) to predict the hospital-acquired (HA) bacterial infections episode in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. METHODS We retrospectively included 2066 consecutive decompensated cirrhotic patients from two separate tertiary hospital...

Using liquid chromatography, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and elemental analyses, we verified that a commercially available synthetic bilirubin conjugate is predominantly a ditaurobilirubin (DTB) disodium salt. The Jendrassik-Gróf total bilirubin (TBIL) method quantitatively measures unconjugated bilirubin (Bu) and the Bu-equivalent content in DTB, from which we infer that the azopi...