0489 Following last December’s tsunami, Thailand reported 10,385 deaths and missing persons among Thais and foreign tourists, 80% of them in Phang Nga province (Figure 1). These reported tsunami deaths do not include Burmese migrant workers, which one local organisation estimates as being as many as 1,000 individuals [1]. Medical relief to Thai nationals and Western victims was well organised [...

Lupinus mutabilis (LM) is a widespread species of lupin whose bean is consumed not only for its high caloric value but also as a homeopathic medicine, used for a diverse range of presumed clinical properties, including as an analgesic and an antidiabetic. The properties of lupine alkaloids are responsible for their anticholinergic toxicity in both the autonomic nervous system and the central ne...

Evaluation of acute oral toxicity of red alga (Gracilaria domingensis sonder ex kützing) in mice C57BL/6 José Ytalo Gomes da Silva, Marcelo Oliveira Holanda, Carla Laine Silva Lima, Paula Alves Salmito Rodrigues, Erlândia Alves Magalhães Queiroz, Raquel Teixeira Terceiro Paim, Thais Vital de Freitas, Juliana Barbosa Dantas, Sandra Machado Lira, Natalia do Vale Canabrava, Mariana de Freitas More...

Ludhmila A. Hajjar, MD, PhD Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD Filomena R. B. G. Galas, MD, PhD Rosana E. Nakamura, MD Carolina M. P. Silva, MD Marilia H. Santos, MD, PhD Julia Fukushima, MSc Roberto Kalil Filho, MD, PhD Denise B. Sierra, MD Neuza H. Lopes, MD, PhD Thais Mauad, MD, PhD Aretusa C. Roquim, MD Marcia R. Sundin, MD Wanderson C. Leão, MD Juliano P. Almeida, MD Pablo M. Pomerantzeff, MD, Ph...

This review aims to compile biological activity including antioxidant, anti-microbial, and anti-inflammatory properties of Thunbergia laurifolia or Rang Jued in Thai. Thais has been using this plant as folk medicine since ancient times. T. laurifolia is recognized mainly for its detoxification property, however, recently anti-inlammatory, antioxidant, anti-microbial, hepatoprotective and anti-d...

Flow cytometer (FACScan) was used to determine the range of T lymphocyte subpopulations in normal Thai blood donors at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital, Chiang Mai. Reference population consisted of 150 healthy HIV seronegative blood donors. T lymphocyte subsets were analysed using two-color immunophenotyping of peripheral blood lymphocytes with a lysed whole blood technique and enumerated. T...