Development of systematic toxicological analysis using GC-MS in the identification of drugs in blood for clinical and forensic purposes

A rapid auto-identification method was developed to reduce the time required for unknown detection in defined groups of compounds in postmortem biological materials. This was achieved by the creation of an excel sheet containing retention time and retention index of n-alkane mixture [C15 - C36]. Then, a calculated retention index and the retention time for a list of compounds with their target ion, two references ions and their ion ratios were saved in a new method table. The new system will automatically search for and identify any compound in the post-run Gas Chromatography - Mass spectrometry data. The developed method showed a high sensitivity and specificity

Evaluation of different plant protein concentrates in rabbit feeds

A total number of 24 New Zealand white rabbits were used to evaluate seven plant protein concentrates through eight digestibility trials. These concentratrates were soybean meal [SBM], flaxmeal [FM], decorticated and undecorticated cotton seed meal [DCM], horse beans [HB], corn gluten meal [CGM], [UDCM], and sunflower seed meal [SFM]. The CGM, SBM, and DCM feedstuffs recorded the highest nutritive values followed by the FM and HB, while the UDCM and SFM showed the lowest values

Calcium metabolism in chronic liver disease

Estimation of the serum level of Ca++, P++, creatinine and urine analysis were done in patients with chronic liver disease and controls. Patients with chronic liver disease showed a significant increase in serum inorganic P++, but the increase in Ca++ and parathormone levels was insignificant