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Estimation of Alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT) levels was carried out in 52 patients of various types of leprosy. Fifty age and sex matched healthy individuals served as controls. The mean level of AAT in controls was 290.12 +/- 59.56 mg/dl. In patients of tuberculoid leprosy (TT), borderline tuberculoid leprosy (BT) and borderline leprosy (BB), the AAT levels were found to be 284 +/- 47.03, 314.37 +/- 31.56 and 324.44 +/- 32.05 mg/dl respectively. These were statistically insignificantly raised when compared with controls. In borderline lepromatous leprosy (BL), lepromatous leprosy without erythema nodosum leprosum (LL without ENL) and in LL with ENL there was a statistically significant rise in AAT levels. The maximum levels of AAT were observed in patients of LL with ENL (mean 500.8 +/- 93.44 mg/dl. P less than 0.001).
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Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Criança , Eritema Nodoso/sangue , Feminino , Humanos , Imunodifusão , Hanseníase/sangue , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , alfa 1-Antitripsina/sangueAssuntos
Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Feminino , Humanos , Isoenzimas , Masculino , Meningite/enzimologia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Tuberculose Meníngea/enzimologiaAssuntos
Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Índia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Tuberculose Pulmonar/sangue , alfa 1-Antitripsina/metabolismoAssuntos
Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Feminino , Humanos , Imunodifusão , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Tuberculose Pulmonar/sangue , alfa 1-Antitripsina/análiseRESUMO
Motor nerve conduction velocity (MNCV) has been determined in seventy five normal healthy male subjects in different age groups in Right ulnar and median nerves respectively. It is observed that MNCV decreases in the older age group. Further it is seen that MNCV is less in the distal than in the proximal segment, the results being significant in the median nerve.