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Antipsychotic Agents/adverse effects , Clostridioides difficile/isolation & purification , Clostridium Infections/complications , Haloperidol/adverse effects , Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome/etiology , Aged , Antipsychotic Agents/pharmacokinetics , Antipsychotic Agents/therapeutic use , Bromocriptine/therapeutic use , Combined Modality Therapy , Dantrolene/therapeutic use , Dehydration/etiology , Dehydration/metabolism , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Fluid Therapy , Haloperidol/pharmacokinetics , Haloperidol/therapeutic use , Humans , Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome/diagnosis , Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome/drug therapy , Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome/therapy , Risk Factors , Schizophrenia/complications , Schizophrenia/drug therapyABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Several studies have suggested that polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and minerals have beneficial effects on lipid profile and systemic inflammation in adults. METHODS AND RESULTS: We examined the effects of a daily intake of milk enriched with longchain polyunsaturated fatty acids, oleic acid, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and low in saturated fatty acids (SFAs) for 5 months, on several cardiovascular (CVD) risk biomarkers in healthy children aged 8-14 years. In a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial, a total of 107 children of both genders were assigned to two study groups: 1) a supplemented group (SG, n=53) who consumed 0.6 L/day of an enriched dairy product, and 2) a control group (CG, n=54) who consumed 0.6 L/day of standard whole milk. Both groups consumed the dairy drinks for 5 months, in addition to their usual diet. Serum levels of adhesion molecules as indices of vascular endothelial cell activation were assessed in both groups at 0 and 5 months as well as white blood cell counts, lipid profile, serum proteins, total serum calcium, 25-OH vitamin D, glucose, insulin and adiponectin. In the enriched dairy drink supplemented group, adhesion molecules E-selectin and ICAM-1 as well as lymphocyte levels decreased while plasma docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and serum calcium concentrations increased. In the control group, serum total protein, transferrin, total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol and adiponectin concentrations decreased. CONCLUSION: The consumption of a milk enriched with fish oil, oleic acid, minerals and vitamins reduced indices of endothelial cell activation in the studied group of healthy children.
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E-Selectin/blood , Fish Oils/administration & dosage , Food, Fortified , Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1/blood , Milk/chemistry , Oleic Acid/administration & dosage , Trace Elements/administration & dosage , Vitamins/administration & dosage , Adolescent , Analysis of Variance , Animals , Cardiovascular Diseases/prevention & control , Child , Cholesterol/blood , Dairy Products/analysis , Double-Blind Method , Fatty Acids/administration & dosage , Female , Humans , Male , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
The methanol and water extracts of six Fabaceae species, traditionally used in Mayan medicine for the treatment of diarrhoea and eye infections, were phytochemically screened and tested for in vitro antimicrobial activity. Four species showed activity against Gram positive bacteria, five exhibited some activity against Candida albicans, two exhibited activity against Aspergillus niger and only one, Mimosa pigra, inhibited growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. None of the extracts was active against Escherichia coli.
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Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology , Bacteria/drug effects , Plants, Medicinal , Rosales , Humans , Medicine, Traditional , Mexico , Microbial Sensitivity Tests , Phytotherapy , Plant Extracts/pharmacologyABSTRACT
The aim of the present research was to evaluate the efficiency of a method used to enhance the isolation of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Haemophilus spp. 134 samples of pneumonic lungs of swine were directly grown in blood agar medium, 120 of these samples were simultaneously processed by a dilution method inoculating then into a selective and enriched broth (1% poly-enriched, 5% yeast extract. 5 micrograms/ml bacitracin, 1 microgram/ml lincomycin and 1 microgram/ml crystal violet). The dilution method proved to be more efficient than the direct one.
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Actinobacillus Infections/veterinary , Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae/isolation & purification , Culture Media , Haemophilus Infections/veterinary , Haemophilus/isolation & purification , Pneumonia/veterinary , Swine Diseases/microbiology , Actinobacillus Infections/microbiology , Haemophilus Infections/microbiology , Pneumonia/microbiology , SwineABSTRACT
Las exigencias medicas y legales para sentar el diagnostico de neumonoconiosis son puestas en consideracion, haciendo hincapie en la conveniencia legal y en la necesidad medica de sustentarlo con la certificacion histologica. La biopsia perbronquial con pinza flexible y utilizando material rigido, es un procedimiento sencillo, economico y con pocas complicaciones, que permite la certificacion histologica de afecciones con expresion fundamental a nivel de parenquima pulmonar, como la neumonoconiosis. Se presentan los resultados de la biopsia pulmonar en 25 pacientes sospechosos por sus antecedentes laborales y/o sus cuadros radiologicos de padecer una neumonoconiosis
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Humans , Biopsy , Pneumoconiosis , BronchiABSTRACT
Las exigencias medicas y legales para sentar el diagnostico de neumonoconiosis son puestas en consideracion, haciendo hincapie en la conveniencia legal y en la necesidad medica de sustentarlo con la certificacion histologica. La biopsia perbronquial con pinza flexible y utilizando material rigido, es un procedimiento sencillo, economico y con pocas complicaciones, que permite la certificacion histologica de afecciones con expresion fundamental a nivel de parenquima pulmonar, como la neumonoconiosis. Se presentan los resultados de la biopsia pulmonar en 25 pacientes sospechosos por sus antecedentes laborales y/o sus cuadros radiologicos de padecer una neumonoconiosis
