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Vernonia amygdalina Del. (Family Compositae) is used in Nigerian folk medicine as a tonic and remedy against constipation, fever, high blood pressure, and many infectious diseases. We have evaluated the hepatoprotective and antioxidant effects of an aqueous extract of V. amygdalina leaves against
Transient sublethal hyperthermia and the recovery from this exposure to heat (heat shock preconditioning) provides a cytoprotective effect on oxidative insults through an intracellular protective response, heat shock response. The impact of heat shock preconditioning on hepatic microvascular
OBJECTIVE
Short-term, general muscle affection is frequent in Dengue infection, but severe, persisting, myositis has not been reported.
METHODS
Case report.
RESULTS
The patient is a 38 years old, HIV-negative male who developed sudden-onset fever up to 40.0 degrees C, headache, and sore eyes upon
BACKGROUND
Tamarix nilotica (Ehrenb.) Bunge (Tamaricaceae) is used in the Egyptian traditional medicine as an antiseptic agent. This plant has been known since pharaonic times and has been mentioned in medical papyri to expel fever, relieve headache, to draw out inflammation, and as an aphrodisiac.
The adverse effects caused by antibiotics and the interactions between other drugs based on the results of clinical studies on children recently conducted in Japan, as well as the results of previous studies in the literature were reviewed. Adverse effects of beta-lactam, macrolide and azalide
Clinical features of 36 cases of psittacosis experienced from 1980 to 1988 were analyzed. The following results were obtained. 1) Sixteen patients were male; twenty were female. The thirty-six patients ranged in age from 29 to 76 years. 2) Fifteen patients had been exposed to Parakeets prior to the
BACKGROUND
The incidence of malarial hepatitis in patients with Plasmodium falciparum infection and jaundice is not known and it is not clear whether the condition is a single entity or a heterogeneous syndrome.
METHODS
We prospectively studied the natural history of all patients with falciparum
Kawasaki's disease is a disease of unknown cause. The characteristic clinical features of Kawasaki's disease are fever> or =102 degrees F for> or =5 days accompanied by a bilateral bulbar conjunctivitis/conjunctival suffusion, erythematous rash, cervical adenopathy, pharyngeal erythema, and swelling