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- Clinical Study on Serum Zinc Levels in Patients with Acne Vulgaris
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Methods: The study included 50 young female patients, aged between 13 and 19 years, suffering from Acne vulgaris (patients group) and 25 age matched healthy female attenders of patients without acne (control group). The zinc levels were measured in the serum obtained from the fasting blood of patients group and control group. Results: The serum zinc level was lower than normal in 50 out of 50 patients (100%), and in none out of 25 controls (0%). The mean zinc levels were significantly lower in patients with acne (24.4 ± 2.4μg /dl) than in controls (99.4 ± 4.5 µg/dl).
Conclusion: We conclude that zinc supplementation as an adjunctive therapy in acne patients with low serum zinc level may increase the success rate of acne treatment as zinc deficiency is one of the causes of this disease.
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1 Department of Biochemistry, Gandhi Medical College & Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Dermatology, Gandhi Medical College & Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, IN
1 Department of Biochemistry, Gandhi Medical College & Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Dermatology, Gandhi Medical College & Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, IN
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Asian Journal of Research in Chemistry, Vol 6, No 5 (2013), Pagination: 464-466Abstract
Objectives: To determine the serum zinc levels in young patients suffering from Acne vulgaris.Methods: The study included 50 young female patients, aged between 13 and 19 years, suffering from Acne vulgaris (patients group) and 25 age matched healthy female attenders of patients without acne (control group). The zinc levels were measured in the serum obtained from the fasting blood of patients group and control group. Results: The serum zinc level was lower than normal in 50 out of 50 patients (100%), and in none out of 25 controls (0%). The mean zinc levels were significantly lower in patients with acne (24.4 ± 2.4μg /dl) than in controls (99.4 ± 4.5 µg/dl).
Conclusion: We conclude that zinc supplementation as an adjunctive therapy in acne patients with low serum zinc level may increase the success rate of acne treatment as zinc deficiency is one of the causes of this disease.
Keywords
Acne Vulgaris, Serum Zinc
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- Detection of Mycotoxins using Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry in Fungal Infected Meadow Grass Fodder
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1 Departments of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinary College, Bengaluru - 560 024, Karnataka, IN
2 Veterinary Pathology, Veterinary College, Bengaluru - 560 024, Karnataka, IN
1 Departments of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinary College, Bengaluru - 560 024, Karnataka, IN
2 Veterinary Pathology, Veterinary College, Bengaluru - 560 024, Karnataka, IN
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Toxicology International (Formerly Indian Journal of Toxicology), Vol 22, No 2 (2015), Pagination: 42-45Abstract
The worldwide contamination of food and feed with mycotoxins is a significant problem. The present study is aimed to detect the mycotoxin present in fungal infected meadow grass fodder from the Uttara Kannada district, where the cattle and buffaloes were exhibiting clinical signs such as posterior paralysis, downer cow syndrome, rumen impaction, and keratomalacia of tail and even mortality. The infected meadow grass fodder samples were collected and were subjected to the multimycotoxin analysis using 1200 series high-performance liquid chromatography (LC) (Agilent Technologies, Waldbronn, Germany) coupled to MDS Sciex 3200 Q Trap LC-mass spectrometry (MS)/MS system (Applied Biosystems, USA). Calibration curves were built individually using five or six concentration levels in the wheat matrix (mycotoxin free) were injected into LC-MS/MS system for each mycotoxin to be analyzed. The peak area of the mycotoxins was plotted against the concentration to generate matrix matched calibration curve. The analysis revealed the presence various mycotoxins in the sample, mainly Fusarial toxins such as zearalenone and beauvericin along with traces of aflatoxins, ochratoxin, citrinin, and trichothecenes. Hence, it could be concluded that the mycotoxins got detected in fungal infected meadow grass using LCMS/MS technique, could be the causatives for the major livestock disorders mentioned.Keywords
Fusarial Toxins, Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry, Meadow Grass, Mycotoxicosis.References
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- Cardiovascular Signal Rate Detection using Frequency Domain Transform
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1 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, PET Engineering College, IN
1 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, PET Engineering College, IN
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ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing, Vol 9, No 4 (2019), Pagination: 2009-2014Abstract
Cardiovascular Rate (HR) is a crucial indicator of people’s physiological state therefore it is important to monitor often. It is an essential parameter in most of the medical diagnosis for innumerable medical condition. This paper deals with the diagnosis of heart problems by computing the heart rate measurements from human facial videos recorded using a simple webcam. The main target is to extract cardiovascular rate from the skin color variation in the facial tissues caused due to oxygen supply all over the body. The face detection is carried out using Viola Jones algorithm which scans a subwindow capable of detecting faces across a given input image based on Haar-like rectangular features that are extracted from integral images. The forehead region is selected for Green channel estimation then Empirical mode decomposition is performed for reflectance decomposition of the forehead region. Finally, heart rate is estimated by detecting power spectral density of frequency domain images. Obtained PSD is compared with standard heart rate to obtain the subject’s cardiovascular rate.Keywords
Viola Jones Algorithm, Haar-like Rectangular Feature, Reflectance Decomposition, Green Channel, PSD.References
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