LIVER FUNCTION MARKERS AND ASSOCIATED SERUM ELECTROLYTES CHANGES IN HIV PATIENTS ATTENDING PATIENT SUPPORT CENTRE OF JARAMOGI OGINGA ODINGA TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL, KISUMU COUNTY, KENYA.

Objective: To determine the distribution of markers of liver function disorders and their association with co-existing fluids and electrolytes states in ambulatory HIV infected individuals.

Design: A case-control study.

Setting: Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital's Patient Support Centre.

Thryroid hormones and hematological indices levels in thyroid disorders patients at moi teaching and referral hospital, Western kenya.

Problem Statement. Thyroid disorders are prevalent in western Kenya, but the effects of disorders on thyroid hormones and hematological indices levels have not been documented. Study Population.

Urine markers of kidney disorders and their risk associations in HIV-infected patients attending Nyanza Provincial General Hospital in Kisumu, Western Kenya.

Objective: To identify abnormal levels of urine metabolites and cells that serve as markers of existing kidney disorders in ambulatory HIV-infected patients.

Design: A cross sectional study.

Setting: Nyanza Provincial General Hospital's patient support centre.

Plasma luteinizing hormone levels in response to gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist and clonidine in Trypanosoma congolense-infected female goats.

Trypanosomiasis, a parasitic disease of humans and animals, occurs over a wide area of Africa and imposes a large socioeconomic burden on the people. In the present study, we investigated whether trypanosomiasis-induced reproductive disorders were due to pituitary or hypothalamic dysfunction by determining plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) response to gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist or clonidine in Trypanosoma congolense-infected female goats. With GnRH agonist administration, the total amount of LH secreted over a 140-min sampling period on day 23 and day 60 postinfection was consistently higher (71 and 21%, respectively) in infected goats compared to controls.