Rational & Objective: Diabetes and uric acid kidney stones are strongly associated. Patients with calcium kidney stones also have higher risk of developing diabetes compared with nonkidney stone patients yet this has not been further investigated. We aimed to characterize insulin resistance in calcium kidney stone patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Adequate sleep improves physical and mental alertness. However, there is a dearth of empirical data on functional capacity (FC) and sleep quality (SpQ) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).
Objective: This study investigated the relationship between FC and SpQ of patients with CHF and apparently healthy controls (HCs).
Twenty different fractions of hematoporphyrin derivatives (HpD) and eight fractions of an HpD dimer mixture were isolated utilizing isocratic reversed-phase ion-pair high-performance liquid chromatography. These fractions were characterized by UV-visible and fluorescence spectrophotometry. Fluorescence quantum yields and photokill efficiency for each fraction in PTK2 epithelial cells were obtained.
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