Assessment of suspected insulinoma by 48-hour fasting test: a retrospective monocentric study of 23 cases.

Objective: Insulinoma causes fasting hypoglycaemia due to inappropriate insulin secretion. The diagnosis of insulinoma is based on Whipple's triad during a supervised fasting test. The aim of our study was to evaluate retrospectively the percentage of positive 48-hour fasting tests in a large series of patients with insulinoma.

The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) as outcome measure for hormone treatment? A validation study.

Background: The Menopause Rating Scale is a health-related Quality of Life scale developed in the early 1990s and step-by-step validated since then. No methodologically detailed work on the utility of the scale to assess health-related changes after treatment was published before.

Method: We analysed an open, uncontrolled post-marketing study with over 9000 women with pre- and post-treatment data of the MRS scale to critically evaluate the capacity of the scale to measure the health-related effects of hormone treatment independent from the severity of complaints at baseline.

The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) scale: a methodological review.

Background: This paper compiles data from different sources to get a first comprehensive picture of psychometric and other methodological characteristics of the Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) scale. The scale was designed and standardized as a self-administered scale to (a) to assess symptoms/complaints of aging women under different conditions, (b) to evaluate the severity of symptoms over time, and (c) to measure changes pre- and postmenopause replacement therapy. The scale became widespread used (available in 10 languages).

Kinetics and energetics of redox regulation of ATP synthase from chloroplasts.

The rate of ATP hydrolysis catalyzed by the membrane-bound CF0F1 ATP synthase from chloroplasts served as a probe for the determination of the reduction grade of the enzyme treated with dithiothreitol (DTT) or thioredoxin. Rate constants for reduction were obtained. It turns out that reduction by thioredoxin is about a factor of 6,000 more effective than DTT reduction.

Separation of traces and larger amounts of bismuth from gram amounts of thallium, mercury, gold and platinum by cation-exchange chromatography on a macroporous resin.

Traces and larger amounts of bismuth (up to 50 mg) can be separated from gram amounts of thallium, mercury, gold and platinum (up to 5 g) by sorption from a mixture of 0.1M hydrochloric acid and 0.4M nitric acid on a column containing just 3 g (8.