Influence of disease activity and gonadal status on bone mineral density and turnover in acromegaly.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of disease activity and gonadal status on bone mineral density (BMD) and turnover markers (BTMs) in individuals with acromegaly.

Materials And Methods: Subjects underwent laboratory tests for PTH, 25-hydroxyvitamin D, calcium, phosphorus, osteocalcin (OC) and C-telopeptide (CTX-1) and bone densitometry at the lumbar spine (LS), femoral neck (FN) and total hip (TH).

Results: Sixty participants (48.

Occurrence of Salmonella spp. and generic Escherichia coli on beef carcasses sampled at a Brazilian slaughterhouse.

A total of 120 beef carcasses were analyzed during processing at a slaughterhouse in southern Brazil. The carcasses were sampled by swab at three different steps of the slaughter line and then they were tested for Salmonella and E. coli.

Use of X-linked short tandem repeat loci in routine parentage casework.

Background: Dealing with genetic inconsistencies in parentage testing, especially in motherless cases, remains a continual difficulty.

Study Design And Methods: Four difficult cases, comprising two trios and two duos, were selected from routine parentage testing casework. In these, relatively low combined paternity indices were observed as a result of few discrepant loci that were treated as being due to paternal mutations.