Serum cholinesterase activity and proteosynthetic function of liver in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is associated with a lot of changes in intermediary metabolism and several authors reported on higher frequency of liver diseases in patients with diabetes.

Aim Of The Study: Was to establish the changes of blood serum cholinesterase, prealbumin and albumin, parameters which are accepted as an index of liver proteosynthetic function, in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Patients And Methods: The study group consisted of 207 patients with diabetes mellitus (83 patients with type I and 124 patients with type II diabetes mellitus).

Serum laboratory markers for noninvasive diagnosis and monitoring of liver fibrogenesis in patients with chronic liver diseases.

Progressive hepatic fibrosis with the development of cirrhosis is a feature of almost all chronic liver diseases. Liver biopsy remains to be the gold standard for the diagnosis and staging of liver fibrosis. Laboratory tests for noninvasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis have been studied extensively in the past years.

[Qualitative characteristics of selected species of the genus Echinacea Moench].

The paper examined the effect of production-technological conditions in relation to the ontogenetic stage of plants in three different species of the genus Echinacea Moench., comparing the species Echinacea purpurea, Echinacea atrorubens, and Echinacea pallida. It also examined the differences in the content of essential oil in different plant organs and evaluated the representation of individual components in the essential oils of the species under study at the stage of the optimal maturity for collection.

[Changes in the relative levels of fatty acids in blood and myocardium in the Prague breed of rats with hereditary hypercholesteremia after administration of slow calcium channel blockers].

The present paper describes the effect of six-week oral administration of verapamil and diltiazem (1 mg.kg-1 of weight two times daily in 12 hour intervals) on the content of fatty acids of the serum and myocardium of PHHC rats. A cholesterol diet changes the content of fatty acids of the serum and myocardium of PHHC rats in comparison with control rats without the cholesterol diet.