A 69-year-old woman with Rh-negative blood type was scheduled for total pelvic exenteration. Despite having prepared suspected amount of blood, we were forced to transfuse Rh-positive blood after use of anti-D immunoglobulin (0.25 mg) for unexpected massive hemorrhage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeroxisome proliferators (PxPs) induce peroxisomal beta-oxidation (Px-ox) in the liver of rodents and have a hypolipidemic function. To investigate hypolipidemic effect of PxPs, the relationship between TG fluctuation and Px-ox activity, as an indicator of the function of PxPs, was studied in primary cultured rat hepatocytes. Nafenopin (Nf) treatment of hepatocytes caused an increase in Px-ox activity in association with cellular TG accumulation in a time-dependent manner with a coefficient of r=0.
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