Association between exposure to pesticides and disorder on hematological parameters and kidney function in male agricultural workers.

Pesticides occupy a critical position among many chemicals to which man can be exposed; their diffusion into the environment causes killing and damaging of some forms of life. The lack of highly selective pesticide action represents risk both for man and other desirable forms of life present in the environment. The present study was designed to evaluate the relation between exposure to pesticides and disorder on hematological parameters and kidney function of male agricultural workers with the mean age 37.

Radiological safety assessment inside ancient Egyptian tombs in Saqqara.

Many archaeological sites in Egypt are unique worldwide, such as ancient tombs and pyramids, because they document fundamental developments in human civilization that took place several thousands of years ago. For this reason, these sites are visited by numerous visitors every year. The present work is devoted to provide a pre-operational radiological baseline needed to quantify occupational radiation exposure at the famous Saqqara region in Cairo, Egypt.

Influence of electron injection into 27 cm audio plasma cell on the plasma diagnostics.

In this article, the plasma is created in a Pyrex tube (L = 27 cm, φ = 4 cm) as a single cell, by a capacitive audio frequency (AF) discharge (f = 10-100 kHz), at a definite pressure of ~0.2 Torr. A couple of tube linear and deviating arrangements show plasma characteristic conformity.

Wandering nematode in the vitreous cavity.

Background: Bancroftian filariasis is focally endemic in Egypt. There have been many reports of intraocular filariasis; the question of why one filarial nematode should cause ocular disease while another does not may be related to the behavior of the microfilaria and the location of the cross-reacting ocular antigen.

Methods: A 35-year-old woman with a white worm approximately 3 disk diameters in length penetrating the left macula, moving in the vitreous cavity, with a part of its length in the vitreous cavity while the rest was embedded subretinally, is described.

A simple calibration of a whole-body counter for the measurement of total body potassium in humans.

A simple calibration procedure for the Inshas whole body counter for evaluating total body potassium has been adopted. More than 120 Egyptian employees in the Nuclear Research Center (N.R.