Browsing School of Laboratory Medicine & Medical Sciences by Issue Date
Now showing items 1-20 of 350
-
The pathological aspects of heart failure in the Natal African.
(1967)The aims and objects of this work, as outlined in the introduction, were to a s s e s s the necropsy incidence of deaths due to heart failure in the African in Durban, to a s s e s s the necropsy incidence of the various ... -
A study of some aspects of senescence in embryos of zea mays L.
(1968)Abstract available in PDF file. -
The effects of nerve stimulation on pacemaking activities of biological tissues.
(1973)The effects on the cardiac cycle length of stimulating the vagus nerves with single supramaximal electrical shocks depended upon when they were stimulated during the cycle. A maximum prolongation of the cardiac cycle was ... -
The RH Factor : a clinical and fundamental study of its significance in ISO- and Auto-Haemolytic anaemias.
(1973)No abstract available. -
Experimental diabetes in the baboon.
(1979)The object of the present study was to determine simultaneously aspects of hepatic and peripheral glucose metabolism in the intact baboon. Isotopic techniques were used to study glucose turnover rates, glucose recycling, ... -
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes in young Indians : a clinical and biochemical study.
(1982)One of the earliest recorded references to polyuria is found in the Papyrus Ebers (1500 BC) and much later the occurrence of "honey urine" was noted by an ancient Hindu physician, Sushrutha, in old Indian Sanskrit (400 ... -
A study of diabetes mellitus in young Africans and Indians (age of onset under 35) in Natal.
(1982)No abstract available. -
A clinico-pathological and biochemical study of the toxicity of callilepis laureola (impila)
(1983)This study was undertaken as a result of the occurrence of a large number of deaths among the local Black population from the use of herbal medicines prepared from the rootstock of Callilepis laureola known to the Zulus ... -
The Use of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa) for the determination and characterization of antiendotoxin antibodies.
(1994)Recent clinical studies have highlighted the effectiveness of immunotherapy for Gram-negative bacteraemia in humans. Studies in America, undertaken on patients with Gram-negative bacteraemia, have shown that mortality was ... -
Morphology, membrane characterization and detection of a bacterium associated with ratoon stunting disease of sugarcane.
(1984)Ratoon stunting disease (RSD) of sugarcane was first recognized in 1944 in Queensland, Australia (Steindl, 1961). The disease occurs worldwide and causes significant yield losses, especially during drought. RSD produces ... -
Studies on insulin secretion and insulin resistance in non-insulin- dependent diabetes in young Indians.
(1986)No abstract available. -
Control of prostaglandin biosynthesis by the intrauterine tissues in primary dysfunctional human labour.
(1987)No abstract available. -
The application of DNA hybridisation methods to a determination of the association of hepatitis B virus with cirrhosis and hepatoma.
(1987)Autopsy liver material from patients having died of chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and causes unrelated to liver diseases was examined by dot blot hybridisation for the presence of HBV ... -
Microbiology and molecular epidemiology of multiresistant haemophilus influenza type B in Durban, South Africa.
(1988)Microbiological and molecular epidemiological studies were conducted on 36 multi-resistant Haemophilus influenzae strains, isolated from paediatric patients, over a 26 month period (April 1986 to May 1988). The majority ... -
Endotoxaemia in intestinal dysfunction in experimental animals : intestinal ischaemia and hyperthermia.
(1988)Endotoxins or lipopolysaccharides (LPS), highly toxic component of the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria, are normally present in the mammalian gut lumen.In this thesis, I investigated, in laboratory animals, whether ... -
Evaluation of laboratory methods for susceptibility testing of staphylococcus aureus.
(1988)The susceptibility of 80 StaphyIococcus aureus isolated to oxacillin was investigated using microtitre, agar dilution and Stokes' disc diffusion methods. There was a bimodal distribution of the isolates according to the ... -
Characteristics of insulin receptors in a human lymphoblastoid cell line (Raji).
(1988)The notion that insulin binds to a specific site on the cell membrane was first proposed many years ago. However, experimental proof of a membrane bound insulin receptor did not come until the early 1970s when biologically ... -
A study of the prevalence of campylobacter pylori in patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms, and an evaluation of various laboratory methods to detect its presence.
(1988)Antral mucosal biopsies were examined microbiologically and histologically for the presence of Campylobacter pylori in 224 patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms. One hundred and eighty three (83%) patients were ... -
Cryptosporidium and cryptosporidiosis.
(1990)Cryptosporidium parvum can cause debilitating disease in immunocompetent persons with cholera-like symptoms characterised by self-limiting, profuse diarrhoea; on the other hand asymptomatic infection with this organism ... -
The effect of dietary egg on human plasma cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
(1990)No abstract available.