lipase/fever

Cyclooxygenase inhibitors such as ibuprofen have been used for decades to control fever through reducing the levels of the pyrogenic lipid transmitter prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). Historically, phospholipases have been considered to be the primary generator of the arachidonic acid (AA) precursor pool

BACKGROUND Many cases of acute human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (AHI) present to the Emergency Department (ED). Early diagnosis allows a patient to modify their behavior and seek early treatment. The Emergency Physician should know that the antibody response may be absent. OBJECTIVE We

The virus capsomeres of the outer and inner layers of capsids were effectively released simultaneously from purified virions by lipase digestion and were purified by a linear gradient ultracentrifugation. The capsid consisted of an array of double layers of uniformly arranged individual capsomeres

Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) deficiency is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder with varying presentation in infancy and childhood, whereas clinical manifestations are rare in neonatal period. The estimated prevalence is one in a million births. A 23-day-old baby was admitted with complaints of

Previous studies have demonstrated that the entry of African swine fever virus (ASFV) into Vero cells and swine macrophages is mediated by saturable binding sites located on the plasma membrane. The ASFV protein p12 has been implicated in virus attachment to the host cell, but the cellular component

C. burnetii possesses a battery of host-independent enzymes which mediate endergonic and exergonic reactions. The biochemical and biophysical lesions responsible for the organism's obligate intracellular parasitic state have not been identified. Clues to this fundamental problem may lie in the

Mucinous peritoneal carcinomatosis from a primary gastrointestinal malignancy is a lethal condition that has few treatment options with the use of surgery, chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Recent advances in hyperthermia technology and in knowledge of the natural history of this disease has

BACKGROUND Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a tick-borne disease characterized by nonspecific symptoms like fever, myalgia, severe headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. It can result in various complications during the course of the disease due to the diffuse endothelial

Hyper- and hypothermia was induced in dogs by peritoneal perfusion with warm or cold Lactate-Ringer's solution, the objective being to alter cardiac output. Changes in cardiac index, intravenous lipid clearance rate (K-value), and lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity, concomitantly with changes of the

BACKGROUND Multiple factors may affect pancreatic enzyme levels even in the absence of pancreatitis. In the general intensive care unit (ICU), we examined the incidence, various clinical factors, and sequelae associated with elevated pancreatic enzymes in the neurosurgery ICU. METHODS Eighty-nine

Here we present the case of a 57-years old patient affected by hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare disease characterized by an uncontrolled immune activation, resulting in clinical and biochemical manifestations of extreme inflammation. In a previous hospitalization, the patient showed

African swine fever virus polypeptides with molecular weight of 120, 78, 69, 59, 56, 45, 39, 28, 26, 24, 16, and 14 kD are the major proteins in the purified virions, as shown by electrophoresis and immunoblotting. A mixture of proteases and pancreatic lipase hydrolyzed the polypeptides of 120 and

OBJECTIVE Elevated lipase and amylase are commonly found in patients in intensive care unit without a previously recognized pancreatic illness, constituting a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. The authors therefore proposed to determine the frequency of asymptomatic high serum lipase in

The involvement of oxidative and nitrosative mediators in liver injury caused by heat stress remains unclear. This study aimed to elucidate the role of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), and inducible NOS (iNOS)-derived NO and nitrotyrosine in the whole-body hyperthermia (WBH)-induced liver