To anticipate the increased of cardiovascular diseases in different parts of the world, the WHO in 1984 have intiated with the WHO-Monica-project participated by 21 countries in 39 research centers. In 1987 Indonesia is the only developing country participated in WHO-MONICA (=Monitoring trend and determinants of Cardivascular Diseases) and in 1988 have empleted the basic data MONICA-Jakarta. It…
A new rapid-test, sandwich immunochromatography assay technique has been recently introduced for the routine, rapid, qualitative detection of the resence hepatitis-B surface antigen (HBsAG). To evaluate the sensitivity of rapid test, we studied 39 sera positive and one sera negative for HBsAg with conventional ELISA method. The study found that the minimal detectable level of HBsAg with rapid t…
Current approaches to human gene therapy focus on insertion of a desired gene into autologous cells such as fibroblasta., hepatocytes, bone marrow stem cells of lympocytes. An altemate strategy to gene therapy through genetic modification of the patients own cells is to implant into different recipients the same engineered cell line under immunologically isolated conditions. This in vivo study …
The effect of renal artery occlusion on the blood concentrations of sodium, potassium and calcium as well as on the amount of red blood cells, blood platelets and hematocrite were studied in dogs. Twenty dogs, both sexes, were used in this experiment. The dogs were anesthetized with ketalar and chloralose. The systemic blood pressure was continously monitored during the experiment was done unde…