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The cholecystokinin test: an assessment.
(,, 1975)
A cholecystokinin (CCK) test was performed on 13 female patients who were thought to be having attacks of gallbladder pain and in whom at least one cholecystogram had been normal. In 10 of these patients the CCK test was ...
A Second Study Of The Use Of Community Leaders In Case-finding For Pulmonary Tuberculosis In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1978-12)
This is the second study of case-finding activities for tuberculosis suspects undertaken in 2 locations of Machakos District. Three methods were investigated, namely (1) the requestioning of the Community Elders 1 year or ...
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhea of travelers: a prospective study of American Peace Corps volunteers
(University of Nairobi, 1977-08)
Travelers' diarrhea was studied prospectively in a group of 39 American Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) during their first five weeks in Kenya. Twenty-seven developed diarrheal disease and 12 remained well. Multiple episodes ...
Failure of trasylol to reduce intestinal content of trypsin and chymotrypsin in man.
(1970)
The daily output of trypsin and chymotrypsin was measured in the stools of four patients with an established ileostomy under controlled dietary and metabolic conditions for a control period of four days. Trasylol, given ...
The effect of penta-gastrin and cholecystokinin on radiological gastro-oesophageal competence.
(, 1975)
Fourteen patients with clinically obvious gastro-oesophageal reflux were examined by conventional barium meal radiology. Neither exogenous penta-gastrin nor cholecystokinin appeared to influence the radiological competence ...
The problems of massive small bowel resection and difficulties encountered in management.
(1978)
Massive small bowel resection is imperative in the management of several pathological conditions and is accompanied by high operative mortality. In those that survive, serious nutritional disturbances are inevitable. ...
Pharmacokinetics of intravenous cyclophosphamide in man, estimated by gas-liquid chromatography.
(1978)
A simple gas chromatographic assay utilising alkali flame ionisation detection is described for the estimation of cyclophosphamide as its trifluoroacetate derivative from plasma. Examination of five patients following ...
New Australopithecines from East Rudolf, Kenya. II.
(1972)
Eleven new specimens of fossil hominids from the Plio-Pleistocene sediments of Lake Rudolf, Kenya, are described. They include the following: two left mandibular bodies; parts of two right mandibular bodies; a massive ...
Induction of labour in sheep and in humans by single doses of corticosteroids
(1973)
In sheep the administration of single intramuscular injections of dexamethasone into the fetus was shown to be an effective method of initiating parturition. In a controlled trial in women who had gone beyond the 41st week ...
Alcoholism.
(1977)