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The Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolytic Enzyme Systems in Healthy Adult Africans and Europeans — A Comparative Study
(University of Nairobi, 1973-05)
In a comparative study of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis in healthy adult East Africans and Europeans, the Europeans were found to have some evidence of a relatively hypercoagulable state, and the European male had ...
Hepatitis-b antigen in colony mosquitoes
(University of Nairobi, 1973)
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were fed on or inoculated with blood or serum positive for hepatitis-B antigen (HBAg) or allowed to feed on the arm of an HBAg carrier. Pools of mosquitoes were tested by radioimmunoassay at intervals ...
Haemoglobin J nyanza: α21 (B2) Ala-Asp
(University of Nairobi, 1973)
In a family belonging to the Luo community of Western Kenya a new haemoglobin variant was identified which was not causing any obvious haematological disorder.
The coagulation and fibrinolytic properties of peritoneal and venous blood in patients with ruptured ectopic pregnancy
(University of Nairobi, 1973)
The coagulation and fibrinolytic properties of peritoneal and venous blood were studied in ten African patients with ruptured ectopic pregnancy. The peritoneal blood showed marked depletion of coagulation factors and the ...
Clonal Origin of Chronic Myelocytic Leukemia
(University of Nairobi, 1973-08)
BONE-marrow cells from the majority of patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia have a specific and characteristic aberration of chromosome 22, called the Philadelphia (Ph1) chromosome.1 This abnormality, which may be ...
A second look into the problem of primary infertility in Kenya
(1973)
Laparoscopic investigation of primary infertility was performed in 104 women at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi. Time of admission was during the 2nd half of the cycle in order to determine whether ovulation had ...
Turbidimetric Procedure for Determination of Lipase Activity
(University of Nairobi, 1973-04)
A method is described for turbidimetric assay of lipase activity. The substrate is a two-phase emulsion composed of a fairly homogenous dispersion of micelles of either triolein or olive oil. The de-emulsification of the ...
Molecular interactions in the phenomenology of the onset of mental illness
(University of Nairobi, 1973-07)
The requirements for a normal functioning of the central nervous system (CNS) are discussed with particular reference to the rigorous separation among central neurotransmitters. Any leak of a transmitter into synapses of ...
New Australopithecus femora from East Rudolf, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1973)
New fossil femora attributed to Australopithecus from East Rudolf, Kenya, form the basis for a three-dimensional reconstruction of a complete femur. The reconstruction and the known fossils are compared with the femora of ...
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 ...