More than 6000 residents of Latvia were involved in recovery work in Chernobyl. They were healthy men exposed to substantial ionizing radiation (0.01–0.5 Gy). Now, these recovery workers suffer from… (More)
Interest in finding natural antioxidants for use in food or medical materials to prevent free radical imbalance has increased considerably over the past years. The aim of this research was to… (More)
To establish if there is further evidence for the long-term oxidant stress injury (as reported previously—Kumerova et al. in Biol Trace Elem Res 77:1–12, 2000) in surviving Chernobyl nuclear power… (More)
INTRODUCTION
Coagulation and fibrinolysis remain sparsely addressed with regards to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We hypothesized that ARDS development might be associated with changes… (More)
1 Department of Chemistry and Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia 2 Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Riga Stradins… (More)
Measurements of nitrogen oxide and copper in the blood of 57 patients with chronic viral hepatitis C was carried out before antiviral therapy by electron paramagnetic resonance on a Radiopan EPR… (More)
Materia medica Polona. Polish journal of medicine…
1998
Antioxidant defence was investigated in red blood cells (RBC) in 56 patients with 3 different haemoblastoses: polycythemia vera (PV), chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML), chronic lymphoid leukemia… (More)
Using an experimental ischemia-reperfusion model it is found that combined treatment with α-tocopherol and panthenol markedly increases the content of endogenous antioxidant tocopherol during total… (More)
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) has dramatically increased in the past decade. Furthermore, increasing evidence from research shows that oxidative stress (OS) plays a crucial role in the… (More)
Plasma NO-binding activity was studied in patients with various forms of hematological malignancies. The method used in the study quantitatively evaluated the plasma capacity to bind NO, which… (More)