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Paediatric rhabdomyosarcoma: MyoD1 demonstration in routinely processed tissue sections using wet heat pretreatment (pressure cooking) for antigen retrieval.
(Journal of clinical pathology, 1997-01-01)
AIMS: To investigate wet heat pretreatment (pressure cooking) as a means of antigen retrieval for demonstration of MyoD1 in paraffin wax embedded tissue. METHODS: Routinely processed tissue sections of transmission electron ...
Pregnancy in open heart surgical patients at Kenyatta National Hospital.
(East African medical journal, 1999-01-01)
In the past, the Kenyatta National Hospital heart unit policy has been to discourage pregnancy among patients following open heart surgery for valve replacement, in view of the adverse effects of warfarin.
OBJECTIVE:
To ...
Follow up of patients after open heart surgery.
(East African medical journal, 1998-12)
To determine the patient drop out to postoperative follow up for heart patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
DESIGN SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:
The study analysed the postoperative attendance of heart patients to the ...
Epstein‐Barr virus in Hodgkin's disease: frequency of a 30‐bp deletion in the latent membrane protein (LMP‐1) oncogene in South African patients
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-08-20)
In recent years, substantial evidence has accumulated implicating Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in the pathogenesis of Hodgkin’s disease (HD) and some non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (Pallesen et al., 1993; Weiss et al., 1989). It has ...
Fibrosarcoma of the lung with extrapulmonary manifestations
(East African Medical Journal,, 1995-07-01)
A 50-year-old female presented with a five months history of recurrent attacks of dizziness, sweatiness, tremors and fainting with loss of consciousness. These were found to be due to hypoglycaemic episodes with blood ...
Surgery of the oesophagus: a Nairobi experience.
(East African medical journal, 1993-05-01)
On average, for every 100 patients with malignant dysphagia admitted into the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Nairobi, 28 will have their tumour resected. Seven in the tumour resected group will die during the postoperative ...
The effects of blending clonal leaf on black tea quality
(Elsevier, 1999-08-01)
Although most clones are selected for quality and yields, there are clones in production with superior yields but producing inferior black tea quality and vice versa. Some of these clones with superior yield give very poor ...
Effect of land preparation and weeding on maize (Zea mays) grain yields in the coastal region of Kenya
(Taylor & Francis Group, 1993-01-01)
A field study was conducted at the Regional Research Centre, Mtwapa and at the Msabaha subcentre in Kilifi District of Coast Province, Kenya between 1986 and 1989. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects ...
Long-term effects of fertility and hand-weeding on Striga in maize.
(1994)
Tanzania has recently embarked into a period of liberalisation which is undoubtedly having an
impact on the agricultural sector. The effects of liberalisation are feeding through to the animal
feeds sector, which is ...
Reaching youth with the peace message
(Dr. Gerald J. Wanjohi, 1995)
The youth in the world and particularly in Africa, are seen to be the most active in the different wars of our times. In Rwanda, images of young people were anstantly featured on our T. V screens, canying guns and executing ...