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Browsing Research Articles (Chemical Pathology) by Author "Delport, Rhena"
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Bornman, Maria S. (Riana); Delport, Rhena; Farías, Paulina; Aneck-Hahn, Natalie Hildegard; Patrick, Sean Mark; Millar, Robert P.; De Jager, Christiaan (Elsevier, 2018-04)DDT [1, 1, 1-trichloro-2,2-bis (p-chlorophenyl)-ethane] compounds are used for indoor residual spraying (IRS) to control malaria mosquitoes. DDT is an endocrine disruptor chemical in experimental conditions, but little is ...
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Delport, Rhena (Clinics Cardive, 2018-01)Both patient and health-system delays contribute to delays in restoring myocardial perfusion. Patient-related delays constitute the time from onset of symptoms to the call for help, and onset of symptoms to first medical ...
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Hodges, Brian David; Ginsburg, Shiphra; Cruess, Richard; Cruess, Sylvia; Delport, Rhena; Hafferty, Fred; Ho, Ming-Jung; Holmboe, Eric; Holtman, Matthew; Ohbu, Sadayoshi; Rees, Charlotte; Ten Cate, Olle; Tsugawa, Yusuke; Van Mook, Walther; Wass, Val; Wilkinson, Tim; Wade, Winnie (Routledge, 2011-05)Over the past 25 years, professionalism has emerged as a substantive and sustained theme, the operationalization and measurement of which has become a major concern for those involved in medical education. However, how to ...
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Govender, Radha; De Greef, Jacques; Delport, Rhena; Becker, Piet J.; Vermaak, William J.H. (Clinics Cardiv, 2008-05)AIM: Ischaemia-modified albumin (IMA), as measured by the albumin-cobalt binding (ACB) test®, has been cleared by the US Food and Drug administration as a biomarker to exclude the presence of myocardial ischaemia in patients. ...
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Delport, Rhena; Bornman, Maria S. (Riana); MacIntyre, Una Elizabeth; Oosthuizen, Nicholette M.; Becker, Piet J.; Aneck-Hahn, Natalie Hildegard; De Jager, Christiaan (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2010-12)BACKGROUND: The insecticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) has been used for malaria vector control in the northern and eastern parts of the Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa, since 1945. Bioaccumulation ...
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Malan, Leoné; Hamer, Mark; Von Känel, Roland; Lambert, Gavin W.; Delport, Rhena; Steyn, Hendrik S.; Malan, Nicolaas T. (Elsevier, 2017-11)BACKGROUND : Sympatho-adrenal responses are activated as an innate defense coping (DefS) mechanism during emotional stress. Whether these sympatho-adrenal responses drive cardiac troponin T (cTnT) increases are unknown. ...
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Parson, Walther; Strobl, Christina; Huber, Gabriela; Zimmermann, Bettina; Gomes, Sibylle M.; Souto, Luis; Fendt, Liane; Delport, Rhena; Langit, Reina; Wootton, Sharon; Lagacé, Robert; Irwin, Jodi (Elsevier, 2013-09)Insights into the human mitochondrial phylogeny have been primarily achieved by sequencing full mitochondrial genomes (mtGenomes). In forensic genetics (partial) mtGenome information can be used to assign haplotypes to ...
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Delport, Rhena (Clinics Cardiv, 2009-01)This review discusses the 1987 article by Wyndham, Seftel, Pilcher and Baker on familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) and myocardial infarction (MI) in young Afrikaners, in terms of the significance at the time of publication, ...
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Delport, Rhena; Lingenhel, Arnulf W.; Ubbink, Johan B.; Kraft, Hans G. (Clinics Cardiv, 2004-09)Background: Homocyst(e)ine is reported to increase the binding of lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] to fibrin, which may increase the thrombogenic effects of Lp(a) in vivo. The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a ...
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Khalifa, Mahmoud; Noureen, Asma; Ertelthalner, Kathrin; Bandegi, Ahmad Reza; Delport, Rhena; Firdaus, Wance J.J.; Geethanjali, Finney S.; Luthra, Kalpana; Makemaharn, Orawan; Pang, Richard W.C.; Salem, Abdel-Halim; Sasaki, Jun; Schiefenhoevel, Wulf; Lingenhel, Arno; Kronenberg, Florian; Utermann, Gerd; Schmidt, Konrad (Elsevier, 2015-10)OBJECTIVE : The variant allele of rs3798220 in the apolipoprotein(a) gene (LPA) is used to assess the risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) in Europeans, where it is associated with short alleles of the Kringle IV-2 (KIV-2) ...
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Delport, Rhena; Ker, James A. (Clinics Cardiv, 2012-11)With the use of specific cardiac markers with higher sensitivity, new perspectives have emerged on the nature of myocardial necrosis and injury, which are associated with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The third universal ...
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Propensity of people of African descent towards hypertension-associated cardiovascular pathologies Delport, Rhena (Nature Publishing Group, 2016-06)No abstract available.
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Snyders, Adriaan; Delport, Rhena (South African Heart Association, 2015)The SA Heart Association seeks to to improve the early management of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in South Africa. This pilot study was undertaken to establish the current time intervals present in the ...
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Kilian, Elmare; Delport, Rhena; Bornman, Maria S. (Riana); De Jager, Christiaan (Blackwell, 2007-08)Many reports suggest that male reproductive health has deteriorated over the last decades, possibly due to environmental contaminants that act as endocrine disruptors. This hypothesis was tested in Sprague-Dawley rats ...
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Delport, Rhena (Clinics Cardive, 2014-11)No abstract available.
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Mwandri, M.; Walsh, M.; Frantz, J.; Delport, Rhena (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-12)BACKGROUND : To improve the management of chest trauma at the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana, we incorporated simulation into a theorybased chest trauma module by developing procedural guides, checklists and ...
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