Biomedical subjects

F Armagan

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PubMed2004

Acute effects of maternal smoking on fetal hemodynamics.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate acute effects of cigarette smoking on fetal hemodynamics. METHOD: Sixty seven women between 32nd to 40th weeks of gestation were evaluated. Maternal blood pressure and heart rate, fetal heart rate (FHR) tracing, umbilical and fetal middle cerebral arterial (MCA) color Doppler measurements were evaluated. Pre- and postsmoking results were compared with paired t-test. RESULTS: Maternal heart rate significantly increased after smoking. Baseline FHR and FHR variability remained unchanged. The number of participants who had a reactive NST was 60 in 67 before smoking (89.5%) and decreased to 47 after smoking (70.1%) (p=0.009). There were no significant changes between maximum and minimum flow velocities, pulsatility index (PI), resistance index (RI) and systolic/diastolic flow ratio (S/D) of umbilical and middle cerebral arteries. CONCLUSION: The nicotine load of a single cigarette may be inadequate to cause a detectable decrease in utero-placental blood flow; however, smoking prior to the FHR recording may alter the FHR reactivity.

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A new preconcentration and separation method for flame atomic absorption spectrometric determinations of some trace metal ions on a Diaion HP-20 column.

A preconcentration/separation method for determination of Cr(III), Cd(II), Bi(III) and Co(II) has been proposed. The analytes were adsorbed on a column filled Diaion HP-20 resin as metal-8-hydroxiquinoline complexes and desorbed from the column by using 10 ml of 1M HNO3 in acetone. The influences of some analytical parameters such as pH, amounts of oxine, type of eluent etc on the recoveries of chromium, cadmium, bismuth and cobalt were discussed. Effects of the various alkaline salts on the recoveries of the investigated ions were also examined. The method was applied for the determination of Cr(III), Cd(II), Bi(III) and Co(II) contents of table salt samples, some chemical grade alkaline salts produced in Turkey and a stream sediment standard reference material sample (GBW 07309) with satisfactory results (recoveries > 95%, relative standard deviations < 9%). The limit of detection for analyte ions (3s, N = 20) was between 23-305 ng/g.

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