Conjunctival impression cytology with transfer (CICT) to detect pre-clinical vitamin A deficiency among slum children in India
| Autor: | B.N.S. Wafia, Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, S. Chowdhury, Lata Kumar, C. K. Nain, Rajesh Kumar |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Vitamin
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty India Medicine (miscellaneous) Sensitivity and Specificity Epithelium chemistry.chemical_compound Poverty Areas Ophthalmology Cytology medicine Humans Mass Screening Child Vitamin A Mass screening Nutrition and Dietetics Staining and Labeling Vitamin A Deficiency business.industry Retinol Obstetrics and Gynecology Infant Impression cytology medicine.disease Predictive value Surgery Vitamin A deficiency chemistry Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Carbol fuchsin business Conjunctiva Slum |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Nutrition. 75:785-790 |
| ISSN: | 1475-2662 0007-1145 |
| Popis: | In order to establish a method usable in the field for diagnosis of pre-clinical vitamin A deficiency, conjunctival impression cytology with transfer (CICT) was used in 200normal slum children aged 6−120 months in Chandigarh, India. Conjunctival impressions taken on cellulose acetate paper were transferred to glass slides which were fixed in ethanol and stained with alcian blue and carbol fuchsin. Sixty samples of cellulose acetate paper were preserved after transfer of impression and were stained later. Transfer was complete in forty-eight samples and in the other twelve it was incomplete. Conjunctival impressions on paper and slide of these twelve cases were comparable. At a plasma retinol concentration of |
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