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Tio2 has been investigated intensely since the 1970s when it was discovered that it is an active photocatalyst . Although most surface science studies focus on the most thermodynamically stable rutile tio2(110) face, there is a growing interest in other rutile terminations as well as anatase tio2 surfaces . The rutile ... |
Heart diseases, as the most common cause of death in iran and worldwide, have always been considered by the public and healthcare policy makers . Consequently, increasing the number of heart surgery centers has become an indicator of healthcare extension . Almost all of healthcare managers place the expansion of heart ... |
Civil unrest is not new to the united states or the world . In the period between september 11, 2001, and the anaheim police shooting in 2012, there were 21 nationally recognized incidents of civil unrest.4,5 since the police shooting of 16-year - old kimani gray in 2013 in baltimore, maryland,6 there have been 12 inci... |
They include sustaining proliferative signalling, evading growth suppressors, resisting cell death, enabling replicative immortality, inducing angiogenesis, activating invasion and metastasis, reprogramming of energy metabolism and evading immune destruction 1 . The most common system for classifying the extent of spre... |
Genetic testing is a tool that reads the dna sequence of genes to identify variations . Not all variations have a noticeable effect on health or other traits, and a great deal of research is devoted towards identifying those that do . Over the last decade, the price of sequencing has dramatically decreased while the nu... |
The prevalence of obesity in early childhood has shown some signs of decreasing; however, for the hispanic population, it continues to remain high, estimated at 16.7% for 25-year - old hispanic children in the united states, double that of the general population . There are few effective interventions that have enrolle... |
Superficial infections such as burn, wound and post - surgical site infections are important causes of emergency health care - associated problems all around the world . Superficial infections cause longer hospital stays, more expensive hospitalizations and increased mortality (1). The annual superficial infection care... |
Elucidation of the role played by small rna molecules in the context of viral life cycles has led to the identification of new drug targets that fall outside the realm of traditional drug design . In particular, the transactivation response element (tar) of hiv is critical in regulating transcriptional elongation of th... |
The selection of outcome measures to be applied is one of the most important factors in designing a clinical trial . The outcome measures present a major factor influencing the duration of a trial, likelihood of detecting a therapeutic effect, size of the sample and acceptance of study results . Selection of outcome me... |
In recent years, magnesium alloys have attracted much attention as potential biodegradable bone implant materials due to their biodegradability in the bioenvironment as well as their favourable mechanical properties, especially the elastic modulus being close to that of the bone which will effectively decrease the stre... |
Materials rna oligonucleotides described in this work were obtained from dharmacon and dna oligonucleotides were obtained from invitrogen . We cloned ns3 + and ns3 - 4a+-expressing cdna from the hepatitis c viral genotype 1a (version h77, kindly donated by dr . The dna oligonucleotides used for pcr of ns3 and ns3 - 4a ... |
Acute kidney injury (aki) is a common clinical problem in intensive care unit (icu) patients and independently predicts poor outcome [14]. In the icu setting, the overall incidence of aki is approximately 36% [5, 6], and an increasing trend has been reported [7, 8]. Cardiac dysfunction is also common in patients with a... |
Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (fhc) is a disease of cardiac sarcomeres, with causal mutations identified in a variety of myofilament proteins including thin filament ca - regulatory proteins [15]. Many mutations in cardiac troponin i (ctni, the inhibitory subunit of the troponin complex, tn) and cardiac troponin... |
Worldwide over 400 million people are carriers of hepatitis b; in the united states an estimated 1.25 million people are chronically infected and an estimated 51,000 new cases occurred in 2005 [1, 2]. Although the incidence of hbv has declined since the 1980s in all age groups, the decline has been slower in adults, pa... |
Despite the presence of older surgical literature referencing its use in axillary - femoral bypass and access via surgical exposure for severe descending aortic disease, the use of the axillary artery (axa) as an access site has lost favor in percutaneous intervention in large part due to the success of these procedure... |
Acute gastroenteritis is a common and costly clinical condition in children . Over the past two decades, pediatric acute gastroenteritis has been the subject of considerable worldwide attention . In the past, a number of laboratory studies were used to evaluate children with acute vomiting and/or diarrhea . Since oral ... |
The fungus (tti-0009, nrrl 66178) formed patches of white mycelial pseudostromata on the dung surface that were accompanied by bright orange conidial masses (sporodochia) (figure s1; supporting information). Isolation of the fungus from the sporodochial conidia resulted in cultures identical to those from the ascospore... |
If cilia provide information that serves to retain cells in their functioning differentiated g0 state, then defects in this pathway are predicted to cause proliferative disorders: cancer, cystic diseases, and fibroses of various sorts . To date, the best case for such a role for cilia comes from studies on the polycyst... |
Thus, various pharmaceutical modifications of 5-asa have been attempted . A time - dependent 5-asa releasing preparation releases 5-asa into the entire small intestine and the large intestine in a time - dependent manner because of the methylcellulose coating . Meanwhile, a ph - dependent 5-asa releasing preparation (d... |
Such mechanisms can be divided into those caused by anatomical or functional disk alterations (fig . Disk prolapse is most common, reported in almost 25% of asymptomatic individuals and increasing with age.67 when painful, the most common type of pain is radicular, caused by irritation of a spinal nerve or its root . T... |
About 1% of the population worldwide suffers from epilepsy, and antiepileptic drugs (aeds) are often used as a lifelong treatment . Prevalence rates of childhood epilepsy reported from different countries have shown a wide variation, with most clustering around 4 - 6 per 1,000 children . Aeds are often associated with ... |
The purpose of the root canal obturation is to provide a tight seal that prevents reinfection of the canal and subsequent leakage of fluid and antigenic agents into or from the periradicular tissues . Nowadays, there is increasing demand for prompt, simple and efficient obturation technique, which improves practice and... |
Although resin composite materials have improved considerably since their introduction, their polymerization shrinkage remains a problem . This shrinkage could cause tensile stress and consequent debonding at the tooth - composite interface, which may lead to recurrent caries, postoperative sensitivity, and microleakag... |
This is because primarily most countries, including india follow the spontaneous or voluntary system of adr reporting . There are patient - related reasons for ur like failure to recognize adr or inability to link the adr with a drug . The commonest doctor related reasons are the feeling of guilt, fear of litigation, i... |
Known as mad honey among the turkish people and produced in turkey in the black sea region from r. luteum and r. panticum's nectar is known to cause severe cardiovascular side effects as well as gastrointestinal symptoms . Grayanotoksin (andromedotoksin), which is produced by the genus rhododendron plants is responsibl... |
According to the world allergy organisation about 1.9%4.9% of children suffer from cow's milk allergy, with the prevalence in adults much lower; less than 0.5% . It is known that perceived food allergy could be 10 times higher [3, 4] than that confirmed by appropriate tests . Although a large number of foods are suspec... |
Oculocutaneous albinism is a group of autosomal recessive disorders featuring hypopigmentation of the hair, skin and eyes . Ocular signs associated with the disease are nystagmus, decreased visual acuity, hypopigmentation of the retina, foveal hypoplasia, translucency of the iris, macular transparency, photophobia and ... |
Malaria is a vector borne disease, caused by the plasmodium parasite . According to who report, there were estimated 216 million episodes of malaria in 2010, of which approximately 81%, or 174 million cases, were in the african region . There were estimated 655,000 malaria deaths in 2010, of which 91% were in africa . ... |
Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders that are sporadic, inherited, or transmissible . These include kuru and creutzfeldt - jakob disease in humans, scrapie in sheep and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle . These pathologies are caused by the conformational transition of the native and... |
The patient in this report was suffering from diabetic neuropathy, end - stage renal disease, restless legs syndrome (rls), and depression . He had injuries of both basal ganglia and the thalamus as a result of hypoglycemia, causing chorea and more severe leg pains and dysesthetic sensations . Rls is a sensorimotor dis... |
Wide hybridisation between b. rapa (, genome: aa) and b. nigra (, genome: bb) was performed to produce allodiploids (f1, genome: ab), and subsequently allotetraploids (f1, genome: aabb) were obtained by treating the allodiploids with 0.2% colchicine for 16 h, as described in our pervious study reported by ghani et al .... |
Childhood obesity has emerged as a significant health problem in a transitional society . Rapidly changing dietary practices and a sedentary lifestyle have led to a high prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity among school - aged children (defined by the international obesity task force cut - points) in developi... |
Colonic lipomas are benign mesenchymal tumors that might not require treatment if asymptomatic, whereas large colonic lipomas that cause abdominal pain, hemorrhage, constipation and intussusception require surgical resection . Endoscopic submucosal dissection (esd) is considered to be effective for treating large lipom... |
Ascites is a major complication associated with portal hypertension in decompensated cirrhotic patients (1,2) and is commonly treated with aldosterone antagonists and loop diuretics (3). However, patients with cirrhosis have decreased serum sodium and hypoalbuminemia (4), which reduce the effects of diuretics (4). This... |
The nutmeg plant, myristica fragrans houtt, is a member of the small primitive family called myristicaceae, taxonomically placed between the annonaceae and lauraceae . At present, myristicaceae is considered as a member of magnotiales or its taxonomical equivalents . Nutmeg has long been known for its psychoactive prop... |
A 74 year old male with a past medical history significant for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, hypothyroidism, and barrett's esophagus presented with gradually progressive bilateral lower extremity weakness and urinary retention . The patient gradually developed difficulty with ambulation to the point that he neede... |
The fact that exercise and physical activity have positive effects on health is well known . Most of the research on exercise - induced changes carried out during the past years has mainly focussed on its impact on cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases . Only recently it has been noted, that exercise also leads t... |
Physical inactivity is one of the major factors behind the increase in the death rate related to cardiovascular diseases since the introduction of modern work styles1 . In addition, due to sedentary lifestyles, physical inactivity has become a major risk factor of death regardless of sex2 . Also, aerobic exercise helps... |
Cell nuclei in two - dimensional (2d) pathology images can yield quantitative information about the presence or absence of disease processes and also help evaluate disease progress . Detecting and segmenting nuclei correctly with minimum human effort is important for cell nuclei analysis . Jung and kim showed that impr... |
We calculated the risk that a given pet in western europe is contagious for rabies on a given day by the equation we describe factors associated with rabid pets (https://zenodo.org/record/49670 #) and define pet transport as any noncommercial movement of a live cat, dog, or ferret and its owner or an authorized person ... |
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ad / hd) is a psychiatric condition affecting an estimated 57% of children . Ad / hd's core symptoms of elevated impulsivity, increased motor activity, impaired concentration, and short - term memory deficits are often chronic with their symptomatic expression changing with dev... |
Ewing's sarcoma (ews) accounts for 10% of malignant bone tumors and commonly arises from the long bones, pelvis, and ribs . Primary ews arising from cranial bones is rare and accounts for only 1%4% of all ews . We report the case of a 15-year - old girl with ews of the skull and discuss the treatment of this rare entit... |
Reagents and chemicals pfu dna polymerase was from stratagene (la jolla, ca). Qiagen (valencia, ca) kits were used for plasmid dna purification and the extraction of dna from agarose gels . C - palmitoyl coenzyme a (c - pcoa), c - palmitic acid, c - butyryl coenzyme a, c - crotonoyl coenzyme a, and c - docosanoyl coenz... |
The prozone effect is most often associated with secondary syphilis, human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) co - infection, and pregnancy . The incidence of the prozone phenomenon is attaining clinical significance due to increasing population at risk for sexually transmitted diseases, especially those who are hiv positive... |
Local environment is contaminated with parasite eggs shed by infected cats and dogs [2, 3]. Humans acquire an infection with toxocara by accidental consumption of infecting parasite eggs or larvae [4, 5]. Infection with toxocara is one of the most widespread zoonotic parasitic infections and causes a disease known as t... |
The molecular targets of selection favoring brain expansion during human evolution have been sought by identifying dramatic, lineage - specific shifts in evolutionary rate . The increase in duf1220 domains during human evolution provides one of the most dramatic increases in copy number (popesco et al . A single copy o... |
The millennium development goal 5 (mdg5) of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by 75% between 1990 and 2015 (1) is unlikely to be achieved in africa, because there was no progress that has been made to achieve such goals . Most of the current strategies in the developing world are focusing on emergency obstetric car... |
The search for esthetic materials has led to advances in the study of dental materials, especially composite resins . The main advantages of resins are related to the material's esthetic properties, decrease of marginal leakage, increased resistance of the tooth remnant, and less need for removal of healthy tooth struc... |
In mammals, fertilization results in a zygote, the totipotent stem cell that can give rise to all cell types of a developing embryo and adult . A pre - implantation mouse embryo at the blastocyst stage consists of three cell lineages, inner cell mass (icm), trophectoderm (te) and primitive endoderm (pe). Te is the firs... |
Traditionally, implant treatment is based on a 2-stage protocol with a healing period of 3 - 6 months during which the implants are submerged to achieve osseointegration.1 recently, this clinical suggestion has been challenged . Numerous practitioners now advocate immediate or early loading of implants.2 the advantages... |
Ammonium dichromate is an odorless, bright orange to red, crystalline powder used in pyrotechnics, fireworks, photography, and in dyes used for screen and color printing . Skin manifestations after industrial exposure of chromate salts are well - known, but little is known about systemic toxicity and its treatment . A ... |
Snakes are geographically distributed around the world except for the frozen polar - ice zones and high mountainous altitudes . The majority of species are terrestrial, but others inhabit shorelines, rivers, swamps, and estuaries, and are not found far away from terrestrial environments and habitats . A few aquatic spe... |
Telemedicine can be considered as the application of telecommunications technology to assist in delivering health services at a distance and is not new.1 teleophthalmology was long considered as one of telemedicine s most challenging applications.2 spectral domain ocular coherence tomography (sd oct) imaging is being u... |
Colorectal cancer (crc) occupies an important place among cancers that affect both men and women; it ranks third among all cancers in terms of its incidence among both men and women, as well as being the third most common cause of death from cancer in the usa . The estimated number of new cases and of deaths from crc i... |
Many children with acute glomerulonephritis (agn) are first seen in their primary physicians' offices . This initial contact may be crucial in determining the child's most appropriate disposition as well as identifying any immediate threats to life . This paper will review the office approach to agn in children on the ... |
Elisa kits for the determination of insulin were purchased from alpco diagnostics, and leptin kits were purchased from millipore . [p]-atp was purchased from perkin - elmer, sn-1,2-dioleylglycerol was from avanti, and most other reagents and chemicals were purchased from sigma - aldrich . The generation of the hypoxia ... |
Vulvar hematomas are usually seen in the obstetric population following repair of episiotomies and birthrelated soft tissue injury . However, traumatic nonobstetric vulva hematomas are rare . They may arise secondary to blunt trauma sustained during a fall from height 1, 2, 3, sexual assault, foreign body insertion, an... |
American ginseng (panax quinquefolium) is an important medicinal plant belonging to the araliaceae family . It is native to the hardwood - forested regions of the eastern part of north america, but it has been successfully cultivated in new zealand, china, australia, holland, france, and poland (koodziej et al . 2006).... |
The use of the modern mri imaging techniques has changed the prospects for the treatment of cervical carcinoma and has become a valuable tool in the brachytherapy (bt) component [13]. The american brachytherapy society (abs) and the groupe europen de curiethrapie and the european society for radiotherapy and oncology (... |
Maraviroc (mvc) is a first - in - class selective chemokine coreceptor type-5 (ccr5) antagonist indicated for the treatment of ccr5-tropic (r5) hiv-1 infection in both treatment - naive and treatment - experienced patients in the united states,1 and in treatment - experienced patients in the european union.2 mvc is pri... |
Diabetes is a chronic disorder that affects a large segment of population and is a major public health problem . A recent who report indicates that india has the largest diabetic population (19 million in 1995) that is expected to rise to 57 million by 2025 . A commonly accepted definition of foot infection is the pres... |
Streptococcus pyogenes (group a streptococci) infection is diagnosed by either bacterial culture or serological testing . For the serodiagnosis, antistreptolysin o (aso) and antideoxyribonuclease b (adnase b) are the most widely accepted tests (1 - 3). The most popular and standardized serological test is still aso rat... |
A 43-year - old caucasian german salesman was referred to our outpatient clinic from the haematologists in july 2009 . He was under their care for anaemia and had lost 10 kg of weight in 6 months . He also had increasing shortness of breath on exertion with a cough productive of yellow phlegm, increasing lethargy, dizz... |
Reviewing his publications, he can be described as (i) a physician who wanted better drug dosage regimens for patients, (ii) a quantitative scientist who advocated better use of computers in medicine, (iii) a clinical pharmacologist who sought better models to better understand drug action, (iv) a statistician who look... |
Children have a natural tendency to put any small objects into their mouth; occasionally these objects can be ingested in the airodigestive tract; 80% of them will be stuck in the esophagus and 20% of them will lodge in the airway . In china, no statistical data on the incidence of esophageal foreign body is available,... |
Oxygen (o2) is essential for all aerobic organisms to produce energy via mitochondrial oxidative respiration as well as to perform other critical biological processes (koch and britton, 2008; taylor and mcelwain, 2010). Hypoxia is a condition in which tissues are inadequately oxygenated, and various physiological condi... |
Historically, kidneys with congenital abnormalities were often discarded because of the perceived risk of technical complications . However, as the waiting times for kidney transplants continue to increase, transplant centers have become more aggressive at using select kidneys with congenital abnormalities . Horseshoe ... |
Muscular ventricular septal defects account for 20% of the total ventricular septal defects in the population . Most muscular ventricular septal defects (mvsd) are single and isolated lesions that close spontaneously in their natural history . Sometimes there are many different muscular communications between the left ... |
It is capable of causing various clinical manifestations like pneumoniae, septicaemia, arthritis, abscess etc . And is associated with high morbidity and mortality . Cases have been reported from southeast asian countries like thailand, malaysia and vietnam etc . In india, most cases have so far been reported from the ... |
As research in implantable biomaterial advances, the understanding and manipulation of cell - substrate interactions have increased in importance . One approach is to produce a more biomimetic construct that can recruit and control the patterning of functional cells to mimic the native tissue organization . For example... |
Parasites - a strain of a. cantonensis has been maintained in our laboratory in biomphalaria glabrata snails and sprague - dawley rats since 1980 (wang et al . Young adults and adult worms were collected on days 21 and 50 post - infection, respectively, from the cerebral tissues and pulmonary arteries of rats . The sex... |
Pleural effusion (pe) is one of the most common diagnostic problems in clinical practice . Distinguishing an exudate from a transudate is the first step in the diagnostic approach of a patient with pe [2, 3]. Currently, the criteria proposed by light et al, have been generally accepted for this discrimination . However... |
The incidence of peritonitis in patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (capd) has significantly decreased recently compared to rates in the past because of the development of peritoneal dialysis methods and catheter - related techniques, continuous patient education, and the establishment of anti... |
Nursing is experiencing a significant shortage of registered nurses around the world, particularly in developed countries such as the united states and canada [14]. This shortage is due to the increased demand for healthcare services, shortage of nursing professors, and the aging population of the nursing workforce . I... |
Since the introduction of microarrays, there has been considerable interest in using whole - genome expression profiling to gain insight into cancer and to identify key genetic mediators . Although there has been some success in this regard, many efforts have been complicated by the fact that it is difficult with expre... |
T - wave alternans is characterized by beat - to - beat change in the morphology, amplitude and/or polarity of the t wave . Microvolt level t - wave alternans (mtwa) has been proposed to assess the abnormalities in ventricular repolarization, which favors the occurrence of reentrant arrhythmias . In 1994, a first clini... |
Gastric cancer is the one of the most prevalent reason of cancer - related death in the world . Now, gastric cancer contains 10% of cancers in the world and is one of the most common kinds of cancers (1). According to the statistics of iran cancer institute, gastric cancer is the third most common cancer between irania... |
With an increase in the longevity of life and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, there is an increased incidence of diabetes mellitus (dm2) in the elderly, who may get admitted to hospital for symptomatic or operative treatment . In the us, seven million americans are undiagnosed and 25 million are known diabetics, w... |
Several authors recently reported a substantial number of bare - metal stent (bms)-related restenosis cases presenting as acute coronary syndromes (acs)1)2) and several case reports providing intravascular ultrasound (ivus) evidence of pla - que rupture at in - stent neointima.3)4) although ivus is widely used to evalu... |
Aberrant cytokine expression accompanies both lymphoid and myeloid malignancies and is believed to contribute to disease phenotype and outcome . Recent studies in diffuse large b - cell lymphoma and primary myelofibrosis (pmf) have provided proof - of - concept in this regard by demonstrating phenotypic correlates and ... |
Although cardiac surgery procedures fall into the category of so - called clean procedures, they remain burdened with the risk of infectious complications . Postoperative sternal wound infection (swi) occurs in 0.5 - 8% of patients and is associated with high mortality (14 - 47%), especially in the event of deep sterna... |
Vaccination using antigens expressed by endothelial cells lining the tumor vasculature represents the most attractive vaccination strategy because immunization using this approach may prevent the growth of any solid tumor . Therefore, endothelial cells can be used as a source of antigens used in the development of a un... |
Atmospheric aerosol particles influence the global climate through their two - fold impact on earth s radiative balance . They scatter incoming solar radiation directly, but they also affect the climate indirectly by acting as condensation nuclei for cloud droplets (ccn), therefore affecting the radiative properties an... |
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is a disease state characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible according to the global initiative for chronic obstructive lung disease guidelines.1 irreversible airflow limitation is defined as the proportion of forced vital capacity (fvc) in 1 second, i... |
Hiv cohorts were drawn from eurocoord (www.eurocoord.net), a european union (eu)funded network of excellence that includes most european hiv cohorts [7, 8]. Only cohorts considered national that is, multicenter and not restricted by risk group were included . Hiv cohorts and surveillance agencies in austria, belgium, d... |
Longevity and outcome of total knee arthroplasty (tka) are dependent on the restoration of mechanical axis and ligamentous balance in both flexion and extension1,2). To improve the accuracy of alignment and clinical outcomes, technologies such as computer - assisted surgery, patient matched instrumentation and robotic ... |
Contemporary restorative dentistry relays on the durable adhesive joint for long survival of composite restorations . Although etch and rinse adhesives are considered the gold standards, they are technique sensitive . Thus, isolation of the working field via rubber dam application is a prime requisite . Unfortunately, ... |
Iga nephropathy (igan) is the most common primary glomerulonephritis in the western world [1, 2]. Gross haematuria bouts preceded by an upper respiratory infection, hypertension and proteinuria and microhaematuria of variable degrees are the most characteristic clinical findings . Dominant or co - dominant mesangial de... |
Malperfusion of coronary arteries due to acute stanford type a aortic dissection is particularly problematic because it may be obscured by myocardial ischemia or infarction.1) acute myocardial infarction due to extension of an acute stanford type a aortic dissection is an infrequent, but devastating event.2)3) several ... |
Marine dissolved organic matter (dom) is one of the largest active carbon pools on earth and, thus, an important component of the global carbon cycle . The earth s continents are a major source of terrigenous dom to the oceans, which is transported with other constituents such as iron (fe) via riverine and submarine gr... |
The human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infects cd4 t lymphocytes and macrophages, eventually inducing the depletion of cd4 t cells, which is the defining feature of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids). It is not clear precisely how the virus exploits the host cell to maximize viral particle production, but e... |
Hepatitis c virus infection has been reported to be the most common blood born pathogen all over the world . In egypt, infection with hcv has become the most important public health problem nowadays with the overall prevalence of anti - hcv in egypt in 1993 was 13.6% haemodialysis patients are at a high risk of infecti... |
Smartphones provide various conveniences, such as sending and receiving e - mail, accessing the internet, and engaging in entertainment1 . The number of smartphone users has increased dramatically in recent years because of these conveniences . However, the use of smartphones is reportedly associated with physical symp... |
In total, 126 participants were recruited for the study by advertising in the area of copenhagen and at www.forsgsperson.dk . Both men and women with a body mass index (bmi) of 1840 all participants were apparently healthy adults with no known chronic illnesses . After having received verbal and written information, al... |
The thoracic angle is the primary curve of the vertebral column which is comprised of 12 vertebrae . The thoracic kyphosis angle increases with age and the increase is greater in females than in males [2, 3]. Hyperkyphosis or increase in thoracic curve greater than normal range is one of prevalent spinal disorders . Bi... |
The adult sorghum chafer, pachnoda interrupta, is a polyphagous herbivore that feeds on fruits and flowers of several plant species, e.g., banana (musa spp . ), mango (mangifera spp . ), acacia (acacia spp . ), orange (citrus sinensis), and papaya (carica papaya) (clark and crowe 1978; hiwot 2000). Fermentation product... |
Obesity is a growing problem in the united states (flegal et al ., 1998; kuczmarski et al ., 1994; mokdad et al . Among many determinants of obesity, frequency of meals, snacking, and eating - out have attracted research and practical interests because of their direct applicability to everyday life . Fabry and co - wor... |
Obesity is known as a risk factor for the development of metabolic disorders such as chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, arterial hypertension and atherosclerosis (1). The production of some of the adipiokins is resulted from obesity, type2 diabetics, and metabolic syndrome (3). Retinol binding prot... |
, an estrogenic lack determines a condition characterized by the prevalence of bone reabsorption phase over the bone formation phase . Osteoporosis in postmenopause recognizes also low serum 1,25(oh)2d levels and a reduced intestinal transport of calcium, always due to the estrogenic lack . The reabsorption markers inc... |
The seemingly inert bone of vertebrates is, in reality, a living tissue that retains adaptive capability throughout the life - span . Transformation of bone in response to alterations of its mechanical environment is evident in numerous examples, e.g. From the bone loss observed during space flight and bed rest as well... |
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