OBJECTIVES To calculate the energy and nutrient intake in 2 regions of Alaska and to describe the implications for development of chronic disease among Alaska Native people (AN). STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional observation; 10 villages and 2 hub communities in rural Alaska; 333 participants ages 13 to 88 years old. METHODS Trained interviewers collected 24-hour diet recalls during 4 seasons. ...

INTRODUCTION Anemia associated with chronic kidney disease is a serious complication necessitating expenditure of huge medical efforts and resources. This study investigates the role of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) in end stage renal disease patients undergoing hemodialysis. By the virtue of its antioxidative effects, ALA is expected to act as an erythropoietin (EPO) adjuvant, and also has extended ...

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is capable of utilizing a variety of iron sources in vitro, including human transferrin, human lactoferrin, hemoglobin, hemoglobin-haptoglobin complexes, heme, and heterologous siderophores. Transferrin has been implicated as a critical iron store for N. gonorrhoeae in the human male urethra. The demonstration that gonococci can infect the lower genital tracts of estradiol...

AIM To evaluate reticulocyte hemoglobin (RET-He) vis-a-vis serum ferritin as a marker of bone marrow iron store in iron deficiency anemia (IDA). MATERIAL AND METHODS A hospital based analytic study was conducted among patients (age group 15-65 years) with newly diagnosed and untreated IDA admitted in medicine ward and not suffering from any inflammatory disorders (excluded by C-reactive prote...

I n mammalian cells, iron is required for the function of many prosthetic groups, including heme and iron-sulfur clusters. Mammals absorb dietary iron and heme across the apical mucosa of duodenal epithelial cells using a Fe transporter known as divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT-1; also known as solute carrier family 11 member 2, divalent cation transporter 1 (DCT1), and natural resistance asso...

this study is a try to explore effects of buyer impulsivity and in-store environment factors on impulse buying in chain stores. path analyses technique was used for analyzing the model and structural equation model and t-value test for evaluating hypothesis. statistical society of this study is consumers of chain stores in tehran. by cochran method 384 people were selected as a sample.450 quest...

Introduction: Iron plays an important role in myelination. Ferritin is a reliable indicator of the tissue iron store and umbilical cord ferritin level reflects the in utero iron stores. Objective is to study the effect of the umbilical cord ferritin level on the ABR recording in the newborn.   Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in a ...

Ferritin, a food constituent of animal and vegetal origin, is a source of dietary iron. Its hollow central cavity has the capacity to store up to 4,500 atoms of iron, so its potential as an iron donor is advantageous to heme iron, present in animal meats and inorganic iron of mineral or vegetal origin. In intestinal cells, ferritin internalization by endocytosis results in the release of its ir...