BACKGROUND Water-soluble dietary fibers intake may help control blood glucose and body weight. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to determine whether soluble fiber supplementation from psyllium improves glycemic control indicators and body weight in type 2 diabetic patients. METHOD Forty type 2 diabetes patients, non-smoker, aged >35 years were stratified to different strata accordin...

the author studies the $bf r$$g$-module $a$ such that $bf r$ is an associative ring‎, ‎a group $g$ has infinite section $p$-rank (or infinite 0-rank)‎, ‎$c_{g}(a)=1$‎, ‎and for every‎ ‎proper subgroup $h$ of infinite section $p$-rank (or infinite 0-rank respectively) the quotient module $a/c_{a}(h)$ is‎ ‎a finite $bf r$-module‎. ‎it is proved that if the group $g$ under‎ ‎consideration is local...

It is shown that the the maximal torus normalizer determines the p-compact group PU(p) and its automorphisms. This leads to homotopy uniqueness results for PU(p) and related p-compact groups and to a novel construction of unstable Adams operations.

Two serogroups (B and E) of Pasteurella multocida associated with hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle were differentiated by a coagglutination test with antibody-coated staphylococci. The group antigen was soluble and heat stable. It was not detectable in unencapsulated cells or their heated extracts. Adsorbed onto human type O erythrocytes, it could be demonstrated by an indirect hemagglutination...

PURPOSE To quantify and compare human mucin 1 (MUC1) protein and mRNA expression in tears and conjunctival epithelial cells collected from Sjogren's syndrome (SS), non-Sjogren's keratoconjunctivitus sicca (KCS) and non-dry eyed (NDE) control subjects. METHODS Seventy-six subjects were recruited for this study: 25 SS (confirmed via American-European Consensus Criteria 2002), 25 KCS (confirmed ...

background sepsis is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in the intensive care units (icus). it is difficult to accurately differentiate sepsis from similar diseases rapidly. therefore, it becomes critical to identify any biomarker with the ability of differentiation between sepsis and nonsepsis conditions. the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor has been implicated...

background and objectives: vitamin e is a fat-soluble vitamin with antioxidant properties, which prevents tissue damages induced by free radicals by their neutralization. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of vitamin e on burn wound healing in rats. methods: in this study, 16 mature male rats weighing 260±10g were used in two groups of 8 each. after induction of anesthesia and sh...

in this paper we enumerate fuzzy subgroups, up to a natural equivalence, of some finite abelian p-groups of rank two where p is any prime number. after obtaining the number of maximal chains of subgroups, we count fuzzy subgroups using inductive arguments. the number of such fuzzy subgroups forms a polynomial in p with pleasing combinatorial coefficients. by exploiting the order, we label the s...