Twenty-six anovulatory women of polycystic ovarian (PCO)-type were treated with bromocriptine (Br) at a daily dose of 5 mg for 2 months. Ovulatory cycles were resumed in 18 (69.2%) women (Br-responders). No difference between pretreatment serum levels of FSH, LH, PRL and estradiol and FSH/LH ratios in Br-responders and nonresponders was observed. The geometric mean of circulating androstenedion...

Bromelain (Br) is a cysteine peptidase (GenBank AEH26024.1) from pineapple, with over 40 years of clinical use. The constituents mediating its anti-inflammatory activity are not thoroughly characterized and no peptide biomarker exists. Our objective is to characterize Br raw material and identify peptides in the plasma of Br treated mice. After SDS-PAGE in-gel digestion, Br (VN#3507; Middletown...

BACKGROUND Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is complex, lengthy, and involves a minimum of four drugs termed a background regimen (BR), that have not previously been prescribed or that have proven susceptible to patient sputum culture isolates. In recent years, promising new treatment options have emerged as add-on therapies to a BR. The aim of this study was to evaluate t...

OBJECTIVE Muscle loss and metabolic changes occur with disuse [i.e. bed rest (BR)]. We hypothesized that BR would lead to a metabolically unhealthy profile defined by: increased circulating tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, decreased circulating insulin-like-growth-factor (IGF)-1, decreased HDL-cholesterol, and decreased muscle density (MD; measured by mid-thigh computerized tomography). METHODS...

On the basis of the results of ξ(2230) → π+π−, pp̄ and KK̄, measured by the BES Collaboration in radiative J/ψ decays, combined with the upper limit of Br(ξ → pp̄)Br(ξ → KK̄), measured by PS185 experiment, we argue that the distinctive properties of ξ(2230), the flavor-symmetric decays and the narrow partial decay widths to ππ andKK̄ as well as its copious production in radiative J/ψ decay, would st...

The electrophysiological properties of the myogenic cardiac cells of insects have been analyzed, but the mechanisms that regulate the pacemaker activity have not been elucidated yet. In mammalian pacemaker cells, different types of membrane ion channels seem to be sequentially activated, perhaps in a cooperative fashion with the current generated by Ca(2+) extrusion mediated by the electrogenic...

The influence of the cations on the condensation of the anions in the salts (A')Zn(II) Br4 and (A)2Zn(II)Br4 is studied by 81 Br NQR and X-ray crystal structure analysis. (A')Zn(II)Br4(A' = [H3N(CH2)3NH3] + ) (1) shows a phase transition at 474 K. The phase II of (1) crystallizes with isolated [ZnBrJ " tetrahedra: monoclinic P2 t/«, Z = 4, a = 1108.4 (5), b = 1096.8 (2), c = 1118.5 (6) pm, and ...

The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model contains in general sources of tau lepton flavour violation which induce the rare decays τ → μγ and τ → eγ. We argue in this paper that the observation of both rare processes would imply a lower bound on the radiative muon decay of the form BR(μ → eγ) ∼ C×BR(τ → μγ)BR(τ → eγ). We estimate the size of the constant C without specifying the origin of the t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of polishing on the glycemic properties of Indian parboiled brown rice. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN We evaluated the effect of different degrees of polishing on the glycemic and insulinemic responses of Bapatla (BPT-5204), Indian parboiled Indica rice variety. Brown rice (BR), under milled rice (UMR) and white rice (WR) with 2.3% and 9.7% degree o...

Brassinosteroids (BRs) are essential phytohormones regulating normal plant growth and development. TCP1, a gene thought to be involved in floral organ symmetric control, was identified as a genetic suppressor of a weak BR receptor mutant, bri1-5, in an activation-tagging genetic screen. TCP1 encodes a putative transcription factor possessing a basic helix-loop-helix domain. The dominant allele ...