BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) is impaired from the early stages of COPD, is associated with a worsening of disease prognosis, and causes COPD patients to restrict their daily activities in order to avoid breathlessness. The development of a simple tool to estimate physical activity level (PAL) could be useful for the management of COPD. OBJECTIVES We investigated the differences in PA acc...

Fresh asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) deteriorates rapidly after harvest. Early enzymatic changes that follow harvesting of asparagus are important factors contributing to postharvest deterioration. We held asparagus spears at 25°C for up to 5 days after harvest and examined changes in the activities of Acid invertase (AI), Sucrose Synthase (SS), Glutamine Synthetase (GS) and Phenylalanine...

Activity is key to maintaining physical and mental health and well-being. However, as dementia affects the ability to engage in activity, care-givers can find it difficult to provide appropriate activities. The Pool Activity Level (PAL) Checklist guides the selection of appropriate, personally meaningful activities. The aim of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the PAL Che...

In the present study, Phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity was detected in different parts of grape plant (leaves, pulp, whole seeds and defatted seeds) extracts. The results revealed that seed possess highest PAL (69.44 U), followed by (44.22 whereas extracts leaves pulp gave lowest values (22.77 5.11 U, respectively). optimum conditions for crude extraction achieved using 50mM potassium...

Bonavita (1) found that the reaction of pyridoxal (PAL) and of pyridoxal 5•Œ-phosphate (PAL-P) with cyanide in a slightly alkaline solution produced highly fluorescent compounds and this reaction has been applied to fluoro metric determination of PAL and PAL-P as "cyanohydrin method" . Recently it was found that PAL and PAL-P were oxidized with oxygen by a catalytic action of cyanide to 4pyrido...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease, and there is no cure for it at present. Recent research has indicated a link between type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and PD, which suggested that a treatment to improve insulin resistance for T2DM may be useful for PD patients. Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) belongs to the incretin hormone family, which can pro...

In the present work, palygorskite (Pal) was initially subjected to an ion-exchange reaction with silver ions (Pal-Ag(+)). Subsequently, Ag-Pal nanocomposites were assembled by a convenient ultraviolet irradiation technique, using carbon dots (CDs) derived from wool fiber as the reducing agent. The obtained nanocomposites were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), ultraviolet-visible ...

Health care costs in first world populations are rising, partly due to increased use of medicines. Sedentary lifestyles and global demographic ageing have contributed this. A physically more active population could reduce the The aim is analyse relationships between physical activity level (PAL) medication Spanish population, by sexes age groups. Methods: cross-sectional study with 17,199 parti...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of adult activity patterns across domains of physical activity is essential for the planning of population-based strategies that will increase overall energy expenditure and reduce the risk of obesity and related chronic diseases. We describe domain-specific hours of activity and energy expended among participants in a prospective cohort in Alberta, Canada. METHODS The Pa...