Background and Objective: Height measurement is an important part of nutritional assessmentespecially in children. However, in such cases as hospitalized or certain kinds of malformations ordisabilities, height cannot be measured accurately. We aimed to determine appropriate height predictors inIranian healthy children for further use in disabled and/or hospitalized children. Materi...

INTRODUCTION Cushing's syndrome (CS) increases cardiovascular risk (CVR) and adipocytokine imbalance, associated with an increased inflammatory state. Telomere length (TL) shortening is a novel CVR marker, associated with inflammation biomarkers. We hypothesized that inflammatory state and higher CVR in CS might be related to TL shortening, as observed in premature aging. AIM To evaluate rela...

Citation: Koliada AK, Krasnenkov DS and Vaiserman AM (2015) Telomeric aging: mitotic clock or stress indicator? Front. Genet. 6:82. Telomeres are regions of tandem arrays of TTAGGG repeats and associated proteins located at chromosomal ends that allow cells to distinguish chromosome ends from double-strand breaks and protect chromosomes from end-to-end fusion, recombination, and degradation (Ho...

Height measurement is an important part of nutritional assessment especially in children. However, in such cases as hospitalized or certain kinds of malformations or disabilities, height cannot be measured accurately. We aimed to determine appropriate height predictors in Iranian healthy children for further use in disabled and/or hospitalized children. A total of 730 apparently healthy childre...

The food habits of the flathead sole (Hippoglossoides elassodon) in the eastern Bering Sea were investigated. Our analysis of 4,406 flathead sole stomachs containing food showed that the diet was composed primarily of organisms living on the bottom (epibenthic) and pelagic organisms in close association with the bottom (nektobenthic). Feeding shifted from a crustacean-based diet to an ophiuroid...

The King soldier bream Argyrops spinifer at Arabian Sea (Omani waters) was assessed using Beverton and Holt yield per recruit model. A total of 5520 specimens were collected during five trawl surveys between September 2007 and August 2008. The maximum life span was 11 years for length range of 11.0 – 62.1 cm TL. The von Bertalanffy growth parameters were K = 0.22 year-1, L∞ = 65.51 cm, to = -0....

The King soldier bream Argyrops spinifer at Arabian Sea (Omani waters) was assessed using Beverton and Holt yield per recruit model. A total of 5520 specimens were collected during five trawl surveys between September 2007 and August 2008. The maximum life span was 11 years for length range of 11.0 – 62.1 cm TL. The von Bertalanffy growth parameters were K = 0.22 year-1, L∞ = 65.51 cm, to = -0....

background:    previous studies suggest total hip arthroplasty may have some benefits compared to hemi-arthroplasty for displaced intracapsular femoral neck fractures in patients more than 60 years of age. the primary research question of our study was whether in-hospital adverse events, post-operative length of stay (los) and mortality in patients 60 year of age or older differed between total...