Ischemia-reperfusion injury, a common complication during liver surgery where steatotic livers are more prone to the injury, may become more prevalent in the growing obese population. This study characterizes liver morphology toward understanding changes in subcellular function in steatotic livers exposed to ischemiareperfusion injury through quantitative description of fluorescein distribution...

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INTRODUCTION The association of prenatal growth with nutritional status, metabolic syndrome (MS), and insulin resistance (IR) was studied in school-age children. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was designed linking present data of children with perinatal records. 3325 subjects were enrolled. Anthropometry, blood pressure (BP), and pubertal status were assessed. Blood lipids, glucose, and...

1,1-dipheny-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) scavenging activities of the 80% methanolic leaf extracts of three cultivars (small leaf, SL; big leaf, BL; thin leaf, TL) of Mai-Men-Dong (Liriope spicata L.) are analyzed by spectrophotometry. The concentrations required for 50% inhibition (IC 50 ) of DPPH radicals were 81.08, 96.97, and 53.78 μg/mL, respectively. The methanolic extracts were further partit...

Laboratory incubations of four broiler litter (BL) samples at 30°C were performed to investigate the effect of water content on the decay of uric acid nitrogen (UAN) and xanthine nitrogen (XN). UAN and XN concentrations increased in all samples during a period of 1 to 8 d before declining for the remaining 30 d. The increases may be the result of guanine and adenine catabolism. The slopes of li...

BACKGROUND Dark chocolate (DC) is abundant in flavanols which have been reported to increase the bioavailability and bioactivity of nitric oxide (NO). Increasing NO bioavailability has often demonstrated reduced oxygen cost and performance enhancement during submaximal exercise. METHODS Nine moderately-trained male participants volunteered to undertake baseline (BL) measurements that comprise...

Satiety, which is the inhibition of eating following the end of a meal, is influenced by a number of food characteristics, including compositional and structural factors. An increased understanding of these factors and the mechanisms whereby they exert their effects on satiety may offer a food-based approach to weight management. Water and gas, which are often neglected in nutrition, are major ...

III. DC Circuits: Voltage, Current and Resistance 7 A. Theory 7 B. Voltage Divider 9 1. Lab Goal 9 2. Experiment Overview/Procedure/Analysis 9 3. Practice to Use Oscilloscope 9 C. Ohm’s Law 9 1. Lab Goal 9 2. Experiment Overview/Procedure/Analysis 9 D. Resistors in Series and Parallel 9 1. Lab Goal 9 2. Experiment Overview/Procedure/Analysis 9 E. Light Bulb 10 1. Lab Goal 10 2. Experiment Overv...

Small-molecule inhibition of extracellular proteins that activate membrane receptors has proven to be extremely challenging. Diversity-oriented synthesis and small-molecule microarrays enabled the discovery of robotnikinin, a small molecule that binds the extracellular Sonic hedgehog (Shh) protein and blocks Shh signaling in cell lines, human primary keratinocytes and a synthetic model of human...