Accurate measures of liver fat content are essential for investigating the role of hepatic steatosis in the pathophysiology of multiple metabolic disorders. No traditional imaging methods can accurately quantify liver fat content. [(1)H]-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is restricted in large-scale studies because of the practical and technological issues. Previous attempts on computer-aid...

In this paper we investigate the feasibility of genetic programming for combining features extracted from meat images to predict fat content. Images of beef meat were acquired and analyzed. Feature sets including fat percentage, fat fleck size distribution and homogeneity measurements were extracted from these images. Using genetic programming we built individual programs which give a predictio...

this study investigated the effect of season (wet and dry) on milk composition of the dromedary camel (camelus dromedarius). milk samples representing the wet and dry seasons were analyzed for total solids (ts), fat (f), solids-non-fat (snf), ash, crude protein (cp), nitrogen soluble at ph 4.6 (sn), mineral content (mc) and casein fraction (cnf). camel milk had higher (p<0.05) fat content in th...

objective: diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 is a microsomal enzyme that catalyzes the final step of triglyceride synthesis. the objective of this project is to check out the polymorphism at the exon 8 region of dgat1 gene using pcr-sscp technique in iranian water buffaloes (bubalus bubalis). recent activities have shown that a significant association between lysine at amino acid position 232 wi...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition in which excess fat accumulates in the liver, is strongly associated with the metabolic syndrome, including obesity and other related conditions. This disease has the potential to progress from steatosis to steatohepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. The recent increase in the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is largely driven by changes in diet a...

Pannon White rabbits of average ± 1 S.D. live weight at 10 weeks and of average ± 1 S.D. daily weight gain between 6 and 10 weeks of age were chosen from the experimental stock of our university, and their fat content was determined with an EM-SCAN SA-3152 type small animal body composition analyser (by means of TOBEC method) at 10 weeks of age. Based on the fat content determined, the best and...

Fifty normal-weight college females tasted and rated 15 stimuli resembling cake frostings and composed of sucrose (20-77% weight/weight), butter (15-35% weight/weight), polydextrose and distilled water. Sweetness intensity ratings rose as a function of sucrose levels. In contrast, ratings of fat content were only poorly related to stimulus fat. Rather, the perception of fat depended on stimulus...

In young (35- to 56-day-old) and middle-aged (9-mo-old) wild-type (+/+) and melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R)-deficient (+/-, -/-) mice, expressions of neuropeptide Y (NPY), agouti-related protein (AGRP), pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), and cocaine-and-amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) were analyzed in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) and adjacent regions comprising the dorsomedial (DMN) and ventromed...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) together with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) to study the influence of acupuncture therapy on abdominal fat and hepatic fat content in obese children. DESIGN The design was a longitudinal, clinical intervention study of acupuncture therapy. SUBJECTS SUBJECTS were 10 healthy, obese children (age: ...