Weinberg et al. (1) first showed in 1998 that an infusion of a soybean oil emulsion normally used as a total parenteral nutrition solution could prevent (by pretreatment) or improve resuscitation from cardiovascular collapse caused by severe bupivacaine overdose in the intact, anesthetized rat. Subsequent studies from the same laboratory confirmed these findings in isolated rat heart (2) and an...

Tubal disease is the cause of female infertility in approximately 30% of 25% of these are due to proximal tubal obstruction. Selective women and 10 salpingography represent an approach in the diagnosis and treatment of ipid (IL) is a synthetic product composed of Intral proximal tubal abnormalities. 10 % soybean oil, 1,2 % egg yolk phospholipids, 2.25 % glycerin, and water. When indicated, IL i...

Thank you for commenting (1) on our article (2) in the January issue of Diabetes. The main issue raised by Dr. Cusi is that no sex difference was noted in his intralipid infusion study by Belfort et al. (3), whereas we report that women are less susceptible than men to lipid-induced insulin resistance. A difference between the study by Belfort et al. (3) and ours (2) is that we measure leg gluc...

Reflectance spectra measured in Intralipid (IL) close to the source are sensitive to wavelength-dependent changes in reduced scattering coefficient ([Formula: see text]) and scattering phase function (PF). Experiments and simulations were performed using device designs with either single or separate optical fibers for delivery and collection of light in varying concentrations of IL. Spectral re...

BACKGROUND/AIM Our previous studies showed that administration of dexamethasone plus food increased serum leptin levels 100% more than dexamethasone alone. We hypothesized that this increase in leptin from the meal could result directly from the provision of fuel metabolites rather than from the meal-induced rise in insulin. In the current study, we tested the effect of an i.v. lipid fuel sourc...