Various ketogenic diet (KD) therapies, including classic KD, medium chain triglyceride administration, low glycemic index treatment, and a modified Atkins diet, have been suggested as useful in patients affected by pharmacoresistant epilepsy. A common goal of these approaches is to achieve an adequate decrease in the plasma glucose level combined with ketogenesis, in order to mimic the metaboli...

Plants can regenerate from a variety of tissues on culturing in appropriate media. However, the metabolic shifts involved in callus formation and shoot regeneration are largely unknown. The metabolic profiles of callus generated from tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cotyledons and that of shoot regenerated from callus were compared with the pct1-2 mutant that exhibits enhanced polar auxin transpor...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association between thyroid hormones, insulin resistance, and metabolic syndrome in euthyroid women. METHODS Forty-five women with no past medical history were studied in this cross-sectional study at the Department of Endocrinology, Medwin Hospitals, Hyderabad, India, from August 2008 to September 2008. The body fat was estimated using bio-impedance method, and fas...

INTRODUCTION Metabolic disorders are accepted by many authors as being responsible for balance disorders. Because of the importance of metabolic disorders in the field of labyrinthine dysfunction, we decided to assess the prevalence of carbohydrates, lipids and thyroid hormones disorders in our patients with vestibular diseases. MATERIAL AND METHOD The study evaluates the metabolic profile of...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To provide a short review of the literature describing the hypermetabolic response to injury and potential treatments. Associated findings include changes in inflammatory mediators and secreted hormones. RECENT FINDINGS Treatments should be aimed at decreasing the response and potentially the use of anabolic agents. Of note, recent interest in the hyperglycemic response to i...

Metabolic diseases are an increasing problem in society with the brain-metabolic axis as a master regulator of human body for sustaining homeostasis under metabolic stress. However, inflammation and disease will trigger sustained activation hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. In this study, we investigated role stress on progenitor cells vitro, applied insulin leptin to murine isolated from pi...

Hypothyroidism is a condition in which there are low concentrations of thyroid hormones in the blood. It is one of the most common hormonal disorders in dogs, but rare in cats. Thyroid hormone is important for the normal regulation of metabolic rate and activity in many tissues and a deficiency of the hormone results in reduced metabolic activity and abnormal changes in many organ systems. If p...