OBJECTIVE To verify the influence of visceral and subcutaneous fat, as well adipokines in bone mineral density (BMD) in obese adolescents. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study involved 125 postpubertal obese adolescents (45 boys and 80 girls). Anthropometric measurements, body composition, visceral and subcutaneous fat, and BMD were determined. Leptin, adiponectin, and insulin levels also analyzed....

the combinations of inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (icp-oes) and three classification algorithms, i.e., partial least squares discriminant analysis (pls-da), least squares support vector machine (ls-svm) and soft independent modeling of class analogies (simca), for discriminating different brands of iranian bottled mineral waters, were explored. icp-oes was used for th...

The development of advanced laboratory-based imaging hyperspectral sensors, such as SisuCHEMA, has created an opportunity to extract compositional information of mineral mixtures from spectral images. Determining proportions of minerals on rock surfaces based on spectral signature is a challenging approach due to naturally-occurring minerals that exist in the form of intimate mixtures, and grai...

almabulage complex is located in the north of asadabad city, northwestern hamedan province, in sanandaj-sirjan structural zone. the complex includes several types of low-grade metamorphosed rocks with various protoliths as well as two intrusion having different chemical compositions of synogranite and gabbro. the synogranite intrusion rock has perthite and granophyric co-growths textures and au...

BACKGROUND Non-carbonated natural mineral waters contain microorganisms that regularly grow after bottling despite low concentrations of dissolved organic matter (DOM). Yet, the compositions of bottled water microbiota and organic substrates that fuel microbial activity, and how both change after bottling, are still largely unknown. RESULTS We performed a multifaceted analysis of microbiota a...

Inbred strain-specific differences in mice exist in bone cross-sectional geometry, mechanical properties, and indices of bone formation. Inbred strain-specific responses to external stimuli also exist, but the role of background strain in response to genetic deletion is not fully understood. Biglycan (bgn) deficiency impacts bone through negative regulation of osteoblasts, resulting in extracel...

Our group has devoted to the application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to basic science and clinical problems of bone mineral and matrix, and to the diseases associated with bone. NMR spectroscopy provides an analysis of the ionic composition and structure of the mineral crystals and matrix, i.e., the properties of bone as a materi...