The aim of this study was to detect the serum adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) levels in obesity and newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients, and to explore the association between ATGL with glucose and lipid metabolism. We enrolled 66 patients with type 2 diabetes and 48 patients with normal glucose regulation, who were divided into an overweight or obese subgroup and a normal weight subgro...

Let L be a Moufang loop which is centrally nilpotent of class 2. We first show that the nuclearly-derived subloop (normal associator subloop) L∗ of L has exponent dividing 6. It follows that Lp (the subloop of L of elements of p-power order) is associative for p > 3. Next, a loop L is said to be a small Frattini Moufang loop, or SFML, if L has a central subgroup Z of order p such that C ∼= L/Z ...

The present article is a summary of joint work of the author and Phillip Wesolek on the normal subgroup structure of totally disconnected locally compact second-countable (t.d.l.c.s.c.) groups. The general strategy is as follows: We obtain normal series for a t.d.l.c.s.c. group in which each factor is ‘small’ or a non-abelian chief factor; we show that up to a certain equivalence relation (call...

Let L := k̄((ǫ)), where k is a finite field with q elements and ǫ is an indeterminate, and let σ be the Frobenius automorphism. Let G be a split connected reductive group over the fixed field of σ in L, and let I be the Iwahori subgroup of G(L) associated to a given Borel subgroup of G. Let f W be the extended affine Weyl group of G. Given x ∈ f W and b ∈ G(L), we have some subgroup of G(L) that...

Let L be a Lie group and A a lattice in L. Suppose G is a non-compact simple Lie group realized as a Lie subgroup of L and G---A = L. Let a~G be such that Ada is semisimple and not contained in a compact subgroup of Aut (Lie(G)). Consider the expanding horospherical subgroup of G associated to a defined as U + = {g~ G:a-"ga"~ e as n ~ oo}. Let f2 be a non-empty open subset of U § and nf-* ~ be ...

Preterm birth is the most common reason for perinatal morbidity and mortality in the western world. It has been shown that in euthyreotic pregnant women with thyroid autoimmune antibodies, L-Thyroxine replacement reduces preterm delivery rate in singleton pregnancies. We investigated in a nonrandomized retrospective observational study whether L-Thyroxine replacement, maintaining maternal free ...

There is probably a heterogeneous etiology for essential hypertension (EHT), and abnormal erythrocyte sodium-lithium countertransport (Na/Li CT) is common in a subgroup of patients with a strong family history of hypertension and cardiovascular disease (EHT-FH patients). The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that altering a membrane thiol protein could mimic the abnormal Na/Li CT obs...

Introduction: Impaired wound healing in diabetic patients is a major clinical problem, which is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Estrogen has positive effects on neoangiogenesis, reepithelialization and cell proliferation. In this research, effect of estrogen on wound healing in diabetic male rats was investigated. Methods: This study was performed on male Wistar rats (bo...

We take the base field to be the field of complex numbers in these lectures. The varieties are, by definition, quasi-projective, reduced (but not necessarily irreducible) schemes. Let G be a semisimple, simply-connected, complex algebraic group with a fixed Borel subgroup B, a maximal torus H ⊂ B, and associated Weyl group W . (Recall that a Borel subgroup is any maximal connected, solvable sub...

Disulfide-bond-A oxidoreductase-like protein (DsbA-L) has been suggested to take part in the disulfide bond formation progress of proteins, including insulin and adiponectin. Recent study has demonstrated that expression of DsbA-L was decreased in obese mice and human subject, indicating that DsbA-L might be a potential target for treatment of metabolic diseases. We investigated the association...