Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) patients have reduced muscle strength and impaired walking ability. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of maximal strength training (MST) on walking economy and walking performance in PAD patients. Ten patients with mild to moderate-severe claudication, classified as Fontaine stage II PAD and with functional limitations from intermittent claudicat...

Dinoflagellates in marine benthic habitats living epiphytically on macroalgae are an important but highly understudied group of protists. Many produce toxins that can have severe economic impacts on marine-based economies, and improved monitoring tools are required to enhance the management of toxin-related hazards. We analysed the distribution and diversity of epibenthic dinoflagellates inhabi...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to present our assessment of the impact of resident participation on operative duration and outcomes after hemithyroidectomy, which may identify opportunities for optimization of educational programs, reduction in cost of healthcare delivery, and maximizing patient safety, while continuing to train a competent physician workforce for the future. METHOD...

Neural differentiation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) can produce a valuable and robust source of human neural cell subtypes, holding great promise for the study of neurogenesis and development, and for treating neurological diseases. However, current hESCs and hiPSCs neural differentiation protocols require either animal factors or embryoid bo...

El aceite de higuerilla (Ricinnus communis) atrae el interés en la industria química porque puede emplearse como materia prima para producir productos químicos o fuentes energía por medio modificaciones químicas, es caso epoxidación. presente estudio, índole investigativa y experimental, se enfoca epoxidación del variedad Portoviejo-67 provincia Manabí- Ecuador reacción Prileschajew evaluar las...

The effects of hot-rolling (HR), cold-rolling (CR), and HR + CR followed by aging on the microstructure mechanical properties medium-entropy alloy (MEA) Ni43.4Co25.3Cr25.3Al3Ti3 were investigated. geometrically-necessary dislocation (GND) density increased with increasing cold rolling reduction to 1.8–2.4 × 1014 m−2, which is eight times 2.9 1013 m−2 found in as-hot-rolled MEA. Higher before le...

Angiogenesis is critical to tumor progression. The homeobox gene GAX inhibits angiogenesis in vascular endothelial cells (ECs). We have identified a microRNA (miR-130a) that regulates GAX expression and hypothesized that it plays a major role in modulating GAX activity in ECs. A 280-bp fragment from the GAX 3 -untranslated region (3 -UTR) containing 2 miR-130a targeting sites was observed to be...

BACKGROUND The burden of obesity in Vietnam has not been well defined because there is a lack of reference data for percent body fat (PBF) in Asians. This study sought to define the relationship between PBF and body mass index (BMI) in the Vietnamese population. METHODS The study was designed as a comparative cross-sectional investigation that involved 1217 individuals of Vietnamese backgroun...