The effects of angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker (ARB) on triglyceride (TG) metabolism associated with insulin resistance were explored in Zucker fatty (ZF) rats. Olmesartan medoxomil, a newly developed ARB, was given as a 0.01% drinking solution ad libitum to ZF and Zucker lean (ZL) rats for 4 wk. Olmesartan lowered blood pressure in both strains to the same extent. ZF rats had a markedly...

the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of daily steps on blood lipid profile of middle-aged men. daily steps were measured in healthy men (n=27) by a portable electronic pedometer. subjects were voluntarily selected as an active group (ag=12) and sedentary group (sg=15). in addition, total cholesterol (tc), triglyceride (tg), ldl-c and hdl-c were measured. the average of daily ...

Cryptobiosis describes the state of an organism whose body water is completely dehydrated and metabolic activity has become undetectable. Our study aimed to elucidate the physiological mechanism of cryptobiosis in the highest cryptobiotic invertebrate, Polypedilum vanderplanki. Larvae of this insect rapidly accumulated a large amount of the carbohydrate, trehalose, (18% of dry body mass) during...

It has been proposed that transgenic mosquitoes can be used as a "flying syringe" for infectious disease control. We succeeded in generating a transgenic (TG) mosquito, Anopheles stephensi, excreting and discharging DsRed in saliva. DsRed was deposited on the membrane where the TG mosquito probed with its proboscis. Repeated feeding by the TG mosquitoes induced anti-DeRed as well as anti-SG ant...

Let M̃g,n, for 2g−2+n > 0, be the moduli stack of n-pointed, genus g, stable complex curves of compact type. Various characterizations and properties are obtained of both the algebraic and topological fundamental groups of the stack M̃g,n. Let Γg,n, for 2g − 2+ n > 0, be the Teichmüller group associated with a compact Riemann surface of genus g with n points removed Sg,n, i.e. the group of homoto...

PURPOSE To quantify the capillaries in the skeletal muscular tissue of mice with induced peripheral arterial insufficiency, after endurance training. METHOD It was used Wistar mice in 70 days age range, subjected to the total occlusion of right femoral artery. The animals were divided into two groups: sedentary group (SG; n = 05), subjected to activities in the cage; and trained group (TG; n ...

Using the Postgastrectomy Syndrome Assessment Scale (PGSAS)-45, we compared the surgical outcomes and the quality of life (QOL) between patients undergoing limited gastrectomies and those undergoing conventional gastrectomies. In Oomoto Hospital between January 2004 and December 2013, a total of 124 patients who met the eligibility criteria were enrolled. Using the main outcome measures of PGSA...

Analysis of the electrostatic characteristics and the gate capacitance of typical nanostructured carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNTFETs) were performed numerically. A previously developed parallelized electrostatic Poisson’s equation solver (PPES) is employed, coupled with a parallel adaptive mesh refinement (PAMR) to improve the numerical accuracy near the region where variation of ...

PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the association of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with apolipoprotein E (APOE) variants and serum lipid profiles, including levels and fractions of total serum cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLc), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLc), and triglycerides (TG). METHODS Genotyping of APOE-HhaI was performed in 134 pa...