Studies have shown the importance of oxygenated compounds in beverage and food products. Citrus rootstocks seem to have a profound influence on oxygenated compounds in plants. The goal of the present study was to investigate the effect of rootstocks on the oxygenated compounds in Citrus clementina.  Flower oil components were extracted using an ultrasonic bath and eluted with n-pentane: diethyl...

When brain activity is measured by neuroimaging, the canonical hemodynamic response (increase in oxygenated hemoglobin ([O2Hb]) and decrease deoxygenated ([HHb]) not always seen every subject. The reason for this intersubject-variability of responses still completely understood. This study performed with 32 healthy subjects, using systemic physiology augmented functional near-infrared spectrosc...

Abstract To make comprehensive assessments of some rheumatoid diseases, a more reliable imaging method for evaluating joint lesions is required. Photoacoustic (PAI) state-of-the-art technique, providing new options diagnosing disease. In light the recent preclinical studies, detailed morphological structures and micro-vessels small joints, especially finger could be visualized by PAI with high ...

Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting multiple organs, including the central nervous system. Subclinical brain lesions have been reported in SLE patients, even without overt neuropsychiatric manifestations (non-NPSLE). Studies using PET/MRI, examining structural or functional abnormalities SLE, previously performed, either at rest during mental...

In the present study, we show for the first time that motor imagery of swallowing, which is defined as the mental imagination of a specific motor act without overt movements by muscular activity, can be successfully used as mental strategy in a neurofeedback training paradigm. Furthermore, we demonstrate its effects on cortical correlates of swallowing function. Therefore, N = 20 healthy young ...

The introduction of pulse oximetry in clinical practice has allowed for simple, noninvasive, and reasonably accurate estimation of arterial oxygen saturation. Pulse oximetry is routinely used in the emergency department, the pediatric ward, and in pediatric intensive and perioperative care. However, clinically relevant principles and inherent limitations of the method are not always well unders...

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) serves as a promising tool to examine hemodynamic response alterations in a sports-scientific context. The present study aimed to investigate how brain activity within the human motor system changes its processing in dependency of different barbell load conditions while executing a barbell squat (BS). Additionally, we used different fNIRS probe conf...

We assessed the cerebral hemoglobin oxygenation response in the left frontal area in 62 schizophrenia patients and 31 healthy subjects during a verbal fluency test (VF) and letter number span test (LN) measured by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). Oxygenated hemoglobin (oxyHb) increased during VF and LN in both groups. Schizophrenia patients showed lower VF and LN performance and a smaller inc...

The aim of the present study was to compare the frequency of oxygenation determined in the vastus lateralis by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in light exercise with that at rest. A subject rested in a recumbent position for 5 min and changed body position to a sitting position on a cycle ergometer for 9 min. Then exercise with low intensity (work rate of 60% of maximal oxygen uptake) was car...