L eft ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a strong predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) has an important role in the hypertrophic response of the myocardium. A polymorphism in the IGF-I gene promoter region has been identified which influences IGF-I production. Studying this polymorphism in relation to pathology may better reflect the effects of...

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of exercise training and L-arginine supplementation on oxidative stress and systolic ventricular function in rats with myocardial infarction (MI). Methods: Four weeks after the surgically-induced MI, 40 male Wistar rats were randomly assigned to the following 4 groups (n=10): MI-sedentary control (Sed) MI-exercise (Ex) MI-...

Running title: anti-apoptotic and neuroectodermal pathways in Ewing family of tumors Supported by grant 01/0673 fom FIS (Madrid) and PROTHETS (EC Contract number 503036). ABSTRACT Aims An important criteria for EFT is that it originates from a primitive committed cell with neuroectodermal capacity. The degree of neural differentiation within EFT, as measured with morphological features and expr...

Episodic future thinking (EFT), the ability to project into the future to "preexperience" an event, and prospective memory (PM), remembering to perform an intended action, are both examples of future-oriented cognition. Recently it has been suggested that EFT might contribute to PM performance but to date few studies have examined the relationship between these two capacities. The aim of the pr...

introduction: the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of exercise training and l-arginine supplementation on oxidative stress and systolic ventricular function in rats with myocardial infarction (mi). methods: four weeks after the surgically-induced mi, 40 male wistar rats were randomly assigned to the following 4 groups (n=10): mi-sedentary control (sed) mi-exercise (ex) mi-sed...

Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Preexisting Heart Disease Underlies Newly Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation After Acute Ischemic Stroke” We appreciate the interest of Doğanay et al in our article in which we examined the presence of preexisting heart disease in patients with newly detected atrial fibrillation (AF) after stroke. They refer to dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system afte...

BACKGROUND The Embedded Figures Test (EFT, developed by Witkin and colleagues (1971)) has been used extensively in research on individual differences, particularly in the study of autism spectrum disorder. The EFT was originally conceptualized as a measure of field (in)dependence, but in recent years performance on the EFT has been interpreted as a measure of local versus global perceptual styl...

background: diabetes mellitus is capable of impairing the myocardial function. several studies have documented the influential impact of diabetes mellitus on the left ventricular function. the right ventricular function plays a significant role in the overall myocardial contractility; hence, this study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of diabetes mellitus type ii on the right ventricular f...

EWS encodes a ubiquitously expressed RNA binding protein with largely unknown function. In Ewing sarcoma family tumors (EFT), one allele is rearranged with an ETS gene. This is the first description of an EFT with a complete EWS deficiency in the presence of two copies of a rearranged chromosome 22 carrying an interstitial EWS-FLI1 translocation. Absence of EWS protein suggested that it is disp...