BUltTON and colleagues' suggested recently that stretching the venous wall in limbs elicits a local reflex resulting in constriction of local arteriols. They felt that this "veni-vasomotor" reflex supplemented the central buffer reflexes in controlling blood flow through extremities during change in posture. Utilizing methods permitting direct measurement of small and large vessel resistance in...

Secondary lymphedema in humans is a common consequence of lymph node dissection (LND) to treat breast cancer. A peculiar characteristic of the disease is that lifelong swelling often precipitously appears several years after the surgical treatment, often due to an inflammatory stimulus. Although the incidence of secondary lymphedema dramatically increases after radiation therapy, the relationsh...

Although nervous system sexual dimorphisms are known in many species, relatively little is understood about the molecular mechanisms generating these dimorphisms. Recent findings in Drosophila provide the tools for dissecting how neurogenesis and neuronal differentiation are modulated by the Drosophila sex-determination regulatory genes to produce nervous system sexual dimorphisms. Here we repo...

background: identifying new ways to decrease adiposity have great importance for human health. we aimed to find out whether l – arginine (arg) and selenium alone or together can increase the effect of hypocaloric diet enriched in legumes (hdel) on anthropometric measures in healthy women with central obesity. methods: this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was undertaken in 84 ...