BACKGROUND : In a small pilot trial, patients with atypical depression demonstrated significant positive therapeutic response to chromium picolinate. This finding is of interest because of the demonstrated link between depression, decreased insulin sensitivity, and subsequent diabetes and chromium picolinate's insulin enhancing effect. METHODS : In this double-blind, multicenter, 8-week repli...

A novel picolinate-iron(III) compound, Fe(C6H4NO2)2(OH) (1), was synthesized from an aqueous solution of a picolinate-iron(II) complex. Compound 1 was obtained by a thermal treatment of the picolinate-iron complex aqueous solution, whose pH was adjusted to 3­7, containing more than twice molar picolinic acid (Hpa) to Fe at 353K for 72 h. When the iron aqueous solution in the presence of more th...

BACKGROUND Effective team leadership in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is well recognized as a crucial factor influencing performance. Generally, leadership training focuses on task requirements for leading as well as non-leading team members. We provided crisis resource management (CRM) training only for designated team leaders of advanced life support (ALS) trained teams. This study asse...

In this paper, we propose and present Real-Time Channel-based Reeective Memory (RT-CRM) { a useful programming model and middleware communication service for constructing distributed real-time industrial monitoring and control applications on commercially available open systems. RT-CRM provides remote real-time data reeection abstraction using a simple writer-push model. This writer-push approa...

Chromium is one of the few trace minerals for which a specific cellular mechanism of action has not been identified. Recent in vitro studies suggest that chromium supplementation may improve insulin sensitivity by enhancing insulin receptor signaling, but this has not been demonstrated in vivo. We investigated the effect of chromium supplementation on insulin receptor signaling in an insulin-re...