Ways of accelerating recovery of the mucous membrane immune system in lethally irradiated mice following syngeneic bone marrow transplantation were studied over a 35-day period by quantification of jejunal intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) and lamina propria plasma cells. Recovery after a low bone marrow dose allowing 100% animal survival (LBM) was compared with a high (five times minimal) dos...

OBJECTIVE To compare, in Chinese continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients, the creatinine kinetics method (LBM-CK) and the anthropometric method (LBM-AM) for determining lean body mass (LBM). DESIGN Single-center cross-sectional study. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied 151 unselected CAPD patients (78 males, 73 females). We calculated LBM-CK and LBM-AM using standard formulas...

The effect of biosynthetic human growth hormone (BSHGH) on postoperative protein and energy metabolism has been studied in patients who had major gastrointestinal surgery. Seven patients received placebo and seven patients received BSHGH, 0.1 mg/kg/24 h, for the first six postoperative days. Mean total nitrogen excretion was significantly lower with BSHGH (31.5 +/- 2.4 g N) (2287 +/- 160 mmol) ...

LBM should be taken into account (1 ). However, as shown here and previously (3 ), the contribution of LBM to variations in serum creatinine is small. The group of subjects studied were all females, and this may account for the low contribution. However, their LBM covered a wide range (23.0–53.7 kg), and thus it is likely that the findings here would be widely applicable. These results suggest ...

Lattice Boltmzmann Methods (LBM) have been proved to be very effective methods for computational aeroacoustics (CAA), which have been used to capture the dynamics of weak acoustic fluctuations. In this paper, we propose a strategy to reduce the dispersive and disspative errors of the two-dimensional (2D) multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method (MRT-LBM). By presenting an effective algori...

It ha been proved that the lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBMs) are very efficient for computational fluid dynamics purposes, and for capturing the dynamics of weak acoustic fluctuations. Especially, the multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method (MRT-LBM) appears as a very robust scheme with high precision. It is well-known that there exist several free relaxation parameters in the MRT-LBM. Al...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the effect of weight change on regional lean body mass (LBM) distribution or on racial differences in resting metabolic rate (RMR). OBJECTIVE The study compared total and regional LBM patterns in white and black women after weight loss and regain and assessed the influence of regional LBM on variances in RMR. DESIGN Eighteen white and 22 black women who did ...

BACKGROUND Lean body mass (LBM) is an important nutritional measure representing muscle mass and somatic protein in hemodialysis patients, for whom we developed and tested equations to estimate LBM. STUDY DESIGN A study of diagnostic test accuracy. SETTING & PARTICIPANTS The development cohort included 118 hemodialysis patients with LBM measured using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA)...

BACKGROUND A major consequence of malnutrition in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients is the loss of lean body mass (LBM) and the subsequent impairment of respiratory muscle function. AIM To determine whether insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) could be related to the LBM depletion and the evolution of respiratory disease in CF patients. METHODS LBM was evaluated by dual energy x ray absorptiome...

BACKGROUND Decreased lean body mass (LBM) is common in breast cancer survivors yet currently there is a lack of information regarding the determinants of LBM after treatment, in particular, the effect of physical activity and dietary factors, such as long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (LCn-3) on LBM and LBM function. This cross-sectional study explored associations of LBM and function with LCn-3 in...