Adequate fill of any breast implant, regardless of shell characteristics, shape, or filler material, is important to prevent implant shell wrinkling, folding, or collapse that could potentially decrease the life of the implant. Implant shell life is a major factor that affects reoperation rates. The greater the necessity of reoperations, regardless of implant type, the greater the rate of local...

Tomatoes are grown for fresh consumption or for processing of the fruit. Some ripening-associated processes of the fruit can either contribute to or degrade attributes associated with both fresh and processing quality. For example, cell wall disassembly is associated with loss of fresh fruit firmness as well as with loss of processed tomato product viscosity. Several enzymes contribute to cell ...

BACKGROUND The transumbilical breast augmentation procedure has been described in the literature since 1993. This indirect route for implant placement has received both criticism and praise over the years, without a comprehensive assessment of the procedure from the perspective of the patient. The growing patient demand for the procedure, combined with the increased use by surgeons, prompts a r...

Thiazolidinediones represent an established class of insulin sensitizing agents for treating noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Darglitazone, a thiazolidinedione approximately 200x more potent than ciglitazone, was evaluated in preclinical safety assessment studies using rats (1, 5, and 50 mg/kg/day) and cynomolgus monkeys (50, 75, and 100 mg/kg/day). Darglitazone was a potent adipogenic a...

Firmness is one of the most important quality measures strawberries, and related to other aspects fruit, such as flavour, ripeness internal characteristics. The popular method for measuring firmness puncturing with a penetrometer, which destructive time-consuming. In present study, we make an attempt predict strawberries in fast, non-destructive non-contact way using hyperspectral imaging (HSI)...

in this research, kiwifruits (hayward) were selected in two mass ranges (large and small). they were placed in one-liter glass bottles in the vicinity of the polyethylene sachets containing potassium permanganate nano-zeolite (0, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.8 g) and were stored in a germinator (5°c temperature and 30% relative humidity). then, the physicochemical properties of the fruits (soluble solid cont...