Our purpose was to determine the influence of posture and breathing route on electromyographic (EMG) activities of nasal dilator (NDM) and genioglossus (GG) muscles during exercise. Nasal and oral airflow rates and EMG activities of the NDM and GG were recorded in 10 subjects at rest and during upright and supine incremental cycling exercise to exhaustion. EMG activities immediately before and ...

Methane (CH4) from enteric fermentation is one of the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in South Africa. Livestock population data from 1990 to 2014 and emission factors were utilized in estimating CH4 emissions as per the 2006 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) guidelines. CH4 emissions originating from country-specific emission factors were compared with those ca...

Glucuronidation of carboxylic acid compounds results in the formation of electrophilic acyl glucuronides. Because of their polarity, carrier-mediated hepatic transport systems play an important role in determining both intra- and extrahepatic exposure to these reactive conjugates. We have previously shown that the hepatic membrane transport of 1-O-gemfibrozil-beta-D-glucuronide (GG) is carrier-...

[2] If we knew g ∈ SL2(C) had an expression g = kark, then gg∗ = ka2rk, where g∗ is conjugate transpose. This suggests how to determine components k, ar, k ′: by the spectral theorem for positive-definite hermitian operators gg∗, we can find k ∈ SU(2) and a diagonal matrix a2r of positive real eigenvalues, so that gg∗ = ka2rk. We claim that k′ = (kar) −1g ∈ SU(2). Indeed, ( (kar) −1g )( (kar) −...

In this study, the activities of the two external glossal muscles, Genioglossus (Gg) and Styloglossus (Sg), related to respiration were examined through the electromyography (EMG) in dog. During quiet breathing, no phasic respiratory activity were observed in either muscle. With hypercapnic condition induced by closed rebreathing respiratory system, both Sg and Gg showed phasic respiratory acti...

OBJECTIVE The incidence of nosocomial infections, predominantly gastrointestinal and respiratory, in children in developed countries is high, ranging from 5% to 44%. There is no effective strategy for preventing these infections. The objective of our study was to investigate the role of Lactobacillus GG (LGG) in preventing nosocomial gastrointestinal and respiratory tract infections at a pediat...

Gellan Gum (GG) was modified with N-vinyl Formamide (NVF) through PDP/Ag + redox system initiated graft copolymerization in a thermostatic water bath at 35°C under nitrogen atmosphere. The highest percentage of grafting (186%) and the lowest homopolymer content (22.2%) were achieved through a systematic optimization of the polymerization variables, including reaction time, temperature, and conc...

Introduction. Chronic Periodontitis (CP) is suggested to be related to gene variations. Present study aims to quantitatively estimate the association between interleukin-6- (IL-6-) 174G/C polymorphism and CP susceptibility. Materials and Methods. Pubmed, Embase, and Web of Science were searched up to May 2016. The meta-analyses were performed using STATA 12.0. Results. 21 studies were yielded. ...