The Intrauterine and Nursing Period Is a Window of Susceptibility for Development of Obesity and Intestinal Tumorigenesis by a High Fat Diet in Min/+ Mice as Adults by Ha Thi Ngo, Ragna Bogen Hetland, Inger-Lise Steffensen

“…In the glucose tolerance test, the early exposure to a 45% fat diet in utero, during nursing, or during both in utero and nursing, did not affect blood glucose, whereas a 45% fat diet given to adults or throughout life did. …”
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Early Infant Diagnosis Sample Management in Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe, 2017 by Hamufare Mugauri, Owen Mugurungi, Addmore Chadambuka, Tsitsi Juru, Notion Tafara Gombe, Gerald Shambira, Mufuta Tshimanga

“…In 2016, Mashonaland West Province had 7.4% (520) dried blood spot (DBS) samples for early infant diagnosis (EID) rejected by the Zimbabwe National Microbiology Reference Laboratory (NMRL). …”
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Nutrition Education and Vitamin D Supplementation Improving Nutrition Intake, Body Composition, and Vitamin D Status of Soccer Athlete by Weni Kurdanti, Agus Wijanarka, Mirza Hapsari Sakti Titis Penggalih

“…Conclusions: Vitamin D supplementation has a significant effect on increasing blood vitamin D levels. This study reinforces the importance of education and supplementation-based nutrition interventions to improve the nutritional status and performance of soccer athletes.…”
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Effect of dietary graded levels of dried lemon (citrus aurantifulia) pulp on performance, intestinal morphology, and humoral immunity in broiler chickens by Reihan Basir, Majid Toghyani

“…Antibody titer against influenza disease virus and sheep red blood cells decreased when using DLP3 and DLP2, respectively (P.05). …”
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Liver Enzymes Abnormalities among Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Experienced and HAART Naïve HIV-1 Infected Patients at Debre Tabor Hospital, North West Ethiopia: A Comparati... by Melashu Balew Shiferaw, Ketema Tafess Tulu, Amtatachew Moges Zegeye, Amarech Asratie Wubante

“…A total of 164 HAART experienced and 164 HAART naïve patients were studied. Blood specimen was collected to determine alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST), CD4 count, and viral hepatitis. …”
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Mahogany seeds extract showed potential immunomodulator by in-silico and in vivo testing by Yati Sumiyati, Alessandro Gunady, Perwira Tua, Warni Warni, Heppy Novia, Emilda

“…Cyclophosphamide was used to depress immune system and Sheep Red Blood Cells as antigen. The result for the in-silico study showed Gibbs energy of swietenin C and swietenin E more negative than tocilizumab and complied with Lipinski’s rule. …”
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Registro de la actividad eléctrica cerebral de la atención implicada en la conducción bajo el efecto del alcohol usando un instrumento BCI (brain control interface) by Sandra Camelo, Daniel Rojas, Andrés Mejía, Rafael Castro

“…El pre - sente proyecto registró la actividad eléctrica cere - bral de la atención implicada en la conducción con el equipo bci ( brain control interface ) epoc , bajo el efecto de 0,300 g de alcohol, correspondiente a un porcentaje de 0,02 % bac ( blood alcohol content ) en prueba de alcoholímetro, y a su vez en ausencia de alcohol mediante un diseño pre-experimental con preprueba-postprueba, con un solo grupo de 30 es - tudiantes universitarios entre 18 y 45 años de edad. …”
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INCREASING FITNESS WITH ACUPUNCTURE AND HERBS by Ario Imandiri, Diarista Salfa Pratama, Abdul Rahman

“…While in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), fitness is defined as the good circulation of Qi-energy and Xue-blood that can cause the function of the organs of Zhang Fu to run well. …”
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Comparison of Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography and Laser Speckle Flowgraphy for the Diagnosis of Normal-Tension Glaucoma by Asuka Takeyama, Kyoko Ishida, Ayako Anraku, Masahiro Ishida, Goji Tomita

“…Twenty-eight eyes of 28 patients with NTG and 25 eyes of 25 normal subjects matched for age, refractive errors, systemic blood pressure, and central corneal thickness were evaluated. …”
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Effect of Coenzyme-Q10 on Doxorubicin-Induced Nephrotoxicity in Rats by Azza A. K. El-Sheikh, Mohamed A. Morsy, Marwa M. Mahmoud, Rehab A. Rifaai, Aly M. Abdelrahman

“…Our results showed that the low dose of CoQ10 succeeded in reversing Dox-induced nephrotoxicity to control levels (e.g., levels of blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine, concentrations of renal reduced glutathione (GSH) and malondialdehyde, catalase activity and caspase 3 expression, and renal histopathology). …”
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Investigating the Effects of Performing the Early Mobilization Protocol on Postoperative Hemorrhaging in Cardiac Surgery Patients by Hanie Dahmardeh

“…The mean and standard deviation (SD) of the blood volume loss in patients over three different time periods (days 2, 3, and 4 after surgery) were 326.500±16.81, 69.300±11.41, and 51.200±3.82 in the intervention group, respectively, and 350.00±16.81, 325.00±11.41, and 82.10±3.82 in the control group, respectively, indicating the effectiveness of performing the early mobilization protocol (P ˂ 0.001). …”
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Temporal Trends in Gestational Diabetes Prevalence, Treatment, and Outcomes at Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, between 2004 and 2016 by Per Glud Ovesen, Jens Fuglsang, Mette Bisgaard Andersen, Charlotte Wolff, Olav Bjørn Petersen, H. David McIntyre

“…The treatment of GDM patients sought to achieve normal blood glucose levels, primarily by diet and exercise. …”
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Investigating The Effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on The Severity of Restless Legs Syndrome in Hemodialysis Patients by Abolfazl Kalmishi, Ali Abedi, Katayoun Samadi, HamidReza Shoraka, Mostafa Rad

“…Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) may affect RLS by reducing pain and increasing blood supply and oxygen supply. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of electrical nerve stimulation through the skin on the severity of restless leg syndrome in hemodialysis patients. …”
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Physiological, biochemical and genetic bases of amaranth (Amaranthus L.) breeding for food and feed purposes (a review) by A. B. Shcherban

“…These lipid compounds have a number of important properties from the point of view of functional nutrition: as natural antioxidants they bind free radicals, normalize lipid metabolism, and help to decrease blood cholesterol levels. The review focuses on genes that determine the content of the main, valuable biochemical components: squalene, vitamin C, and lysine. …”
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Exploring the prognosis of calponin h1 in carcinogenesis: A novel target in biomedical research by Roshna Sankar, Sharon John, Priya Devi, Sameer Gupta, Shalini Gupta

“…H1 calponin is primarily involved in maintaining blood vessel integrity and controlling smooth muscle contraction, in the cytoskeleton. …”
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Circulating levels of osteoprotegerin and sRANKL and the effect of methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis by Aadhaar Dhooria, Narendhiran Pandurangan, Karthik Vinay Mahesh, Suchet Sachdev, Aman Sharma, Shefali Sharma, Nidhi Gupta, Varun Dhir

“…Controls were derived from voluntary healthy blood donors after written consent. All patients were started on methotrexate at 15 mg/week, increased by 5 mg every 4 weeks till maximum tolerated dose or 25 mg/week whichever was lower. …”
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Empagliflozin Alleviates Hepatic Steatosis by Activating the AMPK-TET2-Autophagy Pathway in vivo and in vitro by Ting Li, Ting Fang, Linxin Xu, Xiangyang Liu, Xiaoyu Li, Mei Xue, Xiaochen Yu, Bei Sun, Liming Chen

“…Empagliflozin is a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor that effectively lowers blood glucose, but its effect on MAFLD and associated mechanisms are not fully understood.Methods: Eight-week-old db/db mice, an in vivo model, were administered empagliflozin or saline intragastrically. …”
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Laboratory biomarkers for multiple sclerosis and their role in clinical practice by I. Navickaitë, G. Žemgulytė, R. Balnytė

“…Levels of glial fibrillary acidic protein in cerebrospinal fluid and blood serum can help distinguish primary progressive MS from the relapsing-remitting course of this disease. …”
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Coronal Pulpotomy Technique Analysis as an Alternative to Pulpectomy for Preserving the Tooth Vitality, in the Context of Tissue Regeneration: A Correlated Clinical Study across 4... by Raji Viola Solomon, Umrana Faizuddin, Parupalli Karunakar, Grandhala Deepthi Sarvani, Sevvana Sree Soumya

“…Regenerative procedures with second generation blood matrices were chosen to encourage the recovery of the inflamed pulps. …”
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Absence of Substantial Copy Number Differences in a Pair of Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Features of Autism Spectrum Disorder by Marina Laplana, José Luis Royo, Anton Aluja, Ricard López, Damiàn Heine-Sunyer, Joan Fibla

“…Array CGH was performed in three different tissues: blood, saliva, and hair follicle, in an attempt to identify germinal and somatic CNV regions that may explain these differences. …”
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