androgens and lean body mass in the aging male

... fatness and body fat index (BFI) (women 9.6 and men 7.1) Average fat free mass index (FFMI) was similar for women and slightly higher for Italian men The differences in body composition in the Swiss, ... and the Population Study of Women in Goteborg and contributed to study design and writing of the manuscript, Ingvar Bosaeus initiated and designed the present study and contributed to analysing ... of fat-free mass and body fat in Swiss and American adults Nutrition 2005;21(2):161–9 22 Coin A, Sergi G, Minicuci N, Giannini S, Barbiero E, Manzato E, et al Fat-free mass and fat mass reference...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... and PsbJ is critical in providing proper docking sites, either directly or indirectly, by modifying the conformation of PSII on the lumenal side, making efficient binding of PsbQ and PsbP of the ... Dynamic interaction between the D1 protein, CP43 and OEC33 at the lumenal side of photosystem II in spinach chloroplasts: evidence from lightinduced cross-linking of the proteins in the donor-side ... presented in Fig When either PsbE or PsbF is missing, the synthesis and accumulation of other PSII core proteins and the OEC proteins are strictly prevented Thus, in contrast with young leaves [14], the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... young and old adults Aging affects the interaction of the somatosensory and visual systems on the ability of the CNS to resolve sensory conflicts and to maintain upright stance equilibrium Therefore, ... diminished vestibular and somatosensory inputs in older adults increases their sensory thresholds to complex multimodal stimuli, thereby inducing a greater reliance on visual inputs and making ... acquisition, analysis and interpretation, as well as drafting the manuscript JF participated in the design of the study and data interpretation, and critically revised the manuscript for its intellectual...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... described in table I for the number of ducks (males and females) and the hatching date of each generation Population size was increased from the third generation mainly in order to maintain an optimal ... of males, but also with Pekin ducks, in which the males are 10% heavier than the females Taking all the information from the selected traits enables the best use of MMREML in an animal model in ... progress in EW40 and ES40 Constraints for these traits could be introduced into a selection index, the aim of which should be to increase egg number while maintaining EW40, BW40 and ES40 at their...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... when selecting in the second step for ES30 or ES40 respectively The overall expected gains can be obtained by averaging the second figures with the corresponding ones in the last two lines of table ... for the desired gains in ES30 and ES40 and there was a positive genetic response in EW40 and BW40 The method however was not efficient for improving NEGG52 This could be explained by the independent ... account for calculating the matrix B of variances and covariances of the predicted breeding values of all the animals in G5 (1112 and 624 males), separately for males and females with the B This assumption...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... migration to the anterior abdominal wall of the right iliac fossa In cases reported in the literature, the timing of extra-uterine presentation and the distant sites of translocation often raise the issue ... care of the patient and researched the literature and prepared the manuscript, with RF and MFK involved in follow-up care and manuscript preparation SH was solely responsible for anesthesia and postoperative ... round and the resultant fascio-muscular defect in the anterior abdominal wall was repaired with polypropylene mesh The Meckel’s diverticulum and the normal appendix were also excised The excised mass...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... (short-dashed line), fat-free dry (dash-dotted line) and fat mass (dotted line) in the original F2 population B: F-value plot from interval mapping of 10-week body mass in the LinH (solid line) and HinL ... (g) LinH and HinL combined 10-week body mass (g) a a 585 For the analysis combining the LinH and HinL populations, the 10-week body mass data were first transformed to have a mean of and a standard ... was larger in the LinH line than in the HinL line (Tab III), but the average body mass in the former line was also much higher than in the latter (Tab II) When expressed as phenotypic standard deviation...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... flows increases output in most countries, and the increase in output is mostly due to a boom in consumption and investment The findings, especially for the case of the full sample including the ... Korea and Singapore make up one group, and Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, another group These results indicate that there are two different business cycles in the region, even though the East ... correlation in general increased in the 1990s from the previous periods This is mostly due to the industrial countries in the sample In conclusion, we can summarize the main characteristics of the business...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:27

... loads The flow in the both sides of the routine observation period in 2005, mostly winter, was stable Fig shows the changes in TOC and DOC concentrations with the change of flow in 2005, and Fig ... spanning the river during the five flooding-stages were analyzed individually, and the representative concentrations were determined as the arithmetical means for the three points The inorganic ions ... Water and Environment Technology, Vol 6, No.2, 2008 combined them into a composite sample and analyzed inorganic ions and organic matter The water samples taken at the three points spanning the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... influence on the behavior of borrowers If the income and savings of the individual is high then he/she is least attracted to debt financing On the other hand, the individual with low income and ... share Other NGOs enjoy the remaining market share in micro financing After reviewing the literature on the positive impact of micro financing in developing countries like Bangladesh, Zambia and ... evaluate the level of knowledge and interest about micro financing prevailing in the lower income groups The awareness of micro financing may encourage the poor people to empower themselves and contribute...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:48

... Protection in Areas of the Far North and Marine Areas Adjacent to the Northern Coast of the USSR22 (Environmental Edict) in its Article specified: In the marine areas adjacent to the northern coast of the ... Navigation and pollution in the Northern Sea Route 231 For Russia, ships must satisfy special crewing and training requirements for navigating in ice.56 For the USA, requirements as to manning, training, ... to the NSR and ‘adjacent areas’ Article of the NSR Regulations specifies that the NSR is situated within the inland waters, territorial sea or EEZ adjoining the USSR northern coast and that it includes...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... agricultural land use with farms, mainly cropping rice and fruits Some of the farms maintain small animal husbandries and fishponds Surface water, rain water and ground water are used for the drinking and ... irrigation and for transportation of goods and people The canal system is connected to the open sea In An Binh the canals are influenced by the tidal regime of the South Chinese Sea Here, the tidal ... approx 1.5 m The study site Hoa An is located in an area where an interaction of the tidal regimes of the South Chinese Sea and of the Gulf of Thailand eliminate each other Here, the tidal amplitude...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 17:20

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... rates by 25 basis points in April, the rise in short-term rates continued into the early part of the second quarter On the other hand, the renewed climate of uncertainty on the financial markets ... sector, the spread in financing costs relative to the public sector tended to diminish In many countries, in fact, there was a decoupling of financing costs between the non-financial and public ... the start of the crisis Conversely, in the case of the model estimated using the OIS, both the increase and decrease in the retail interest rate are principally due to the shock to the retail rate,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20

... adults These studies also were not useful in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered Vol 45 / No RR-4 MMWR and the vaccinee’s ... heterogeneity in the efficacy of the BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site and the data validity score as covariates, they ... vaccination of adults and the type of vaccine strain administered precluded the inclusion of these factors as covariates in the random-effects regression model However, these researchers determined...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... sequence for the interaction with the PDZ proteins: Mint-3, AMPA binding protein and glutamate receptor interacting protein (GRIP) It would therefore be interesting to determine whether this motif ... fusion to the GAL4 DNA binding domain We therefore cannot rule out an interaction between MT1-MMP ICD and the GRASP55 PDZ1 domain GRASP55 binds to furin, PC5/6B and PC7 intracellular domains The pro-convertase ... GRASP55 binding site in the ICD of MT1-MMP, as well as the GRASP55 domains involved in the interaction with MT1-MMP ICD We also describe the GRASP55 interaction with the furin ICD, and provide...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... documents the pattern of shifting individual actions, roles, and responsibilities in public space In all of these works, Arendt’s insistent appeal for thinking and seeing participation in the world ... where interactivity and intimacy, the somatic and cerebral, are variously but simultaneously engaged Language, narrative, reading, and other linguistic and oral traditions and the changing conditions ... of the participants onto the opposing monitors Rather than facing each other directly, each person only sees the other’s face on the screen They figuratively and graphically talk to each other...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 10:20

... trypsin and chymotrypsin in the human small intestine Gut 10, 477–483 Low, A.G (1982) The activity of pepsin, chymotrypsin and trypsin during 24 h periods in the small intestine of growing pigs ... Finally it is of interest regarding the in vivo mechanism of inactivation, that chymotrypsin and trypsin, mixed in concentration ratios close to those in the intestines, did not expedite the inactivation ... D-chymotrypsin and the Tyr146 !His and Tyr146 !His/Asn147 !Ser D-chymotrypsin mutants displayed the same half-life and kinetics in both the presence and the absence of Ca21 ions, indicating that the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... be maintained by pumping and saving the milk since the disease is not transmitted via the milk If it is safe for the mother to be in contact with the infant, she may breastfeed In developing countries ... hepatitis C virus from mothers to infants In the first prospective study of 53 antibody-positive mothers and their infants (54 infants, including one set of twins), three of the infants (5.6 percent) ... inactivated in the infant’s gastrointestinal tract The integrity of the mucosa of the infant may preclude infection by the oral route There may be neutralization of HCV by antibodies in the colostrum...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20