effect of caffeine on serum lipids

... associations have centered on the caffeine content of coffee [26] In fact, caffeine has a variety of pharmacological actions and cellular responses Coffee is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive ... 0.6 0.45 0.3 0.15 Control 100 mM 50 mM 10 mM mM Caffeine Concentration The effect of caffeine on osteoblast cells viability measured by MTT assay Figure The effect of caffeine on osteoblast cells ... study, the effects of various concentrations of caffeine on bone cell activities were evaluated by using MTT assay as described below Seven different concentrations (100, 50, http://www.josr-online.com/content/1/1/7...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... procedure The effects of rapid infusion and dilution of the injection solution on phlebitis caused by VNR was evaluated in a rabbit model, as reported elsewhere [4] Briefly, test solutions of VNR or ... et al Effects of pH and osmolality on phlebitic potential of infusion solution for peripheral parenteral nutrition J Toxicol Sci 1998; 23: 77-85 Fonkalsrud EW, Murphy J, Smith FG Jr Effect of pH ... VNR or DXR infusion, respectively Effect of DEX on VNR-induced phlebitis A 0.6-mg/mL solution of VNR was infused over 30 at mL/kg/hr into the ear vein To clarify the effect of DEX on phlebitis caused...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57

... PCR reactions were performed in a volume of 20µl containing the following primer concentrations: ldh (0.3mM -fwd, 0.05mM-rev), csp (0.1mM -fwd, 0.3mM-rev) Each reaction contained 1µl of cDNA template ... deviation of the mean Int J Med Sci 2006, In order to investigate if antibodies were exerting an effect on invasion, serial dilutions of mAb anti-CSP were tested in the culture medium After synchronisation, ... contamination PCR reaction triplicates showed no major differences among them and expression levels of the internal control were similar in the different experiments The expression levels of csp...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 10:14

... measure of the degree of LV dyssynchrony Furthermore, the shortening of diastolic time is an often overlooked mechanism of cardiac dysfunction The duration of diastole is a principal determinant of ... Society of Echocardiography Committee on Standards, Subcommittee on Quantitation of Two-Dimensional Echocardiogram: recommendations for quantitation of the left ventricle by two-dimensional echocardiography ... ventricular ejection and total LV systole (10,11) This effect of loading conditions on the duration of LV systole is a well documented finding in cardiac disease states with considerable afterload-mismatch...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 11:32

... is the fact of considering only one of the channels in the regression (either the change, which given the MASTER THESIS: THE EFFECT OF EDUCATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH negative correlation, would lead ... amelioration of older databases because of the use of surveys based on uniform classification systems of education over time and an intensified use of information by age groups It is based on three ... the whole population, confirming thereby my previous results Conclusion The literature on the effect of education on economic growth is far from achieving a definitive conclusion Through this article...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:40

... Part of this study was conducted in cooperation with “The restoration of coastal ecosystems with ecological functions of marine macrophyte beds” Project of the National Institute for Environmental ... release Contribution of oxygen and nitrate in boundary layer water to Eh in sediment and phosphorus mobilization To examine the contribution of nitrate to DIP release from sediments, incubation of ... addition of nitrate in this experiment, and the effect of increased nitrate concentration on DIP release was most apparent in boundary layer At K3 in Lake Kitaura, the slight addition of nitrate...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... ratio of 0.2 could remove a maximum of mg/L of phosphorus from the influent phosphorus concentration of mg/L However, the phosphorus concentration in effluent was less than 0.2 mg/L in Run2-2 On ... while kupt was calculated as the rate constant of phosphorus decrease based on the first order reaction during 2.5 h in aerobic phase The effect of Fe addition on biological phosphorus uptake and ... effluent of SBR2 - 389 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 8, No.4, 2010 performance decreased From the stoichiometric point of view based on equation (1), the Fe addition of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... implement one or two of the functions One of the most important concepts in data communications is how connection and connectionless protocols are related As a data message is created, an assumption ... our conclusion from near the beginning of the paper: connectionless-oriented protocols depend on KRONE: 800-775-KRONE No part of this document may be reproduced without permission www.kroneamericas.com ... provide the connection-oriented functions As an illustration of this, in the example of the web client-server interaction above, Ethernet and IP operate in a connectionless fashion Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 11:17

... Change in Risk based on Size of Infusion We next consider the degree of the effect of TARP on risk-taking based on the dollar amount of the capital infusion The TARP process of capital replenishment ... compensation practices of large financial institutions The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA), which funded This also points to the likely effect of the TARP infusion on future ... (Guner, 2008) The conflict between these two social objectives leads to conflicting predictions on the effect of TARP on bank risk-taking In this paper, we examine the effect of TARP on bank risk-taking...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... inactivation at higher luminal calcium concentrations [15,16] As the effect of the luminal calcium concentration was voltage-dependent and the activation depended on the cis EGTA concentration in ... membrane proteins we investigated the effect of this ion on the RyR1 using different techniques [17] Effect of gadolinium on RyR1 Fig Effect of cis gadolinium on the ryanodine receptor Single channel ... gadolinium on RyR1 tion of 5.6 ± 0.3 lm for Gd3+ and a Hill coefficient of 4.7 ± 0.8 We have also tested the effect of Gd3+ on the luminal side of the reconstituted channel To decrease the possibility of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... movement of Penaeus vannamei and Penaeus stylirostris in Asia and the Pacific Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific RAP Publication 2004/10, ... pha (4 ‰) bổ sung thêm lượng Sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) bảng 2.1 Lượng Sodium carbonate (Na2CO3)được cân xác với cân có số lẻ Sau cân xong, Sodium carbonate cho vào 12 lọ, lọ có sẵn lít nước pha ... kiểm tra test Sera Amonium / Ammoniak độ kiềm đo test Sera KH Trong suốt trình nuôi, bốc nước kèm theo phân giải chất hữu cơ, thức ăn thừa làm cho độ kiềm, độ mặn hàm lượng ammonia nước tăng nhẹ...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 01:33

... Urban Economics and the Canadian Journal of Economics His current research is on the empirical impact of taxation on international production and location decisions of multinational firms jason yackee ... contain variations on the concept of the “social function of property.” Typically BITs contain a stricter form of protection for investors in case of expropriation or deprivation of operating rights ... professor and currently as contributors xiii director of the Kyiv School of Economics His research interests are labor economics, transition economics, economics of education, and political economy...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

... activation of PLD Functional role of PLD-derived second messengers To determine the extent to which the activation of neutrophil functional responses was dependent on individual PtdCho-derived second ... by trypan blue exclusion, was >97% and the purity of neutrophil preparations was routinely >96% with

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... the highest level of perceived beauty, averaging a ranking of 58 and Rate of Correct response (%) Error response time (seconds) Rate of Abandonment (%) Abandon Response time (seconds) TreeMap Botan.Viewer ... percentage of correct response (84%), but also a significantly longer duration (47.1 seconds) of erroneous response 4.5 Task Abandonment Given SunBurst’s high accuracy rate, the rate of task abandonment ... averaged the highest rate of task abandonment and was among the lowest in latency of erroneous response More than half of all participants abandoned their task when confronted with BeamTrees We...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... functionalities Analyses of the effects of chlorination of raw water during adsorption and UF could also establish some correlation of NOM removal and membrane permeability with alteration of the ... Results and discussion 3.1 Comparison of sorption behavior of NOM onto IOP and PAC Fig shows UV removal efficiencies for treatment of prefiltered Nakdong River water at various dosages of IOP and PAC ... and sorption mech- Fig Comparison of UV removal efficiency between IOP and PAC adsorbents: adsorption time, 30 589 anisms of the adsorbents The majority of active sorption sites of nonporous IOP...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:07

... enhance Sp1 activity in these conditions This effect was no longer observed at higher concentrations The protein level of Sp1 was checked in the different conditions: the results showed that echinomycin ... responsible for an increase in HIF-1A gene transcription, resulting in a higher level of HIF-1a protein and higher expression of HIF-1 target genes In conclusion, our results demonstrate a lack of ... overexpression induced by 16 h of incubation under hypoxic conditions Again, a slight increase in HIF-1 activity was observed in the presence of nm echinomycin under normoxic conditions, as measured...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... interactions conceivably also contribute to the conformational stability of holo-lMb Consistently, they are maintained over the 1.5 ns of the simulation (Fig 2) A comparison of the hydrogen-bond distances ... contact with the cofactor [13] For comparison, MD simulations were also performed on ‘hemeexcised’ apo-Mb, under the same conditions and initial assumptions as for apo-lMb The average backbone ... of the structural and functional features of biological macromolecules by providing details concerning intra- and intermolecular motions as a function of time Although results of MD simulations...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... includes both the effect of education on health conditional on behaviors θ and the mediating effects of behaviors from lag to T This contribution differs from the contribution of health behaviors lagged ... overall relative contribution of health behaviors (long-run mediating effect, LRME) to the education gradient adds to the contribution of health behaviors lagged once the contribution of lags from ... of education Γ(E, Z), where Z is a vector of cost of education shifters, is convex in the years of education, optimal education is given by VE (E, p, µ, X) = ΓE (E, Z) 3.1 (9) The Contribution...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... Fig Effect of heliquinomycin on the RNA priming activity of the DNA polymerase-a/primase complex (A) Top: effect of increasing concentrations of heliquinomycin (HQ) on the RNA priming action of ... the presence of MCM4, and proteins in the purified DNA Fig Effect of heliquinomycin on DNA helicase activity (A) Top: effects of increasing concentrations of heliquinomycin (HQ) on the DNA helicase ... average of the values was plotted together with error bars (B) Effect of increasing concentrations of heliquinomycin on the DNA polymerization activity of the DNA polymerase-a/primase The reaction...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21