probiotics in irritable bowel syndrome

... by a 45-minute incubation in peroxidase-labeled streptavidin (from DAKO kit) Finally the sections were stained with diaminobenzidine-H2O2 solution at room temperature The number of stained cells ... therefore not surprising that CY administration resulted in a decrease in the proliferating cell number in both the gastric and duodenal tissues Indeed the decrease in cell proliferation in gastric tissue ... level and a 22% decrease in the c-Myc protein level in the corresponding NS group A 52% decrease in the expression level was noted in the ODC protein expression assay In contrast, EGF expression...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 10:19

... determinants, including nutrition and obesity In this context, the present Green paper aims at opening a broad-based consultation process and at launching an in- depth discussion, involving the ... services? V.6 Addressing the obesogenic environment V.6.1 Physical activity can be integrated into daily routine (e g walking or cycling instead of using motorized transport in order to get to ... Programme is putting in place a comparable set of indicators for health status, including in the area of dietary intake, physical activity and obesity IV.4.2 Under the health determinants strand,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

... cardiovascular disease in an autocrine or paracrine manner Blocking ANGPTL2 signaling may also be beneficial also in preventing and treating cardiovascular disease (Fig 1) To date, integrins have been ... conditions leptin serves to counteract weight gain, in ammation induces a state of ‘leptin resistance’ in obese animals and humans resulting in development of hyperleptinemia Similarly, hyperleptinemia ... ANGPTL2 induces an in ammatory cascade in blood endothelial cells through a5b1 integrin receptors and promotes monocyte chemotaxis through a4 and b2 integrin receptors [15] Angiopoietin signaling...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... endocrine organ, which increases the production of in ammatory cytokines (e.g IL-6, TNFa) as well as lipoprotein lipase, angiotensinogen, free fatty acids, resistin, leptin, lactate, PAI-1, insulin ... decrease in FT involves elevated serum leptin levels in individuals with large fat reserves In obese individuals, elevated leptin levels may interfere with LH ⁄ human chorionic gonadotropin-stimulated ... scale, indicating ED improvement In the control group, only three out of 55 patients had responded positively The mean increase in IIEF score in the intervention group was three points, indicating...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 06:20

... [16] As hexokinase kinetics were determined in medium containing creatine and creatine phosphate, this medium was used in all experiments with mitochondria AMP concentration was determined spectrophotometrically ... 70% of the increase in Dw, 72% of the increase in the ATPin ⁄ ADPin ratio, and 59% of the decrease in the ATPout ⁄ ADPout ratio with succinate as substrate Similar results were obtained when glutamate ... contributed 75% of the reduction in Jo, 76% of the reduction in Jp, 68% of the increase in Dw, 88% of the increase in the ATPin ⁄ ADPin ratio, and 69% of the reduction in the ATPout ⁄ ADPout ratio...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... and drinking water ad libitum + Lot 5: Obese mice treated with metformin (500mg/kg) and drinking water ad libitum + Lot 6: Obese mice fed normal diet and drink water (no treatment) and drinking ... profile in streptozotocin induced diabetes in rats, J Pharma 89 (2003) 61 [6] S.I Kim, et al., Naringin time-dependently lowers hepatic cholesterol biosynthesis and plasma cholesterol in rats ... standard diet and drinking water ad libitum + Lot 2: Obese mice treated with ethanol fraction and drinking water ad libitum + Lot 3: Obese mice treated with chloroform fraction and drinking water ad...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:21

... flavonoids, tannin, catechin were found principally in the ethyl acetate and ethanol fractions In order to determine relatively the composition of natural compounds we used the technique of thin layer ... risk of developing various livethreatening diseases, including type II diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart diseases stroke and certain cancers The worldwide prevalence of obesity in adults is ... 125-133 Introduction Obesity can be considered as an abnormal state of lipid metabolism and increasing in developed and even developing countries The fact that the obesity explosion significantly increases...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:21

... reported as the average reading in the river basin containing the DSP site The rainfall measure is the average monthly rainfall in millileters in the river basin containing the DSP site from 1961-1990 ... provinces could have induced 16 large increases in cleanup by raising levy rates.17 In Table 10, I synthesize the preceding analysis to calculate the anticipated savings (in lives) of raising China's ... leading to an increase in the ne levy collections as well as a decline in industrial dumping of untreated wastewater relative to output (see Figure 7) Using variation across provinces in the timing...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... applied: ß Taxing fast foods and using proceeds for education about healthy eating ß Eliminating advertising of unhealthy foods in schools and within a certain distance from schools ß Establishing media ... view ethnic-specific marketing as a problem; minority consumers want to see themselves represented in the media, including in advertising Marketing is only one element in the environment; efforts ... strategies and involve grassroots communities in identifying the problem and solutions 19 Developing Strategies for Preventing Obesity In addition to guiding principles, the following tactical...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 08:20

... proteins have been isolated from tropical plants including thaumatin, monellin, mabinlin, and brazzein One problem in using these compounds in large-scale industrial production is obtaining enough ... deal of interest in these taste-modifying compounds and genes coding for these proteins have been cloned into a food-grade fungus, Aspergillus oryzae, and into some other plants including lettuce ... 24% decrease in calorie intake Reducing portion size by 25% led to a 10% decrease in calorie intake while reducing both factors by 25% led to a 32% decrease These findings indicate that the effects...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... sensitivity to insulin as in their starting state (week 0) (Fig 5; P > 0.05) In addition, there was no significant difference in the response to intraperitoneal administration of glucose or insulin FEBS ... levels were measured Determination of plasma insulin and leptin levels Insulin and leptin levels in the plasma of mice were determined spectrophotometrically by ELISA (Linco/Millipore, ApoE and ... lipoprotein receptor-binding activity of the human E apoprotein due to cysteine–arginine interchange at a single site J Biol Chem 257, 2518–2521 47 Rensen PC & van Berkel TJ (1996) Apolipoprotein E...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20

... skills training They should be involved in co-ordinating care for individual patients, but should not be expected to take on the administrative burden of co-ordinating MDT meetings 69 44 In the ... breathing, speaking, eating and drinking Consequently, patients facing therapies of all kinds require expert support before, during and after their treatment Many need rehabilitation over a sustained ... people from a South Asian (Indian sub-continent) background, mirroring the high incidence in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh Ethnic immigrants from the Indian sub-continent are more than twice...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... insulin/insulin-like growth factor and insulin resistance, which contribute to fatty liver, an escalating trend in the incidence of pediatric NAFLD and its related complications can be expected in ... these interrelated disorders Waist circumference and the ratio of apolipoprotein B to apolipoprotein A-I (ApoB/ApoA-I ratio) had the highest odds ratio (OR) in increasing the risk of insulin resistance ... is noteworthy that in many cases, the excess weight of children in developing countries is because of their stunting (15, 20, 21) These findings highlight the need for determining the barriers...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... acids in the infected cells This finding is in agreement with a study by Zechner et al [40] who showed that ApoE expression in differentiating 3T3-L1 cells increases linearly with time in differentiation, ... Glucose intolerance Fat cells Fig Model for the role of ApoE in the development of diet-induced obesity in mice Dietary lipids are packaged into chylomicrons in the intestine and then secreted into ... agouti locus in chromosome that results in a number of dominant pleiotropic effects, including a yellow coat color, obesity, an insulin-resistant type II diabetic condition, and an increased propensity...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:21

... expression of multiple proteins regulating insulin sensitivity, including the insulin-dependent glucose transporter GLUT4 and the insulin-sensitizing hormone, adiponectin [13] Indeed, two recent studies ... lipids [27,28] The gene silencing activity of RIP140 involves an association with additional corepressors, including the NADH-dependent C-terminal-binding proteins (CtBPs) [25], which have recently ... expression of BMP7 in mice results in a specific increase in brown but not white fat, leading to weight loss and an increase in energy expenditure [45] Adipose tissue remodeling and the redistribution...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:21

... Failures in intestinal lymphatic transport most likely result in cyclic worsening of these in ammatory conditions: lymphatic immune function is compromised, leading to increased in ammation and increased ... circulation J M Rutkowski et al Fig Interactions between expanding adipose tissue and the endothelium via adipokines Adipokines induce a reduction in nitric oxide (NO) hindering vasodilation, up-regulated ... of WAT results in hypoxia and increased levels of HIF-1a that, in turn, lead to an up-regulation of the in ammatory adipokines interleukin-6, TNFa and monocyte chemotactic protein-1, amongst others...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:21

... activity In general, cytokines can be divided into those with predominantly pro-inflammatory actions and those with anti-inflammatory actions Pro-inflammatory cytokines include TNFa, interleukin (IL)-1b, ... element binding protein that promotes the degradation of a number of inflammatory mediators including TNF-a Nicotine-activated STAT3 signaling induces the expression of TTP in macrophages and, in turn, ... source of inflammatory cytokines involved in the initiation of systemic inflammation [24] and that the vagus nerve can control systemic inflammation by inhibiting cytokine production in the spleen...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... (KIC index) at the Initial Contact (IC); - the values of ankle dorsiflexion peak during stance (AMSt index) and swing phase (AMSw index) and the peak of knee flexion (KMSw index) during swing; ... power during terminal stance, representing the push-off ability of the foot during walking APmin minimum value of absorbed ankle power in early stance and mid-stance, when muscle is contracting eccentrically ... difficulties in modulating trunk-pelvis coordination, especially on the transversal plane, and erector spinae activity following velocity perturbations In another study, Spenkelink et al [26] investigated...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... used kinematic analysis of the spine inhealthy subjects Our study suggests that kinematics of the spine can represent a non-invasive clinically useful technique for functional investigation in various ... rehabilitative interventions in obese patients should include strengthening of the lumbar and abdominal muscles as well as mobility exercises for the thoracic spine and pelvis, in line with previous ... overload the disc, thus increasing the risk of disk degeneration [2,16,44] In line with Gilleard [38], we observed an increased lumbar lordosis in obese patients with cLBP Interestingly, women at later...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20