Visceral Fat Thickness May be Useful in Determining Sarcopenia

PHA stimulation may be useful for FDXR gene expression-based biodosimetry

Objective(s): Nowadays, ionizing radiation (IR) has a significant contribution to the diagnostic and therapeutic medicine, and following that, health risks to individuals through unexpected exposure is greatly increased. Therefore, biological and molecular technology for estimation of dose (biodosimetry) is taken into consideration. In biodosimetry methods stimulation ...

Reduced cortical thickness associated with visceral fat and BMI

Structural brain imaging studies have shown that obesity is associated with widespread reductions in gray matter (GM) volume. Although the body mass index (BMI) is an easily accessible anthropometric measure, substantial health problems are more related to specific body fat compartments, like visceral adipose tissue (VAT). We investigated cortical thickness measures in a group of 72 healthy sub...

The dairy fat paradox: Whole dairy products may be healthier than we thought

Stoichiometry in protein folding?: deeper insights may be useful.

Understanding the mechanisms of protein folding has remained a mystery since many decades and there have been a number of models or views which have been proposed over the period of time (1-4). As of today, there has been a largely accepted statistical view of protein folding which suggests that a protein starts from an ensemble of unfolded states and folds through thousands of independent micr...

Latent variables may be useful in pain’s assessment

BACKGROUND Unobserved "latent" variables have the potential to minimize "measurement error" inherent to any single clinical assessment or categorical diagnosis. OBJECTIVES To demonstrate the potential utility of latent variable constructs in pain's assessment. DESIGN We created two latent variables representing depressive symptom-related pain (Pd) and its residual, "somatic" pain (Ps), from...