Consumption of fermented milk (FM) containing a probiotic, Lactobacillus gasseri SBT2055 (LG2055), previously showed a reduction in abdominal adiposity in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) using FM with 10(8) colony-forming units (cfu) of LG2055/g. However, whether the effectiveness is observed at lower concentrations, the recommended minimum or intermediate levels of probiotics (10(6) or 10(...

introduction: despite presence of a body of evidence in support of high accuracy of cholecystokinin cholescintigraphy (cck-cs) , for diagnosis of chronic cholecystitis(cc) , some authors have claimed that  gallbladder ejection fraction (gbef)  has poor predictive diagnostic values. the purpose of this study was to determine if there is any difference in gbef between normal individuals and patie...

This review proposes a critical discussion of the latest studies investigating the presence of alexithymia in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) and its relation to other psychological disorders. The focus is on the most relevant literature exploring the relationship between FM, a chronic pain syndrome, and alexithymia, an affective dysregulation, largely observed in psychosomatic diseases. The ar...

introduction: an overlooked but important part of successful root canal treatment is a straight-line access (sla). the purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the efficacy of introfile and prerace rotary instruments with gates glidden (gg) drills in gaining sla by cone-beam computed tomography (cbct). methods and materials: a total of forty five extracted mandibular first molars were sele...

Purpose: Neuro-imaging studies with TcHMPAO SPECT in fibromyalgia (FM) patients have reported only limited subcortical hypoperfusion. TcECD SPECT is known to provide better evaluation of areas of high cerebral blood flow and regional metabolic rate. We evaluated a homogeneous group of hyperalgesic patients with FM using Tc-ECD SPECT. The aim of this study was to investigate brain processing ass...

OBJECTIVE Although one of the current hypotheses of the aetiology of fibromyalgia (FM) syndrome involves inflammatory and neuroendocrine disorders, its biophysiology still remains unclear. The purpose of the present investigation was to study the systemic inflammatory and stress responses, as well as the innate response mediated by monocytes and neutrophils in FM patients. METHODS Twenty-five...

Thompson’s group F is the group of all increasing dyadic PL homeomorphisms of the closed unit interval. We compute Σm(F ) and Σm(F ;Z), the homotopical and homological Bieri-Neumann-Strebel-Renz invariants of F , and show that Σm(F ) = Σm(F ;Z). As an application, we show that, for every m, F has subgroups of type Fm−1 which are not of type FPm (thus certainly not of type Fm).

ba ckground: although it is widely accepted that the pre-school age is a critical period  in  the  development of  obesity,  there  are  few  published data  on  factors contributing to variation of total energy expenditure in this age group.to investigate the contribution of body composition, gender and activity on total energy expenditure (tee) in pre-school children. m ethods: the total ener...

  Introduction: Despite presence of a body of evidence in support of high accuracy of cholecystokinin cholescintigraphy (CCK-CS) , for diagnosis of chronic cholecystitis(CC) , some authors have claimed that  gallbladder ejection fraction (GBEF)  has poor predictive diagnostic values. The purpose of this study was to determine if there is any difference in GBEF between...