Background: Studying dietary trends can help monitor progress towards healthier and more sustainable diets but longitudinal data are often confounded by lack of standardized methods. Two main sources used for analysis diets: food balance sheets on supply (FBS) household budget surveys purchased (HBS). Methods: We UK supply, provide...

Heparin at a concentration of 100 micrograms/ml, inhibits neonatal rat astrocyte proliferation by 45%, and [3H]thymidine incorporation into DNA by 55% when they are stimulated with 2% fetal bovine serum (FBS) in culture. Higher serum concentrations up to 10% FBS decreased this inhibition to 20% and 29% respectively. Inhibition of [3H]thymidine incorporation by heparin is dose-dependent with max...

Abstract. This paper reports the development of reversed magnetic shear (RS) plasmas with a large bootstrap current fraction (fBS) towards reactor relevant regime, especially lower q95 regime. By utilizing large volume configuration close to the conductive wall for wall stabilization, the beta limit of RS plasmas is significantly improved. As a result, high confinement RS plasmas with large fBS...

OBJECTIVE The American Diabetes Association recommended substituting 2hBS (glycemia at the second hour of an oral glucose tolerance test [OGTT]) for fasting blood glucose (FBS) in screening for glucose intolerance. It is debated whether these tests measure the same abnormality and relate to defective insulin secretion or resistance. This study examines the diagnostic effectiveness of FBS versus...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of endothelin-1 (ET-1) and sex hormones on cell proliferation and extracellular matrix (ECM) synthesis (ie, fibronectin, laminin) by cultured normal and scleroderma (SSc) human skin fibroblasts (FBs). METHODS Primary cultures of FBs were treated with ET-1 and sex hormones (17beta-oestradiol or testosterone) for 24 h. Cell growth was analysed by methiltetraz...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the hypothesis that extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) increases the risk of new onset diabetes mellitus (DM) or significant changes in fasting blood sugar (FBS). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total number of 307 patients enrolled in this study. All of them had undergone ESWL for kidney stone from 1991 to 1994. In 2009, after 15-19 years, we invited patients to ch...

OBJECTIVE We described the technique of ultrasound (US)-guided percutaneous removal of the foreign bodies (FB) with hydro-dissection in the radiologic department and presented video files of several cases. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four patients referred to the radiology department for US evaluation and US-guided percutaneous removal of the FBs in the upper and lower extremities between November,...

The cells of the retinal microvasculature consist predominantly of mesodermally derived pericytes and endothelial cells, and the regulatory factors which govern their co-ordinated growth and define their phenotypic characteristics in vivo may be regarded as key elements of the angiogenic process. An investigation of these cells in co-culture experiments has led to the identification of a potent...

In rodents, fibroblasts (FBs) mediate stem cell factor (SCF)-dependent growth of mast cells (MCs). In humans, SCF is mandatory for MC differentiation and survival. Other factors such as IL-3, IL-4, and nerve growth factor (NGF) act in synergism with SCF, thus enhancing proliferation and/or preventing apoptosis in MCs. In this study, we studied in vitro interactions between human MCs and human F...

Previously we observed that human adipose-derived stem cells (hADSCs) could form aggregation during culture in the presence of human serum (HS). In the present study, we have examined if the aggregation might result from the cell migration and analyzed the difference of cell adhesivity after culture in various conditions. When cells were cultured in fetal bovine serum (FBS) alone, there was no ...