A decreased ratio of fat to carbohydrate oxidation rate (an elevated respiratory quotient) predicts the development of obesity. Skeletal muscle accounts for a major fraction of total body lipid oxidation and is the principle site for reduced glucose storage in insulin-resistant subjects. The potentially important role that muscle has in promoting obesity or insulin resistance may be based on me...

BACKGROUND Cumulating reports suggest that acute phase proteins (APPs) do not only play a role as systemic inflammatory mediators, but are also expressed in different tissues as local reaction to inflammatory stimuli. The present study aimed to evaluate presence and changes in luminal lung concentrations of the APPs haptoglobin (Hp), lipopolysaccharide binding protein (LBP), C-reactive protein ...

A L T H O U G H there is considerable evidence that carbohydrate metabolism plays an important part in the process of cell division (see Bullough, 1952), conclusions have differed regarding the relative importance of glycolysis and catabolism involving respiration. In the adult mouse epidermis Bullough & Johnson (1951) found that cell division was dependent upon the respiratory oxidation of pyr...

To characterize venous-arterial CO2 difference (ΔpCO2) and the respiratory quotient (RQ) in post cardiac arrest patients evaluate association between these parameters patient outcome. Data were obtained retrospectively from admitted 2007 2016 to a medical intensive care unit. Comatose, adult whom arterial venous blood gas analyses concomitantly performed first 24 h included. Patients grouped ac...