PURPOSE Equations are frequently used to estimate resting energy expenditure (REE) in a clinical setting. However, few studies have examined their accuracy in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS To investigate agreement between indirect calorimetry and several REE estimating equations in 38 ESRD patients on peritoneal dialysis, we performed indirect calorimetry and c...

Endometrial modulation is essential for the preservation of normal uterine physiology, and this modulation is driven by a number of growth factors. The present study investigated the mitogenic, motogenic, and morphogenic effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) on rat endometrial epithelial (REE) cells. The REE cells were isolated and cultured and then charact...

Accurate prediction of the energy level necessary to promote weight restoration in patients with anorexia nervosa would be clinically useful. Resting energy expenditure (REE), respiratory quotient, and body composition were measured in 10 nonmedicated women with anorexia nervosa during a vigorous refeeding protocol. REE was measured three times per week by open-circuit indirect calorimetry afte...

OBJECTIVES It is suggested that gut microbiota play a role in the pathogenesis of obesity enhancing energy utilization from digested food. The influence of gut microbiota on resting energy expenditure (REE) has not been evaluated yet. AIM The aim of the study is to assess the composition on gut microbiota and its association with REE in obese and normal weight subjects. SUBJECTS AND METHODS...

Definitions and characteristics The rare earth elements (REE) (sometimes referred to as the rare earth metals) are a group of 17 chemically similar metallic elements, including the 15 lanthanides, scandium and yttrium. The lanthanides are elements spanning atomic numbers 57 (lanthanum, La) to 71 (lutetium, Lu) (Table 1). The lanthanides all occur in nature, although promethium, the rarest, only...

Manganese oxides are important scavengers of rare earth elements (REE) in hydrosystems. However, it has been difficult to include Mn oxides in speciation models due to the lack of a comprehensive set of sorption reactions consistent with a given surface complexation model (SCM), as well as discrepancies between published sorption data and predictions using the available models. Surface complexa...

The rare earth elements (REE) are composed of the Lanthanide Series of 15 elements with atomic numbers (57) through (71) and yttrium (39). Because of their geochemical behavior, REE rarely form their own minerals and more commonly are found incorporated within the structure of other minerals. There is growing concern over the economical availability of REE because of their diverse and expanding...

We show that the Ree-Tits unitals are neither classical nor isomorphic to the polar unitals found in the Coulter-Matthews planes. To this end, we determine the full automorphism groups of the (finite) Ree unitals.

BACKGROUND Body composition and resting energy expenditure (REE) have not been examined longitudinally during puberty. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine the influence of pubertal maturation on REE relative to body composition in African American and white children. DESIGN The study included 92 white and 64 African American children (mean age at baseline: 8.3 an...

Suppressing sex hormones in women for 1 wk reduces resting energy expenditure (REE). The effects of more chronic suppression on REE and other components of total energy expenditure (TEE), and whether the reduction in REE is specifically due to loss of estradiol (E2), are not known. We compared the effects of 5 mo of sex hormone suppression (gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist therapy, GnRHAG...