BACKGROUND Post-breakfast/post-challenge plasma glucose (PG) concentrations were studied less in young normal weight Japanese women. We addressed these issues. METHODS Two separate groups of female collegiate athletes and female untrained students underwent either a standardized meal test or a standard 75-g oral glucose tolerance test, but not both. Frequency of women whose post-breakfast/pos...

The experiment was designed to evaluate the effect of egg size on hatching quality and post-hatch growth performance normal feathered indigenous chickens. Hatchable eggs, grouped into three sizes: medium/control, small large, were incubated obtain day-old chicks. One hundred eighty (180) chicks allotted treatment groups according sizes from which they hatched. Egg significantly (p<0.05) infl...

Different animal models have been used to study the effects of prenatal protein undernutrition and the mechanisms by which these occur. In mammals, the maternal diet is manipulated, exerting both direct nutritional and indirect hormonal effects. Chicken embryos develop independent from the hen in the egg. Therefore, in the chicken, the direct effects of protein deficiency by albumen removal ear...

BACKGROUND Insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia are important risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) and cardiovascular event (CVE). However, their independent relationship to new CVE in patients with normal glucose tolerance (NGT) and CAD is not known. METHODS AND RESULTS Subjects of this 3-year observational study were 102 patients with CAD. Plasma glucose and insulin concentrati...

Despite a long history of rearing Atlantic salmon in hatcheries in Norway, knowledge of molecular and physiological aspects of juvenile development is still limited. To facilitate introduction of alternative feed ingredients and feed additives during early phases, increased knowledge regarding the ontogeny of the digestive apparatus in salmon is needed. In this study, we characterized the devel...