SCOPE The SCFA acetate (Ac) and propionate (Pr) are major fermentation products of dietary fibers and provide additional energy to the host. We investigated short- and long-term effects of dietary Ac and Pr supplementation on diet-induced obesity and hepatic lipid metabolism. METHODS AND RESULTS C3H/HeOuJ mice received high-fat (HF) diets supplemented with 5% SCFA in different Ac:Pr ratios, a...

INTRODUCTION Despite advances in pharmacotherapy, electrotherapy and interventional treatment, chronic heart failure (HF) is still associated with poor long-term outcome. AIM OF THE STUDY To determine the death rate and risk factors in patients with HF of ischemic and non-ischemic etiology in five-year follow-up. MATERIAL AND METHODS Consecutive patients with chronic systolic HF hospitalize...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate the association between changes over time of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) expressed in different ways and outcome in patients with stable and chronic heart failure (HF). BACKGROUND Although previous studies examined the prognostic value of repeated determinations of BNP in HF, there are only limited data on the clinical utility ...

Objective(s): Existing studies have demonstrated that intravenous and intramyocardial-administrated mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) lead to tissue repair after cardiac disorders. We compared the efficiency of both administration methods.Materials and Methods: A rat model of isoproterenol-induced heart failure (ISO-HF) was established to co...

The effects of insulin infusion on cardiac autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity were investigated in healthy subjects (n=15) and in patients with various types of insulin-resistance, such as obese subjects (n=20) and those with hypertension (n=15) or type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes (n=22). Healthy subjects and patients underwent euglycaemic hyperinsulinaemic glucose clamp, and cardi...

Distributions that are highly concentrated in the time-frequency plane are presented. Since the idea for these distributions originated from the Wigner representation in the quantum mechanics, a review of this representation is done in the first part of the paper. Abstracting the physical sense of the quantum mechanics representation, we defined the “pseudo quantum” signal representation. On th...

Scanned beams of 0.1 MeV/u Au ions were employed for the bombardment of silicon oxide films thermally grown on silicon (1 0 0) substrates. Subsequently the films were etched in aqueous HF solution (1% and 4%) for various times and at different temperatures. Scanning force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy images of etched films reveal conical holes with diameters from 20 to 350 nm...

ADREA-HF, which is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code, is utilised in order to numerically study the flow and concentration fields within a street-canyon area. The selected site is Runeberg Str., a typical urban street canyon with an aspect ratio of approximately 1:1 in Helsinki, Finland. The ADREA-HF model is a transient, non-hydrostatic, dense transport code, especially developed for d...

Introduction: Key issues regarding the early evolution of planetesimals include the timescales of accretion, core formation, and magmatism. The short-lived Hf-W system has proven particularly useful as a chronometer for these early planetary processes. For instance, W model ages for magmatic iron meteorites reveal that core formation in their parent bodies occurred within ~1 Myr after formation...