A few studies have shown inconsistent results regarding the association between the visceral fat proportion and colorectal adenomas. We aimed to investigate the association between abdominal fat distribution measured by computed tomography (CT) and colon adenoma.A total of 336 participants underwent physical examination, blood tests, colonoscopy, and abdominal computed tomography at Chung-Ang U...

Abstract Background Self-expanding nitinol stent (SENS) implantation is commonly oversized in the superficial femoral artery (SFA), and leads to chronic outward force (COF) in-stent restenosis (ISR). This study aimed investigate impact of COF oversizing SENS on ISR SFA. Methods In patients with implanted SFA, intimal hyperplasia especially between proximal segment distal was evaluated by quanti...

Fatty acid (FA) composition of intramuscular fat (IMF) in M. Longissimus dorsi (LD) was measured in 72 steers from Angus (A), Charolais×Angus (CHA×A) and Holstein Argentine (HA) breeds. The steers were allotted to four dietary treatments of six animals each: T1, steers grazed on pasture; T2, steers supplemented with cracked corn grain (0.7% of live-weight) daily and free access to pasture; T3, ...

Al Sistema de Fallas Algeciras (SFA), se le han asignado cuatro sismos históricos desde finales del siglo XVIII, que en términos magnitud recalculada análisis macrosísmicos tuvieron una M>6.5. Uno estos, el 9 febrero 1967, fue registrado instrumentalmente con Mw 7.2. En este trabajo realizó un estudio sector norte sistema fallas entre los 3° y 4°N. Entre 31 octubre 2016 18 julio 2018, presen...

The aim of the study was to determine the occurrence of virulence genes expressing fimbriae, production of hemolysin, colicin and aerobactin among a hundred Escherichia coli isolates obtained from in-and outpatients of a tertiary-care teaching hospital, between July and August 2000, showing clinical and laboratory signs of urinary tract infection (UTI). The presence of genes (pap, afa, sfa) for...

Sanglifehrin A (SFA) is a novel immunosuppressive natural product that binds to cyclophilin but is structurally distinct from cyclosporin A (CsA). We have investigated the cellular and molecular mechanisms of the action of SFA in T lymphocytes. We show that SFA inhibits T cell proliferation induced by IL-2 with an IC(50) of 200 nM. Distinct from CsA, which also binds to cyclophilin, SFA does no...

The Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) unsupervised learning framework extracts features representing the underlying causes of the changes within a temporally coherent high-dimensional raw sensory input signal. We develop the first online version of SFA, via a combination of incremental Principal Components Analysis and Minor Components Analysis. Unlike standard batch-based SFA, online SFA adapts alon...

OBJECTIVE Monocyte/macrophage inflammation is an important contributor to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Studies have suggested saturated fatty acids (SFA) induce monocyte inflammation in a Toll-like receptor-4-dependent manner, but recent data suggest SFA do not directly interact with Toll-like receptor-4. The present study tests the novel hypothesis that metabolism of SFA cooperatively ...

BACKGROUND Consumption of healthy diets that contribute with adequate amounts of fat and fatty acids is needed for children. Among Guatemalan children, there is little information about fat intakes. Therefore, the present study sought to assess intakes of dietary fats and examine food sources of those fats in Guatemalan children. METHODS The study subjects consisted of a convenience sample of...

Microalgae, as primary producers of EPA and DHA, are among the most prominent alternative sources to fish oil for n-3 long-chain PUFA in animal and human nutrition. The present study aimed to assess technical, nutritional and fish health aspects of producing n-3-rich Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fish fillets by dietary supplementation of increasing levels of a DHA-producing Schizochytrium sp. ...