BACKGROUND Repeated electroacupuncture (EA) stimulation is known to stimulate the activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, and to enhance the circulation level of estrogen in the ovariectomized rats. To explore the source of the increased circulation estrogen, the extragonadal aromatization was detected. METHODS Female rats were divided into five groups: 1) intact (INT), 2) intact...

1 Motivation Today's enterprises find themselves confronted with a changing economic, regulatory, and technical environment that they are forced to adapt to (Ross et al. 2006, Wagter et al. 2005). Performing the necessary and beneficial adaptations is aggravated by the intricate and highly interwoven architecture of the overall enterprise. Therein, local changes to one enterprise artifact, e.g....

The reversibility of the conjugation reaction of the diuretic drug ethacrynic acid (EA), an a,~-unsaturated ketone, with glutathione and glutathione S-transferase PI-1 (GST PI-I) has been studied. When the glutathione conjugate of EA was incubated with a 5-fold molar excess of Nacetyi-L-cysteine or GST PI-I, a time-dependent transfer of EA to N-acetyI-L-cysteine or GST PI-1 was observed. With i...

Our purpose was to investigate the effects of electroacupuncture (EA) therapy on body weight and on levels of serum insulin, c-peptide and glucose in obese women. 52 healthy women were included in this study and were allocated into three groups: 1) Placebo EA group (n = 15; mean age = 41.8 +/- 4.6 and mean body mass index {BMI} = 33.2 +/- 3.5); 2) EA group (n = 20; mean age = 42.1 +/- 4.4 and B...

Marchetti, Jeannine, Claudia M. B. Helou, Catherine Chollet, Rabary Rajerison, and François Alhenc-Gelas. ACE and non-ACE mediated effect of angiotensin I on intracellular calcium mobilization in rat glomerular arterioles. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 284: H1933–H1941, 2003. First published February 13, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00042. 2003.—Because renin and angiotensin I (ANG I) level are hig...

BACKGROUND Predicting the presence of long-gap esophageal atresia (EA) prior to the surgery is of clinical importance. No comparison between short-gap and long-gap EA for the prevalence of VACTERL and non-VACTERL-type anomalies has yet been performed. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare VACTERL and non-VACTERL-type anomalies between patients with short-gap and long-gap EA. METHOD...

This paper investigates how Enterprise Architecture (EA) evolves due to emerging trends. It specifically explores how EA integrates the Service-oriented Architecture (SOA). Archer’s Morphogenetic theory is used as an analytical approach to distinguish the architectural conditions under which SOA is introduced, to study the relationships between these conditions and SOA introduction, and to refl...