Skin barrier function is often deficient in obese individuals, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. This study investigated how skin structure and lipid metabolism, factors strongly associated with barrier function, differed among 50 Japanese women of greatly varying body mass index (BMI). Subjects receiving breast reconstruction surgery were chosen for analysis to obtain ski...

Weaned British x continental crossbred steers (n = 108, 7 to 8 mo of age) of medium or large frame were used in a replicated experiment with a 2 x 4 factorial arrangement of treatments over 2 yr. Management regimens consisted of backgrounding for 150 d and finishing for 0, 30, 60, and 90 d. Carcass data were collected, and samples from the longissimus muscle were analyzed for long-chain fatty a...

Fat deposition is highly correlated with the growth, meat quality, reproductive performance and immunity of pigs. Fatty acid synthesis takes place mainly in the adipose tissue of pigs; therefore, in this study, a high-throughput massively parallel sequencing approach was used to generate adipose tissue transcriptomes from two groups of Songliao black pigs that had opposite backfat thickness phe...

Bacillus subtilis responds to a sudden decrease in temperature by transiently inducing the expression of the des gene encoding for a lipid desaturase, Δ5-Des, which introduces a double bond into the acyl chain of preexisting membrane phospholipids. This Δ5-Des-mediated membrane remodeling is controlled by the cold-sensor DesK. After cooling, DesK activates the response regulator DesR, which ind...

Endemic Artemia franciscana populations can be found throughout the American continent and also as an introduced specie in several country all over the world, such as in the Mediterranean region where Artemia franciscana was identified as an invasive specie replacing native Artemia parthenogenetica and Artemia salina. In the present study, the characterization of the new invasive Artemia franci...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Fatty liver is the hepatic component of the metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance, the pathogenic driver of the metabolic syndrome, refers to a constellation of features such as overweight/obesity, glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia and hypertension, all of which are important risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The aim of this article is to summarize the available da...

AIM This study aimed to evaluate the effect of NAFLD on CIMT as a risk factor for atherosclerosis. BACKGROUND The prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasing worldwide due to rise of obesity and diabetes mellitus (DM) prevalence. Non-invasive assessment of carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) by high-resolution carotid B-mode ultrasonography is widely used for deter...

BACKGROUND Dietary intake of linolenic acid is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality. However, it is unknown whether linolenic acid is associated with a lower risk of carotid atherosclerosis. OBJECTIVE The objective was to examine the association between dietary linolenic acid and the presence of atherosclerotic plaques and the intima-media thickness of the carotid ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of our study is to evaluate the clinical results of arthroscopic suture bridge repair for patients with rotator cuff tears. METHODS Between January 2007 and July 2007, fifty-one shoulders underwent arthroscopic suture bridge repair for full thickness rotator cuff tears. The average age at the time of surgery was 57.1 years old, and the mean follow-up period was 15.4 mon...