STUDY/PRINCIPLES Physical activity improves the clinical course of the metabolic syndrome and its risk factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the physical activity behaviour in patients with metabolic syndrome in regard to the recommendation of the Federal Offices of Public Health (BAG) and Sports (BASPO): "to exercise half an hour a day at a medium intensity." METHODS 47 patients...

Glycosidases are the enzymes involved in various biochemical processes related to metabolic disorders and diseases. Therefore, much effort has been focused on searching novel pharmacotherapy for the treatment of these ailments from medicinal plants due to higher safety margins. To pursue these efforts, the present study was performed to evaluate the α-glucosidase inhibitory activities of thirty...

The metabolic syndrome is a predecessor of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (1). In adults, physical activity is important for both preventing and treating metabolic syndrome (2). A limited number of studies have examined the impact of physical activity on metabolic syndrome in youth (3–7). The results from the few existing studies are conflicting, reporting no associations, weak effe...

Objective(s):Some pathologic situations such as diabetes and metabolic syndrome are associated with alternation in nitric oxide level. Incidence of these condition increases with aging. On the other hand, insulin secretion is modulated by nitric oxide, and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity is also altered in diabetes. In this study, modification in the enzyme activity associated with aging a...

ES can modulate the cell response and influence its metabolic activity. This review highlights studied polymers used in design of conducting platforms, clarifying their mechanisms electrical cues on behavior.

Foreign-body infection (FBI) is notoriously resistant to eradication by antibiotic treatment. It is hypothesized that reduced bacterial metabolic activity contributes to this resistance. We examined the metabolic activity of Staphylococcus epidermidis in 204 samples recovered during in vitro foreign-body colonization and in 424 samples recovered during in vivo FBI in a rat model. Metabolic acti...

lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase (lcat) plays a major role in the removal of free cholesterol from tissues via assisting hdl-c maturation, and its activity has been proposed as the main indicator of hdl-c function. the aim of the study was to measure lcat activity in type 2 diabetic patients and to elucidate whether lcat is associated with metabolic control, and insulin resistance. a case-c...

It has been shown previously that fetal tectal tissue grafted to the midbrain of newborn host rats grows, differentiates, and receives input from the host brain. In the present study, 4 neuroanatomical techniques have been combined to examine how metabolic activity in tectal transplants is influenced by an identified host sensory pathway. Tectal tissue from E15 pigmented rat embryos was transpl...

BACKGROUND Low levels of physical activity may increase the risk of developing metabolic syndrome, a cluster of metabolic factors that are associated with the risk of premature death. It has been suggested that physical activity may reduce the impact of factors associated with metabolic syndrome, but it is not known whether physical activity may reduce mortality in people with metabolic syndrom...