Increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the vascular wall is a characteristic feature of disease states, including atherosclerosis, diabetes and hypertension. ROS, such as superoxide, reduce nitric oxide bioactivity by scavenging and cause oxidation of lipids and target proteins. In addition, recent work has revealed that ROS mediate a wide range of pathological processes in th...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of consecutively supervised core stability training on postural control and functional disability in female patients with non-specific chronic low back pain. Methods: Twenty nine female participants with non-specific chronic low back pain participated in the study. They were randomly divided into two groups: experimental group (10 ...

Objective To determine whether intraperitoneal silymarin administration has favorable effects on the heart, lungs, kidney, and liver and on oxidative stress in a rat model of supraceliac aorta ischemia/reperfusion injury. Methods Thirty male Wistar albino rats were divided equally into three groups: sham, control, and silymarin. The control and silymarin groups underwent supraceliac aortic oc...

Carotenoids are pigments naturally occurring in a various number of fruits and vegetables. There are two main classes of these compounds, carotenes, which are hydrocarbons, and xanthophylls, which are derivatives of carotenes. Zeaxanthin belongs to the second class and is the main pigment of yellow corn (Zea mays L.). This compound plays a critical role in the prevention of age-related macular ...

0308-8146/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.01.057 * Tel.: +1 808 959 4343. E-mail address: [email protected] Phytochemical compounds (tocopherols, tocotrienols, and squalene) were measured in seven macadamia cultivars harvested from four locations on Hawaii island to establish whether these compounds enhance the oxidative stability of roasted kernels. ...

Purpose: previous studies have suggested that thigh muscle imbalance may be a risk factor for knee injury. The Present study aimed to compare Hamstring-to-Quadriceps (H:Q) Ratio and dynamic stability between the two lower limbs of elderly people. Methods: This was a correlational study and by nonprobability sampling 19 healthy community doweling elderly (age=65.93±3.53 yrs.) p...

Aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of atomization and drying on the functionality of emulsions with an oil/water-interface (o/w-interface) consisting of beta-lactoglobulin (single layer emulsion) and sequentially adsorbed pectins with varying degree of methylation at pH<pI (bilayer emulsions). Thus, the emulsion systems were characterized with respect to their behavior durin...

A new regulatory pathway involved in plant response to oxidative stress was revealed using the iron-induced Arabidopsis ferritin AtFER1 as a model. Using pharmacological and genetic approaches, the DownSTream (DST) cis-acting element in the 3'-untranslated region of the AtFER1 mRNA was shown to be involved in the degradation of this transcript, and oxidative stress triggers this destabilization...

Sequential forward selection (SFS) is one of the most widely used feature selection procedures. It starts with an empty set and adds one feature at each step. The estimate of the quality of the candidate subsets usually depends on the training/testing split of the data. Therefore different sequences of features may be returned from repeated runs of SFS. A substantial discrepancy between such se...