BACKGROUND Anaemia is a common complication associated with haemodialysis and is usually managed by treatment with recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO). However, many patients remain hyporesponsive to rHuEPO treatment despite adequate iron therapy. The effect of L-carnitine administration on rHuEPO dose and/or haematocrit in haemodialysis patients has been previously reported with equivoca...

We aimed to characterize the lipidomic, metabolomic, and transcriptomic profiles in preterm piglets administered enteral (ENT) formula or three parenteral lipid emulsions [parenteral nutrition (PN)], Intralipid (IL), Omegaven (OV), or SMOFlipid (SL), for 14 days. Piglets in all parenteral lipid groups showed differential organ growth versus ENT piglets; whole body growth rate was lowest in IL p...

Acetylcarnitine and acylcarnitine are hydrolyzed by alkaline hydrolysis. The total carnitine is measured by incubation of the sample with 14CacetylCoA and carnitine acetyltransferase. The radioactive acetylcarnitine is separated from the unreacted radioactive acetylCoA using a Dowex 2 x 8 anion exchange column. The radioactive acetylcarnitine fraction is quantitated by counting in a liquid scin...

diffusion of nitrogen in plasma nitrided iron and structural evolution during the nitriding process were evaluated by several characterization techniques including optical microscopy (om), microhardness depth profiling (hdp), scanning electron microscopy (sem), x-ray diffraction (xrd), glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy (gdoes), and secondary ion mass spectroscopy (sims). plasma nitri...

Abstract Background Metabolomics studies in cancer epidemiology have mostly focused on single metabolite-cancer site associations. Pan-cancer analyses may larger statistical power when identifying metabolites showing consistent associations across sites, while allowing the identification of site-specific Methods Data from seven cancer-specific case-control nested within European Prospective Inv...

the concentration of adiponectin, a hormone which is secreted from adipose tissue, is inversely correlated with body fat mass. this hormone has anti inflammatory and anti atherogenic properties. its concentration reduces in metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases. this study reviews the evidence on the relationship between serum adiponectin concentration and lipid profile. in this study ...

Background: An elevated homocysteine level is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disorders. Psoriatic patients have an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases; In addition, hyperhomocysteinemia is a complication of methotrexate treatment. We undertook a study to evaluate the plasma levels of homocysteine, vitamin B12 and folate in patients with psoriasis before and after short-term...

The plasma density profile plays a key role in the generation of 13.5 nm light for an extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) source from laser-produced (LP) Sn-based plasmas due to the importance of opacity. We propose to characterize and optimize the plasma density profile to enhance conversion efficiency and mitigate debris using a double laser pulses technique. The basic idea is to separate ...

In the current study the plasma metabolites of silvery-black porgy (Sparidentex hasta) juveniles fed with different lipids sources were analyzed in order to bio-monitoring fish health condition. In this regard, an eight-week feeding trial was conducted using seven isonitrogenous (50%) and isolipidic (20%) experimental diets : FO, CO (canola oil), SO (sunflower oil), T (tallow), FC (fish oil + c...

Patients with atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease (PAD) of the lower extremities have impaired walking ability due to exercise-induced muscle ischemia and the resultant pain of intermittent claudication. To evaluate the benefit of exercise training as a treatment for patients with PAD, as well as possible mechanisms associated with improvement, we randomly assigned 19 men with disabling...