The aim of this study was to describe dietary glycaemic index (GI) and glycaemic load (GL) values in the diets of Danish children, and to examine the associations between dietary GI, GL and body fatness. Data were collected during 1997-8 as part of the European Youth Heart Study. The study population comprised 485 children aged 10 years and 364 children aged 16 years from Odense County, Denmark...

AIM Glycyrrhizin (GL) has been reported to protect against ischemia and reperfusion (I/R)-induced injury by inhibiting the cytokine activity of high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1). In the present study, the protective effects of GL against I/R injury, as well as the related molecular mechanisms, were investigated in rat brains. METHODS Focal cerebral I/R injury was induced by intraluminal filam...

ABSTRACT Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) glycoproteins gB and gH/gL are both necessary and sufficient for cell-cell fusion. However, it is not clear what roles these glycoproteins play in virus entry, whether acting directly in membrane fusion or in binding receptors. With other herpesviruses, it appears that gB is the fusion protein and is triggered by gH/gL, which, in some cases, binds receptors...

Although the enzymatic lesion in Gaucher's disease is well established, little is known concerning the pathogenic mechanisms involved in the clinical manifestations of the disease. In order to obtain insight into this unexplored aspect of Gaucher's disease, we examined the effects of glucocerebroside (GL(1)) at the cellular level in monolayers of cultured murine macrophages. The addition of GL(...

The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) gH-gL complex which is found in the virion envelope is essential for virus infectivity and is a major antigen for the host immune system. However, little is known about the precise role of gH-gL in virus entry, and attempts to demonstrate the immunologic or vaccine efficacy of gH and gL separately or as the gH-gL complex have not succeeded. We constructed...

The two parameter quantum group G r;s is generated by ve elements, four of which form a Hopf subalgebra isomorphic to GL q (2), while the fth generator relates G r;s to GL p;q (2). We construct explicitly the dual algebra of G r;s and show that it is isomorphic to the single parameter deformation of gl(2) gl(1), with the second parameter appearing in the costructure. We also formulate a di eren...

O texto apresenta brevemente a trajet�ria de Gl�ria Ferreira, cr�tica arte, professora, pesquisadora,�editora livros, guerrilheira, aborda sua import�ncia no campo art�stico brasileiro e discute as escolhas que definiram sele��o do material reunido dossi� dedicado ao seu�legado. A autora identifica quest�es recorrentes pensamento referentes �s profundas transforma��es operadas na pr�tica artist...