BACKGROUND Postpartum period is an important and interesting period in the life of the nursing mothers. It is a medically neglected period that receives relatively less attention than pregnancy and delivery. AIM To describe the postpartum practices of women in Enugu, South East Nigeria. SUBJECT AND METHODS This was a cross sectional study of women attending the postnatal care clinic at the ...

Scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI) facilitates the uptake of HDL cholesteryl esters (CEs) in a two-step process involving binding of HDL to its extracellular domain and transfer of HDL core CEs to a metabolically active membrane pool, where they are subsequently hydrolyzed by a neutral CE hydrolase. Recently, we characterized a mutant, G420H, which replaced glycine 420 in the extracellul...

OBJECTIVE Resistin, secreted from adipocytes, causes insulin resistance in rodents. We previously reported that the G/G genotype of a resistin gene promoter single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at -420 increases type 2 diabetes susceptibility by enhancing promoter activity. We report here on the relation between plasma resistin and either SNP -420 genotype or factors related to insulin resistan...

Correspondence to: Otakar Belohlavek PET Centre, Na Homolce Hospital Roentgenova 2, 15030, Prague-5, Czech Republic Tel: (+420) 257 272 165, fax: (+420) 257 272 163 e-mail: [email protected] Otakar Belohlavek1, Jana Votrubova1, Hana Malikova2, Jiri Weichet2 1PET Centre, Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic 2Department of Radiodiagnostics, Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Rep...

Background: Postpartum period is an important and interesting period in the life of the nursing mothers. It is a medically neglected period that receives relatively less attention than pregnancy and delivery. Aim: To describe the postpartum practices of women in Enugu, South East Nigeria. Subject and Methods: This was a cross sectional study of women attending the postnatal care clinic at the U...

Seismic performance of substation equipment during past earthquakes is poor. In addition, requirement electric power post-earthquake led to an increased focus on the earthquake survivability equipment. Equipment installed in vulnerable by virtue its geometry and configuration. Interconnection between further aggravates problem. Failure results financial loss considerable time required repair/re...

Decay properties of nuclei are calculated in the mass region 1500 ≤ A < 1600. The calculations performed using adjusted Rost interaction. Model suggest that two new islands stability could exist vicinity Z = 414 N 1088 (X(414, 1502)) and 420 1120 (X(420, 1540))systems.