Ten mg hydrocortisone (HC) was administered intravenously to a healthy volunteer after a dexamethasone suppression test and HC concentrations were determined from 1-270 min in plasma, plasma water and on erythrocytes. HC was extracted from erythrocyte concentrates with high efficiency by HC-poor plasma or by human or bovine albumin solutions. Determination of HC in the plasma of the volunteer m...

If A is an admissible set, let HC(A) = {x I x E A and x is hereditarily countable in A}. Then HC(A) is admissible. Corollaries are drawn characterizing the "real parts" of admissible sets and the analytical consequences of admissible set theory. ?1. A transitive set A is admissible if it satisfies pairing, set union, J0-separation and J0-bounding (Platek [7], Barwise [1]). An easy theorem of ZF...

Our objective was to investigate the functional role of hypercholesterolemia-associated myocardial neovascularization in early atherosclerosis using the antiangiogenic thalidomide. Experimental atherosclerosis is characterized by myocardial neovascularization, associated with a decrease in myocardial perfusion response to challenge, coronary endothelial dysfunction, and high oxidative stress. H...

Changing the compression ratio and presence of turbocharger are two important issues, affecting on performance, and exhaust emissions in internal combustion engines. To study the functional properties and exhaust emissions in regards to compression ratio at different speeds, the numerical solution of the governing equations on the fluid flow inside the combustion chamber and the numerical solut...

The objective of this study was to determine the chemical compounds of Iranian propolis (IP) extracts and to show flavonoids and phenol effects on methane production, fermentation characteristics and rumen microbial population (in vitro). In this study two diets with different concentrate: forage ratios as (HC: high concentrate) and (MC: middle concentrate), respectively as non-supplemented or ...

Background Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a common chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that primarily affects the sacroiliac joints, spine and peripheral attachments of ligaments. Regulatory B cells (Bregs) are unique subpopulations with immune-regulating properties. Interestingly, different subsets Breg have distinct markers phenotypes participate in self-immune regulation ways. However, l...

OBJECTIVES Fetal malnutrition (FM) implies soft tissue wasting at birth with significant postnatal consequences and morbidity, and is identified by clinical assessment (CAN score) and anthropometry. No previous studies have been done to study all these parameters and evolve a screening method. The aim of this study was identifying the incidence of FM using CAN score and compare the nutritional ...

BACKGROUND High-carbohydrate diets improve plasma cholesterol concentrations but increase triacylglycerol concentrations; the latter effect increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Triacylglycerol concentrations increase only during very-high-carbohydrate diets consisting mainly of simple sugars. OBJECTIVE We compared the CVD risk profile, cholesterol metabolism, and glucose tolera...

Hypercholesterolemia is one of the risk factors for poor outcome in breast cancer therapy. To elucidate the influence of the main circulating oxysterols, cholesterol oxidation products, on the cell-killing effect of doxorubicin, cells were exposed to oxysterols at a subtoxic concentration. When cells were exposed to oxysterols in fetal bovine serum-supplemented medium, 7-ketocholesterol (7-KC),...

In total, 30 Hungarian Simmental bulls were reared to 300.07 ± 43.78 kg initial live weight and 274.57 ± 19.73 d of age. Animals were distributed into three feeding groups with different maize silage to concentrate ratios (670 : 330 = F/ HC; 750 : 250 = F/ LC 1; 800 : 200 = F/ LC 2) based on dry matter. The low concentrate groups (F/ LC 1 and F/ LC 2) received linseed supplemented concentrate d...