BACKGROUND Electroacupuncture (EA) has been applied to treat and prevent diseases for years. However, molecular events happened in both the acupunctured site and the internal organs after EA stimulation have not been clarified. METHODS Here we applied transcriptomic analysis to explore the gene expression signatures after EA stimulation. Mice were applied EA stimulation at ST36 for 15 min and...

TO THE EDITOR: The paper by Holowatz et al. (3) may be advancing our ability to achieve the elusive goal of using readily accessible vessels, such as in the skin, as diagnostic surrogates for the vessels supplying internal organs (especially the heart and brain). This advance would allow minimally invasive detection of early, presymptomatic disease of the arteries in the critical organs. The ne...

TO THE EDITOR: The paper by Holowatz et al. (3) may be advancing our ability to achieve the elusive goal of using readily accessible vessels, such as in the skin, as diagnostic surrogates for the vessels supplying internal organs (especially the heart and brain). This advance would allow minimally invasive detection of early, presymptomatic disease of the arteries in the critical organs. The ne...

Physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models need the correct organ/tissue weights to match various total body weights in order to be applied to children and the obese individual. Baseline data from Reference Man for the growth of human organs (adrenals, brain, heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, spleen, thymus, and thyroid) were augmented with autopsy data to extend the describing p...

The effect of protein supplementation (ro p. 100 soymeal) to cooked maize diet of forced-fed geese, on fatty liver weight and composition, abdominal adipose tissue, muscles, various organs and blood plasma was studied. The average xx p. 100 increase in liver weights obtained in the soymeal supplemented birds was concomitant with higher fat and lower protein concentrations. Protein supplementati...

Resting energy expenditure (REE) and components of fat-free mass (FFM) were assessed in 26 healthy nonobese adults (13 males, 13 females). Detailed body composition analyses were performed by the combined use of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), and anthropometrics. We found close correlations between REE and FFM(B...

Nine ewe and eight wether weanling lambs were fed a pelleted diet containing 60% roughage and 40% concentrate for 12 h/day. Feed consumption (FC) was measured during the first 30 and 60 min (FC-30, -60). Total daily consumption (FCT) was also measured. With these data, feed efficiency (FE), eating rate index (ERI = FC/BW.75) and propensity to eat (percentage FC/unit of time) were calculated. Af...