BACKGROUND Low birth weight is considered a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in later life. Because data in children and adolescents are sparse and controversial, we assessed the association of birth weight with CVD risk factors in German youths. METHODS We categorized 843 urban children and adolescents aged 3-18 years by quintiles of birth weight and measured nine traditional ris...

The purpose of this study was to identify problem-solving ability, professional self concept, and critical thinking disposition of nursing students in Korea. This study employed a crosssectional survey design. The participants were 168 nursing students in the Republic of Korea. The factors that had the greatest influence on problem solving ability were ethics as subscale of professional self co...

As part of the research efforts to identify plant species which may have potential against tuberculosis, a study was earlier conducted in collaboration with the institute for TB Research, university of illinois, Chicago, to randomly screen the crude alcoholic extracts of different plant species using the MABA assay, to determine any inhibitory activity against the causative agent, Mycobacterium...

BACKGROUND Carnosine is a dipeptide that improves exercise performance. The carnosine synthesis mechanism through carnosine and ß-alanine ingestion remains unclear. Therefore, we investigated the tissue distribution of carnosine synthase, ATP-grasp domain-containing protein-1 (ATPGD1) mRNA, and ATPGD1 and carnosine specific dipeptidase (CN1) gene expression profiles in mice that were given carn...

Inappropriate activation of c-Myc (MYC) gene expression by the Wnt/ß-catenin signaling pathway is required for colorectal carcinogenesis. The elevated MYC levels in colon cancer cells are attributed in part to ß-catenin/TCF4 transcription complexes that are assembled at proximal Wnt/ß-catenin responsive enhancers (WREs). Recent studies suggest that additional WREs that control MYC expression re...

1. Let X be a locally compact Hausdorff space, E a (real) locally convex, complete, linear topological space, and (C*(X, E), ß) the locally convex linear space of all bounded continuous functions on X to E topologized with the strict topology ß. When E is the real numbers we denote C*(X, E) by C*(X) as usual. When E is not the real numbers, C*(X, E) is not in general an algebra, but it is a mod...

Perioperative myocardial infarction is a leading cause of postoperative morbidity and mortality (1). The etiology of postoperative MI is the subject of some debate but is thought to include prolonged ischemia resulting from tachycardia (2). Perıoperatıve blockade could prevent perioperative cardiac damage and improve long-term cardiac outcome in noncardiac surgical patients. The beneficial effe...

In recent decades, a health-risk transition with changes in diet and lifestyle in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) led to an emergence of chronic diseases. These trends in Southeast Asian LMICs are not well studied. Here, we report on transitional dietary patterns and their socio-demographic predictors in Thai adults. Dietary data in 2015 were from a random sub-sample (N = 1075) of 42,78...