Background: Application of follicular fluid (FF) and platelet-activating factor (PAF) in artificial insemination improves sperm motility. Lactate dehydrogenase C (LDH-C) is a key enzyme for sperm motility. In this study, the effects of FF and PAF on the sperm motility index and LDH-C expression were investigated. Moreover, LDH-C expression was compared between asthenozoospermic and normozoosper...

Background: Hyperhomocysteinemia is a recognized risk factor for atherosclerosis. Elevated homocysteine (Hcy) results in severe oxidative stress, platelets hyper activity, and impairs arterial circulation and smooth muscle proliferation in vascular wall. This study was carried out to evaluate follicular fluid (FF) Hcy, glucose and estradiol levels in IVF candidate PCOS women. Materials and Meth...

BACKGROUND The inhaled corticosteroid fluticasone furoate (FF) in combination with the long-acting β2 agonist vilanterol (VI) is in development for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. OBJECTIVE To assess the safety and tolerability of FF/VI over 52 weeks in patients with asthma. METHODS Patients (aged ≥12 years; on inhaled corticosteroid) were randomised (2:2:1) to FF/VI 100/2...

We measured the antioxidant contents and antioxidative activities in eight Allium fistulosum-shallot monosomic addition lines (MAL; FF+1A-FF+8A). The high antioxidative activity lines (FF+2A and FF+6A) showed high polyphenol accumulation. These additional chromosomes (2A and 6A) would therefore have anonymous genes related to the upregulation of polyphenol production, the antioxidative activiti...

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String theorists (notably Witten [W]) recently introduced the notion of a “quantum” deformation of the cohomology ring of a smooth projective variety X. This quantum deformation, or quantum cohomology ring, as it is often called, is an algebra over a formal-power-series ring which specializes to the ordinary cohomology ring, and which is defined in terms of intersection data (the Gromov-Witten ...

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This paper describes a six-mask fabrication process for vacuum-sealed microsystems including pressure and flow sensors, reaction chambers and reservoirs, and channels ranging from 100 nm to 10 μm in hydraulic diameter. All structures are countersunk into a glass substrate, resulting in a planar upper surface that eliminates stress concentrations and also facilitates further lithographic process...

Copyright © 2005 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0039-2499. Online Stroke is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 72514 DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000180861.54180.FF 2005;36;e100-e143 Stroke Glasberg, Glenn D. Graham, Richard C. Katz, Kerri Lamberty and Dean Reker Pamela W. Duncan, Richard Zorowitz, Barbara Bates, John Y. Choi, J...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of individual follicular fluid (FF) leptin and adiponectin levels with the quality of the corresponding oocyte and embryo. METHODS We prospectively enrolled 67 women who underwent controlled ovarian hyperstimulation with 89 FF samples. FF and the corresponding oocyte was obtained from a single dominant preovulatory follicle at the time of oocyte retrie...