The implementation of thyroid hormone (T3) or glucagon as lipid-lowering, antidiabetic, and antiobesity agents have not been successful to date because of serious adverse side effects. Using a synthetic hybrid glucagon/T3 conjugate, Finan et al have established a novel therapeutic approach for the reversal of dyslipidemia, obesity, and insulin resistance associated with the metabolic syndrome, ...

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PURPOSE To evaluate the impact of prior abdominal surgery (PAS) on rates of conversion to open surgery and short-term outcomes after laparoscopic surgery for colon and rectal cancers. METHODS We compared three groups as follows: colon cancer patients with no PAS (n = 272), major PAS (n = 24), and minor PAS (n = 33), and rectal cancer patients with no PAS (n = 282), major PAS (n=16), and minor...

To investigate whether visuomotor integration processes induce long-term potentiation (LTP) and depression (LTD)-like plasticity in the primary motor cortex (M1), we designed a new paired associative stimulation (PAS) protocol coupling left primary visual area (V1) activation achieved by hemifield visual evoked potentials (VEPs) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the left M1, at s...

Résumé : Nous verrons dans le cadre de cet article que l’extraction de connaissances à partir de textes relève avant tout de la linguistique textuelle dont un des principes est l’incomplétude des textes ; et qu’il est difficile de prendre en considération les connaissances extralinguistiques nécessaires à leur compréhension. L’utilisation de figures de style, telles que la métonymie et la synec...

Akt substrate of 160 kDa (AS160), the most distal insulin signaling protein known to be important for insulin-stimulated glucose transport, becomes phosphorylated with skeletal muscle contraction. Akt, AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), and Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaMKII) have been implicated in regulating AS160 and/or glucose transport. Our primary aim was to assess time cours...

Paired associative stimulation (PAS) protocols induce plastic changes within the motor cortex. The objectives of this study were to investigate PAS effects targeting the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle using a biphasic transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) pulse form and, to determine whether a reduced intensity of this pulse would lead to significant changes as has been reported for hand muscl...