Potential links between metabolic derangements and adipose tissue (AT) inflammation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are unexplored. We investigated AT expressions of interleukin (IL)-6, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, CD68 (macrophage cell surface receptor), caspase-3, and Bax, and their relationships to the metabolic phenotype in nine cachectic, 12 normal-weight, 1...

As technological and scientific skills are increasingly needed, finding that science students encounter significant problems in their academic program causes serious concern. The authors examined how perceived parental involvement and support predict college students' persistence in science based on J. P. Connell and J. G. Wellborn's (1991) theoretical model: Perceived parental involvement and ...

BACKGROUND This meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the efficiency and safety of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for pain control after total knee arthroplasty. METHODS A systematic search was performed in Medline (1966 to June 2017), PubMed (1966 to June 2017), Embase (1980 to June 2017), ScienceDirect (1985 to June 2017), and the Cochrane Library. Only randomized controlled t...

To identify factors predicting aortic stiffness, we studied the modulus of elasticity of the thoracic aorta in relation to sex, obesity, blood pressure, physical activity, smoking, ethanol consumption, salt intake, and serum lipid and insulin levels in 55 healthy people born in 1954. A transverse cine magnetic resonance image of the thoracic aorta was made, and the modulus of elasticity was det...

Insulin sensitivity was assessed using a glucose-insulin infusion test in 15 newly diagnosed non-obese hypertensive black Tanzanians with normal glucose tolerance and in 15 normotensive control subjects matched for age, sex, and body mass index. The steady-state blood glucose and metabolic clearance rate of glucose (MCR) were used as measures of insulin sensitivity. The mean MCR (glucose) was s...

The present study examined the long-term pain and disability outcomes of a pediatric chronic pain clinic cohort and evaluated whether these outcomes differed by age and sex. Patients were interviewed a mean of 3 years after their last appointment at a pediatric pain clinic. The cohort comprised 95 females and 48 males, aged 5-23 years when interviewed. Of the cohort, 62.2% (67 females, 22 males...

Abstract Geological studies in the northern sector of Chaco foreland Basin, Bolivia, yielded new fossils coming from late Oligocene-late Miocene Petaca Formation. Few fossil mammals were known Subandean Region Bolivia. We report a partially complete mandible hegetotheriid Hegetotheriinae (Notoungulata, Typotheria) Abapo (Rio Grande River). The specimen (YPFB-LIT-PAL-005) is very close size and ...

T. Karuppanapandian1*, T. Karuppudurai2, P. B. Sinha1, A. M. K. Haniya3 and K. Manoharan1 1Department of Plant Sciences/2Department of Animal Behaviour and Physiology, Centre of Potential in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai-625 021, India 3Department of Biotechnology, Srimad Andavan Arts & Science College, Thiruvanaikoil, Tiruchirappalli-620 0...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>A non-autonomous random dynamical system is called to be controllable if there a pullback attractor (PRA) such that each fibre of the PRA converges upper semi-continuously nonempty compact set (called controller) as time-parameter goes minus infinity, while asymptotically autonomous for another (autonomous) controller. We establish criteria ensuring existence ...