Among the many responses to GH administration is suppression of voluntary feed intake (FI) in some species, attributed to improvement in the efficiency of nutrient utilization and, therefore, reduced need for ingested substrates. Commercial broiler chickens have been genetically selected for generations for rapid growth, realized largely via the major correlated response of increased voluntary ...

By retrieving records from Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) system's database, the current study aimed to investigate the impacts of hysterosalpingography (HSG) to patients after ectopic pregnancy (EP) operations in Taiwan.In this retrospective cohort study, insurance claims data from 1997 to 2013, derived from a cohort of 1 million people randomly sampled to represent all NHI beneficia...

Isoproterenol increases and decreases contractile force at low and high concentrations, respectively, through beta(2)-adrenoceptors overexpressed in transgenic mouse heart (TG4), consistent with activation of both G(s) and G(i) proteins. Using TG4 hearts, we demonstrated that epinephrine behaves like isoproterenol, but norepinephrine does not. Epinephrine both increased (-log EC(50)M = 9.4) and...

We report that a genetic polymorphism of the alpha2-adrenergic receptor (A2AR) encoded by chromosome 10 is associated with hypertension and an increase in epinephrine-mediated platelet aggregation in humans. The mechanism responsible for this heritable contrast in sensitivity to epinephrine is unknown. We tested our hypothesis that epinephrine-induced platelet aggregation is mediated by activat...

ectopic pregnancy (ep) is the most important cause of maternal death in the first trimester accounting for 9 - 13% of all pregnancy-related deaths (1). despite the use of transvaginal sonography and high sensitive quantitative beta-hcg assays for diagnosis, nearly 40-50% of all eps may be initially misdiagnosed (2). therefore, several biomarkers have been investigated for early diagnosis of ep....

In situ hybridization was used to quantitate the cells that produce erythropoietin (EP) in the renal cortices of mice with varying severities of acute anemia and of mice recovering from severe, acute anemia. The number of EP-producing cells in the renal cortex increased in an exponential manner as hematocrit was decreased. Individual EP-producing cells had very similar densities of silver grain...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is believed to originate from cancer stem cells (CSCs). While epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is a marker of normal hepatic stem cells (HSCs), EpCAM+ cells from HCC behave like CSCs. Since HCC mostly develops on a cirrhotic background, we sought to determine whether CSC-like EpCAM+ cells exist in patients with advanced cirrhosis. Both flow cytometry and ...

Objective: Evaluation of onset and duration of peripheral nerve blockage with alkalinized lidocaine by borate buffer instead of sodium bicarbonate. Study design: Experimental randomized cross-over study. Animals: Forty male Sprague-Dawley rats (body weight 200–300 g) were used in this study. Methods: Four 1.0% lidocaine solutions were prepared from commercially available solutions. The treat...

entrepreneurial passion has been considered as a heart of innovative idea conduction. the present empirical research aimed to investigate factors of students' entrepreneurial passion. in this regard analysis of covariance matrix causal relationship was undertaken. the statistical population comprised of senior and junior undergraduate students as well as graduate students of the university...

The present studies were performed to determine the contribution of EP(2) receptors to renal hemodynamics by examining afferent arteriolar responses to PGE(2), butaprost, sulprostone, and endothelin-1 in EP(2) receptor-deficient male mice (EP(2)-/-). Afferent arteriolar diameters averaged 17.8 +/- 0.8 microm in wild-type (EP(2)+/+) mice and 16.7 +/- 0.7 microm in EP(2)-/- mice at a renal perfus...