The beneficial effects of nocturnal oxygen therapy (NOT) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with mild-to-moderate daytime hypoxaemia (arterial oxygen tension (Pa,O2) in the range 7.4-9.2 kPa (56-69 mmHg)) and exhibiting sleep-related oxygen desaturation remains controversial. The effectiveness of NOT in that category of COPD patients was studied. The end points included pu...

This study tested the hypothesis that the loss of myocardial high-energy phosphates (HEP), which occurs during high cardiac work states [J. Zhang, D. J. Duncker, Y. Xu, Y. Zhang, G. Path, H. Merkle, K. Hendrich, A. H. L. From, R. Bache, and K. Uğurbil. Am. J. Physiol. 268: ( Heart Circ. Physiol. 37): H1891-H1905, 1995], is not the result of insufficient intracellular O2 availability. To evaluat...

Secher NH, Seifert T, Van Lieshout JJ. Cerebral blood flow and metabolism during exercise, implications for fatigue. J Appl Physiol 104: 306–314, 2008. First published October 25, 2007; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00853.2007.—During exercise: the Kety-Schmidt-determined cerebral blood flow (CBF) does not change because the jugular vein is collapsed in the upright position. In contrast, when CBF is...

Stearoyl-coenzyme A desaturase 1 (SCD1) catalyzes the conversion of stearate (18:0) to oleate (18:1n-9) and of palmitate (16:0) to palmitoleate (16:1), which are key steps in triglyceride synthesis in the fatty acid metabolic network. This study investigated the role of SCD1 in fatty acid metabolism in HepG2 cells using SCD1 inhibitors and stable isotope tracers. HepG2 cells were cultured with ...

BACKGROUND Guidelines for long term oxygen therapy (LTOT) recommend increasing oxygen flow by 1 l/min overnight. A study was undertaken in patients with COPD on LTOT to determine the prevalence of overnight desaturation if the usual oxygen flow rate is not increased at night, whether resting oxygen saturation predicts overnight desaturation, and whether overnight desaturation correlates with he...

using the gaussian 2003 software and mp2 /6 – 311+ g method for the c2h4 : o2, co:cl2 andco2:co2 pairs and mp2/6-311++g** method for the co2:h2o pair and b3lyp/6-31g methodfor the o2:o2 pair the optimized interaction energies between two considered pair molecules ofstudied gases(c2h4:o2, co:cl2, co2:h2o, o2:o2 and co2:co2 pairs) as a function of thedistances between the centers of two considere...

a periodic increase in blood pressure (bp) occurs during apneic episodes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (osa). several factors including hypoxemia and an increase in heart rate (hr) were reported to be responsible for this increased bp. to examine the contribution of these two factors in increasing bp, 35 healthy male subjects (mean age±sd= 23.64±3.80) were studied in three experiment...

in this work, the effects of as-doped on the adsorption of oxygen gas on the outer and inner surface ofboron nitride nanotube (bnnts) is investigated. the structural parameters, quantum properties involving:bond length, bond angle, homo-lumo orbital, gapenergy, electron affinity, electronegativity, chemicalpotential, global hardness, global softness and nmr parameters of bnnts are calculated at...