To investigate the associations between obesity and serum hepatic enzyme activities, we measured total body fat (TBF), body mass index (BMI), and hepatic biochemical parameters in 732 apparently healthy adults. TBF was assessed using a body fat analyzer. Serum activities of alanine and aspartate aminotransferase (ALT and AST), gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and la...

BACKGROUND The nucleus raphe magnus (NRM) is involved in thermoregulatory processing. There is a correlation between changes in the firing rates of the cells in the NRM and the application of the peripheral thermal stimulus. INTRODUCTION we examined the effect of reversible inactivation and excitation of NRM on mechanisms involved in tail blood flow (TBF) regulation in hypothermia. METHODS ...

Táin Bó Cúailnge or the “Cattle Raid of Cooley” (TBC) is most famous epic narrative in early Irish literature, having been brought to prominence modern times by Thomas Kinsella’s iconic translation (1969). The origins TBC were described Kinsella as “far more ancient” than medieval manuscripts that relate it and associated prequels tale, called remscéla. One these, not included translation, Fraí...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the distributions of percentage body fat (PBF), total body fat (TBF), and fat-free mass (FFM) in the adult population in the United States. OBJECTIVES We sought to estimate the means and percentile cutoffs of PBF, TBF, and FFM and to assess the differences by sex, age, race-ethnicity, and body mass index in US adults. DESIGN Data from the National Health and...

A possibility to assess body composition during pregnancy is often important. Estimating body density (DB) and use the two-component model (2CM) to calculate total body fat (TBF) represents an option. However, this approach has been insufficiently evaluated during pregnancy. We evaluated the 2CM, and estimated fat-free mass (FFM) density and variability in 17 healthy women before pregnancy, in ...

background: the nucleus raphe magnus (nrm) is involved in thermoregulatory processing. there is a correlation between changes in the firing rates of the cells in the nrm and the application of the peripheral thermal stimulus. introduction: we examined the effect of reversible inactivation and excitation of nrm on mechanisms involved in tail blood flow (tbf) regulation in hypothermia. methods: h...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has increased recently, but the mechanisms involved are incompletely known. Previous research has shown a correlation between the percentage of total body fat (TBF) and physical activity level (PAL). However, the PAL values used may involve a risk of spurious correlations because they are often based on predicted rather than measured...

Proper implementation of direct injection clearance techniques to measure tumor blood flow (TBF) requires knowledge of the tracer distri bution because TBF distribution is often inhomogeneous. Therefore, deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance imaging was used to follow tracer (HOD) distribution after direct injection of 10-40 ß\ isotonic saline/D2O into RII -I tumors. Within 2 to 4 min after int...

The effects of repeated high-energy shock wave (HESW) tumor administration on tumor blood flow (TBF) were studied in NU-1 human kidney cancer xenografts. Deuteriated water was used as a magnetic resonance spectroscopic detectable tracer for measuring tumor blood flow. Tumors were exposed twice to 800 electromagnetically generated HESW, with a 24-h interval or sham exposed. No changes in TBF occ...

A tubular biofilter (TBF) which consisted of a closed chamber, a polyurethane sponge tube and a nutrient solution distributor was developed and evaluated under organic loading rates (OL) ranging from 18.7 to 149.3 gm(-3)h(-1) and gas empty bed residence times (EBRTs) of 30-5.0 s. Using toluene as model VOC, the startup of the TBF lasted approximately 7 weeks. The removal efficiency decreased fr...