Background: Antenatal steroid therapy recently has been considered for term and late preterm neonates delivered by Cesarean section (CS), with the aim of preventing adverse respiratory morbidity. The main aim of this study was to investigate the metabolic effects of antenatal dexamethasone on blood glucose (BG), homeostasis, and serum C-peptide level when administered to term fetuses. Methods: ...

BACKGROUND Hyperglycemia is common after stroke, and it is well known to worsen its outcome. However, it is important to consider that blood glucose (BG) levels can undergo dynamic changes during the acute stage of ischemic stroke. We sought to investigate the clinical significance of various glucose parameters within first 24 hours in acute ischemic stroke (AIS). The study focused on hyperacut...

Cytochromes P450 (P450) 2B6 and 3A5 are inactivated by bergamottin (BG). P450 2B6 metabolized BG primarily to M3 and M4 and one minor metabolite (M1). The metabolites were analyzed, and the data indicated that M1 was bergaptol, M3 was 5'-OH-BG, and M4 was a mixture of 6'- and 7'-OH-BG. Because 6'- and 7'-OH-BG were the primary metabolites, it suggested that P450 2B6 preferentially oxidized the ...

In the early nineteen eighties, Gunnar Carlsson proved the Segal conjecture on the stable cohomotopy of the classifying space BG of a finite group G. This led to an algebraic description of the ring of stable self-maps of BG as a suitable completion of the “double Burnside ring”. The problem of understanding the primitive idempotent decompositions of the identity in this ring is equivalent to u...

Research investigating interactions between aboveground (AG) and below-ground (BG) herbivores has been central to characterizing AG-BG linkages in terrestrial ecosystems, with many of these interactions forming the basis of complex food webs spanning the two subsystems. Despite the growing literature on the effects of AG and BG herbivores on each other, underlying patterns have been difficult t...

The rat beige (bg) autosomal recessive gene, causing Chediak-Higashi Syndrome (CHS) in rat, was mapped on Chr 17 by using synteny of rat to mouse and humans. The linkage between the beige gene and PCR-amplified microsatellite markers in (DA-bg x BN)F1 x DA-bg backcross progeny was analysed. The recombination frequency was 9.5% between Prl and Acrm and 19.1% between Acrm and bg. The proposed ord...