The purpose of this study was to identify food sources for major minerals such as calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), sodium (Na) and potassium (K), and to evaluate the relationship between dietary intake of these minerals and serum lipids in healthy Korean adults. A total of 132 healthy men and women completed a physical examination and dietary record and provided blood samples for lipid profile ana...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Materials and methods 3.1. Materials and media 3.1.1. Preparation of thymocytes 3.2. Mg loading procedure 3.3. Measurement of intracellular Na and Mg 3.4. Measurement of Nao-induced Mg efflux 3.5. Measurement of Nao-induced Mgit and Nait changes 3.6. Statistical analysis 4. Results 4.1. Nait and Mgit content 4.2. Plasmalemmal Mg leak was not enhanced by A-23187 Mg...

dry land salinity is one of the major problems affecting agricultural products. the main consequences of plant exposure to salt stress are water deficit and ion excess, which lead to several morphological and physiological changes. in order to evaluate the effect of salinity on some physiological characteristics of 8 spring rapeseed cultivars, an experiment was conducted in the greenhouse at ya...

The anti-mutagenic activity of a PPAR-γ ligand pioglitazone (PIO-1 and 10 mg/kg, p.o daily for 4 weeks) was evaluated against the nicotinamide (NA-230 mg/kg, ip) and streptozotocin (STZ-65 mg/kg, ip) induced nuclear damage in diabetic Wistar rats. The NA-STZ diabetes significantly (P<0.001) increased the frequency of bone marrow micronuclei in erythrocytes and reduced the P/N ratio (polychromat...

screening methods that are effective in the early stage of growth will potentially provide the largest quantity of breeding material. although various screening methods under greenhouse have been proposed, potential effective approaches must be described a good correlation with results under field conditions. this study was aimed to assess the correlations between traits obtained from four salt...

  In a three-year (2004-2006), field experiment, we aimed to study changes in leaf physiological traits (leaf water potential-Ψleaf, leaf water content-LWC, carbon isotope discrimination-Δ, specific leaf area-SLA, chlorophyll content as assessed by SPAD and modified SPAD-MSPAD) and elemental composition (K, Na, Ca, Mg, K/Na, Ca/Mg, total leaf salinity-TLS) of sugar beets (cv. Rizor) grown unde...

Nineteen patients with severe oedema due to either cirrhosis of the liver or to congestive cardiac failure, who had failed to respond to previous diuretic therapy, were treated with either increasing doses of frusemide (Group A), or with frusemide in a fixed dose of 80 mg daily and increasing doses of spironolactone (Group B). In Group A there was an inverse correlation between the baseline 24-...

Background—The urinary composition including sodium (Na) and chloride (Cl) concentrations might provide useful information in addition to urine output during decongestive treatment in heart failure (HF). Methods and Results—Consecutive HF patients (n=61) with ejection fraction 45%, worsening symptoms, and scheduled treatment with intravenous loop diuretics were included. Patients received proto...