Diabetes mellitus is not one disease, but rather is a heterogeneous group of multifactorial, polygenic syndromes characterized by an elevated fasting blood glucose (FBG) caused by a relative or absolute deficiency in insulin [1]. Excess circulating glucose in diabetes is a reactant molecule, involved in the glycosylation of various biomolecules like haemoglobin [2]. Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c)...

A nonuniform filter bank (FB) is one whose channel decimation rates need not all be equal. While the theory and design of uniform FBs is a very well developed subject, there are several interesting open issues in the area of nonuniform FBs. Most nonuniform FB designs either result in approximate or near–perfect reconstruction, or involve cascading uniform FBs in tree structures. This leaves una...

Fetal bovine serum (FBS) is the most commonly used supplement in studies involving cell-culture experiments. However, FBS contains large numbers of bovine extracellular vesicles (EVs), which hamper the analyses of secreted EVs from the cell type of preference and, thus, also the downstream analyses. Therefore, a prior elimination of EVs from FBS is crucial. However, the current methods of EV de...

AimTo evaluate the association between lactate concentrations in fetal blood samples and different advanced labour stages.MethodsEighteen-month prospective population-based clinical study of 187 singleton pregnant women who were monitored by sampling (FBS) because non-reassuring intrapartum CTG results at Kuopio University Hospital, Finland. Peripheral concentration pH analysed stages umbilical...

Fumonisins (FBs) are mycotoxins produced by Fusarium fungi. This study aimed to investigate the effect of these feed contaminants on the intestinal morphology and microbiota composition, and to evaluate whether FBs predispose broilers to necrotic enteritis. One-day-old broiler chicks were divided into a group fed a control diet, and a group fed a FBs contaminated diet (18.6 mg FB1+FB2/kg feed)....

The goal of this study is to determine the effects of Insulin-Transferrin-Selenium (ITS) on proliferation of auricular chondrocytes and formation of engineered cartilage in vitro. Pig auricular monolayer chondrocytes and chondrocyte pellets were cultured in media containing 1% ITS at different concentrations of fetal bovine serum (FBS, 10%, 6%, 2%, 0%), or 10% FBS alone as a control for four we...

Identifying, locating, diagnosing, and treating small foreign bodies (FBs) in soft tissues is a challenge for emergency physicians in the emergency department. Additionally, potential complications owing to the remnant FBs are medico-legally significant. The efficacy of conventional imaging methods such as radiography, computed tomography, and ultrasonography are largely limited in visualizing ...

We propose a novel approach to achieve giant AHE in materials with flat bands (FBs). FBs are accompanied by small electronic bandwidths, which consequently increases the momentum separation ($K$) within pair of Weyl points and thus integrated Berry curvature. Starting from simple model single nodes, we demonstrated increase $K$ decreasing bandwidth. It is further expanded realistic pyrochlore l...

Objectives: Inflammation is a common complication in patients treated with hemodialysis and increasing in inflammatory factors such as C-reactive Protein (CRP) is associated with increased cardiovascular disease and mortality in these patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of oral L- carnitine supplementation on serum CRP concentration and fasting blood sugar (FBS) in...