For the first time in my life I had to watch what I ate. Results of a glucose tolerance test at 22 weeks of my first pregnancy revealed that I had gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Thereafter, I was caught up in an intense regimen of medical intervention, which included • up to 7 blood glucose tests a day, • ketosis check 3 times per day (read: peeing on a stick), • 20 minutes of exercise af...

RATIONALE Primary intestinal lymphangiectasia (PIL) is a rare disease characterized by dilated intestinal lacteals resulting in lymph leakage into the small bowel lumen. Main clinical features include intermittent diarrhea, hypoproteinemia. Scattered case reports suggested that PIL is compatible to pregnancy, but with increased complications. PATIENT CONCERNS A 34-year-old woman with endoscop...

Background. Primary hyperparathyroidism is rare in pregnancy. An association between primary hyperparathyroidism and preeclampsia has been reported in few cases worldwide. Case. A 28-year-old woman (gravida 2, para 0, and abortus 1) in her 27th week of gestation was hospitalized due to a high reading of blood pressure (194/115 mmHg) that was not accompanied by any symptoms or signs of preeclamp...

Shewanella putrefaciens is a specific spoilage bacterium for fish during cold storage. To better understand the molecular mechanisms of stress adaptation S. putrefaciens, tandem mass tag- (TMT-) based quantitative proteomic analysis was performed to detect effects on protein expression profiles in which had been cultivated at 4°C and 30°C, respectively. A total 266670 peptide spectrum matching ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of different fetal heart rate (FHR) ranges in the nonstress test (NST) and to better understand the meaning of mild bradycardia and/or tachycardia without non-reassuring patterns. We employed the heredity to show that mild bradycardia (100-119 beats per minute, bpm) and mild tachycardia (161-180 bpm) regressed to the normal FHR range ...

The immediate need for the increase in wheat production to meet future world demand, associated with occurrence of drastic climatic events, such as drought, makes it necessary develop drought-resilient genotypes. aims this work were evaluate use drought-tolerance indices selection genotypes, compare genetic gains grain yield using different strategies by means a multi-trait index, and select su...

In Caenorhabditis elegans, gentle touch is sensed by the anterior (ALM and AVM) and posterior (PLM) touch receptor neurons. Anterior, but not posterior, touch is affected by several stress conditions via the action of AKT kinases and the DAF-16/FOXO transcription factor. Here we show that a ubiquitination-dependent mechanism mediates such effects. AKT-1/AKT kinase and DAF-16 alter the transcrip...

Through two-dimensional electrophoresis, Escherichia coli proteome response to a protein denaturant, guanidine hydrochloride, was analyzed and elongation factor Ts (Tsf) detected as a stress-induced protein. Many host proteins aggregated, or their synthesis levels decreased significantly under conditions of protein denaturation as 34 out of 699 soluble proteins knocked out and 63 proteins decre...