OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of equilibration time on the DNA integrity of vitrified-warmed mouse blastocysts. DESIGN Prospective in vitro study. SETTING Embryology research laboratory. INTERVENTION(S) Mouse nonexpanded blastocysts (NEB) (n = 54) and expanded blastocysts (EB) (n = 56) were vitrified using cryotips. Blastocysts were vitrified using a two-step media protocol, with a first...

Nutrition has been established as a relevant factor in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We aimed to investigate the relationship between the dietary inflammatory index (DII) and cardiometabolic risk parameters in a cohort of 90 overweight and sedentary adults from Bogotá, Colombia. A 24-h dietary record was used to calculate the DII. Body composition variables, flow-mediated dil...

BACKGROUND Dietary factors can affect telomere length (TL), a biomarker of aging, through oxidation and inflammation-related mechanisms. A Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) could help to understand the effect of the inflammatory potential of the diet on telomere shortening. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the association of the DII with TL and to examine whether diet-associated inflamm...

To define the genetic changes of flat urothelial lesions, carcinoma in situ (CIS) and moderate dysplasias (DII) were investigated for alterations in the two chromosomal regions most frequently involved in bladder cancer. Overall, 33 CIS and 16 DII from 21 patients were used to microdissect urothelium. Dual color fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using gene locus probes of 9q22 (FACC), 9...

BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer in the United States, has a natural history that usually encompasses several decades. Dietary components have been implicated in the etiology of colorectal cancer, perhaps through their effect on inflammation. METHODS We examined the ability of the dietary inflammatory index (DII) to predict colorectal cancer in the Iowa Women's Healt...

Lampreys are one of the most basal animals in which many of the true vertebrate characteristics (e.g., neural crest, placodes, segmented brain, skull, paired sensory organs, pharyngeal skeleton) are present. Studying the molecular and developmental mechanisms responsible for the formation of these structures in lamprey and higher vertebrates can provide insight into how these vertebrate charact...

This paper presents a Heuristic Dii Acquiring (HDA) protocol in Lazy Release Consistency (LRC) based distributed shared memory (DSM) systems. Based on the run-time detection of associations between locks and data, the HDA can selectively piggy-back useful page diis in a lock grant message. By adopting the novel HDA protocol, an improved LRC model has been implemented, and the experimental resul...

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