A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL by the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network (1) demonstrated a 22% reduction in mortality in patients by reducing the tidal volume for mechanical ventilation from the conventional setting of 12 ml/kg to a lower setting of 6 ml/kg. This dramatic decrease in mortality has stimulated significant interest in the mechanisms of ventilatorinduced lung injury and the ...

Copyright © 2009 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0194-911X. Online 72514 Hypertension is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.130054 2009;53;885-892; originally published online Apr 27, 2009; Hypertension Francesco Addabbo, Monica Montagnani and Michael S. Goligorsky Mitochondria and Reactiv...

SUN, XIAOCUN AND MICHAEL B. ZEMEL. 1 ,25Dihydroxyvitamin D3 modulation of adipocyte reactive oxygen species production. Obesity. 2007;15:1944–1953. Objective: We have previously shown 1 ,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1 ,25-(OH)2D3] to inhibit mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) expression in adipocytes and that in vivo suppression of calcitriol levels with calcium-rich diets increases UCP2 expr...

This study investigated the correlation between sperm motion parameters obtained by a computer-assisted semen analyzer and levels of reactive oxygen species in unwashed semen. In total, 847 patients, except for azoospermic patients were investigated. At the time of each patient's first consultation, semen parameters were measured using SMAS™ or CellSoft 3000™, and production of reactive oxygen ...