It has been suggested that the abrupt liposuction-induced decrease in adipose tissue could affect adipokine secretion pattern. We hypothesized that exercise training could positively impact adipokine metabolism following liposuction. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of liposuction on inflammation-related adipokines in women who were either exercise-trained or remained sedent...

Immune cell accumulation in adipose tissue (AT) is associated with the development of AT inflammation, resulting in metabolic dysfunction. Circulating immune cell patterns may reflect immune cell accumulation in expanding AT. However, data linking human leukocytes in blood and AT is lacking. We investigated whether blood immune cell populations are associated with their counterparts in subcutan...

Most studies of lobster chemoreception have focused on the model systems of Panulirus argus (Palinuridae) and Homarus americanus (Nephropidae). We compare antennule morphology across lobsters and conduct the first kinematic study of antennule flicking in a palinurid species other than P. argus. High-speed video analysis shows that Palinurus elephas flicks at a rate more than an order of magnitu...

BACKGROUND Metabolic profiling may provide insight into biologic mechanisms related to age-related increases in regional adiposity and insulin resistance. OBJECTIVES The objectives of the current study were to characterize the association between mid-thigh intermuscular and subcutaneous adipose tissue (IMAT, SCAT, respectively) and, abdominal adiposity with the serum metabolite profile, to id...

We have developed Argus-G, a low-cost error detection mechanism for the SIMT cores found in GPGPUs. As GPUs make the transition into general purpose computing, detecting errors and dealing with them will become a more pressing issue. General purpose graphics processing units are increasingly used for scientific computing, where errors, if not detected, can significantly distort the results of t...

PURPOSE Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can measure the effects of vision loss and recovery on brain function and structure. In this case study, we sought to determine the feasibility of acquiring anatomical and functional MRI data in recipients of the Argus II epiretinal prosthesis system. METHODS Following successful implantation with the Argus II device, two retinitis pigmentosa (RP) pati...

Objectives: The aim of the study was to investigate relationship between body mass index and ultrasound-measured subcutaneous adipose tissue (SCAT) thickness, in order propose an alternative non-invasive inexpensive method measure fat. We also evaluated liver size existence hepatosteatosis, investigated whether there a measurements (BMI), SCAT measurements. Methods: Height, weight, arm SCAT, um...

OBJECTIVE The present study was undertaken to characterize the remodeling phenotype of human adipose tissue (AT) macrophages (ATM) and to analyze their paracrine effects on AT progenitor cells. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The phenotype of ATM, immunoselected from subcutaneous (Sc) AT originating from subjects with wide range of body mass index and from paired biopsies of Sc and omental (Om) A...

Development and evaluation of noninvasive methods for monitoring species distribution and abundance is a growing area of ecological research. While noninvasive methods have the advantage of reduced risk of negative factors associated with capture, comparisons to methods using more traditional invasive sampling is lacking. Historically kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis) occupied the desert and semi-ari...