The metabolic differences were not explained simply by the higher degree of obesity in the hypertensive subjects, as the differences remained when the hypertensive subjects were matched for body fat with normotensive controls. The impaired glucose metabolism demonstrated quantitatively in an unselected ...
the possibility exists that they simply reflect differences in the oral health conditions of the two study populations described inTable S1. Therefore, we selected 140 orally healthy individuals from each study population (52 Korean and 88 Japanese individuals), according to the following...
12 Thrombin is a key enzyme in blood coagulation recognized for its multiple functions including fibrin generation, platelet aggregation, tissue repair, and other aspects of disease pathogenesis.13 The subprocesses leading to thrombin generation can be operationally described as the i...
The composition for enhancing transdermal absorption of a drug of the present invention (hereinafter to be also simply referred to as “the composition of the present invention”) mainly comprises a higher alcohol having 14-20 carbon atoms and a polyvalent alcohol having 3-8 carbon atoms. As the...
The Institutional Review Board of the Cleveland Clinic approved the study protocol. Whole blood was collected in EDTA-containing tubes and plasma was isolated by centrifugation. Freshly isolated human plasma was also obtained from the Cleveland Clinic Blood Bank. VLDL, LDL, HDL, HDL3, and the d...
hexacosanoic acid depressant effect of active ingredients of higher monoenoic acid and/or a derivative thereof. However, in the prior art 1, the hexacosanoic acid depressant effect was not sufficient when the improver was taken orally or enterally as is partially explained in Examples shown ...
The properties of incident light play a crucial role in the mating process of diatoms, a group of ecologically important microalgae. While species-specific requirements for light intensity and photoperiod have been observed in several diatom species, lit
of regional cerebral blood flow in healthy adults with a wide range of adiposity. They reported that FFM, but not FM, was associated with several brain regions involved in the homeostatic control of appetite. While these findings of a link between FFM, hunger and midbrain blood flow may ...
Also, carbonate alkali metal salt has a preferable softening promotion action as will be explained later on, while, silicic acid alkali metal salt improves anti-soil redeposition efficiency, has a rust prevention action of a metal surface of a washing machine, and also has an action of prevent...
Subjects remained seated in a reclined position for 5 min before 2 ml of blood was drawn from one of the brachial, medial cubital or radial veins. Samples were drawn into 3.5- ml fluoride oxalate BD vacutainer tubes (Becton Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) and centrifuged ...