While particulate pollution is one of the leading contributors to the global burden of disease, particles are also increasingly used for medical purposes. Over the past decades we have gained considerable experience in how particle properties and particle-bio interactions are linked to human health. ...
These shorter fatty acids bypass normal digestion and are absorbed straight into the bloodstream through the liver, where the body preferentially burns them as energy instead of storing them away as body fat. The MCTs in coconut oil are readily converted to ketones, small molecules that the body...
Intestinal bacteria are able to convert the stronger acids producing secondary bile acids by deconjugating them. Large amounts of bile salts are secreted into the intestine; however, only limited amounts are excreted from the human body [85]. More than 95% of the bile salts are reabsorbed ...
Alternatives to the traditional KD are, for example, a medium-chain triglyceride (MCT)-based KD and the Atkins diet. Compared to long-chain triglycerides, MCTs are more rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream and oxidized for energy because of their ability to passively diffuse through membranes [...
Assessing type 1 responses is more challenging than testing for inflammation and cell stress, since a full response can be mimicked only in co-culture systems rather than in single cells. Some NPs have been shown to influence the development of antibodies, even though they are themselves only ...
(PK) profiles of oritavancin are unique and suggest that oritavancin could be effective given in a single dose. A humanized dosing regimen mimicking a 1,200-mg single dose of oritavancin administered to neutropenic mice withS. aureusthigh infections resulted in a greater rate and spread of ...
Vitamin A is a class of nutritional compounds including retinol, retinal, retinoic acids, and numerous provitamin A carotenoids like beta-carotene. They are important in many functions around the body from gene transcription for lipid metabolism to vision....
A single layer of epithelial cells lines the small intestine. In the duodenum (the first section of the small intestine), these epithelial cells secrete large quantities of digestivWhere do nutrients absorbed through the small intestine go...
This method comprises contacting the impure solution with a solid support having bound thereto a tripeptide of the formula -X-Y-Argininal, where X and Y are hydrophobic amino acids and Argininal is the aldehyde analog of arginine. This invention also relates to a solid support, having ...
The low oil prices we are seeing are a symptom of serious problems within the economy–what I have called “increased inefficiency” (reallydiminishing returns) leading to low wages. See my postHow increased inefficiency explains falling oil prices. While wages have been stagnating, the cost of ...