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Yasmin H. Neggers Mary B. Dubard Robert L. Goldenberg Tsunenobu Tamura Kelley E. Johnston Rachel L. Copper John C. Hauth 《Biological trace element research》1996,55(1-2):127-135
Plasma zinc (Zn) concentrations were measured in 4376 indigent women (86% African-American), at a mean (±SD) gestational age
of 15 (±7.8) wk to determine the relationship between various maternal characteristics and plasma Zn levels during pregnancy.
Mean plasma Zn levels were lower in African-American women than in Caucasian women, in multiparous women than in primiparous
women, and in women with body weight >69.9 kg than in those with body weight ≤69.9 kg (p≤0.001 for each comparison). There were no significant differences related to maternal age, marital status, education, or
smoking habit. Multiple regression analysis, including maternal prepregnancy weight, race, age, parity, smoking habit, education,
and marital status indicated that race, parity, and pregnancy weight were significantly associated with maternal plasma Zn
levels, adjusted for gestational age. Maternal race was the best predictor of plasma Zn concentrations among the population
of pregnant women studied A significant proportion of variance in maternal plasma Zn levels remained unexplained after taking
into account various maternal characteristics. The reasons for lower plasma Zn levels in African-American women, compared
to Caucasian women, during pregnancy are unknown. 相似文献
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Buffie J. Clodfelder Bryan M. Gullick Henry C. Lukaski Yasmin Neggers John B. Vincent 《Journal of biological inorganic chemistry》2005,10(2):119-130
The in vivo effects of gavage administration of the synthetic, functional biomimetic cation [Cr3O(O2CCH2CH3)6(H2O)3]+ to healthy and type 2 diabetic model rats are described. After 24 weeks of treatment (0–1,000 g Cr/kg body mass) of healthy Sprague Dawley rats, the cation results in a lowering (P<0.05) of fasting blood plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and insulin levels and of 2-h plasma insulin and glucose concentrations after a glucose challenge. Zucker obese rats (a model of the early stages of type 2 diabetes) and Zucker diabetic fatty rats (a model for type 2 diabetes) after supplementation (1,000 g Cr/kg) have lower fasting plasma total, high-density lipoprotein, and LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, glycated hemoglobin, and insulin levels and lower 2-h plasma insulin levels in glucose tolerance tests. The lowering of plasma insulin concentrations with little effect on glucose concentrations suggests that the supplement increases insulin sensitivity. The cation after 12 and 22 or 24 weeks of administration lowers (P<0.05) fasting plasma glycated hemoglobin levels in the Zucker diabetic and Zucker obese rats, respectively, and thus can improve the glucose status of the diabetic models. The effects cannot be attributed to the propionate ligand.Supplementary material is available for this article at .An erratum to this article can be found at 相似文献
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Background
Whether inhaled corticosteroids suppress airway inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains controversial. We sought to determine the effects of inhaled corticosteroids on sputum indices of inflammation in stable COPD.Methods
We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Databases for randomized, controlled clinical trials that used induced sputum to evaluate the effect of inhaled corticosteroids in stable COPD. For each chosen study, we calculated the mean differences in the concentrations of sputum cells before and after treatment in both intervention and control groups. These values were then converted into standardized mean differences to accommodate the differences in patient selection, clinical treatment, and biochemical procedures that were employed across original studies. If significant heterogeneity was present (p < 0.10), then a random effects model was used to pool the original data. In the absence of significant heterogeneity, a fixed effects model was used.Results
We identified six original studies that met the inclusion criteria (N = 162 participants). In studies with higher cumulative dose (≥ 60 mg) or longer duration of therapy (≥ 6 weeks), inhaled corticosteroids were uniformly effective in reducing the total cell, neutrophil, and lymphocyte counts. In contrast, studies with lower cumulative dose (< 60 mg) or shorter duration of therapy (< 6 weeks) did not demonstrate a favorable effect of inhaled corticosteroids on these sputum indices.Conclusions
Our study suggests that prolonged therapy with inhaled corticosteroids is effective in reducing airway inflammation in stable COPD. 相似文献5.
Bennett R Adams B French A Neggers Y Vincent JB 《Biological trace element research》2006,113(1):53-66
Chromium is generally believed to be an essential element and is often claimed to have value as a weight loss or muscle building
agent. Recent studies in humans and rats have failed to demonstrate effects on body composition, although recent studies with
pharmacological doses of the cation [Cr(III)3O(O2CCH2CH3)6(H2O)3]+ (or Cr3) (≤1 mg Cr/kg body mass) in rats have noted a trend toward body mass loss and fat mass loss. Thus, the effects of
large gavage doses of Cr3 (1–10 mg Cr/kg) on body mass, organ mass, food intake, and blood plasma variables (insulin, glucose,
leptin, cholesterol, and triglycerides) were examined over a 10-wk period using male Sprague-Dawley rats. No effects on body
composition were noted, although Cr3 administration lowered (p<0.05) plasma insulin, leptin, and triglycerides concentrations. As Cr3 is absorbed greater than 10-fold better than commercially
available nutritional supplements, the lack of an effect of the Cr(III) compound at these levels of administration clearly
indicates that Cr(III) supplements do not have an effect on body composition at any reasonable dosage. 相似文献
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Melissa A. Batson Natalia Petridou Dennis W. J. Klomp Maarten A. Frens Sebastiaan F. W. Neggers 《PloS one》2015,10(8)
The recent increase in the use of high field MR systems is accompanied by a demand for acquisition techniques and coil systems that can take advantage of increased power and accuracy without being susceptible to increased noise. Physical location and anatomical complexity of targeted regions must be considered when attempting to image deeper structures with small nuclei and/or complex cytoarchitechtonics (i.e. small microvasculature and deep nuclei), such as the brainstem and the cerebellum (Cb). Once these obstacles are overcome, the concomitant increase in signal strength at higher field strength should allow for faster acquisition of MR images. Here we show that it is technically feasible to quickly and accurately detect blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal changes and obtain anatomical images of Cb at high spatial resolutions in individual subjects at 7 Tesla in a single one-hour session. Images were obtained using two high-density multi-element surface coils (32 channels in total) placed beneath the head at the level of Cb, two channel transmission, and three-dimensional sensitivity encoded (3D, SENSE) acquisitions to investigate sensorimotor activations in Cb. Two classic sensorimotor tasks were used to detect Cb activations. BOLD signal changes during motor activity resulted in concentrated clusters of activity within the Cb lobules associated with each task, observed consistently and independently in each subject: Oculomotor vermis (VI/VII) and CrusI/II for pro- and anti-saccades; ipsilateral hemispheres IV-VI for finger tapping; and topographical separation of eye- and hand- activations in hemispheres VI and VIIb/VIII. Though fast temporal resolution was not attempted here, these functional patches of highly specific BOLD signal changes may reflect small-scale shunting of blood in the microvasculature of Cb. The observed improvements in acquisition time and signal detection are ideal for individualized investigations such as differentiation of functional zones prior to surgery. 相似文献
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Significance of nucleotide sequence alignments: a method for random sequence permutation that preserves dinucleotide and codon usage 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
The similarity of two nucleotide sequences is often expressed in terms of
evolutionary distance, a measure of the amount of change needed to
transform one sequence into the other. Given two sequences with a small
distance between them, can their similarity be explained by their base
composition alone? The nucleotide order of these sequences contributes to
their similarity if the distance is much smaller than their average
permutation distance, which is obtained by calculating the distances for
many random permutations of these sequences. To determine whether their
similarity can be explained by their dinucleotide and codon usage, random
sequences must be chosen from the set of permuted sequences that preserve
dinucleotide and codon usage. The problem of choosing random dinucleotide
and codon-preserving permutations can be expressed in the language of graph
theory as the problem of generating random Eulerian walks on a directed
multigraph. An efficient algorithm for generating such walks is described.
This algorithm can be used to choose random sequence permutations that
preserve (1) dinucleotide usage, (2) dinucleotide and trinucleotide usage,
or (3) dinucleotide and codon usage. For example, the similarity of two
60-nucleotide DNA segments from the human beta-1 interferon gene
(nucleotides 196-255 and 499-558) is not just the result of their nonrandom
dinucleotide and codon usage.
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Yasmin H. Neggers Robert L. Goldemberg Suzzane P. Cliver Rachel L. Copper 《Biological trace element research》1998,64(1-3):221-228
A prospective study was conducted to evaluate and compare the determinants of dietary zinc intake in black and white low-income
pregnant women. The study population consisted of 1298 low-income women (70% Black, 30% White) who received prenatal care
at University Hospital at the University of Alabama in Birmingham from 1985 to 1989. Various maternal characteristics were
evaluated at the first prenatal visit. Two 24 h recalls were obtained at 18 and 30 wk of gestation to calculate the intakes
of dietary zinc and other nutrients. Student’st test, ξ2, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression analyses were used to compare and evaluate the determinants of
zinc and other nutrient intakes in Black and White subjects. The mean prepregnancy body mass index and the mean intake of
zinc, energy, and all the other nutrients except calcium were significantly higher in Black than in White subjects. There
was a significant correlation between zinc and energy intake (r- 0.69,p = 0.001). Age, marital status, parity, socioeconomic status, smoking, and alcohol intake were not significant predictors of
zinc or other nutrient intakes. After adjusting for energy intake, race was the only significant predictor of dietary zinc
intake. Race and energy intake explained 24% of the variation in zinc intake. Results of this study indicate that after adjusting
for other covariates, race and energy intakes are the only predictors of zinc intake in low-income pregnant women. 相似文献
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Benthem L Keizer K Wiegman CH de Boer SF Strubbe JH Steffens AB Kuipers F Scheurink AJ 《American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism》2000,279(6):E1286-E1293
We tested the hypothesis that excessive portal venous supply of long-chain fatty acids to the liver contributes to the development of insulin resistance via activation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis) and sympathetic system. Rats received an intraportal infusion of the long-chain fatty acid oleate (150 nmol/min, 24 h), the medium-chain fatty acid caprylate, or the solvent. Corticosterone (Cort) and norepinephrine (NE) were measured as indexes for HPA axis and sympathetic activity, respectively. Insulin sensitivity was assessed by means of an intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT). Oleate infusion induced increases in plasma Cort (Delta = 13.5 +/- 3.6 microg/dl; P < 0.05) and NE (Delta = 235 +/- 76 ng/l; P < 0.05), whereas caprylate and solvent had no effect. The area under the insulin response curve to the IVGTT was larger in the oleate-treated group than in the caprylate and solvent groups (area = 220 +/- 35 vs. 112 +/- 13 and 106 +/- 8, respectively, P < 0.05). The area under the glucose response curves was comparable [area = 121 +/- 13 (oleate) vs. 135 +/- 20 (caprylate) and 96 +/- 11 (solvent)]. The results are consistent with the concept that increased portal free fatty acid is involved in the induction of visceral obesity-related insulin resistance via activation of the HPA axis and sympathetic system. 相似文献
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Alex?SF?Doney Bettina?Fischer Simon?P?Lee Andrew?D?Morris Graham?Leese Colin?NA?PalmerEmail author 《Nuclear receptor》2005,3(1):4