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Altered olfactory functions in patients with eating disorders have been reported with obesity, during hunger, following food ingestion and after bariatric surgery, but subsequent data have remained controversial. Methods: We investigated olfactory function (threshold, identification, discrimination) by Sniffin Sticks® in six independent studies: At baseline…

Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare variant of thyroid dysgenesis in which one lobe of the gland fails to develop. It is considered to be the rarest developmental abnormality of the thyroid gland. Only about 310 cases have been reported till date. Hemiagenesis commonly involves the…

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of eight weeks resistance training on leptin levels changes and insulin resistance in obese females. Twenty inactive and obese female students (mean age 23.5± 1.56, the average height of 160.1± 4.4 and the average BMI…

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and hypertension are known to be associated. We aimed to study how hypertension may influence the levels of adipogenesis, inflammation and lipid metabolism in patients with T2DM. We studied 57 normotensive and 23 hypertensive patients with T2DM. The circulating levels of…

Molecular mimicry in the broad sense is structural, functional or immunologic similarity between unrelated macromolecules (Oldstone, 1998). In biomedical studies this phenomenon is discussed as the most proven mechanism of triggering/prevention of autoimmune diseases (Kivity et al., 2009). In this paper, we isolate and structurally…

The potential impact of integrating a biodigester into a beef feedlot on the use, application and cost of applying manure products on cropland was estimated. Manure application to cropland was modeled as a non-linear programming problem to include raw or digested manure, and standards limiting…

In this paper, the effect of fuel composition on gasification exergetic efficiency is investigated with the aid of equilibrium and non-equilibrium models. The work aims at comparing, for different fuels, the second principle theoretical efficiencies of air gasification and oxygen-steam gasification.  The study considered several…

Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis and the major cause of chronic disability in musculoskeletal mobility in the elderly populations worldwide. In this study, the scaffold free autologous platelet rich plasma (PRP) in an experimental animal model of osteoarthritis (OA) by direct intra…

Arsenic exposure and toxicity is still a major health concern. Millions of people in Asia rely on water supply contaminated with arsenic, as mentioned in Polya (2009). Arsenic can be detected in varying concentrations in all environmental media, as shown in the research done by…

The objective of this article is to evaluate salivary flow rate, pH and buffering capacity of saliva in pregnant and non pregnant women. The present study was a comparison between 30 pregnant women in their third trimester and 30 non pregnant women, in the age group…