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Dietary Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Alter Fatty Acid Composition of Lipids and CYP2E1 Expression in Rat Liver Tissue.

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are used for the treatment and prevention of numerous pathologies in humans. As recently found, PUFAs play significantly protective roles in liver, cardiovascular system and kidney. They also are widely used in total parenteral nutrition. We evaluated the effect of omega-3 PUFA consumption on liver fatty acid composition and the expression of CYP2E1, one...

Cardiovascular Risk Factors in 7-13 Years Old Children from Vojvodina (Serbia).

BACKGROUND: Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease which starts early in life and depends on many factors, an important one being dyslipoproteinemia. According to several studies, atherosclerotic plaques or their precursors could be seen in children younger than 10 years. During later life, interaction with a sedentary way of life, as well as unhealthy nutrition, smoking, alcohol consum...

Growing Homophilic Networks Are Natural Navigable Small Worlds.

Navigability, an ability to find a logarithmically short path between elements using only local information, is one of the most fascinating properties...

A machine-learning approach for predicting palmitoylation sites from integrated sequence-based features.

Palmitoylation is the covalent attachment of lipids to amino acid residues in proteins. As an important form of protein posttranslational modification...

Application of self-organising maps towards segmentation of soybean samples by determination of amino acids concentration.

Soybeans are widely used both for human nutrition and animal feed, since they are an important source of protein, and they also provide components suc...

Effect of actuating cell source on locomotion of organic living machines with electrocompacted collagen skeleton.

In robotics, there is a need for small scale, compliant actuators for use in medical applications or minimally invasive environmental monitoring. Bioh...

Effect of network architecture on burst and spike synchronization in a scale-free network of bursting neurons.

We investigate the effect of network architecture on burst and spike synchronization in a directed scale-free network (SFN) of bursting neurons, evolv...

Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and metabolic syndrome in a Japanese working population: The Furukawa Nutrition and Health Study.

OBJECTIVE: Increasing evidence has suggested a protective role of vitamin D on metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, studies addressing this issue are l...

A simple generative model of the mouse mesoscale connectome.

Recent technological advances now allow for the collection of vast data sets detailing the intricate neural connectivity patterns of various organisms...

A Model for Improving the Learning Curves of Artificial Neural Networks.

In this article, the performance of a hybrid artificial neural network (i.e. scale-free and small-world) was analyzed and its learning curve compared ...

A Hierarchical Classification and Segmentation Scheme for Processing Sensor Data.

Detecting short-duration events from continuous sensor signals is a significant challenge in the domain of wearable devices and health monitoring syst...

Animal-to-robot social attachment: initial requisites in a gallinaceous bird.

Animal-Robot Interaction experiments have demonstrated their usefulness to understand the social behaviour of a growing number of animal species. In o...

Inhibition of bacterial surface colonization by immobilized silver nanoparticles depends critically on the planktonic bacterial concentration.

Immobilization of antimicrobial silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on surfaces has been proposed as a method to inhibit biofouling or as a possible route by...

A two-layered machine learning method to identify protein O-GlcNAcylation sites with O-GlcNAc transferase substrate motifs.

Protein O-GlcNAcylation, involving the β-attachment of single N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) to the hydroxyl group of serine or threonine residues, is a...

In Vivo Pattern Classification of Ingestive Behavior in Ruminants Using FBG Sensors and Machine Learning.

Pattern classification of ingestive behavior in grazing animals has extreme importance in studies related to animal nutrition, growth and health. In t...

Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations are associated with total adiposity of children in the United States: National Health and Examination Survey 2005 to 2006.

A negative association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamn D (25[OH]D) concentrations and adiposity has been found in adults. We hypothesized that serum 25...

Assessing the feasibility of a mobile health-supported clinical decision support system for nutritional triage in oncology outpatients using Arden Syntax.

BACKGROUND: Nutritional screening procedures followed by regular nutrition monitoring for oncological outpatients are no standard practice in many Eur...

MDD-SOH: exploiting maximal dependence decomposition to identify S-sulfenylation sites with substrate motifs.

UNLABELLED: S-sulfenylation (S-sulphenylation, or sulfenic acid), the covalent attachment of S-hydroxyl (-SOH) to cysteine thiol, plays a significant ...

A Liquid-Handling Robot for Automated Attachment of Biomolecules to Microbeads.

Diagnostics, drug delivery, and other biomedical industries rely on cross-linking ligands to microbead surfaces. Microbead functionalization requires ...

How to build up the actionable knowledge base: the role of 'best fit' framework synthesis for studies of improvement in healthcare.

Increasing recognition of the role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare offers the prospect of capitalising upon, and consolidating, ...