Obesity

Obesity is the condition in which excess fat has accumulated in the body (mostly in subcutaneous tissues). clinical obesity is considered to be present when a person has a BMI of over 30 (Oxford Dic...

Plasma Therapeutic Exchange

Plasma Factors

Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome

Thrombin Collagen Plasma

Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is strongly expressed in the fetal bovine ileal Peyer’s patch and spleen and is associated with expansion of the primary antibody repertoire in the absence of exogenous antigens

Pulsed Plasma Characterization

The performance of the Hiden Analytical family of plasma diagnostic tools is further advanced by integration of onboard timers for real-time pulsed plasma measurement, the fast gating controllable wit...

Differentially Pumped PSM Plasma Probe

Hiden Analytical’s Hiden differentially pumped PSM plasma probe provides measurement of the key parameters required for establishing the reaction chemistry of diverse plasma and pulsed-plasma proce...

Plasma in a bag

(Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) Plastic bags coated by plasma at atmospheric pressure serve as a GMP laboratory for the cultivation of adherent cells. The plasma is used to modify the internal surface of th...

Plasma Donors Save Lives

Joe Van Ess, a long-time plasma donor in Grandville, Michigan, is one of many individuals around the United States who have made the unselfish commitment to donate their healthy plasma to help save li...

Researcher Uses Cold Plasma Technology to Stop Superbugs

Using new “cold plasma” technology which he developed in the Plasma Engineering Research Lab (PERL) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Dr. Magesh Thiyagarajan is stopping these killer bac...

FDA approves Octapharma's human plasma product

FDA approved a BLA from Octapharma AG (Lachen, Switzerland) for Octaplas to manage preoperative or bleeding patients who require replacement of multiple plasma coagulation factors, and to substitute i...

Book review: Production of Plasma Proteins for Therapeutic Use

Production of Plasma Proteins for Therapeutic Use edited by Joseph Bertolini, Neil Goss and John Curling provides comprehensive data for the plasma area. This comprehensive book covers the topics of t...

Associations between plasma polyunsaturated fatty acids, plasma stearoyl-CoA desaturase indices and body fat.

OBJECTIVE: Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD)-1 deficient mice are resistant to obesity and plasma SCD indices are related to obesity in humans. Both n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) regulate...

The nature of hydrogen bonds in cytidine⋅⋅⋅h(+) ⋅⋅⋅cytidine DNA base pairs.

Give and take: Combined NMR spectroscopic and quantum chemical investigations are used to characterize cationic hydrogen bonds found in C⋅C(+) base pairs in DNA i-motif structures. The proton involv...

Plasma vitamin D and parathormone are associated with obesity and atherogenic dyslipidemia: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Low concentrations of plasma vitamin D (25(OH)D) have been associated with the development of metabolic syndrome (MetS), obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The objecti...

Catecholamines and Obesity: Effects of Exercise and Training.

Excess body fat in obese individuals can affect the catecholamine response to various stimuli. Indeed, several studies report lower plasma catecholamine concentrations in obese subjects compared with...

A Single Amino Acid Limits the Substrate Specificity of Thermus thermophilus Uridine-Cytidine Kinase to Cytidine.

The salvage pathways of nucleotide biosynthesis are more diverse and are less well understood as compared with de novo pathways. Uridine-cytidine kinase (UCK) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the pyrimi...