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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Basal Metabolic Rate"”.
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Biological variation in basal metabolic rate and energy metabolism
… total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) and basal metabolic rate (BMR). The impact of ethnicity on biological variation on certain aspects of energy metabolism has been investigated. Predictive equations to estimate BMR were published by the FAOIWHOIUNU (1985) in a report entitled EllerK}' …
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Nutritional factors associated with obesity in adolescent females in the United Arab Emirates
… This study was conducted in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to ascertain the extent and the nature of this problem. The UAE has undergone a rapid change in socio-economic status. This change has affected many aspects of life in the UAE. The prevalence of overweight and obesity and the …
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Alterations in Vitamin a and Thyroid Hormone Metabolism in Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
… 15% of original body weight and had a basal metabolic rate (BMR) of (LESSTHEQ) -15%. Twenty-seven subjects were divided according to eating behavior, i.e., dietary restriction or bulimia; and by level of serum carotene. This subdivision resulted in three groups: Group I, dietary …
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Physical activity level and cardiovascular risk factors: case study of high school teachers within Makhado Municipality
… while age and gender was the predictor for basal metabolic rate. Age was a predictor for both BMI and waist circumference, and gender was a predictor for PAL and BMR. There was a positive association between WC and body mass index, between starch intake and salt intake, another association …
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Digestibility of Common Forage Plants and Energetic Requirements of the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
… highly digestible forbs. The estimated Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) of 0.056 kcal · g-1 day-l is relatively low; 85 percent of the Basal Metabolic Rate as predicted by a metabolic body size formula. The energy cost of activity is the primary cause for the difference in RMR estimates from oxygen …
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Aspects of the energetics and renal physiology of some African arid-adapted rodents
… and like most arid-adapted rodents had a reduced basal metabolic rate. When G. pusillus was maintained on an ad lib. food and water diet, its daily energy expenditure was similar to that predicted by mass. This increased to 116% of the expected allometric value when deprived of water. On a diet of …
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Sex differences in diet-induced regulation of non-exercise activity thermogenesis in overweight and obese adults
… physical activity energy expenditure (PAEE) and basal metabolic rate (BMR) have been proposed as factors that may hinder diet-induced body mass loss. Although diet-mediated changes in PAEE and BMR are subject to large inter-individual variability, research investigating the impact of sex on …
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The Prevalence and Treatment of Obesity in Adolescence (Weight Control)
… treatment program was successful in (1) reducing rate of gain and decreasing ideal body weight by 11% while maintaining lean tissue and basal metabolic rate, (2) improving cardiovascular fitness, self-esteem and self-control, and (3) improving eating and exercise behaviors. Program completers were …
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The Role of Thada in Energy Homeostasis
… we and others have considered that developing strategies focused on increasing organismal energy expenditure may help fight obesity and its associated comorbidities. For this purpose, our research focused on a gene called Thada. THADA encodes a 220 kDa protein that has been recently reported in …
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Modulation of Axonal Transmission by Metabolic Stress
… by neural tissue is responsible for ~20% of the basal metabolic rate. This high-energy consumption predisposes neural tissue to metabolic stress that can compromise signaling and cause irreversible damage. The locust central nervous system (CNS), however, has adaptive mechanisms for surviving …
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Extending the System Dynamics Toolbox to Address Policy Problems in Transportation and Health
… define a single robust prediction equation for Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), which is an element of the energy expenditure of the body. In our approach, we perform an extensive literature review to explore the relationship between BMR and different factors including age, body composition, gender, …
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Measuring and Predicting Total Energy Expenditure Among Highly Active Humans in Natural Environments
… Factorial Method, the Allocation Model includes metabolic cost terms for both thermoregulation and the thermic effect of food, as well as using more accurate basal metabolic rate and activity cost estimations. The Allocation Model was tested using doubly labeled water and flex-heart rate measured …
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Parenting Beliefs During the Infant Year: Effects on Infant Growth
… infant feeding modality, ethnicity, maternal basal metabolic rate, socioeconomic status, timing of solid food introduction, and parenting response to infant temperament. The objective of this cross sectional retrospective quantitative study is to identify if parenting beliefs have an effect on …
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Evaluating mitochondrial uncoupling potentials of A7E and DNP in Saccharomyces cerevisiae : implications for human obesity
… triphosphate (ATP) yield. Consequently, metabolic efficiency diminishes increasing basal metabolic rate. 2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP) successfully uncouples but was banned in 1938 because of a narrow window between efficacy and toxicity. PURPOSE: To measure the ability of a blend that …
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Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Leptin's Metabolic Effects
… clear that differences in energy expenditure, basal metabolic rates and/or adaptive thermogenesis are also important variables that contribute to human obesity. The experiments in this thesis start off by demonstrating that a significant portion of leptin-mediated weight loss is the result of …
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Overcoming wound healing complications following radiotherapy in human breast dermal fibroblasts, through the influence of preadipocytes from the stromal vascular fraction
… grow. They had a lower proliferative and higher basal metabolic rate and did not respond to FGF-2. While they secreted similar amounts of total collagen they demonstrated distinct differences in proteolytic enzyme and protease inhibitor expression. This is the first report to culture cells from …
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Behavior and Ecology of Wild Slow Lorises (Nycticebus coucang): Social Organization, Infant Care System, and Diet
… is a slow-moving animal known to have a very low basal metabolic rate relative to other eutherian species of its body mass. A slow pace of life has been causally linked to a low intake rate of usable energy due to a diet that (1) is generally low in energy, (2) is unpredictably periodically …
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Quantitative genetics and metabolomics of aerobic metabolism
… bases of variation in maximal aerobic metabolic rate (MMR) are important for understanding exercise physiology and the evolution of aerobic performance, but they still are not well understood. To this end, I studied three aspects of MMR. First, I estimated the genetic variances and …
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Understanding Patterns of Phenotypic Variation in a Contemporary Population and Ancient Lineage of Fishes
… onset of seasonal reproduction is constrained by basal metabolic rate and that large individuals can escape these size-associated energetic constraints. Thus, we reveal a more complex relationship between environment and phenotype than previously recognized, which is critical for understanding how …
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The influence of spatiotemporal variation in ambient temperature on the ecology and physiology of birds
… having TNZ breadths intermediate between temperate and tropical resident species. In contrast, at a smaller spatial scale (within a geographic locality), ecological traits associated with ambient temperature regime (vertical niche and habitat association) were not significant predictors of …