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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Biochemical markers"”.
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Biochemical markers and contact lens wear
… individual wearers by the identification of a biochemical marker for assessment of in-eye performance of contact lenses. There is a need for such a procedure as one of the main reasons for contact lens wearers ceasing wearing contact lenses is poor end of day comfort i.e. the lenses become …
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Psychological Hardiness and Biochemical Markers of Acute Stress
The establishment of physiological norms for psychologically hardy vs. non-hardy individuals was attempted by examination of levels of salivary cortisol and urinary norepinephrine before and after a mid-term examination stressor. Normative data was collected on the reported frequency of stressors …
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TRACEABILITY OF MOUNTAIN CHEESES: IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS
… extensively considered in literature as biochemical markers of origin, even non-volatile hydrocarbons molecules could be of interest to evaluate cheese traceability. Therefore this PhD thesis focused on the study of the composition of the non-volatile minor components of the neutral lipid …
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Long-term treatment response, predictors and biochemical markers in Alzheimer’s disease.
… survival. CSF T-tau and P-tau were possible markers for disease severity and P-tau for the abundance of symptoms in AD. A fast pre-treatment progression rate was a positive predictor for response to ChEI treatment even after adjusting for disease severity, another positive predictor of …
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Risk factors and Blood borne- biochemical markers in type 2 diabetes mellitus
… including Na+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Fe2+, Zn2+ and Cu2+, biochemical parameters and inflammatory mediators which normally serve as independent predisposing risk factors for CVD among T2DM patients compared to age-match healthy controls. The results have shown that fura-2 loaded neutrophils and lymphocytes …
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Clinical probability assessment and biochemical markers in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis
The combination of pre-test clinical probability assessment and D-dimer test is now widely applied in the diagnostic process of DVT. The general objective of the present investigation was to validate these results in a Swedish routine emergency setting were the prevalence of the disease is high and …
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The Use of Transvaginal Ultrasound and Biochemical Markers in the Diagnosis of Endometriosis.
… ultrasound; and the usefulness of serum markers. Study one assesses the reproducibility of the assessment of severity of pelvic endometriosis by transvaginal ultrasound. Study two assesses the accuracy of the ultrasound diagnosis of the specific features of pelvic endometriosis and …
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IDENTIFICATION OF ULTRASTRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS OF FROST AVOIDANCE IN THE CUTICULAR LAYER OF CORN
… (18°C/6°C, 10 days) induced physical and biochemical changes in the cuticular wax layer in all four genotypes. These changes were measured using a suite of complementary techniques including: thermal imaging, hydrophobicity, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM), Attenuated Total …
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Biochemical markers of hypertension and chronic renal failure in a Gulf Arab population of the United Arab Emirates
… to document the circulating levels of various biochemical markers of hypertension and chronic renal failure (CRF), a disease which is normally associated with hypertension. The study population consisted of hypertensive and CRF patients and healthy Emirati subjects, who are mainly Gull Arabs of …
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Effectiveness of visceral osteopathic treatment on gastrointestinal indicators and behaviour patterns in autistic children: using questionnaire and biochemical markers to measure outcomes
… This study aimed to evaluate inflammatory markers in faecal samples taken from autistic children with GI dysfunction before, during and after visceral osteopathic techniques (VOT), and to link these findings with contemporaneous questionnaires. These data assessed whether GI status could be …
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Evaluation of rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry (REIMS) for the prediction of slice shear force and biochemical markers of tenderness in beef Longissimus lumborum steaks
… method to predict slice shear force (SSF) and biochemical markers of beef tenderness. Steak samples were randomly collected from beef carcasses (Canada AA, n = 1505; Canada AAA, n = 1363) over a three-year period. Steaks were aged for 14 d, then tenderness was determined using SSF. Metabolomic …
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The Effects of Dietary N-3 Polyunsaturated Fat from Plant Versus Marine Sources on Bochemical Markers of Bone Turnover in Healthy Adults
… fat from plant versus marine sources on biochemical markers of bone turnover.</p> <p><strong>Design:</strong> Both studies were controlled, single blind, randomized trials using Latin-square crossover designs.</p> <p><strong>Subjects/Methods:</strong>Twenty-five (12 females and 13 males) …
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Stress Experiences of Parents with Premature Infants in a Special Care Nursery
… the study. A range of repeated selfreports and biochemical markers of stress (cortisol and tribulin) were carried out on 5 measuring times through approximately a total of 24 weeks for parents of premature infants and 17 weeks for parents of term infants. Parents of premature infants reported …
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The aetiopathogenesis, cardiovascular and metabolic complications, and pharmacogenomics of Addison's disease in South Africa
… the extent to which lipids, lipoproteins and biochemical markers of cardiovascular disease are abnormal; the degree to which replacement doses of hydrocortisone are supra-physiological; the impact of glucocorticoid receptor (GCR) polymorphisms on risk factors, markers of cardiovascular disease …
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Dietary Intake and Bone Mineral Density in Young-Adult Females
… in relation to bone mineral density (BMD) and biochemical markers of bone turnover in a group of 60 healthy, young-adult females aged 18 to 25 years. Body weight, body mass index (BMI), fat-free soft tissue mass (FFST), and fat mass had statistically significant and positive associations with …
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Mechanisms by which exercise promotes hippocampal function in both depressed and non-depressed individuals: A feasibility study
… Exercise may also normalize levels of biochemical markers called cytokines involved in inflammation, while improving levels of growth factors important to brain cell function. This feasibility study aimed to develop protocols to investigate changes in hippocampal activity while …
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Acute Myocardial Infarction: The Relationship between Duration of Ischaemia and Infarct Size in Humans - Assessment by MRI and SPECT
… much for revascularized myocardial infarction. Biochemical markers of cardiac injury are used to estimate myocardial infarct size. The agreement between cumulative as well as peak values of biochemical markers and DE-MRI in patients with an occluded coronary artery was studied for Paper II.We …
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Cell Free DNA as a Monitoring Tool in a Long-Term Athlete Monitoring Program
… program (LTAMP). In study one, cf-DNA, other biochemical markers, volume load, and training intensity were measured in weightlifters over 20 weeks. The changes and relationships between these variables were investigated in order to determine which variables may be indicative of an athlete’s …
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