Long term steroid metabolism balance studies in subjects on cholesterol-free and cholesterol-rich diets: comparison between normal and hypercholesterolemic individuals

Regulation of cholesterol metabolism was investigated in eight hypercholesterolemic and five normal individuals by combined intravenous pulse-labeling with radioactive cholesterol and fecal steroids balance techniques.Mean serum cholesterol concentrations ranged from 168 to 717 mg/dl.Experiments were scheduled in the following sequence: a cholester

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Multidisciplinary approach to the management of pulmonary embolism patients: the pulmonary embolism response team (PERT)

Christopher W Root,1 David M Dudzinski,2 Bishoy Zakhary,3 Oren A Friedman,4 Akhilesh K Sista,5 James M Horowitz6 1Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 3Department of Internal Medicine, Oregon Health & Science Univers

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Genome-Assisted Characterization of Lactobacillus fermentum, Weissella cibaria, and Weissella confusa Strains Isolated from Sorghum as Starters for Sourdough Fermentation

Sourdough fermentation of bakery products is a well-established and widespread technique to confer an added value to the sunflower horse halter resulting food.In recent decades, gluten-free raw materials have gained more attention due to the diffusion of food disorders such as coeliac disease, but, at the same time, they present difficult manipulat

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