Cerebrovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality and disability. Common risk assessment tools for stroke are based on the Framingham equation, which relies on traditional cardiovascular risk factors to predict an acute event in the near decade. However, no tools are currently available to predict a near/impending stroke, which might alert…[Read more]

Increases in the red blood cell (RBC) degree of fatty acid desaturation are reported in response to exercise, aging, or diseases associated with systemic oxidant stress. However, no studies have focused on the presence and activity of fatty acid desaturases (FADS) in the mature RBC.

Steady state metabolomics and isotope-labeled tracing…[Read more]

Several participants showed no significant endocrine change. There was a statistically significant (two-sided test) correlation within the PWD-caregiver dyads in evening cortisol trend and a statistically significant decrease (two-sided test) in the morning-evening cortisol slope for the FCG group. Reduction in stress, as measured by evening…[Read more]

6 ± 6.1 % and 73.1 ± 6.2 %, respectively) nor was the capacity to withstand cryopreservation (67.9 ± 9.0 % and 62.5 ± 8.7 %, respectively). For biopsies on Day 6 post-fertilization, 95 % of samples produced a PCR product; however, when compared to the whole embryo PCR results, approximately 11 % of biopsy-samples classified as being from a male e…[Read more]