Type 2 Diabetes and its Characteristics during Ramadan in Dhahira Region, Oman.

Objective: The main objective of this study is to illustrate the various characteristics including care of patients and changes in lifestyle of type 2 diabetics during Ramadan in Dhahira region, Oman.

Methods: This was a hospital-based study conducted during the month of Ramadan in 2006. Of the 453 recruited, 334 (73.

The effects of thyroid hormones and starvation on hepatic mitochondrial nucleic acids of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).

Twenty four hours after an intraperitoneal injection of thyroxine (T4; 4.4, 44 ng/g body wt) or triiodothyronine (T3; 3.3, 33 ng/g body wt), DNA and RNA were significantly reduced in isolated liver mitochondria of rainbow trout.

Nutrition, hormones and growth.

A review is presented relating to the effects of hormones on food intake and nutritional state and also of the effects of food intake and nutritional state on hormone activity. These interactions and their effect on fish growth are described.Growth hormone, thyroid hormones, insulin, and gonadal steroids have all been implicated in the normal growth processes of fish and their metabolic actions have been related to the nutritional state of the animal.

Preliminary study on the effect of temperature on the transport of thyroxine (T4) into the body tissues and sub-cellular fractions of liver and muscle of carp, Cyprinus carpio.

In order to determine if the inability of thyroxine to induce cellular effects at low temperature is mediated through a temperature-sensitive system for the translocation of T4 into the nucleus, the effect of temperature on the uptake of T4 by body tissues and sub-cellular fractions of carp liver and muscle was studied in vivo. A single injection of 125I-T4 (1 micro C/10 g body weight) was given intraperitoneally to juvenile carp maintained at 15 and 25 C. Uptake from the peritoneal cavity was rapid.