Offspring consume a more obesogenic diet than mothers in response to changing socioeconomic status and urbanization in Cebu, Philippines.

Background: Overweight increased among Filipino mothers and offspring from 1994 to 2005 however, a higher rate of increase among mothers resulted in a prevalence 4 times higher than that among offspring in 2005. Our aim was to explore the differential effects of changing income, assets, maternal education, and urbanicity on dietary behaviors of mothers and offspring that may affect overweight risk.

Methods: The study included a cohort of Filipino offspring and their mothers participating in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey at four time points from 1994 (n = 1,885 pairs) to 2005 (n = 1,349 pairs).

Is combined 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography superior to positron emission tomography or computed tomography alone for diagnosis, staging and restaging of pancreatic lesions?

Background And Study Aims: To evaluate whether combined 18F-FDG PET/CT has an additive value over 18F-FDG-PET or CT alone for diagnosis, staging and restaging of pancreatic lesions.

Patients And Methods: Forty-six consecutive patients (23 women, 23 men; median age 62.5 years) underwent FDG-PET/CT.

Integrated FDG-PET/CT does not make invasive staging of the intrathoracic lymph nodes in non-small cell lung cancer redundant: a prospective study.

Background: Staging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is important for determining choice of treatment and prognosis. The accuracy of FDG-PET scans for staging of lymph nodes is too low to replace invasive nodal staging. It is unknown whether the accuracy of integrated FDG-PET/CT scanning makes invasive staging redundant.

Evaluation of anatomy based reconstruction for partial volume correction in brain FDG-PET.

Unlabelled: FDG-PET contributes to the diagnosis and management of neurological diseases. In some of these diseases, pathological gray matter (GM) areas may have a reduced FDG uptake. Detection of these regions can be difficult and some remain undiscovered using visual assessment.

Electrical behaviour of interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) and prostaglandin-E2 (PGE2) on colonic myenteric neurones.

Abstract Intracellular recordings were used to examine the effects on electrical and synaptic behaviour of interleukin (IL)-1beta and prostaglandin E2(PGE2) on myenteric neurones of the guinea-pig colon. Application of IL-1beta and PGE2resulted in a concentration-dependent slow depolarization with enhanced spike discharge in, respectively, 45% (21/47) and 83% (33/41) of the impaled colonic neurones. Administration of IL-1beta in three neurones (6%) elicited a hyperpolarization.