Asian venous thromboembolism guidelines: updated recommendations for the prevention of venous thromboembolism.

The Asian venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis guidelines were first published in 2012. Since its first edition, the Asian Venous Thrombosis Forum (AVTF) working group have updated the Asian VTE epidemiology and reviewed issues that were not addressed in the previous guidelines. The authors noted that the rising incidence of VTE across Asia may be attributable to aging population, dietary changes, and increasing incidence of obesity and diabetes.

Distraction, restrained eating and disinhibition: An experimental study of food intake and the impact of 'eating on the go'.

To assess the impact of distraction on subsequent eating, 60 females consumed a cereal bar while watching TV, walking or talking, and their subsequent desire to eat and food intake were assessed. No effects were found for desire to eat. But while those higher in restrained eating consumed less overall and fewer calories after watching TV or talking, they consumed more overall and more calories (specifically five times more chocolate) if the cereal bar was eaten while walking.

No major differences found between the effects of microwave-based and conventional heat treatment methods on two different liquid foods.

Extension of shelf life and preservation of products are both very important for the food industry. However, just as with other processes, speed and higher manufacturing performance are also beneficial. Although microwave heating is utilized in a number of industrial processes, there are many unanswered questions about its effects on foods.

Thin-layer chromatographic determination of catecholamines, 5-hydroxytryptamine, and their metabolites in biological samples: a review.

A review of methodology for separation, detection, and quantitative determination of catecholamines, 5-hydroxytryptamine, and their acidic metabolites in biological tissue and fluids by thin-layer chromatography is presented. Selected procedures, including fluorometric scanning densitometry for catecholamine acetyl derivatives and color scanning densitometry for acids, are described.

Thin-layer chromatographic determination of catecholamines in rat plasma.

A TLC method for the quantitative determination of epinephrine, norepinephrine and dopamine in rat plasma is described. After deprotenization, catecholamines were adsorbed on acid-alumina and acetylated. The acetyl derivatives were extracted using a C18 minicolumn, resolved on HPTLC plates and quantitated by fluorescence densitometry at 415 nm, using isoprenaline as internal standard.