Effect of Triticale Grain in Diets on Performance, Development of Gastrointestinal Tract and Microflora in Crop and Ileum of Broiler Chickens.

The purpose of the research was to determine the effect of the use of a diet containing 30% triticale grain. In an experiment lasting 28 days, 180 one-day Ross-308 chickens (sex ratio 1:1) with an average initial body weight in treatment of 44.6 g were randomly assigned to 30 metabolic cages/replications, 6 birds in each.

Disturbances in the intraventricular conduction system in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. A pilot study.

Unlabelled: Body Surface Potential Mapping (BSPM) is a multi-electrode synchronous method for examining electrocardiographic records on the patients' body surface that allows the assessment of changes in the heart conduction system. The aim of the study was to visualize and evaluate changes in the intraventricular system in adolescents with T1D.

Patients And Methods: Inclusion criteria: age > 12 years, T1D duration >3 years, HbA1c >8%.

Disturbances in intraventricular conduction in children with end-stage renal disease on peritoneal dialysis: A pilot study.

Background: The progression of chronic kidney disease is accompanied by multi-organ disorders, among which cardiovascular diseases have the status of a serious clinical problem. The body surface potential mapping (BSPM) technique is a non-invasive method which enables the detection of pathological changes in the bioelectrical activity of the heart.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify possible disturbances in the intraventricular conduction system in peritoneally dialyzed children.

Assessment of body surface potential mapping in diabetic patients with recognized depression.

Objectives: Parameters of body surface potential mapping (BSPM) in DM II patients are significantly different comparing with healthy non-diabetic subjects. Hypothesis that these changes are more pronounced in DM II patients with depression was tested in the present study. For this purpose, analysis of the relationship between the Int-QRST (isointegral) maps distribution and the depressive symptoms intensification, as well interrelation between depressive and diabetic symptoms were performed.

Effects of hemodialysis on ventricular activation time in children with end-stage renal disease.

Patients with end-stage renal disease are affected by cardiovascular complications, including disturbances of the heart intraventricular conduction. Body surface potential mapping is a non-invasive electrocardiographic detection method of initial disturbances in heart activation propagation. A goal of the study was to analyze the effects of single hemodialysis (HD) session on ventricular activation time (VAT) maps obtained from hemodialyzed children.

SIRT1 and NAD as regulators of ageing.

The recent research on ageing processes in mammals throws new light on the biochemistry of circadian clock. The already known regulatory pathways for biological rhythms and metabolism, combined with newly discovered functions of sirtuins, unveil a perspective for new hypotheses, regarding possible links between ageing and circadian rhythms. The NAD World hypothesis - postulated as a systemic regulatory network for the metabolism and ageing, linked with mammalian, NAD+ dependent Sirtuin 1 - conceptually involves two critical elements.

Maps of Ventricular Activation Time (VAT) Differences in Children on Peritoneal Dialysis - a Pilot Study.

Background: Decrement of glomerular filtration rate leads to many serious complications that cause both functional and structural impairments of the other organs. Long-term clinical observations of children and teenagers with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) showed that more than one third of those patients manifested various cardio-vascular conditions. The aim of the study was to analyze possible disturbances in the heart ventricular conduction system by using a technique of ventricular activation time (VAT) differences in ESRF children on peritoneal dialysis (PD) with normal electrocardiogram (ECG) examinations.

Nephroprotective action of sirtuin 1 (SIRT1).

Sirtuins, silent information regulator 2 (Sir 2) proteins, belong to the family of NAD(+)-dependent enzymes with deacetylase or mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase activity. These enzymes are responsible for processes of DNA repair or recombination, chromosomal stability and gene transcription. In mammals, sirtuins occur in seven varieties, from 1 to 7 (SIRT1-SIRT7), differing among themselves with location.

Osteoporosis: genetic determinants and relationship with cardiovascular disease.

Osteoporosis has become one of the major public health problems, affecting about two hundred million people worldwide, including one third of all postmenopausal women. The paper presents a review of the current literature concerning the pathophysiology and the most common genetic and environmental determinants that account for the individual predisposition to age-related osteoporosis. Particular emphasis is placed on the specific linkage between the causative factors of osteoporosis and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Effect of kidney transplantation on heart conduction disturbances in children treated with chronic hemodialysis--a pilot study.

Aim of the study was to assess the effect of KT on heart conduction in HD children. Non-invasive electrocardiographic method of BSPM was used. Isochrone maps, presenting a VAT distribution, were taken from eight HD patients and 26 normal subjects.

Heart ventricular activation in VAT difference maps from children with chronic kidney disease.

Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are affected by cardiovascular complications, including disturbances in the intraventricular conduction system. Body surface potential mapping (BSPM) is a non-invasive method of assessing the cardioelectrical field. Our aim was to investigate conduction disturbances in young CKD patients using ventricular activation time (VAT) maps.

The endogenous modulators of Ca2+-Mg2+-dependent ATPase in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Background: Calcium homeostasis is disturbed in many ways in the course of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The concentration of free cytoplasmic calcium in erythrocytes is increased. Maintenance of a high concentration gradient (between the cystoplasmic and extracellular space) is possible only due to a finely tuned cooperation between many regulating systems in the cytoplasmic membranes and cell organelles.

[The influence of hemodialysis on heart's intraventricular conduction system--pilot study].

Unlabelled: The highest percent of cardiac muscle damages is written down in children which are exposed to hemodialysis. In this group the heart examinations using body surface heart potential mapping (BSPM) method have been carried out. The aim of the study was to assess the influence of hemodialysis on heart's electrodynamics in children and adolescent during replacement therapy.

Interhemispheric cerebral asymmetry detected by VEPS in diabetic patients with recognized depression.

Objectives: The present study was undertaken in order to verify the hypothesis stating that patients with depression exhibit some abnormalities concerning a cerebral symmetry. For this purpose, an analysis of the relationship between the VEPs (Visual Evoked Potentials) results and the depressive symptoms intensification, as well interrelation between depressive and diabetic symptoms were performed.

Material And Methods: VEPs recordings were obtained from the two study groups (both aged 20-45 years), 20 healthy subjects and 32 diabetic patients with clinically documented depression.

Usefulness of body surface potential mapping for early identification of the intraventricular conduction disorders in young patients with chronic kidney disease.

Background: Cardiovascular complications are considered a significant problem in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Body surface potential mapping (BSPM) is a noninvasive method that is useful in detecting early changes involving the heart. The aim of the study was to evaluate possible abnormalities within the cardiac intraventricular conduction system in young patients with CKD using the BSPM method.

[Changes of ventricular activation time in patients with left anterior fascicle block and bifascicular block].

Recognition of left anterior fascicle block is usually a diagnostic problem. Isochrone maps, displaying results of the body surface potential mapping are helpful in solving this problem. The isochrone maps present changes of heart electric field, especially those concerning a pathway of the depolarization front propagation within the heart conduction system.

[Ventricular activation time maps in health and after myocardial infarction registered in spherical system].

The present paper concerns the results of the examinations on Ventricular Activation Time distribution. The registrations were performed using the 30-electrode network connected to from the diamentoid scheme giving the sphere system, in the centre of which the heart is located. The potentials for one ECG cycle were measured at every electrode.