Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyze in detail the quality of abdominal CT images obtained using three protocols reported by Image Gently in 2014 (hereafter referred to as Image Gently 2014), with the use of a handmade body phantom adapted to typical body sizes of the Japanese population. Moreover, we converted the findings of Image Gently 2014 to match Japanese body sizes and referred to our converted findings as Image Gently Japan.
Materials And Methods: We scanned each phantom in a mechanical isocenter in accordance with the Image Gently 2014 abdominal imaging protocol.
Background: The correlation between reduced bone mineral density (BMD) and the disease anorexia nervosa (AN) has long been established. The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship in more detail, particularly focusing on the increasing incidence of the disease occurring in adolescent patients.
Method: Twenty-four girls diagnosed with AN were enrolled in the study.
Aim: To investigate the usefulness of salivary chromogranin A (CgA) and cortisol as stress markers, and the effects of distraction on the suppression of stress in children.
Methods: We examined salivary CgA and cortisol responses before and after venipuncture in hospitalized children with and without distraction using a kaleidoscope.
Results: Salivary CgA levels immediately after venipuncture were significantly higher than those immediately before it, and at 60 min after venipuncture they were significantly lower than those immediately after it.
Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) A1 regulates mRNA genesis. It shuttles between the nucleus and cytoplasm. Its shuttling signal is a 38-residue sequence M9.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The effects of changes in body mass index (BMI) and other factors on plasma leptin levels in children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN) were examined.
Methods: Plasma leptin levels and BMI was measured before and after initiation of refeeding therapy every 2 weeks for 8 weeks in 12 children and adolescents with AN. The plasma levels of insulin, cortisol, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) were also measured in these subjects before and after 8 weeks of the refeeding therapy, and the results were compared with those from 12 age-matched healthy girls.
Objective: Our aim was to examine the relationship between resting energy expenditure (REE) and circulating leptin levels during long-term refeeding in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa (AN).
Method: We measured REE, the plasma leptin level, the free T(3) level, body surface area (BSA), and dietary energy intake in AN adolescents before and 8 weeks after refeeding therapy.
Results: All parameters in AN subjects before the refeeding therapy were significantly lower than those in AN subjects after the therapy and in the controls.