Nutrient Intake Prior to Exercise Is Necessary for Increased Osteogenic Marker Response in Diabetic Postmenopausal Women.

Type 2 diabetes increases bone fracture risk in postmenopausal women. Usual treatment with anti-resorptive bisphosphonate drugs has some undesirable side effects, which justified our interest in the osteogenic potential of nutrition and exercise. Since meal eating reduces bone resorption, downhill locomotion increases mechanical stress, and brief osteogenic responsiveness to mechanical stress is followed by several hours of refractoriness, we designed a study where 40-min of mechanical stress was manipulated by treadmill walking uphill or downhill.

Evaluation of the use of abdominal compression of the lung in stereotactic radiation therapy.

The goal of this retrospective study was to determine the benefit in using abdominal compression to reduce tumor motion for patients treated with lung stereotactic body radiotherapy. Forty-four lung lesions (n = 44) from 37 patients (N = 37) treated at the University of Toledo's Dana Cancer Center were assessed by determining the overall tumor displacement along with possible surrogates such as change in tidal volume and diaphragm displacement, with and without abdominal compression. Measurements of lung capacity were acquired from the 4DCT at maximum and minimum respiration in order to determine the tidal volume, with and without abdominal compression.

Thermal analysis of magnetic nanoparticle in alternating magnetic field on human HCT-116 colon cancer cell line.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to closely investigate the effects of heat dissipation of superparamagnetic nanoparticles on HCT-116 human cancer cell lines cultured under laboratory conditions and also to examine important parameters including size and concentration of nanoparticles, magnetic field frequency, magnetic field intensity, and exposure time.

Materials And Methods: Conducting experimental tests required special hardware capable of producing an AC magnetic field with various frequencies. The design and construction process for such an experimental set-up is presented here.