[Fatty liver and global cardiometabolic risk].

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can be found in approximately 30% of adults in industrialized societies. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is its most severe histological form and progresses to cirrhosis in 20% of these patients. Once developed, 30% to 40% of patients with cirrhosis will suffer liver-related death.

Safety and efficacy of a lipid emulsion containing a mixture of soybean oil, medium-chain triglycerides, olive oil, and fish oil: a randomised, double-blind clinical trial in premature infants requiring parenteral nutrition.

Objectives: Safety, tolerability, and efficacy of a novel lipid emulsion containing a mixture of soybean oil, medium-chain triglycerides, olive oil, and fish oil (SMOFlipid 20%) with reduced n-6 fatty acids (FA), increased monounsaturated and n-3 FA, and enriched in vitamin E were evaluated in premature infants compared with a soybean oil-based emulsion.

Patients And Methods: Sixty (30/30) premature neonates (age 3-7 days, gestational age ≤ 34 weeks, birth weights 1000-2500 g) received parenteral nutrition (PN) with either SMOFlipid 20% (study group) or a conventional lipid emulsion (Intralipid 20%, control group) for a minimum of 7 up to 14 days. Lipid supply started at 0.

A historical chronology of teaching physiological sciences to medical students in Hungary.

Starting from the second half of the 18th century, a brief chronology of teaching medical physiology and pathophysiology in Hungary is given in this article. Even when the major milestones of this history are only identified, one can recognize several significant achivements that may inspire the present and coming generations to develope and enrich this inheritance of high values. These achivements involve--inter alia--influential scientific "schools" founded by eminent professors, outstanding institutions of basic medicine, recognition of the relevance of the integrative approach in medical education, close relationship between teaching and scientific research, high-standard theoretical and practical training, teaching based on excellent domestic and foreign textbooks, extensive international relationships and experience.

Value of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and cholesterol assays of ascitic fluid in cases of inconclusive cytology.

Aim: To determine whether assays of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and cholesterol in ascites add diagnostic value to cytology.

Methods: The additional diagnostic efficacy of the biochemical assays was studied in the ascitic fluid from 130 patients, of whom 57 had peritoneal carcinomatosis. All diagnoses were verified by subsequent necropsy and/or histology.

Flow-induced constriction in arterioles of hyperhomocysteinemic rats is due to impaired nitric oxide and enhanced thromboxane A(2) mediation.

Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is thought to promote arteriosclerosis and peripheral arterial disease, in part by impairing the function of endothelium. Because flow-induced dilation is mediated by the endothelium, we hypothesized that HHcy alters this response by interfering with the synthesis/action of NO and prostaglandins. Thus, changes in the diameter of isolated, pressurized (at 80 mm Hg) gracilis skeletal muscle arterioles (diameter approximately 170 microm) from control and methionine diet-induced HHcy rats were investigated with videomicroscopy.

Simultaneously increased TxA(2) activity in isolated arterioles and platelets of rats with hyperhomocysteinemia.

We aimed to elucidate the effect of hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) on the synthesis of prostaglandins in rat skeletal muscle arterioles and platelets. Male Wistar rats were divided into 2 groups: (1) control rats, with plasma Hcy levels of 6.5+/-0.

Effects of early nutrition on free radical formation in VLBW infants with respiratory distress.

Objective: We studied the development of essential fatty acid deficiency (EFAD) and its effects together with those of vitamin E deficiency on the free radical formation of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants with respiratory distress.

Methods: Infants were divided into three groups based on the way each was supplied with daily total energy intake: (1) by fat free parenteral nutrition only or by nutrition composed of (2) less than or (3) higher than 25% of total daily energy intake given in oral feeding. We measured plasma lipid parameters and autoxidative susceptibility (AOS) of red blood cells (RBCs).

Increased myogenic tone in skeletal muscle arterioles of diabetic rats. Possible role of increased activity of smooth muscle Ca2+ channels and protein kinase C.

Objective: The diabetes mellitus-induced microangiopathy is still not clearly characterized. In this study we aimed to elucidate the effect of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes on myogenic response of isolated rat skeletal muscle arterioles and the mechanisms responsible for its alterations.

Methods: Male rats were divided into two groups: (1) control rats (C, plasma glucose: 6.

Metabolism of activated complement component C3 is mediated by the low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein/alpha(2)-macroglobulin receptor.

Complement component 3 (C3) and alpha(2)-macroglobulin evolved from a common, evolutionarily old, ancestor gene. Low density lipoprotein-receptor-related protein/alpha(2)-macroglobulin receptor (LRP/alpha(2)MR), a member of the low density lipoprotein receptor family, is responsible for the clearance of alpha(2)-macroglobulin-protease complexes. In this study, we examined whether C3 has conserved affinity for LRP/alpha(2)MR.

Dysfunction of nitric oxide mediation in isolated rat arterioles with methionine diet-induced hyperhomocysteinemia.

In humans, increased plasma homocysteine (Hcy) has been shown to be correlated with occlusive arterial diseases and atherosclerosis. Studies of isolated conductance vessels of experimental animals suggest that Hcy may interfere with local vasoregulatory mechanisms, yet the effect of hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) on the function of microvessels, such as skeletal muscle arterioles, has not been investigated. Male Wistar rats were divided into 2 groups: control rats (C; plasma Hcy, 7.

[Oncologic diagnosis of serous effusions in body cavities (cytologic study and evaluation of cholesterol and carcinoembryonic antigen levels)].

Conventional cytological evaluation of serous effusions often yields border line result: apart from positive (malignant) or negative (benign) diagnoses, a relatively large part of the findings are "suspicious for malignancy" (P3). In the present paper the authors have analysed to what extent contributes the determination of cholesterol and CEA levels of ascites and pleural effusion to the diagnostic accuracy of cytologically "suspicious" (P3) cases. In 155 histologically controlled cases, specificity, sensitivity and diagnostic efficiency were assessed on the basis of cytology as well as the determination of CEA and cholesterol levels.

Noncovalent interactions in maintaining the native structure of low density lipoprotein.

The integrity and the surface charge distribution of native low density lipoprotein (LDL) are prerequisites of its binding to the LDL receptor. Oxidation is one of the most important physiological effects resulting in an altered structure and metabolism of LDL. To reveal forces responsible for maintaining the intact structure of LDL in the absence of cells we have determined the kinetics of lipid peroxidation, changes in electrophoretic mobilities and size distributions of LDL samples as a function of Cu++ induced oxidative modification in a cell-free system at two different (50 mM and 150 mM) ionic strengths by electrophoretic and dynamic light scattering.

Effects of administration of different intravenous lipid emulsions on plasma LP-X concentrations in the rat.

Background: Prolonged parenteral nutrition with lipid emulsions is essential to provide sufficient energy supply and to avoid essential fatty acid deficiency in preterm infants. However, chronic administration of lipid emulsions may lead to the development of pathological plasma lipid and LP-X concentrations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relative importance of the phospholipid-triglyceride (PL-TG) ratio and the source of phospholipid in lipid emulsions, with respect to plasma lipid and LP-X levels.

Erythrocyte lipids in triose-phosphate isomerase deficiency.

Marked hypoalphalipoproteinemia was found together with relatively low serum cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and LDL levels in a triose-phosphate isomerase (TPI; D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ketol-isomerase, EC 5.3.1.

Long-term effects of unsaturated fatty acid dominance on the release of free radicals in the rat.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of an abundance of unsaturated fatty acids, hyperoxia, and vitamin E on free radical formation in vitamin E-deficient rats. The excess of unsaturated fatty acids was achieved by i.v.

Effect of metoprolol and pindolol monotherapy on plasma lipid- and lipoprotein-cholesterol levels (including the HDL subclasses) in mild hypertensive males and females.

Forty-five patients with mild hypertension were treated for 2 months with either metoprolol or pindolol in a randomized, blind, crossover study. The effects of metoprolol (100-300 mg/day) and pindolol (5-15 mg/day) on triglyceride (TG), cholesterol (C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and HDL subfraction (HDL2-C and HDL3-C) levels were compared in males and females separately. Pindolol and metoprolol significantly elevated (10% above baseline level) the plasma TG level in both males and females.

Binding of fibronectin to human lipoproteins.

High molecular mass adhesive glycoprotein plasma fibronectin binds to isolated HDL and LDL lipoprotein fractions in a solid phase radioimmunoassay. Mean dissociation constants of interaction of fibronectin and immobilized HDL and LDL lipoproteins isolated from eight patients with type IIa and type IV hyperlipoproteinemia are 7.8 +/- 3.

Lipid and lipoprotein profiles in Cuban children of three age groups.

We determined the lipid and lipoprotein levels in a selected group of apparently healthy adult Cuban subjects in a previous paper /27/. In this paper the basic lipid variables (TC, TG, HDL-C) in 271 healthy children are published. LDL-C levels were also calculated.