Isthmocele diagnosis: The optimal timing for detection.

We describe the changes in size of the uterine niche during the proliferative and secretory phases, highlighting the need to standardize the best time of measurement.

Laparoscopic surgery for benign adnexal conditions under spinal anaesthesia: Towards a multidisciplinary minimally invasive approach.

Background: Laparoscopic gynaecological surgery is commonly performed under general anaesthesia with endotracheal intubation. In general surgery, locoregional anaesthesia was applied to laparoscopic procedures, increasing minimally invasive surgery advantages.

Aims: To assess and compare postoperative pain after laparoscopic adnexal procedures for benign conditions under spinal anaesthesia (SA) versus general anaesthesia (GA).

Laparoscopic versus Open Liver Resection: Differences in Intraoperative and Early Postoperative Outcome among Cirrhotic Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma-A Retrospective Observational Study.

Introduction. Laparoscopic liver resection is considered risky in cirrhotic patients, even if minor surgical trauma of laparoscopy could be useful to prevent deterioration of a compromised liver function. This study aimed to identify the differences in terms of perioperative complications and early outcome in cirrhotic patients undergoing minor hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma with open or laparoscopic technique.

[Membrane platelet fatty acids: biochemical characterisation of the ischemic cardiovascular disease, characteristics of the paediatric age, through an artificial neural network interpretation].

During the last 30 years, a huge research has been performed about the markers involved in the atherogenetic process and in the fatty acid thrombogenetic effect. More recently many studies have been made on the biochemical aspects of the saturated fatty acids with respect to the cardiovascular risk, in particular, the Stearic Acid (SA). Because of the peculiar characteristic of the platelets in the control of the thrombogenetic risk, we have investigated the platelet fatty acid profile in three groups of subjects: supposed healthy (n = 60), ischemic (n = 50), young children (n = 118).

Sapid solutions and food intake in repeated dehydration and rehydration periods in rats.

In a previous report, it has been shown that water deprivation significantly affects the two-bottle taste preferences and one-bottle taste acceptance in rats when no food was available during tests. Since no food was available, the course of drinking was never interrupted by eating. Theoretically, if a rat faces a simultaneous choice between food and fluid, and if the course of drinking is interrupted by eating, these conditions might interfere with taste preferences, total fluid intake and eating in thirsty rats.

[Nutritional status and dietary habits of children in the Province of Modena].

Under the auspices of the "Food and health" project, research was undertaken (Nutritional Diagnosis) to evaluate the state of nutrition and health of a sample of the population of the Province of Modena. 155 children of an average age of 10 +/- 2 years were studied. These children, resident in the Local Health Areas 15 (Mirandola), 16 (Modena) and 18 (Pavullo), took part in a questionnaire comprising specific items.

Somatostatin administration alters taste preferences in the rat.

The effects of long-term and relatively constant concentrations of somatostatin (SRIF) were tested in rats to investigate its influence on taste preferences, fluid intake, and taste bud topography of the tongue. In SRIF-treated rats, intake of 3 x 10(-2) M NaCl and 6 x 10(-2) M sucrose solution decreased, whereas that of 3 x 10(-5) M quinine-HCl and 10(-3) M HCl (pH = 3) solutions increased significantly; distilled water intake and total fluid consumption remained almost unchanged. The light/dark cycle of consumption of NaCl solution was modified in a dose-dependent manner, but that of dwater, total fluids, and other solutions was not.

Somatostatin administration modifies food intake, body weight, and gut motility in rat.

The effects of a long period of relatively high and nearly constant levels of Somatostatin (SRIF) on the control of food ingestion and body weight gain were investigated; weight gain occurs via concurrent modifications of food and fluid intake and in vitro gut motility. Fluid intake was not influenced by SRIF treatment. Food intake, body weight, body weight gain, and gut motility decreased after SRIF treatment, and, in some cases, these effects were dose-dependent.

Simultaneous reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic separation of non-polar isoprenoid lipids and their determination.

A procedure for the rapid identification and determination of non-polar isoprenoid lipids from animal tissues was developed. The complete determination can be carried out by reversed-phase HPLC of just two samples. The first, extracted from unaltered tissues and suitably processed by column chromatography, provides information about free cholesterol, cholesteryl esters, coenzymes Q, free dolichols and dolichyl esters.

The effect of diet upon the fatty acid composition of cranial and spinal nerve lipids.

The possible basal differences in lipid class and fatty acid composition between a cranial nerve (the trigeminal nerve) and two spinal nerves (the ulnar and sciatic nerves) as well as the effects of dietary lipids on the same nerves were studied. A basal (BD) and four experimental diets containing respectively hydrogenated coconut oil (HCO), grapestone oil (GSO), olive oil (OO) and linseed oil (LSO) were used. Trigeminal lipids fatty acid composition differs significantly from sciatic and ulnar ones in the percentages of 16:0, 16:1, 18:0, 18:2 n-6, 20:0, 20:1, 20:4 n-6, 24:0, 24:1 and 22:6 n-3.

Dietary-induced changes in lipid and fatty acid composition can modify chronaxie values in the rat sciatic nerve.

The present investigation aimed at clarifying the possible correlations among dietary lipids, peripheral fatty acid composition of nerve lipids and an index of the nervous tissue excitability, the chronaxie. The experiments were performed on female albino rats fed diets containing olive oil (OO) and fish oil (FO) along two generations. Total lipids fatty acid composition of the sciatic nerves from the two groups differed in the proportions of 18:1(n-9), 20:1(n-9), 22-1, 20:5(n-3) and 22:6(n-3).

Effect of n-6 and n-3 dietary fatty acids on phospholipid composition of plasma, platelets and aorta in the rat.

Female Wistar rats were fed with diets containing as dietary lipids 10% of hydrogenated coconut oil, grape-seed oil, olive oil, linseed oil and fish oil, respectively, for a period of 60 days. At the end of dietary treatment plasma, platelets and aorta phospholipids were extracted and fatty acid spectra determined. Plasma and platelet phospholipids showed the largest diet dependent changes.

Fatty acid composition of single brain structures following different alpha linolenate dietary supplementations.

Weanling female rats randomly divided into three groups were fed a basal alipidic diet added with 10% (w/w) corn oil, soybean oil or linseed oil. After thirty and ninety days of dietary treatment the rats were killed and the fatty acid composition of brain, optic nerve and visual cortex was determined. The results demonstrate a different sensitivity to the diet of the different structures examined and, for the linseed oil treated rats, a strong decrease in the proportions of the total (n-6 + n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids in all the structures examined.

Effect of C 18:3 (n-3) dietary supplementation on the fatty acid composition of the rat brain.

Weanling rats have been fed different diets containing hydrogenated coconut oil or a mixture of grapestone + linseed oil as dietary fats. Groups of 12 animals have been sacrificed at weanling or after 60 or 120 days of this dietary treatment. Body and brain weight, brain total lipids, phospholipids, cholesterol, cerebroside, fatty acid content and fatty acid composition have been evaluated.