Effect of model race and viewing perspective on body attractiveness and body size assessment in young Caucasian women: an eye-tracking study.

Research has indicated that Caucasian women gaze more often at waist-hip and chest regions than other local body areas when assessing female body attractiveness and body size, and this stereotypical gaze distribution is further modulated by their own body satisfaction and body composition. However, little is known whether the model race and viewing perspective could affect women's body-viewing gaze behaviour and body perception. Here, we presented female body images of Caucasian, Asian and African avatars in a continuum of common dress sizes in full frontal, mid-profile and rear view, and asked young Caucasian women to rate the perceived body attractiveness and body size.

The efficacy of exercise therapy in reducing shoulder pain related to breast cancer: a systematic review.

Purpose: Recent research indicates that physiotherapy interventions, such as exercise and manual therapy, may be effective in decreasing the frequency of side effects linked with breast cancer treatment, including fatigue, pain, nausea, and decreased quality of life. This systematic review aims to determine the efficacy of exercise therapy in reducing shoulder pain related to breast cancer treatment and to identify outcome measures that can be used to assess shoulder pain in this population.

Methods: A systematic review of the current literature was conducted using portals such as the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE (1996 to April 2011), and Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED) (1985 to April 2011).

Dietary onion intake as part of a typical high fat diet improves indices of cardiovascular health using the mixed sex pig model.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential health benefits of onions consumed at two levels of intake, using the pig model. The dietary fat content was set at a level typical of a "western" diet (25% w/w). Fifteen female and fifteen male pigs (Large White x Landrace) were allocated to one of three dietary treatments in a randomised block design.

Consumption of brown onions (Allium cepa var. cavalier and var. destiny) moderately modulates blood lipids, haematological and haemostatic variables in healthy pigs.

Although garlic and onions have long been associated with putative cardiovascular health benefits, the effects of different commercially available onions and level of intake have not been studied. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the potential health benefits of raw onions using the pig as a biomedical model. Twenty-five female (Large White x Landrace) pigs were used in a (2 x 2)+1 factorial experiment.

Buffalo and cattle hybrid embryo development is decreased by caffeine treatment during in vitro fertilization.

Water buffalo are renowned for difficulties in the implementation of assisted reproductive technologies, with both males and females being problematic. In this study, we used cattle oocytes to assess the effect of treatments with heparin and caffeine on buffalo spermatozoa and subsequent fertilization and embryo development in vitro. There was no significant difference between buffalo and bovine spermatozoa in the events associated with fertilization.

inheritance of sperm centrioles and centrosomes in bovine embryos.

Immature cumulus oocyte complexes (COCs) were aspirated from ovarian follicles of slaughtered cow and matured for 24 h in TCM 199 medium with hormones. Eighty-five percent of oocytes matured with subsequent abstriction of the polar body. Matured COCs were then inseminated with frozen-thawed semen (2 x 10(6)/mL final concentration).

Centrifugation of bovine oocytes for nuclear micromanipulation and sperm microinjection.

The reproductive biotechnologies of intracytoplasmic sperm microinjection, nuclear transfer and DNA microinjection require the visualization of cytoplasmic components and nuclei of oocytes and early embryonic cells. Bovine oocytes were matured and fertilized in vitro, and then centrifuged at the germinal vesicle, metaphase II and pronuclear stages and at syngamy. These (n = 536) were examined using light and transmission electron microscopy.

Electrofusion parameters for nuclear transfer predicted using isofusion contours produced with bovine embryonic cells.

Electrofusion is a valuable technique for the nuclear transfer procedure. An enucleated oocyte is electrofused with a blastomere to create a nuclear transfer embryo. The present study constructed isofusion contours after the electrofusion of identical coupled cells that characterized all the bovine embryonic cell types used in nuclear transfer.

Enucleation by centrifugation of in vitro-matured bovine oocytes for use in nuclear transfer.

Nuclear transfer has the potential to produce large numbers of identical progeny. Current limitations of the technique are associated with the use of micromanipulation for the demanding enucleation and reconstitution procedure. With the overcoming of this limitation, increased numbers of nuclear transfer embryos could be produced.

External septorhinoplasty in children.

External septorhinoplasty was performed on 15 patients over a 12-year period in a general pediatric otolaryngology practice. It is the operation of first choice when there is significant dorsal nasoseptal pathology. Good cosmetic and functional results are obtained by full dissection of the nasoseptal pathology, judicious resection of thickened deformed cartilaginous and osseous tissues, and repositioning of a suitable nasoseptal fragment anteriorly in the midline.