Gestational diabetes: weight gain during pregnancy and its relationship to pregnancy outcomes.

Background: Weight gain during pregnancy reflects the mother's nutritional status. However, it may be affected by nutritional therapy and exercise interventions used to control blood sugar in gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). This study aimed to evaluate weight gain during gestation and pregnancy outcomes among women with GDM.

A Dy4 single-molecule magnet and its Gd(iii), Tb(iii), Ho(iii), and Er(iii) analogues encapsulated by an 8-hydroxyquinoline Schiff base derivative and β-diketonate coligand.

Five new tetranuclear complexes based on an 8-hydroxyquinoline Schiff base derivative and the β-diketone coligand, [Ln(acac)L(μ-OH)]·CHCN·0.5CHCl (Ln = Gd (1), Tb (2), Dy (3), Ho (4) and Er (5); HL = 5-(benzylidene)amino-8-hydroxyquinoline; acac = acetylacetonate) have been synthesized, and structurally and magnetically characterized. Complexes 1-5 have similar tetranuclear structures.

Luminescence, magnetocaloric effect and single-molecule magnet behavior in lanthanide complexes based on a tridentate ligand derived from 8-hydroxyquinoline.

A new family of lanthanide complexes, [Ln2(hfac)4L2] (Ln = Eu (1), Gd (2), Tb (3), Dy (4), Ho (5), Er (6), Lu (7); hfac = hexafluoroacetylacetonate, HL = 2-(2′-benzothiazole)-8-hydroxyquinoline), was synthesized and characterized using single-crystal X-ray diffraction, elemental analysis (EA), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and UV-vis spectra. X-ray crystallographic analyses reveal that 1–7 are isomorphous and crystallize in the monoclinic space group C2/c. In these dinuclear complexes, each LnШ ion is eight-coordinated with two bidentate hfac and two μ-phenol bridging L ligands.

The effects of phytosterol supplementation on serum LDL-C levels and learning ability in mice fed a high-fat, high-energy diet from gestation onward.

A high-fat, high-energy (HFE) diet may be deleterious to the cardiovascular system and mental health. We previously reported that serum cholesterol levels and escape latency were significantly increased in mice by feeding them an HFE diet from gestation onward. In this study, we examined whether an HFE diet supplemented with phytosterols fed to pregnant C57BL/6j dams and their offspring would protect the HFE-diet-induced compromise of the offspring's learning capability.