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Background:
People with type 1 diabetes practicing a low-carbohydrate diet can increase the fat and/or protein content of the diet to cover their energy needs. In relation to physical activity, ingestion of protein is preferable for muscle protein synthesis and enhances structural changes in
Midodrine is an alpha 1 receptor agonist used usually in cases of hypotension helping to increase blood pressure. The main indication is orthostatic hypotension but there are other clinical conditions where this medicament is often used like hypotension by dialysis, hepatorenal syndrome and after
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia present in 1% of population under 60 years of age and reaching up to 15 % at 80 years. Due to demographic changes in the Danish population, the incidence and prevalence of AF is expected to double within the next 30 years.
Introduction: The most important cause of death in patients with cirrhosis is the development of Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF), a syndrome recently redefined with high mortality. The only effective treatment for ACLF is liver transplantation. However, available organs are limited. Other
Background information:
Repetitive seizures lead to an increase of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the peripheral blood. Experimentally it has been shown that activation of inflammatory cytokines by the peripheral administration of a toxic agents causes sickness behaviour. Pro-inflammatory cytokines
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), better known as a poisonous gas, has lately emerging as a third gaseous transmitter in mammals, next to nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO). H2S is present in most human tissues in concentrations up to 50 μM. Most of it is synthesized in brain, cardiovascular system,
INTRODUCTION The effect of GH and IGF-I on the heart has been demonstrated in numerous experimental studies. GH and IGF-I receptors are expressed in cardiac myocytes, and IGF-I causes hypertrophy of cultured rat cardiomyocytes and delays cardiomyocyte apoptosis. In addition, GH and IGF-I have a
INTRODUCTION.
Three large clinical trials (STOP-2, HOPE, LIFE) {Hansson, Lindholm, et al. 1999}{Dahlof, Devereux, et al. 2002}{Yusuf, Sleight, et al. 2000} have suggested that drugs that specifically inhibit the renin angiotensin system (RAS) such as ACE inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor