ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction: Nitric oxide (NO) is an important chemical messenger in the cardiovascular
system. Despite considerable progress in this field, there remains an on-going need for
affordable and user-friendly ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction: Primary culture of isolated adult rat cardiomyocytes (ARCMs) is an important model for cardiovascular research, but successful maintenance of these cells in culture for their use in experiments ...
Van Vuuren, Derick(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Ischaemic heart disease is a major contributor to global morbidity and mortality rates. Manoeuvres
such as ischaemic preconditioning confer cardioprotection against ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R)
injury ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction:
The cardioprotective actions of the hormone melatonin against myocardial ischaemiareperfusion
injury (IRI) are well-established. It has recently been shown to prevent the harmful
effects ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Exposure to harmful stimuli can render vascular endothelial cells dysfunctional, characterised by
reduced nitric oxide (NO) bioavailibility. Endothelial dysfunction (ED) is a reversible precursor ...
ABSTRACT: Background: Seminal plasma serves as a natural reservoir of antioxidants. It helps to remove excessive formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and consequently, reduce oxidative stress. Proteomic profiling of ...
Van Der Linde, Michelle(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Preconceptual sex selection is an ethically justifiable process whereby X- and Y-chromosome bearing spermatozoa are isolated prior to fertilization of the oocyte in order to generate either a male or a ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Much has been documented about the detrimental effects of adverse lifestyle factor
exposure on the body. Exposure to factors, such as cigarette smoke, have proved to not
only be a burden on global health ...
Hattingh, Susanna Maria (Suzel)(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death
worldwide with 3.8 million men and 3.4 million women dying globally each year.
Although existing myocardial reperfusion strategies ...
Background: Oxidative stress plays a key role in the etiology of male infertility. Significant alterations in the sperm proteome are associated with poor semen quality. The aim of the present study was to examine if elevated ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: The mechanism behind obesity-related cardiomyopathies is at present not completely known, however, cardiac insulin resistance has been implicated as one of the main arbitrators of obesity-related ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Setting
This study was conducted in the Tygerberg district, Cape Town, in the Western Cape, South Africa
Background
The evaluation of early tuberculosis (TB) treatment response is based on month 2 ...
Rengan, A. K.Agarwal, A.van der Linde, M.du Plessis, S. S.(BioMed Cenral, 2012-11-17)
Recent studies have shown cytoplasmic droplets to be normal morphological occurrences in human male
spermatozoa. When the cytoplasm around the sperm midpiece is present in large amounts, however, pathological
effects may ...
Conradie, Maria Martha(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Osteopenia is a well documented complication of anorexia nervosa (AN). The
pathogenesis of this bone loss is presently poorly defined in the literature.
Pathogenetic mechanisms that have been implicated ...
Myburgh, Kathryn H.De Bruto, Petro C.(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2008-07)
Untreated infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
leads to severe physical debilitation, culminating in the acquired
immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Multiple infections,
body mass loss, physical weakness ...
Waltemath, DagmarAdams, Richard(Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2011-04)
Reproducibility of experiments is a basic requirement for science. Minimum Information (MI) guidelines have proved a helpful means of enabling reuse of existing work in modern biology. The Minimum Information Required in ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Protein kinases and phosphatases play important roles in the phosphorylation state of intracellular proteins under both physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions. Compared to the large number of studies ...
Webster, IngridHuisamen, BarbaraDu Toit, Eugene F.(American Society of Exercise Physiologists, 2011-10)
There has been a dramatic increase in the use of dietary creatine supplementation among sports men and women, and by clinicians as a therapeutic agent in muscular and neurological diseases. The effects on skeletal muscles ...
Van Vuuren, Derick(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It has recently been observed that the application of multiple short cycles of reperfusion and ischaemia, at the onset of reperfusion, elicits cardioprotection against injury due to prior sustained ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background: Myocardial oxidative fuel supply is increased in obese conditions. How
this metabolic environment and altered cardiometabolic phenotype associated with prediabetic
obesity impacts on cardiac ...