The purpose of this study was to determine the physiological and kinanthropometric attributes, respiratory muscle strength, and core stability of successful endurance paddlers, and to investigate the associations of these ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction: Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is an autosomal, recessive disorder that progressively affects multiple organs. A-T is caused by mutations in the Atm gene (ataxia-telangiectasia mutated gene), ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is a serine-threonine protein kinase that was first discovered as a regulator of glycogen synthase thus playing a role in glycogen synthesis (Embi et al. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction: The worldwide escalation in the incidence of obesity and its strong association with insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and the cardiovascular complications that accompany these disease ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Background and aims: Mitophagy is a specialised process of autophagy whereby dysfunctional mitochondria are removed. Mitophagy has been increasingly recognised as an essential process to sustain a healthy ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The ultimate consequence of the interruption of blood flow to the myocardium is necrosis. In view of the prevalence of coronary artery disease in the general population, and the deleterious effects of ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the main non-communicable diseases globally contributing to deaths each year. Ischemic heart disease leading to myocardial infarction (or heart attack ...

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 ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is well-established that transient activation of the β-adrenergic signalling pathway with ligands such as isoproterenol, formoterol and dobutamine, elicits cardioprotection against subsequent long ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Various studies have sought to determine the typical versus optimal abstinence period after which semen samples should be collected, and many have been found to be contradictory. Several factors influence ...

Introduction: Myocardial ischaemia and concomitant cell damage are caused by a reduction in the blood supply to the heart. To date, the most effective strategy to salvage the myocardium is timely reperfusion which is ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Background: South Africa has the highest prevalence of obesity in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Black women. This population is thus at a higher risk of developing obesity-associated type 2 diabetes ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: Obesity and its associated complications such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease are escalating worldwide. Cardiovascular mortality and the occurrence of heart failure following a ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Introduction: Obesity is becoming a worldwide health problem and is a well-documented independent risk factor for the development of endothelial dysfunction (decreased nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability) ...

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 ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction Worldwide, up to 25% of women are assaulted during pregnancy, with estimates varying between populations. Violence has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcome, including preterm ...

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