Background Overweight and obesity among children and adolescents are emerging public
health problems. Modifiable lifestyle factors such as physical inactivity and eating out are …

Background: Progranulin is an adipokine that is involved in the inflammatory response,
glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, and may therefore be involved in chronic subclinical …

Background Asthma, a common lung disease in children, is caused by excessive immune
responses to environmental antigens. Objective Given the immuno-modulatory properties of …

Objectives Adipokines have gained much interest in osteoarthritis (OA) pathogenesis
studies over the past years in that they play crucial roles in bone and cartilage homeostasis. …

… From the Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Zailaie, Marzouki), and the Department of
Biochemistry (Khoja), King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom … Burstein M …

Aims The convergence of obesity and inflammation in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular
diseases (CVD) has been recognized over the past decade. Resistin has emerged as a novel …

Changes in the plasma lipid levels were investigated among rats fed an atherosclerotic-promoting
diet containing 0.5% cholesterol and rats fed the same diet with added vitamin C (…

Objective Evaluation of the lipid profile in serum, liver, and testis of rats fed marginal and
severe zinc deficient diets. Methods Three groups of rats were treated for 8 weeks with normal …

Background: Asthma, a common lung disease in children, is caused by excessive immune
responses to environmental antigens. Objective: Given the immuno-modulatory properties of …

Lipase extracted from Rhizopus oryzae was immobilized in alginate gel beads. The effects
of the immobilization conditions, such as, alginate concentration, CaCl 2 concentration and …