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Therefore, in addition to the reduction of visceral adiposity, the development of novel procedures, including novel drugs for the enhancement of adiponectin production in adipocytes, may become emerging therapeutic strategies for metabolic syndrome birth control pills 28 days generic levlen 0.15 mg with amex. Basic studies on molecular nature of adiponectin, a new category of endocrine proteins and studies on visceral obesity should enhance the understanding of visceral fat syndrome or metabolic syndrome and help the development of prevention of cardiovascular disease. Financial & competing interests disclosure the author has no relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. This includes employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, grants or patents received or pending, or royalties. Classification of obese patients and complications related to the distribution of surplus fat. Contribution of intra-abdominal fat accumulation to the impairment of glucose and lipid metabolism. Role of deep abdominal fat in the association between regional adipose tissue distribution and glucose tolerance in obese women. Close correlation of intraabdominal fat accumulation to hypertension in obese women. Decrease in intra-abdominal visceral fat may reduce blood pressure in obese hypertensive women. Contribution of visceral fat accumulation to the development of coronary artery disease in non-obese men. Visceral fat is a major contributor for multiple risk factor clustering in Japanese men with impaired glucose tolerance. Cardiovascular disease risk profile in post menopausal women with impaired glucose tolerance or Type 2 diabetes. Abdominal visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue compartments: association with metabolic risk factors in the Framingham Heart Study. Body fat distribution, incident cardiovascular disease, cancer and all cause mortality. The development of coronary heart disease in relation to sequential biennial measures of cholesterol in the Framingham study. Framingham study indicates that cholesterol level and blood pressure are major factors in coronary heart disease: effect of obesity and cigarette smoking also noted. Magnitude of sustained multiple risk factors for ischemic heart disease in Japanese employees ­ a case control study. The importance of insulin resistance in the pathogenesis of Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Pathophysiology and molecular mechanism of visceral fat syndrome: the Japanese experience. Diagnosis and management of the metabolic syndrome: an American Heart Association/ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Scientific Statement. Harmonizing the Metabolic Syndrome- A Joint Interim Statement of the International Diabetes Federation Task Force on Epidemiology and Prevention; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; American Heart Association; World Heart Federation; International Atherosclerosis Society; and International Association for the Study of Obesity. The concept of metabolic syndrome: contribution of visceral fat accumulation and its molecular mechanism. Reduction of visceral fat is associated with decrease in the number of metabolic risk factors in Japanese men. Health education "Hokenshido"program reduced metabolic syndrome in the Amagasaki visceral fat study. Secretion and reguration of apM1 gene expression in human visceral adipose tissue. Plasma concentrations of a novel, adipose-specific protein, adiponectin, in Type 2 diabetic patients. Adiponectin protects against development of Type 2 diabetes in the Pima Indian population. Adiponectin: an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease in men in the Framingham offspring Study. Therapy insight: adipocytokines in metabolic syndrome and related cardiovascular disease.

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Reestablishment of sperm generation appeared in concert with the partial restoration of normal cellular architecture. Other short-term oral exposure studies that centered on the effects of nitrobenzene on the male reproductive system include those of Koida et al. This was considered to be a consequence of the nitrobenzene-induced production of sperm with low motility and viability. Notwithstanding the appearance of profound histopathologic effects in the testes and epididymides, Mitsumori et al. This will result in reduced fertility if the males are mated at the point when the deficient sperm are released. As reported in a number of meeting abstracts, oral exposure of rats for 14 days resulted in histopathologic changes in the testes and epididymides and in the production of an increased proportion of abnormal sperm (Kito et al. Morphologically normal sperm from rats undergoing these treatments displayed reduced motility. Other target organs of nitrobenzene toxicity following oral administration to rodents include the liver, kidney, thyroid, and brain, as indicated by changes in relative organ weights and the appearance of histopathologic lesions. The latter symptoms are a likely result of deposition of metHb and/or degradation products. Inhalation Exposure In general, long-term studies of the toxicology of nitrobenzene in experimental animals have employed inhalation as the route of administration. As with oral exposures to nitrobenzene, inhalation exposures result in the formation of metHb. However, in contrast to the two-electron additions that occur in the intestinal lumen of experimental animals following oral exposures to nitrobenzene, metabolism of nitrobenzene from inhalation exposures is expected to occur via one-electron additions, with the resultant formation of the nitro anion free radical. However, the nitro anion free radical may also be oxidized back to the parent compound with the subsequent formation of the superoxide free radical. Included in a wide range of cancer and noncancer effects were the dose-dependent increases in metHb that achieved statistical significance in each species and strain under test. For example, in male Sprague-Dawley rats, statistically significant differences in this parameter were observed at all exposure levels after 15 months, compared with controls (interim blood samples). This study also reported bronchiolization of the alveoli in both male and female B6C3F1 mice. Unlike the systemic effects, this portal-of-entry effect was detectable in 87% of mice at the lowest dose tested (5 ppm) and nearly 100% of animals at 50 ppm. In male F344 rats, 60% of the animals in the 50 ppm group exhibited bronchiolar epithelium hyperplasia, whereas 20% of females were found with this lesion. In B6C3F1 mice, bronchial mucosa hyperplasia was observed in 78% of males and 100% of females at 50 ppm. Bronchiolization was dose related in severity such that this epithelial change tended to be located almost entirely in the region of the terminal bronchioles in animals of the low-dose exposure group, while the lesions were more florid and involved a large proportion of the lung parenchyma in mice that were exposed to the mid or high concentration of nitrobenzene. In contrast, alveolar/bronchiolar hyperplasia was characterized by a more discrete lesion than that described for bronchiolization of the alveolar walls. Alveolar bronchiolization does not appear to be a pre-neoplastic event or a prerequisite to lung neoplasia (Cattley et al. While incidences of alveolar bronchiolization were high among all nitrobenzene-exposed male and female mice, only male mice had increased incidences of combined adenomas and carcinomas of the lungs. Furthermore, there were no incidences of alveolar bronchiolization among nonexposed control mice, but incidences of combined adenomas and carcinomas of the lungs were 19 and 13% in the control males and females, respectively. Therefore, there is no apparent association in the nitrobenzene carcinogenicity study between findings of lung neoplasia and bronchiolization in mice. Also, the combined incidence of alveolar/bronchiolar adenoma or carcinoma was significantly increased in the 5,000 ppm male mice and exceeded the historical control range while female mice had no increased lung neoplasia.

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