Adipose tissue produces factors, including adipokines, cytokines and chemokines which,
when released, systemically exert endocrine effects on multiple tissues thereby affecting their …

Muscles are major targets of vitamin D. Exposure of skeletal muscles to vitamin D induces
the expression of multiple myogenic transcription factors enhancing muscle cell proliferation …

Purpose The aim of this study was to examine the effects of a six-week off-season detraining
period on exercise performance, body composition, and on circulating sex steroid levels in …

Aim The current study had two aims. The primary purpose was to examine the association
between serum vitamin D levels and the ergometric evaluation of muscle strength, aerobic …

… Distribution of total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in healthy controls (HC; n = 72), ulcerative
colitis patients (UC; n = 94), and Crohn’s disease patients (CD;n = 97). Each individual patient …

… In a small number of pediatric patients with IBD (n=15), serum prohepcidin was found to
be significantly increased in patients with IBD and positively correlated with CRP [ 20 ]. In this …

OBJECTIVE: The determination of the normal range of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25-(OH)D], though
currently based on suppression of PTH levels, still remains a controversial issue. The 25-…

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to record and identify the frequency of
complications following percutaneous nephrostomy, replacement of nephrostomy drains and …

Background There is evidence that fat mass is correlated with bone mineral density (BMD)
in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but data on the role of adipokines on this association …

… Where the three-day dietary record questionnaires were not returned, a trained dietician
completed a 24-hour dietary recall questionnaire on the day of examination (n = 249). To re-…