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This study examined the effect of the intake of orange juice provided freshly squeezed (FS) or processed using low-temperature pasteurisation (LP), high-pressure processing (HPP), or pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment on the serum carotenoid concentrations of 12 healthy individuals, aged 20-32 years, enrolled in a crossover study. Participants were instructed to consume 500 ml of orange juice/day for 14 days. Carotenoid concentrations in the orange juice as well as serum samples retrieved on days 7 and 14 were analysed via HPLC. A significant increase in serum xanthophyll concentrations, but not serum carotenes, was observed, with the highest increase in α- and ß-cryptoxanthin. The processing technologies applied appeared to affect serum carotenoid concentrations, with concentrations being similar in the HPP and FS orange juice types. As high variability in serum carotenoid concentrations was observed, the effect of different technologies on serum carotenoid concentration warrants further studies with larger sample sizes.

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El esguince es una de las patologías más frecuentes del sistema músculoesquelético; su incidencia diaria es aproximadamente de 1 por cada 10.000 habitantes. Desde la Atención Primaria de Salud (APS) pueden ser tratados los esguinces grado I y II (según los protocolos de actuación) siendo los de grado III los que deberán ser remitidos al servicio hospitalario. La actuación requiere un trabajo en equipo en el que el profesional de Enfermería es una pieza clave para establecer el plan de cuidados cuyo objetivo será la resolución o mejora del problema. El objetivo de este artículo es definir los pasos a seguir desde que el paciente acude al centro de salud hasta que se recupera de su lesión, mostrandolas diferentes técnicas de actuación, es decir, un seguimiento global,cercano y accesible, los tres puntos estrella de los servicios de APS (AU)

A sprain is one of the most frequent pathologies of the musculoskeletalsystem; with a daily incidence of approximately 1 per each 10,000 people. Grade I and II sprain (according to practice guidelines) can betreated at Primary Care settings. Grade III sprains should be referred to hospital settings.The intervention is team work where the nursing professional is a key elementto establish the care plan to resolve or improve the condition.The aim of this paper is to define the steps to be taken from the moment the patient presents to the health care centre until he or she recovers from his or her injury, implementing the different intervention techniques, which are based on the three key landmarks of primary care centres: overall follow-up, closeness to the patient and accessible care (AU)

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Free radicals are involved in ischemia-reperfusion injury and inflammatory processes. The commercial formulation of the anesthetic propofol contains gamma-tocopherol and delta-tocopherol, which may exert antioxidant effects during transplantation. Animals were randomly assigned to a control group or experimental groups for lung transplantation after 3 and 24 h of ischemia. Individual tocopherols, malondialdehyde, biochemical indices, and hemodynamic, blood gas, and ventilatory parameters were determined during reperfusion. Results showed that administration of commercially available propofol provoked a time- and dose-dependent increment in serum gamma-tocopherol and delta-tocopherol in control animals and in the group receiving lungs subjected to 3 h of ischemia, but not in the group with 24 h of ischemia. Malondialdehyde levels increased during reperfusion and did not differ significantly between the two experimental groups, which did not differ with respect to lung function either. gamma-Tocopherol, supplied by the anesthetic, may act as an antioxidant that is consumed during reperfusion. This potential effect could be relevant to the choice of anesthetic agents in situations where free radical damage to tissues is expected.

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Increased levels of oxidative stress have been implicated in tissue damage and the development of chronic diseases, and dietary antioxidants may reduce the risk of oxidative tissue damage. As part of a European multicentre project, several studies were undertaken with the aim of testing whether the consumption of foods rich in carotenoids reduces oxidative damage to human tissue components. We describe here the serum response of carotenoids and tocopherols upon supplementation with carotenoids from natural extracts (alpha-carotene+beta-carotene, lutein or lycopene; 15 mg/day) and/or with alpha-tocopherol (100 mg/day) in a multicentre, placebo-controlled intervention study in 400 healthy male and female volunteers, aged 25-45 years, from five European regions (France, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, The Netherlands and Spain). Supplementation with alpha-tocopherol increased serum alpha-tocopherol levels, while producing a marked decrease in serum gamma-tocopherol. Supplementation with alpha- + beta-carotene (carotene-rich palm oil) resulted in 14-fold and 5-fold increases respectively in serum levels of these carotenoids. Supplementation with lutein (from marigold extracts) elevated serum lutein (approx. 5-fold), zeaxanthin (approx. doubled) and ketocarotenoids (although these were not present in the supplement), whereas lycopene supplementation (from tomato paste) resulted in a 2-fold increase in serum lycopene. The isomer distributions of beta-carotene and lycopene in serum remained constant regardless of the isomer composition in the capsules. In Spanish volunteers, additional data showed that the serum response to carotenoid supplementation reached a plateau after 4 weeks, and no significant side effects (except carotenodermia) or changes in biochemical or haematological indices were observed throughout the study. This part of the study describes dose-time responses, isomer distribution, subject variability and side effects during supplementation with the major dietary carotenoids in healthy subjects.

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