Project description:Interventions: Whey protein
Placebo
Primary outcome(s): After taking whey protein for 1 year, the prevention of colorectal neoplasia will be examined with colonoscopy.
Study Design: Parallel Randomized
Project description:Exploring the metabolic effects of fish protein is important, as by-products from fish contain large amounts of proteins that could be used for human consumption. The aim of this study was to investigate the postprandial effects of intake of protein from salmon by-products, compared to whey. As part of this effort, the effects on gene expression in liver cells were studied in vitro. This was done by incubating HepG2 cells with human serum taken before (fasting) or 30 and 60 min after intake of salmon protein or whey and comparing that with HepG2 cells incubated in serum-free medium. Transcriptomic profiling of the cells was done with RNA sequencing.
Project description:A prospective, randomized and controlled study is proposed to establish whether an enteral nutrition support regimen based on pressurized whey protein and glucose improves the postoperative utilization of amino acid substrates compared to a drink based on glucose alone. The kinetics of protein metabolism (protein breakdown, protein synthesis and amino acid oxidation) will be investigated using stable isotope methodology before and after surgery in patients undergoing colon resection. Stable isotope infusions will be conducted one week before surgery and on the second postoperative day for two hours in the fasted state and for four hours while sipping the enteral nutrition support regimen. Patients will consume one of two enteral nutrition support regimens consisting of a drink containing either pressurized whey protein and glucose or glucose alone. It is hypothesized that an enteral nutrition support regimen based on pressurized whey protein and glucose promotes positive protein balance through increased protein synthesis or reduced protein breakdown compared to glucose alone.
Project description:Pea (Pisum. sativum L.) is a traditional and important edible legume that can be sorted into grain pea and vegetable pea according to their harvested maturely or not. Vegetable pea by eating the fresh seed is becoming more and more popular in recent years. These two type peas display huge variations of the taste and nutrition, but how seed development and nutrition accumulation of grain pea and vegetable pea and their differences at the molecular level remains poorly understood. To understand the genes and gene networks regulate seed development in grain pea and vegetable pea, high throughput RNA-Seq and bioinformatics analysis were used to compare the transcriptomes of vegetable pea and grain pea developing seed. RNA-Seq generated 18.7 G raw data, which was then de novo assembled into 77,273 unigenes with a mean length of 930 bp. Functional annotation of the unigenes was carried out using the nr, Swiss-Prot, COG, GO and KEGG databases. There were 459 and 801 genes showing differentially expressed between vegetable pea and grain pea at early and late seed maturation phases, respectively. Sugar and starch metabolism related genes were dramatically activated during pea seed development. The up-regulated of starch biosynthesis genes could explain the increment of starch content in grain pea then vegetable pea; while up-regulation of sugar metabolism related genes in vegetable pea then grain pea should participate in sugar accumulation and associated with the increase in sweetness of vegetable pea then grain pea. Furthermore, transcription factors were implicated in the seed development regulation in grain pea and vegetable pea. Thus, our results constitute a foundation in support of future efforts for understanding the underlying mechanism that control pea seed development and also serve as a valuable resource for improved pea breeding.
Project description:Interventions: Whey protein (alpha lactalbumin:0.3g) or placebo given for 1 year after endoscopic colon tumor resection until discontinuation criteria.
Primary outcome(s): Relapse rate of colorectal neoplasia
Study Design: randomized controlled trial, double blind, placebo control, parallel assignment, prevention purpose