Valérie Bignon, the director of corporate communications for Nestlé France, is a long, lean line of a woman, well suited to the impeccably tailored black jacket and pencil skirt she was wearing the day we met at her bright, airy office in Paris.
Gucci proved that there is still mileage in the 70s trend, with a 90th anniversary collection that went headlong for a long, lean line in jewel colours of emerald, sapphire and citrine.
The idea is to create a long, lean line.
The collections, which ended Monday night with a calmly assertive Versace show — all lean lines and a rush of metallic surfaces in lieu of gauds — seemed on the whole dismissive of the economic crisis.
Briefly, two lines of rainbow trout, a lean muscle line (L) and a fatty muscle line (F), were obtained after three generations of divergent selection for high or low muscle fat content, evaluated using a non-destructive method (Distell Fish Fatmeter) in live fish.
A follow up FPLC plasma analysis determined that the Lean line had a higher peak in the HDL fraction as well as a shift of the HDL curve suggesting that both the size and concentration of plasma HDL lipoproteins were elevated in Lean mice.
Abcb11, a gene overexpressed in the Lean line liver, is known to enhance the rate of triglyceride excretion from the liver [ 26, 27].
10 liver samples were individually homogenized for 10 s using an Ultra-Turrax T8 homogenizer (IKA Labortechnik, Germany) and RNA extracted in »batches« (a pair of Fat and Lean line samples simultaneously) using TRIzol reagent (TRIzol® reagent, Invitrogen, Life technologies).
This increased Il6 expression in the Lean line could be a consequence of increased physical activity of Lean mice reported in our previous experiments [ 37].
According to the given RINs (RNA integrity number) a pairwise comparison between Fat and Lean line RNA samples was made in order to couple samples with least quality divergence.
