Red fruits and vegetables contain anthocyanins and lycopene, which can help keep the heart healthy, maintain better memory function and lower the risk for some cancers.
Møller et al. (22 ) showed that barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) with large energy reserves maintain better immune function during migration, clear ectoparasites and blood parasites more effectively, and arrive earlier at breeding grounds (which is an important determinant of reproductive success) than birds with poor energy reserves.
Overall, these results are encouraging because they imply that the insulin-treated patients maintain better β-cell function.
We have previously shown that the use of HRT, which increases systemic estrogen levels, helps to maintain better body and muscle composition and function by influencing muscle gene expression (Pöllänen et al., 2010; Ronkainen et al., 2010).
In contrast, women with higher intake of monounsaturated fat maintained better cognitive function than those with lower intake, although this finding was only borderline significant (P trend = 0.06).
In vitro storage conditions maintain better sperm motility in diluted than undiluted semen, preserving the sperm function in all groups assessed during 3 days.
Elderly patients maintain better treatment with an aortic stent graft.
Furthermore, live dead assay and functional tests demonstrated that HepG2 cells on GPCL membranes had superior viability and maintained better liver-specific functions.
However, no such superiority of UFH was recognized in the animal study, and the liver function was actually maintained better in the LMWH group.
Intermediate progressors (46% of the patients) also maintained better cognition (ADAScog and VSAT) and function (IADL) compared to fast progressors, but they were less differentiated at baseline and sped up over time on a global measure, the CDR sum of the boxes score, and they were not differentiated at any time on the basic ADL (PSMS).
