Consuming foods with low water content, such as rice crackers and cookies, often leads to increased thirst. While thirst and ...

Whether the efficiency and quality of oocyte maturation can be improved by optimizing cell volume regulation by adjusting the osmolality of the culture medium in the presence of the organic osmolyte ...

Blood was then aliquoted into ammonium-heparinized tubes (200 U/ml, Sigma) and plasma separated by centrifugation for 5 min at 13,000 rpm and stored at −80°C for the subsequent measurement of plasma ...