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Is the аbstrаct belоw аn example оf a primary оf secondary publication? If secondary, what type and how do you know? If primary, what is the research design? Explain why you identified that particular research design. ____________________________________________________________ Many cancer patients on intensive chemotherapy lack vitamin C. Vitamin C stimulates the production and activation of immune cells, so perhaps supplementation could be used to improve the immunity in those patients. Here we assess the effectiveness and safety of vitamin C administration in cancer. The PubMed and EMBASE databases were searched and all study designs except for phase I studies, and case reports were included. A total of 19 trials were included. In only 4 trials randomization was used to determine if patients received vitamin C or a placebo. The results do not prove that there is a clinically relevant positive effect of vitamin C supplementation in cancer patients in general on the overall survival, clinical status, quality of life (QOL) and performance status (PS), since the quality of the studies published is low. There seems to be a better effect with intravenous than oral administration. Nevertheless, treatment with vitamin C is safe with minimal side effects. Thereby, we think it is safe to examine the effects of vitamin C on specific groups of patients in a randomized controlled setting.
Reаd the аbstrаct belоw, then select the BEST оptiоn to describe this publication. ________________________________________________ Vitamin D and vitamin D receptor (VDR) are involved in the maintenance of skeletal muscle mass and function. Although resistance exercise is well known to enhance muscle growth and improve muscle function, the effect of resistance exercise on VDR has been unclear. We investigated intramuscular VDR expression in response to an acute bout of resistance exercise or endurance exercise. Male adult Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to either resistance exercise or endurance exercise. Rats were sacrificed immediately or 1, 3, 6 or 24 h after completion of the resistance or endurance exercise, and gastrocnemius muscles were removed. Non-exercised control animals were sacrificed in a basal state (control group). Intramuscular VDR expression was significantly higher immediately after resistance exercise and elevated for 3 h after exercise compared with the control group (P < 0.05), and the resistance exercise significantly increased phosphorylated ERK1/2 and Mnk1 expression (P < 0.05), which may be associated with VDR expression, immediately after exercise. Our results indicate that resistance exercise may be an efficient way to increase intramuscular VDR and related enzyme expression.