Metabolic balance studies (5 d) for nitrogen were carried out in twenty-four apparently healthy elderly people (age 69.7-85.6 years) and a heterogeneous group of twenty housebound elderly people (age 69.9-85.1 years) with chronic diseases. During the study all subjects ate self-selected diets, lived in their own homes and continued their normal daily activities. Seven of the housebound received...

This study shows the energy potential of pine wood waste for production solid biofuels, and was carried out in an indigenous community state Michoacán. One main economic activities this is handcrafted furniture, which generates a large amount waste. The most relevant results obtained research show that approximately 2268 kg sawdust 5418 shavings per week, estimated year both 1.94 PJ shaving 4.6...

Methyl jasmonate (MJ) is an anti-stress hormone released by plants in response to external stressors and aids adaptation to stress. In this study, we evaluated the anti-stress activity of MJ using the forced swim endurance test (FSET) and anoxic tolerance test in mice. Male Swiss mice were given MJ (25-100 mg/kg, i.p) 30 min before the FSET and anoxic test were carried out. The first occurrence...

Thermochemical biomass conversion systems have the potential to produce heat, power, fuels and other products from forest biomass at distributed scales that meet the needs of some forest industry facilities. However, many of these systems have not been deployed in this sector and the products they produce from forest biomass have not been adequately described or characterized with regards to ch...

s | 21 Conclusions: Oleoylethanolamide modulates motivation of intra-gastric feeding, possibly through normalization of PPAR-αdependent vagal feedback to the brain in rodents. This supports its homeostatic function for regulating dietary fat intake via vagal-nigro-striatal pathways. Our study suggests that oleoylethanolamide mediates reward-associated neural processes and this signaling plays a...

Ninety male crossbred pigs were allocated at 30 kg live weight to a 6 5 factorial experiment involving six diets and five levels of feeding where average daily intakes were 1.11, 1.36, 1.67, 1.90 kg and ad libitum between 30 and 60 kg live weight. The control diet contained predominantly animal protein sources, another four diets contained 350 g/kg of either kernels or seeds of either L. angust...

Near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) was used to predict the chemical composition, apparent digestibility and digestible nutrients and energy content of commercial extruded compound foods for dogs. Fifty-six foods of known chemical composition and in vivo apparent digestibility were analysed overall and 51 foods were used to predict gross energy digestibility and digestible energy cont...

We investigated the signaling pathways associated with microtubule interaction and apoptosis in U937 cells in vitro and in the U937 xenograft model in vivo by using 6-pyrrolidinyl-2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-4-quinazolinone (MJ-29). MJ-29 induced growth inhibition and cell death of leukemia cell lines (U937, HL-60, K562, and KG-1) in a dose- and time-dependent manner but did not obviously impair the vi...

The nutritional status and the impact of non-progressive chronic diseases on energy intake were determined in 90 home-living people aged from 73 to 94 years. The nutritional status was assessed by dietary, anthropometric, biochemical and haematological methods. Energy intake (6.0, SD 1.7 MJ) in women was low compared with the Nordic Nutrient Recommendation but in men it (8.0, SD 2.1 MJ) was in ...

This study examined differences between long-term exercising (LE) and long-term nonexercising (LNE) women [n = 24; age 56.4 +/- 6.2 (SD) yr] for resting metabolic rate (RMR) and energy expenditure in the free-living state by using doubly labeled water (DLW). There was a statistically significant difference (P = 0.0002) between the 12 LE (94.85 +/- 8.44 kJ . kg-1 . day-1) and 12 LNE (81.16 +/- 6...