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An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of genotype (meat-type or egg-type) on the AME digestibility of selected ingredients. The practice of using only one value for apparent metabolizable energy (AME) of feed ingredients for all classes of poultry has been questioned. The ability to convert nutrients to the final products depends on a variety of factors, such as age, sex, geneti...

BACKGROUND Despite the enormous increase in sunscreen use, allergic contact (AC) and photoallergic (PA) reactions to ultraviolet (UV) filters are considered rare. OBJECTIVES To analyse the data from 2715 patients who underwent photopatch testing at St John's Institute of Dermatology during the period 1983-98. METHODS A retrospective analysis of all positive photopatch test episodes was unde...

Publications in Refereed Journals 1. I numeri di Fermat, Periodico di Matematiche, VII, 5 (1998), no. 2-3, 63–68 2. Some observations on the statistical independence and the distribution of zeros in the Selberg Class, Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo (2), 52 (2003), no. 2, 211–223 3. Extending the idea of compressed algebra to arbitrary socle-vectors, J. Algebra 270 (2003), no. 1, 181–198 4. When are T...

TO THE EDITOR—Among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART), incomplete viral suppression in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) may occur even with undetectable plasma viremia [1–4]. Treatment simplification with “less-drug regimens” may favor adherence and reduce toxicity, but raises concerns on lower central nervous system (CNS) drug penetration and subsequ...

Background Previous studies have described improved survival in systemic sclerosis (SSc) associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)[1-2], yet it is unclear whether of lupus erythematosus (SLE) PAH has also improved. Objectives To describe the CSTAR prospective cohort SLE-PAH patients, explore changes characteristics, treatment and 5-year last decade, possible reasons for change. Methods A...

Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) is an autoimmune hemolytic anemia characterized by monoclonal autoantibodies targeting red blood cell surface structures, showing a binding optimal temperature below 37°C. During cold weather, patients with CAD often suffer from increased hemolysis and may report worsening of symptoms such as acrocyanosis, dark urine, or Raynaud-like symptoms. The primary prophylax...

FOR MORE THAN A DECADE it has been recognized that nitric oxide (NO) appears in the exhaled breath and the level is altered in numerous pulmonary diseases in which inflammation plays an integral role (e.g., asthma) (1, 8). Thus the exhaled NO signal has the potential to uniquely delineate the contribution of inflammatory processes to lung disease in a noninvasive manner complementing more tradi...

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