Across the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, spongy soil is sinking at a rapid rate! This issue, known as subsidence, happens in places with peat soils that have been drained. Peat are created over thousands of years by decaying wetland plants. Following European colonization California, Delta’s wetlands and their were drained, levees built to keep land dry. Farms now thrive on this fertile landsca...

This study examined the subjective disappearance of a visual object induced by a neighboring flickering ring (Experiments 1 and 2), a set of four flickering dots (Experiment 3), and apparent motion (Experiment 4) as flickering flankers. Observers were asked to report whether a target disappeared during 10 s of stimulus presentation. We used the proportion of disappearance as a measure of perfor...

Inter-individual variation in isoflavone absorption depends on gut microbial degradation and affects the efficacy of these compounds. We hypothesized that inter-individual variation in fecal isoflavone disappearance coincided with variation in bacterial species. In vitro anaerobic fecal disappearance of isoflavones was measured from 33 participants by HPLC. Fecal microbial 16S rRNA variable reg...

Medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) is a drug commonly used in endocrine therapy for advanced or recurrent breast cancer and endometrial cancer. The drug is extensively metabolized in the intestinal mucosa and in the liver. Cytochrome P450s (CYPs) involved in the metabolism of MPA were identified by using human liver microsomes and recombinant human CYPs. In this study, the overall metabolism of ...

the objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of different doses of some 7 natural semi-arid medicinal plants’ essential oils on in vitro ruminal digestion and fermentation patterns of a mid-forage (alfalfa hay: concentrates, 1:1) diet. treatments consisted of either basal diet alone (control) or added with 35, 70, 140 or 280 µl l-1 of coriander, oregano, caraway, cumin, cinn...

An in vitro experiment was conducted to study the effect of non-fiber carbohydrates (NFC) on ruminaldisappearance kinetics of dry matter (DM) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) of alfalfa hay, wheat bran andunmolassed sugar beet pulp. Non-supplemented or NFC supplemented samples [70 mg/g DM of each feedsample as sucrose (SU) or starch (ST) or SU + ST as 1:1] were incubated in bottles containing ...

BACKGROUND-The increased plasma disappearance of albumin has previously been described in decompensated congestive heart failure (CHF); this disappearance normalized after diuretic treatment. Cardiac transplantation (HTX) and current medical treatment affect microvascular structure and function. We investigated the plasma disappearance of albumin and the impact of microvascular thickness and el...