________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract A total of 210 day-old male Cobb broiler chickens were randomly assigned to six treatments in a 3 × 2 factorial design. The treatments consisted of three levels of maize: 250 g/kg (LM), 500 g/kg (MM) and 750 g/kg diet (HM) and two levels of enzymes: plus enzyme and no enzyme. Each treatment was replicated ...

IL-18 is an important cytokine in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases through the induction of IFN-gamma, TNF-alpha, and IL-1. We report herein that collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) in mice is inhibited by treatment with murine IL-18 binding protein (mIL-18BP). CIA was induced in DBA/1J mice by the injection of bovine type II collagen (CII) in IFA with added Mycobacterium tuberculosis on days ...

Bone mass is the most important determinant of the mechanical strength of bones and spatial structure is the second. In general the spatial structure and mechanical properties of bones such as the breaking strength are directional dependent. The Mean Intercept Length (MIL) and Line Frequency Deviation (LFD) are two methods for quantifying directional aspects of the spatial structure of bone. Th...

Recombinant mouse interleukin 22 (mIL-22) and its variants encoding four muteins (Y51A, N54A, R55A and E117A) were expressed in Escherichia coli, refolded and purified to homogeneity as monomeric proteins by one-step ion-exchange chromatography. The binding of IL-22 and its four muteins to immobilized mIL-22 receptor α1 extracellular domain (mIL-22 Rα1-ECD) exhibited similar affinity, indicatin...

The flexibility of eight aluminium hydroxo terephthalates [Al(OH)(BDC-X)]·n(guest) (BDC = 1,4-benzene-dicarboxylate; X = -H, -CH3, -Cl, -Br, -NH2, -NO2, -(OH)2, -CO2H) crystallising in the MIL-53-type structure was investigated upon thermal dehydration of as-made samples, superhydration and methanol adsorption/desorption using in situ powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD). Profile fitting was used to...

Symbolic sequences generated by coupled map lattices (CMLs) can be used to model the chaotic-like structure of genomic sequences. In this study it is shown that diffusively coupled Chebyshev maps of order 4 (corresponding to a shift of four symbols) very closely reproduce the multifractal spectrum D(q) of human genomic sequences for coupling constant α = 0.35 ± 0.01 if q > 0. The presence of ra...

We show that, similar to the trellis-coded modulation representation of MIL-STD shaped offset quadrature phase-shift keying (SOQPSK), offset quadrature phaseshift keying (OQPSK) can be decomposed into a “degraded” trellis encoder and a memoryless mapper. Based on the representations of OQPSK and MIL-STD SOQPSK as trellis-coded modulations, we investigate the potential coding gains achievable fr...

Feature selection techniques have been successfully applied in many applications for making supervised learning more effective and efficient. These techniques have been widely used and studied in traditional supervised learning settings, where each instance is expected to have a label. In multiple instance learning (MIL) each example or bag consists of a variable set of instances, and the label...

It has been shown that cytokines can act as molecular adjuvant to enhance the immune response induced by DNA vaccines, but it is unknown whether interleukin 33 (IL-33) can enhance the immunocontraceptive effect induced by DNA vaccines. In the present study, we explored the effects of murine IL-33 on infertility induced by Lagurus lagurus zona pellucida 3 (Lzp3) contraceptive DNA vaccine adminis...