When blood plasma proteins are depleted by bleeding with return of the washed red cells (plasmapheresis) it is possible to bring dogs to a steady state of hypoproteinemia and a constant level of plasma protein production if the diet protein intake is controlled and limited. Such dogs are outwardly normal but have a lowered resistance to infection and to certain intoxications. When the protein i...

The nitrogen cycle describes the processes through which nitrogen is converted between its various chemical forms. These transformations involve both biological and abiotic redox processes. The principal processes involved in the nitrogen cycle are nitrogen fixation, nitrification, nitrate assimilation, respiratory reduction of nitrate to ammonia, anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox) and denit...

of the nitrogen cycling has major consequences for other biogeochemical processes and ecosystem functions and services, Voss says. Recent research has uncovered an apparent imbalance in the nitrogen budget of the oceans, which isn’t completely understood yet and may point to additional processes that remain to be discovered. The traditional view that bacterial denitrification is the only signif...

In order to describe the response of broiler breeder hens to dietary amino acids and to develop an effective model for the precise feeding of these birds after sexual maturity, accurate estimates of the amounts of each amino acid required for maintenance and egg production are needed. The maintenance requirement for threonine and lysine were estimated in two different experiments by measuring t...

with amperometric detection. It has been shown elsewhere that the selectivity of this method is sufficient to separate the potential organic impurities; that is, synthesis byproducts and a specified degradation product from the drug substance (3). The objective of this article is to demonstrate that this method’s suitability for stability testing can be evaluated easily by performing HPLC with ...

One of the goals of chemical ecology is to assess costs of plant defenses. Intraspecific trade-offs between growth and defense are traditionally viewed in the context of the carbon-nutrient balance hypothesis (CNBH) and the growth-differentiation balance hypothesis (GDBH). Broadly, these hypotheses suggest that growth is limited by deficiencies in carbon or nitrogen while rates of photosynthesi...

Objective: To measure the energy expenditure (EE) of critically ill patients and to determine the adequacy of energy intake in terms of nitrogen balance. Research Methods & Procedures: Indirect calorimetry was performed in 17 critically ill patients under mechanical ventilation in order to calculate EE, and 24 h urinary nitrogen excretion was determined in order to calculate the nitrogen balanc...

The present study was examined the therapeutic effect of medium-chain triacylglycerol (MCT) in protein-energy malnutrition (PEM). Wistar rats were fed low protein diet containing 70 g/kg of long-chain triacylglycerol (LCT) or MCT for 31 days. The serum albumin concentration in rats fed MCT diet (2.88 +/- 0.04 g/dl) were significantly higher compared with those fed LCT diet (2.72 +/- 0.04 g/dl) ...

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to investigate the nutrition adequacy and energy availability for physical activity in free-living, clinically stable patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). BACKGROUND Little information exists regarding the nutrition adequacy and alimentary habits of patients with clinically stable CHF. We hypothesized that CHF patients have an inadequate intake of c...