An experiment was conducted to examine the effect that various isoenergetic diets, containing different quantities of soluble carbohydrate and fiber and different types of starch, have on nitrogen (N) balances. Six lactating dairy cows in early to midlactation consuming grass silage diets with not less than 600 g/kg total DMI as forage were used in the experiment. Four concentrates were prepare...

This report summarizes the state of the art and recent developments and advances in the use of degradable polymers devices for osteosynthesis. The current generation of biodegradable polymeric implants for bone repair utilising designs copied from metal implants, originates from the concept that devices should be supportive and as "inert" substitute to bone tissue. Today degradable polymeric de...

Remarkable acceleration of enzymatic proteolysis by pressure at kbar range is reported with ubiquitin as substrate and α-chymotrypsin as enzyme. The acceleration is interpreted in terms of the shift of conformational equilibrium in ubiquitin from the non-degradable folded conformer to the enzyme-degradable unfolded conformer by pressure because of the lower volume of the latter, while the enzym...

Degradable polymers are beginning to play an increasing role as materials for environmental and medical applications. Understanding factors that control erosion, such as bond cleavage and the dissolution and diffusion of degradation products, will be critical to the future development of these materials. Erosion kinetics, photomicroscopy, and infrared spectroscopy were used to understand the er...

A valuable approach for creating synthetic polymers is the ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). Welldefined metal carbene catalysts have been devised that afford control over the polymer chain length and architecture. In addition, ruthenium carbene initiators have been developed with excellent air stability and functional group tolerance. These catalysts enable the synthesis of polyme...

Peak, Charles Wilbur, "Robust, degradable peg-based collagen hydrogels for elastomeric tissue augmentation" (2014). Open Access Theses. 736.