Abstract Background The bovine upper respiratory tract (URT) microbiome includes opportunistic pathogens that cause disease and stress associated with maternal separation transportation contributes to the severity of this disease. Stress is known alter gut but little regarding effect on URT microbiota. This study used six-month old suckling beef calves investigate whether (weaned), by itself or...

Weaning is a source of social, nutritional and environmental disorders that challenge piglet health. This study assesses the relevance of using plasma indicators of oxidative status as biomarkers of health around weaning in pigs. Blood antioxidant potential (BAP), hydroperoxides (HPO), oxidative stress index (OSI, e.g. HPO/BAP), vitamin A and E concentrations were investigated in two different ...

The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of age at weaning and breed on the stress response of calves to weaning and their temperament. At calving, 14 Parda de Montaña calves and 14 Pirenaica calves were randomly assigned to either early weaning (at 90 days) or traditional weaning (at 150 days) treatment. During nursing, calves were allowed to suckle their dams twice a day for 30 min. Aft...

• Post-weaning/adolescent social isolation increased ?FosB in the cortex and hippocampus of adult mice. FosB was also isolated females. Short-term stress has persistent effects on brain that depend sex. Social is a growing public health concern across lifespan. Specifically, early life, during critical periods development, increases risk psychiatric disorders later life. Previous studies models...

Abstract Background Patient-ventilator asynchrony is a common problem in mechanically ventilated patients. It associated with adverse effects including increased work of breathing, patient discomfort, need for sedation, prolonged mechanical ventilation, weaning difficulties, and failure. The purpose the present was to describe patient-ventilator its impact on outcomes chronic obstructive pulmon...

We propose new visualization techniques for the user behaviors when using search engine results pages. Our visualization method provides an overview of a user’s actual visual behavior using the logs for eye-movement data and browser link-clicking. We also report on the eye-movement data collected from user experiments.

Background Weaning failure is a crucial hindrance in critically ill patients. Rapid shallow breathing index (RSBI), a well-known weaning index, has some limitations in predicting weaning outcomes. A new weaning index using point-of-care ultrasound with diaphragmic thickening fraction (DTF) has potential benefits for improving weaning success. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy o...

INTRODUCTION A recent meta-analysis showed that weaning with SmartCare™ (Dräger, Lübeck, Germany) significantly decreased weaning time in critically ill patients. However, its utility compared with respiratory physiotherapist-protocolized weaning is still a matter of debate. We hypothesized that weaning with SmartCare™ would be as effective as respiratory physiotherapy-driven weaning in critica...