During the past decades there has been considerable interest in the use of dietary fibre in both animal and human nutrition. In human subjects dietary fibre has been studied intensively for possible effects on body-weight management and health. In animal nutrition the interest in dietary fibre has increased because it can be used as a cheap source of energy and because of its potential to impro...

spermatogonial stem cells (sscs) are in the beginning of a complex process in which they transmit genetic information from generation to generation. any failure in this process can result in infertility. it has been suggested that transplantation of spermatogonial stem cells, following their maintenance and culturing, may restore fertility in some infertile patients. because fertility restorati...

In this review, we integrate recent human and animal studies from the viewpoint of chronic pain. First, we briefly review the impact of chronic pain on society and address current pitfalls of its definition and clinical management. Second, we examine pain mechanisms via nociceptive information transmission cephalad and its impact and interaction with the cortex. Third, we present recent discove...

The aim of this study was to identify behavioral aspects of the sandfly fauna of a fishing tourism area in the municipality of Bonito (MS). Monthly captures were undertaken from December 2009 to November 2010, using automatic CDC type light traps, from 18h00 to 06h00, in a forested area, a savannah area, peridomiciles and animal shelters near peridomiciliary areas. Nyssomyia whitmani was the mo...

Road maintenance is a complex issue with many uncertainties involved. Frequently, the analysis of good maintenance strategies is carried out in deterministic frameworks assuming that a deterministic model captures the ‘most probable’ scenario and therefore corresponds to the expected values in stochastic models. Since it is agreed upon that expected net-benefits are to be maximized, the introdu...

World Journal of Immunology (World J Immunol, WJI, online ISSN 2219-2824, DOI: 10.5411) is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal that aims to guide clinical practice and improve diagnostic and therapeutic skills of clinicians. WJI covers a wide range of subjects including: (1) autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythemato...

Title: A cluster randomized controlled trial for child and parent weight management: children and parents randomized to the intervention group have correlated changes in adiposity Authors: Diane Berry ([email protected]) Robert McMurray ([email protected]) Todd Schwartz ([email protected]) Emily Hall ([email protected]) Madeline Neal ([email protected]) Reuben Adatorwovor (radat22...

background: leptospirosis, a spirochetal zoonosis, is considered an occupational disease of persons engaged in agriculture, sewage works, forestry, and butchery. objective: to determine the environmental sources and the knowledge, attitude and practices for leptospirosis among butchers and slaughterhouse workers, as well as the seroprevalence of leptospirosis among cattle and pigs presented for...

Animal facilities are installations of great importance for the advancement animal research, since it is where activities breeding, maintenance and experimentation carried out. Based on this assumption, present dissertation addresses development a monitoring system environmental factors such as temperature, relative humidity, ammonia luminosity in an automated way through open source hardware s...