Blood selenium concentration at birth and growth from birth through finishing were analyzed on progeny from two birth years of Angus bulls of United States (US) or New Zealand (NZ) origin. Dams of the calves were Polled Hereford x Angus crossbreds whose sires had been selected divergently from the national sire summary to be superior (+) or inferior (-) for yearling weight EPD (G) and for total...

Three populations of Hereford cattle differing in inbreeding levels and genetic potential for growth were genotyped for seven DNA polymorphisms. The populations were compared to determine differences in allele frequency and genetic variation. Significant differences in allele frequency among the populations were found at six of the seven polymorphisms genotyped, and average genetic variation di...

Carcass data from 6,795 Simmental-sired animals born from 1992 to 2001 were used to determine whether adjustment to a constant age, back-fat, HCW, or marbling score would result in differences in heritability of the carcass traits and, correspondingly, if EPD calculated using those variance components and adjustments would result in sire reranking. The endpoints were age (EPA), backfat (EPF), H...

This study was conducted to compare carcass EPD predicted using yearling live animal data and/or progeny carcass data, and to quantify the association between the carcass phenotype of progeny and the sire EPD. The live data model (L) included scan weight, ultrasound fat thickness, longissimus muscle area, and percentage of intramuscular fat from yearling (369 d of age) Simmental bulls and heife...

A phytoextraction treatment enhanced by electric field to decontaminate a heavily Pb polluted soil has been tested in a greenhouse-scale experiment. Brassica juncea was selected as Pb-hyperaccumulator plant. The influence of the application of two Electric Potential Difference values (0.6 and 1.1 V cm) and the addition of EDTA (2.5 mmol kg) on biomass production, plant uptake, contaminant leach...

Primary Objective. To test the hypothesis that two injections of enzyme-potentiated mosquito antigen significantly reduce the size of experimental mosquito bites in participants with LLR-MB. Design. Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group comparison over 3 months. Setting. Hospital outpatient clinic. Participants. Fifty adult participants of both sexes. Interventions. Two i...

BackgroundPyridoxine monotherapy in PDE-ALDH7A1 often results adequate seizure control, but neurodevelopmental outcome varies. Detailed long-term neurological is unknown. Here we present the cognitive and features of Dutch cohort.MethodsNeurological was assessed 24 patients (age 1–26 years); classified as normal, complex minor dysfunction (complex MND) or abnormal. Intelligence quotient (IQ) de...

In this study, a method for determining the location and extent of myocardial infarction using Body Surface Potential Map data of PhysioNet challenge 2007 database is presented. This data is related to four patients with myocardial infarction. We used two patients as training set to determine rules and two other patients as testing set of the proposed model. First, T-wave amplitude, T-wave inte...