Turban et al. (1) recently reported a surprise finding that moderately elevated 11b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11b-HSD1) expression in the pancreatic b-cells promoted a compensation against high-fat (HF) diet–induced b-cell failure because glucocorticoids are well established to impair insulin secretion and cause b-cell death and insulin resistance in key insulin targets. Rather than ...

A soy-protein isolate diet that contained essentially no bioavailable vitamin B-6 was used to establish the quantitative effect of excess dietary methionine on the vitamin B-6 requirement of young chicks. When made adequate in vitamin B-6, chicks fed the basal diet required 2 g/kg supplemental DL-methionine to achieve maximal growth, and 10 g/kg additional DL-methionine (total 5 12 g/kg) was fo...

The Fusarium mycotoxin enniatin B (ENN B) is a so-called emerging mycotoxin frequently contaminating poultry feed. To investigate the impact of chronic ENN B exposure on animal health, broiler chickens were fed either a diet naturally contaminated with ENN B (2352 µg/kg) or a control diet (135 µg/kg) for 2, 7, 14, or 21 days. ENN B concentrations were determined in plasma and liver using a vali...

We introduce in this paper two probabilistic reasoning models (PRM-1 and PRM-2) which combine the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique and the Bayes classifier and show their feasibility on the face recognition problem. The conditional probability density function for each class is modeled using the within class scatter and the Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) classification rule is implement...

during ramadan fasting quantity and quality of dietary intake may change. there was no data on nutrient patterns in ramadan fasting. the purpose of this study was to identify ramadan major nutrient patterns among those who fast in tehran, iran. 510 fasting people aged 18-65 years and bmi 18.5-40 kg/m2 were recruited in our study by 2-stage cluster sampling method in june-july 2014. data on the ...

and Applied Analysis 3 The following sharp lower power mean bounds for 1/3 G a, b 2/3 H a, b , 2/3 G a, b 1/3 H a, b , and P a, b can be found in 4, 6 : 1 3 G a, b 2 3 H a, b > M−2/3 a, b , 2 3 G a, b 1 3 H a, b > M−1/3 a, b , P a, b > Mlog 2/ logπ a, b 1.8 for all a, b > 0 with a/ b. The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: for α ∈ 0, 1 , what are the greatest value p and the least...

This study investigated the effects of short-term subclinical Zn deficiency on exocrine pancreatic activity and changes in digestive capacity. A total of forty-eight weaned piglets were fed ad libitum a basal diet (maize and soyabean meal) with adequate Zn supply (88 mg Zn/kg diet) during a 2-week acclimatisation phase. Animals were then assigned to eight dietary treatment groups (n 6) accordin...

Hepatic steatosis predisposes the liver to cold ischemia-warm reperfusion (CI/WR) injury by unclear mechanisms. Because hepatic steatosis has recently been associated with a lysosomal pathway of apoptosis, our aim was to determine whether this cell-death pathway contributes to CI/WR injury of steatotic livers. Wild-type and cathepsin B-knockout (Ctsb(-/-)) mice were fed the methionine/choline-d...

Abstract Background Vitamin D has a regulatory role in innate and adaptive immune processes. Previous small studies have reported that low pre-treatment vitamin concentrations are associated with primary non-response shorter drug persistence to anti-TNF therapy. We sought assess whether 25-hydroxyvitamin predicted non-remission infliximab adalimumab patients Crohn’s disease recruited the PANTS ...

a Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA b Rutgers University, Institute for Health, 112 Paterson St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA c New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, Harkness Pavilion, 180 Ft. Washington Ave., New York, NY 10032, USA d Department of ...