The effect of Enterococcus faecium CCM7420 (EF) - enterocin-producing and probiotic strain of rabbit origin, Eleutherococcus senticosus extract (ES) and their combination (ES+EF) was determined on selected bacteria in faeces and caecum content, leukocytes phagocytosis, blood biochemistry and growth performance. Ninety-six weaned rabbits were divided into 3 experimental (ES, EF, ES+EF) and contr...

BACKGROUND Heart failure (HF) can occur in patients with preserved (HFpEF, EF≥50%) or reduced (HFrEF, EF<50%) ejection fraction (EF), but changes in EF after HF diagnosis are not well described. METHODS AND RESULTS Among a community cohort of incident HF patients diagnosed from 1984 to 2009 in Olmsted County, Minnesota, we obtained all EFs assessed by echocardiography from initial HF diagnosi...

Executive function (EF) is an important predictor of numerous developmental outcomes, such as academic achievement and behavioral adjustment. Although a plethora of measurement instruments exists to assess executive function in children, only few of these are suitable for toddlers, and even fewer have undergone psychometric evaluation. The present study evaluates the psychometric properties and...

Despite early and continuous dietary intervention, individuals with early-treated phenylketonuria (PKU) experience significant neurocognitive sequelae. An area of cognitive ability that is believed to be particularly affected is executive function (EF). This paper provides a critical review of the evidence for EF impairment in early-treated PKU within the context of recent advances in neuropsyc...

The structural gene for anthrax edema factor (EF) was expressed in Escherichia coli under the control of a powerful T5 promoter to yield the 89-kDa recombinant protein that reacted with anti-EF antibodies. Recombinant EF was purified to homogeneity by a two-step procedure involving metal chelate affinity chromatography and cation-exchange chromatography. From 1 liter of culture, 2.5 mg of biolo...

BACKGROUND Electrochemical methods, as one of the advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), have recently been applied to remove different contaminants from water and wastewater. This study compares the performance of anodic oxidation (AO) and electro-Fenton (EF) methods on waste sludge treatment. METHODS This experimental study was performed on real sludge and the effect of operating parameters s...

Method From July 2013 up to September 2014 four high risk patients with low EF below 30 %, concomitant mitral valve disease (3 pts), ventricular aneurism (1 pt), and severe coronary artery disease were operated using on pump beating heart technique. Al pts were first connected to the IABP through the femoral artery and then put on CPB machine with a double venous cannula in the superior and inf...

In order to assess the limitations imposed on a cochlear implant system by a wearable speech processor, the parameters extracted from a set of 11 vowels and 24 consonants were examined. An estimate of the fundamental frequency EF 0 was derived from the zero crossings of the low-pass filtered envelope of the waveform. Estimates of the first and second formant frequencies EF 1 and EF 2 were deriv...