This study was conducted to compare the effects of dietary supplementation of Sodium Gluconate (SG), Mannan Oligosaccharide (MOS) and Potassium Diformate (PDF) on growth performance and small intestinal morphology in nursery piglets. One hundred forty four female piglets (11.69±0.71 kg) were divided into 4 treatments with six replicates of six pigs each. The pigs received a control diet or diet...

BACKGROUND Obesity is prevalent among adolescents and is associated with serious health consequences. Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) and Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG) are bariatric procedures that cause significant weight loss in adults and are increasingly being performed in adolescents with morbid obesity. Data comparing outcomes of RYGB vs. SG in this age-group are scarce. This study aims to comp...

INTRODUCTION Obesity has recently become a major health problem, and researchers have been directed to work toward the development of surgical techniques, with new mediators playing an important role in nutrition. Gastric plication (GP) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG) have become popular recently. These are widely used techniques in bariatric surgery. OBJECTIVES In this study, we aimed to compare...

The giant fiber system of the squid Loligo pealei mediates the escape response and is an important neurobiological model. Here, we identified an abundant transcript in the stellate ganglion (SG) that encodes a FMRFamide precursor, and characterized FMRFamide and FI/LRF-amide peptides. To determine whether FMRFamide plays a role in the adult and hatchling giant fiber system, we studied the expre...

BACKGROUND Systolic blood pressure (SBP) decline has been reported in octogenarians. The aim was to study if it could be observed while measuring SBP with two methods: Korotkoff (K-BP) and Strain-Gauge-Finger-Plethysmography (SG-BP), and which of them were more reliable in expressing vascular burden. METHODS A cohort of 703 men from a population of Malmö, Sweden, were included in "Men born in...

Sindbis virus-infected cells make two positive-strand RNAs, a genomic (G) RNA and a subgenomic (SG) RNA. Here we report the amino acid sequence in nonstructural protein 4 (nsP4), the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, that binds to the promoter for the synthesis of G RNA. In addition, using a cell-free system that makes both G and SG RNA, we show that specific amino acid changes in nsP4 that a...

This paper describes a method for obtaining the semantic representation for a syntax tree in Systemic Grammar (SG). A prototype implementation of this method the REVELATION1 semantic interpreter has been ldeveloped. It is derived from a SG generator foe a large subset of English GENESYS and is !thus, in contrast with most reversible grammars, fan interpreter based on a generator. A task decompo...

We consider an integrable generalization of the sine-Gordon (sG) equation that was earlier derived by one of the authors using bi-Hamiltonian methods. This equation is related to the sG equation in the same way that the Camassa-Holm equation is related to the KdV equation. In this paper we: (a) Derive a Lax pair. (b) Use the Lax pair to solve the initial value problem on the line. (c) Analyze s...