Pediatric glioblastomas (pGBM), although rare, are one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in children, with tumors essentially refractory to existing treatments. Here, we describe the use of conventional and advanced in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to assess a novel orthotopic xenograft pGBM mouse (IC-3752GBM patient-derived culture) model, and to monitor the eff...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of pre-pubertal plane of nutrition on the skeletal growth, lamb mortality, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) concentrations, quantity and quality of colostrum produced in ewe lambs. A total of 40 clinically health Kurdish female lambs (30±8.6 d and weighing 10.2±3.4 kg) were randomly allocated to one of two experimental diets in pre-wea...

Seventeen crossbred sows were used in a lactation trial to compare the effects of a 16-h photoperiod with an 8-h photoperiod from d 107 of gestation to weaning at 28 d postpartum. Crossbred sows were used to compare the effects of 16-h (n = 8) and 8-h (n = 9) photoperiods on litter and maternal performance traits. Females were moved into two identical farrowing rooms under either 16- or 8-h pho...

Analysis for back fat thickness (BFAT) and daily body weight gains from birth to the end of a performance test were conducted to find an optimal method for estimation of weaning age effects and to ascertain impacts of weaning age on the growth performance of purebred Berkshire pigs from a closed population in Korea. Individual body weights were measured at birth (B), at weaning (W: mean, 22.9 d...

Gauri R. Pradhan, ∗ Sagar A. Pandit, † Anil D. Gangal, and V. Sitaramam ‡ Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune 411 007, India 2 Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380 009, India Department of Biotechnology, University of Pune, Pune 411 007, India Abstract Numerical simulations on a 2-dimensional model system showed that voids are induced primarily due to shape anisotropy in bina...

Let E be an elliptic curve which is defined over Q and has stable reduction modulo a given prime p. Assuming that E is modular, one can associate to E a p-adic L-function Lp(E, s). (See [-Mz-SwD, A-V, Vi, Mz-T-T] for its construction in various cases.) This function is defined by a certain interpolation property and is analytic for seZp. In this paper, we will assume that E has split multiplica...

Three experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that different starter feeding programs (High, high quality; Low, low quality) will affect growth performance and body composition of pigs from weaning to market weight and that this effect may be influenced by gender (barrows or gilts) and breed (F, Yorkshire-Duroc x Hampshire; P, PIC Camborough 15 x PIC line 405). In Exp. 1, 21 +/- 4-d-w...