Abstract Lysine may be limiting for cattle fed diets based on corn products. Our objective was to supplement ruminally protected lysine limit-fed a corn-based diet during the growing phase and assess performance subsequent finishing phases. The 77-d growth trial used 338 crossbred steers allocated 32 pens 2.4% of body weight daily. Steers were implanted (40 mg trenbolone acetate, 8 estradiol) a...

Little research has addressed the heterogeneity and mortality risk in body mass index (BMI) trajectories among older populations. Applying latent class trajectory models to 9,538 adults aged 51 to 77 years from the US Health and Retirement Study (1992-2008), we defined 6 latent BMI trajectories: normal weight downward, normal weight upward, overweight stable, overweight obesity, class I obese u...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of orally administered dienogest (DNG) for dysmenorrhea and pelvic pain associated with endometriosis. METHODS For this study we recruited 89 patients with dysmenorrhea and pelvic pain associated with endometriosis diagnosed by laparoscopy. All patients complained of persistent dysmenorrhea and pelvic pain despite surgical treatment 6 months previously. After ...

OBJECTIVE A prospective descriptive study to assess acceptability and effectiveness of a locally made ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) in HIV-infected chronically sick adults (CSA) with mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC) <210 mm or pitting edema. METHODS Sixty-three wasted AIDS adults were prescribed 500 g representing ~2600 kcal/day of locally made RUTF for three months and routine cotri...

We compared the effects of supplementing either animal plasma or extruded soy protein in the diet based on the efficiency of dietary protein utilization for lean tissue growth in early-weaned pigs. Twenty-four 14-d-old pigs (4 kg body weight) were pair-fed (per kg body weight) either a control diet containing extruded soy protein (C; n = 12) or a diet with 10% animal plasma (P; n = 12) for 24 d...

Little research has addressed the heterogeneity and mortality risk in body mass index (BMI) trajectories among older populations. Applying latent class trajectory models to 9,538 adults aged 51 to 77 years from the US Health and Retirement Study (1992–2008), we defined 6 latent BMI trajectories: normal weight downward, normal weight upward, overweight stable, overweight obesity, class I obese u...

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of three antibiotic alternatives with a control (Antibiotic-free) and an antibiotic diet on performance and gut morphology of broilers reared on litter. 600 day-old ROSS-308 chicks were assigned to 48 pens in a CRD design with 6 × 2 factorial arrangements, in which 2 levels of chick density (5 and 7.5 chicks/m2) and 6 experimental diets (control,...

Fibrolytic enzymes and bypass methionine were fed in molasses slurries in an evaluation of growing cattle performance. Eight fibrolytic enzyme treatments were offered and consisted of control (molasses only), 1.5 or 3.0 g/hd/ d of Cattle-aseTM “HR” (C1X and C2X), 0.12 g/hd/d of LodestarTM Biocellulase A20 (A20), 0.12 g/hd/d LodestarTM Biocellulase A20 and 0.06 g/hd/d LodestarTM Biocellulase X20...