Several researchers and clinicians have taken advantage of the omentum's rich vascular arcades to support skin grafts. We have previously described an experimental model using the omentum as a vascular carrier for prefabricated free flaps in the rat. In this study, we used this model to compare three different sizes of free flaps using the same size omental carrier. Twenty-four male Sprague-Daw...

Precise phosphorus nutrition is important for significant reductions in both P pollution and ration costs. The influence of different levels (%) of dietary nPP fed from 0 to 20 d (0.45, 0.40, 0.35, 0.30, 0.25, compared with feeding 0.20 nPP with and without 500 F.T.U. of phytase per kg of diet) and from 21 to 36 d of age (0.414, 0.364, 0.314, 0.264, 0.214, compared with 0.164 nPP with and witho...

Digital financial inclusion (DFI), characterized by digitalization and inclusiveness, has generally been recognized as a significant promoter of efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability agricultural production. Simultaneously, cultivated land green utilization efficiency (CLGUE), which is the guarantees food security, social stability environmental protection, attracted increasing attention in...

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects diets composed corn grain silage rehydrated with water and acid whey on productive performance feed preference weaned piglets. We evaluated 120 piglets in pre-initial phase I for performance, diarrhea, depression, thinness states using following diets: control ration dry (CR); (CGSR+W); inoculant (CGSR+WI); (CGSR+AW). To determine...

background and objective: diabetes mellitus is one of the main problems in health systems in the world. diabetic foot infections (dfi) is one of the main complications and the most cause  of non-traumatic lower limb amputation .this study aimed to determine the prevalence of bacteria involved in dfi and their antibiotic resistance in patients with dfi diagnosis. patients and methods: this desc...

We correlated serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D(3) (25OHD) levels with tumor characteristics and clinical disease outcome in breast cancer patients and assessed the impact of genetic determinants of vitamin D insufficiency. We collected serum from 1800 early breast cancer patients at diagnosis, measured 25OHD by radioimmunoassay (RIA), and determined genetic variants in vitamin D-related genes by Seque...

BACKGROUND Polyunsaturated n-3 fatty acids have been shown to inhibit the growth and metastasis of tumors. This double-blind, randomized study was designed to evaluate the hypothesis that polyunsaturated n-3 fatty acids can improve metabolic parameters, decrease chemical indices of inflammation, enhance quality of life, and extend disease free interval and survival time for dogs treated for lym...

UNLABELLED Chemotherapy is an important modality of treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Recent studies have shown that assessment of predictive molecular markers could be helpful for estimation of the response rate to chemotherapy. The aim of our study was to assess the relation of mRNA levels of DNA repair genes excision repair cross-complementary group 1 (ERCC1), ribonucleotide ...

Abbreviations: AI: Artificial Insemination; BCF: Beat Cross Frequency; PI: Propidiumiodide; ZBA: Zona Binding Assay; DFI: DNA Fragmentation Index; HZA: Hemizona Assay; SCSA: Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay; AOT: Acridine Orange Test; SCD: Sperm Chromatin Dispersion Test; ROS: Reactive Oxygen Species; VSL: Straight Line Velocity; LIN: linearity; VCL: Curvilinear Velocity; CTC: Fluorescent Chlort...

Abstract Background Hospitalized patients with diabetic foot infections (DFI) are commonly stable upon admission and lack signs of sepsis, necrotizing fasciitis, critical limb ischemia, or bacteremia. Patients admitted for key components DFI care: non-urgent procedures source control; radiographic imaging; cultures; consultation infectious diseases (ID), podiatry, vascular surgery; peripherally...