Citrus peels, citrus juices factories waste by-products are valuable functional food. This investigation evaluated activity citrus peels powders fortified biscuits antihyperlipidemic in induced hyperlipidemic rats. 10% fortified biscuits (FB) with peels powders of four citrus groups, namely: Hyperlipidemic basal diet (HLD) + 10% (FB) with Baladi orange peels powder (PP); HLD + 10% FB with 10% A...

BACKGROUND Various postural deformities appear during progression of Parkinson's disease (PD), but the underlying pathophysiology of these deformities is not well understood. The angle abnormalities seen in individual patients may not be due to distinct causes, but rather they may have occurred in an interrelated manner to maintain a balanced posture. METHODS We measured the neck flexion (NF)...

Counting coated and uncoated inorganic fibers in sputum has been used to investigate the level of environmental or occupational asbestos exposure and the concentration of fibrous dusts in human lung. Inorganic fibers in sputum were counted by light microscopy after chemical digestion and microfiltration processing. The same method was used for processing gastric juice and lung tissue. There wer...

The IEC61499 standard proposes the Function Block (FB) model for the next generation of distributed control applications. This model defines the FB type to be the basic construct in this paradigm. A control application is considered as a network of interconnected instances of FB types. These applications can be executed on one device such as a multitasking Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), b...

Landraces of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) and its wild teosinte relatives (Zea mays spp. parviglumis and mexicana) were surveyed for sensitivity to fumonisin B(1), a phytotoxin produced by the maize pathogen Gibberella moniliformis. Only two of 42 Z. mays samples were highly insensitive to FB(1) (ED(50) = ca. 200 microM). The teosintes and 76% of the maize landraces were moderately or highly sens...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate sphingolipid levels (sphingosine-So and sphinganine-Sa) and to compare the Sa/So ratio in liver, serum and urine of Wistar rats after prolonged administration (21 days) of fumonisin B(1) (FB(1)). In parallel, the kinetics of sphingolipid elimination in urine was studied in animals receiving a single dose of FB(1). Prolonged exposure to FB(1) ca...

Bending light in a controllable way is desired in various applications such as beam steering, navigating and cloaking. Different from the conventional way to bend light by refractive index gradient, transformation optics or special beams through wavefront design such as Airy beams and surface plasmons, we proposed a mechanism to bend light via resonant adiabatic optical transition between Floqu...

We report electrophysiological evidence that a simple odotopy, the spatial mapping of different odorants, is maintained above the level of the olfactory bulb (OB). Three classes of biologically relevant odorants for fish are processed in distinct regions of the forebrain (FB) in the channel catfish. Feeding cues, mainly amino acids and nucleotides, are represented in lateral, pallial portions o...

The MILC collaboration computation of heavy-light decay constants is described. Results for fB, fBs , fD, fDsand their ratios are presented. These results are still preliminary, but the analysis is close to being completed. Sources of systematic error, both within the quenched approximation and from quenching itself, are estimated, although the latter estimate is rather crude. A sample of our r...

BACKGROUND Though foreign body (FB) aspiration or ingestion is not uncommon in children, a straight pin as the culprit FB is rarely seen. The nature of such a FB makes it sometimes difficult to diagnose and deal with, especially in children. CASE REPORT Here we present such a case who was initially misdiagnosed with FB ingestion but turned out to be an aspiration case. Moreover, its remote lo...