OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to analyse the prevalence of distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) in primary SS (pSS) and to compare a novel urinary acidification test with furosemide and fludrocortisone (FF) with the gold standard ammonium chloride (NH4Cl) to detect dRTA. METHODS Urinary acidification was assessed in 57 pSS patients using NH4Cl and FF. A urinary acidification defect was defin...

Abstract In the beef cattle system, liver abscesses are most common abnormality and leading cause for condemnations at slaughter. Virginiamycin (VM) has been used to prevent sub-acute ruminal acidosis (SARA) subsequently control abscess incidence. This study observed interrelationship between VM inclusion (240 mg/hd/d), pH dynamics, hepatic blood metabolites over a 150-d feeding trial. Housed i...

Partially purified cytoplasmic membrane fragments derived from 24 hours old cultures of poultry isolates of Escherichia coli and Salmonella sp. were screened for presence of active oxyrase. At 37°C and pH 7.5, membrane fragments of Escherichia coli and Salmonella sp. reduced 40% and 35% dissolved oxygen respectively in presence of 10mM lactate after 20 minutes. This oxygen reducing ability of e...

A new object tracking mask-based novel-look-up-table (OTM-NLUT) method is proposed and implemented on graphics-processing-units (GPUs) for real-time generation of holographic videos of three-dimensional (3-D) scenes. Since the proposed method is designed to be matched with software and memory structures of the GPU, the number of compute-unified-device-architecture (CUDA) kernel function calls a...

High-quality, monodisperse PbS-Au(1), PbS-Au(4), and PbS-Au(n) nanostructures have been synthesized via a facile and convenient solution chemistry approach. HRTEM images of these nanostructures showed good selectivity of gold deposition on the semiconductor in several spatially correlated directions. The formation of these regular nanostructures can be explained by the difference in polarity of...