M e t h o d s Design: Inception cohort followed for a median of 26 months (Austrian Study on Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism). Setting: 4 thrombosis centers in Vienna. Patients: 826 patients > 18 years of age (mean age 48 y, 55% women) who had a first episode of VTE and had been treated with oral anticoagulants for ≥ 3 months. Patients had received standard heparin at doses designed to keep th...

BACKGROUND Currently used indicators of iron status have limitations. Hepcidin, a key regulator of iron metabolism, is reduced in iron deficiency. We sought to determine the properties of hepcidin as a diagnostic test of iron deficiency. DESIGN AND METHODS Sera from female, non-anemic, whole blood donors were analyzed for hepcidin (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), ferritin, soluble transfe...

The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of feeding dried distillers grains plus solubles (DDGS) from different sources on milk production and composition in dairy cows. Eight multiparous and 4 primiparous Holstein cows were used in a replicated 4 x 4 Latin square design with 28-d periods. Treatments consisted of total mixed diets containing no DDGS (CON), or DDGS from source 1...

On 16th of March 2008, temperature decreased to -6ºC in some parts of the Kerman pistachio plantation area that was caused the heavy damage to pistachio growers. After the damage, some rootstocks were resistance to this temperature and no damage was interned to them. In the present study five rootstocks of resistant and five rootstocks of susceptible to frost damage were selected and evaluated ...

Background: Degradation of phytic acid to inorganic phosphate in domestic animals’ diets requires thermostable phytase. Although Basillus subtilis phytase shows a potential to be degraded phytate complex in high temperature, the enzyme activities and yields need to be increased to make them possible for industrial application. Methods: The phytase gene from Bacillus subtilis DR8886 was...

An antigen, immunologically related to the external domain of the c-erbB-2 (HER-2/neu) protein, was found shed into the serum of nude mice bearing tumors that overexpress the c-erbB-2 protein (gp185). Utilizing paired combinations from a panel of monoclonal antibodies (TAbs 250-265), with specificity for extracellular epitopes of gp185, an immunoradiometric assay was developed to quantitate thi...

The composition of carcass and noncarcass tissue growth was quantified by serial slaughter of 26 Angus x Hereford crossbred steers (initial age and weight 289 +/- 4 d and 245 +/- 4 kg) during continuous growth (CON) or compensatory growth (CG) after a period of growth restriction (.4 kg/d) from 245 to 325 kg BW. All steers were fed a 70% concentrate diet at ad libitum or restricted levels. Homo...

OBJECTIVES Neurological manifestations seem common in primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) but their reported prevalences vary. We investigated the prevalence and epidemiology of neurological manifestations in a French nationwide multicentre prospective cohort of patients with pSS, the Assessment of Systemic Signs and Evolution in Sjögren's syndrome (ASSESS) cohort. METHODS The ASSESS cohort, est...

Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) is an important source of protein, starch, and mineral nutrients in many parts the world. However, impact environment cultivar on enrichment these not well understood. Four lentil cultivars (‘Avondale’, ‘CDC Richlea’, Maxim’, Imvincible’) varying color, seed size, maturity were evaluated at five Montana locations with diverse climatic soil conditions over 3 yr. Si...

Leptin is a regulator of body weight and affects nitric oxide (NO) production. This study was designed to determine whether the myocardial NO-cGMP signal transduction system was altered in leptin-deficient obese mice. Contractile function, guanylyl cyclase activity, and cGMP-dependent protein phosphorylation were assessed in ventricular myocytes isolated from genetically obese (B6.V-Lepob) and ...