BACKGROUND The possible role of neck circumference (NC) for screening childhood obesity and its complication is not well characterized. AIM To assess NC and to explore its increase as risk factor with metabolic syndrome (MS) variables. METHODS Cross sectional case-control study included 50 obese children (BMI ≥95(th) percentile) and 50 healthy (BMI 15(th)-‹85(th) percentile). All were subje...

It has been shown that activated T-cells produce and release both IL-2 and IL- 2 receptors (lL-2R). The rate of IL-2 release is proportional to its cell surface expression and state of cell activation. To clarify the molecular basis of this immunological aberration, we analysed the amount of soluble IL-2R(SIL2-R) by an ELISA technique in 68 patients with Behcet's disease (BD), 28 patient co...

Abstract A 2-year experiment was conducted at the USDA-ARS Southern Plains Experimental Range (SPER) near Fort Supply, OK to define effects of supplementing steers grazing native range with extruded 100% dried distillers' grains (DDGS) cubes. Each year 126 (259 ± 43 kg) grazed from late May September allocated 3 treatments: 1) negative control (NC) stocked 2.4 ha/steer ad libitum mineral only, ...

Purpose: To investigate the effect of miR-493-5p in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) -induced ATDC5 chondrogenic cells.
 Methods: The MTT assay was used to determine viability LPS-induced cells. ENCORI (starbase.sysu.edu.cn/) predict target miR-493-5p. Quantitative reverse-transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) expression controlled cells and treated with various combinations LPS, negat...

objective: there is a large amount of information published about art infants worldwide but apparently the similar data did not published by iranian art centers till now. this study is a comparative study for developmental assessment of these infants. materials and methods: in one case- control study 400 art ' infants have been compared with 420 nc ' infants. their developments have been assess...

Experiments were conducted to assess the effect of dietary organic and nano-particle forms Cu at reduced levels on serum biochemical profile immune response in improved chickens. Giriraja chicks (n=420) assigned starter (1-6 weeks) grower diets (7-10 Swarnadhara breeders (n=224) breeder (28-48 during experimentation. Control diet prepared for each phase was supplemented with inorganic CuSO4 as ...

The effect of microbial phytase (MP) and organic acids (OA) supplementation in diets for early-weaned pigs was investigated in an in vitro assay and a growth performance and digestibility trial involving 96 pigs (18 d old). The experimental diets were: 1) a control (C) formulated according to NRC (1998); 2) a negative control (NC) that was similar to diet C except that available P was reduced b...

A total of 1,040 growing pigs (initially, 22.9 ± 4.3 kg) were used in a 115-d study to evaluate the effects of 2 mycotoxin mitigation strategies, a preservative blend (PB) and a yeast product (YP), on the growth performance of swine fed diets containing corn dried distillers grains with solubles naturally contaminated with deoxynivalenol (DON). The PB consists of preservatives, antioxidants, AA...

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is a major problem in the swine industry and results in scouring, increased mortality, and poor performance in the period immediately postweaning. The traditional way to control this problem is to include subtherapeutic antibiotics in the feed, but this is no longer acceptable to consumers; thus, alternatives to antibiotics are needed. One of the supplements tha...

This study evaluated the effects of isolated or combined prebiotics blended with sodium butyrate and zinc proteinate on performance, intestinal morphometry, expression genes associated nutrient transport immune response in broilers. 1,400 birds were randomly assigned to 5 treatments (Negative control (NC) without antibiotic; Positive (PC) Prebiotic (Prebio) composed mannan fractions; Blend, but...