The aim of the present study was to investigate effects gum Arabic supplementation on short-chain fatty acids, cecal microbiota, immune-related gene expression, and small intestinal morphology in post-hatched broiler chicks. On day hatching, 6 dietary treatments were randomly allocated a total 432 commercial male Each treatment included 12 cages with chicks per cage repeated. Dietary (T1 T6) su...

The peritoneum plays an essential role in preventing abdominal frictions and adhesions and can be utilized as a dialysis membrane. Its physiological ultrastructure, however, has not yet been studied systematically. 106 standardized peritoneal and 69 omental specimens were obtained from 107 patients (0.1-60 years) undergoing surgery for disease not affecting the peritoneum for automated quantita...

Improvements to current therapeutic strategies are needed for the treatment of skeletal defects. Bone tissue engineering offers potential advantages to these strategies. In this study, ectopic bone formation in a range of scaffolds was assessed. Vital autograft and devitalised allograft served as controls and the experimental groups comprised autologous bone marrow derived stem cell seeded allo...

This study evaluated the dietary supplementation of ginger Zingiber officinale essential oil for Neotropical catfish Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum, its effects on fish hematology, immunology, response these variables to induction stress (exposition air 3 min), and a bacterial challenge with Aeromonas hydrophila, liver histomorphometry. Three levels were (0.5, 1.0 1.5%) in addition control group ...

Breast and prostate cancers are specially metastasizing to bone. Metastases from breast cancer usually exhibit a mixed osteolytic/osteosclerotic aspect, with osteolysis predominating. Osteosclerosis is a common finding in prostatic cancer although osteolysis occurs within the sclerotic lesions. B-cell malignancies (lymphoma, myeloma) are also associated with marked osteolysis. Histopathological...