Authors: Maristella Pitzalis ([email protected]) Patrizia Zavattari ([email protected]) Raffaele Murru ([email protected]) Elisabetta Deidda ([email protected]) Magdalena Zoledziewska ([email protected]) Daniela Murru ([email protected]) Loredana Moi ([email protected]) Costantino Motzo ([email protected]) Valeria Orru ([email protected]) Gianna Costa (csm@unica...

the objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of cottonseed meal (csm) treated with sodium bentonite (sb) on certain blood components and immune response of laying hens. a 3 × 3 factorial arrangement with 3 levels of sb (0, 10, and 20 g/kg of diet) and 3 levels of csm (0, 100 and 200 g/kg of diet) were used within 9 dietary treatments of 4 replicates each. nine mash diets were fed to ...

Tumour therapy with T cell receptor (TCR) engineered T cells is reported to induce clinical responses but shortcomings regarding poor in vivo persistence and loss of function in the tumour milieu have been observed. Providing costimulation to adoptively transferred T cells may improve these shortcomings. However, human T effector cells are largely CD28 negative and epithelial tumours do not exp...

One hundred twenty crossbred steers (294 kg, initially) were used in a 141-d finishing trial. Four concentrations (8, 16, 24, and 32% of diet DM) of cottonseed meal (CSM, prepressed solvent-extracted) replaced steam-flaked corn in a corn-based finishing diet. Increasing level of CSM decreased ADG (linear component, P < .10), feed efficiency (linear component, P < .01), and dietary NE (linear co...

A series of cellulose/soy protein membranes (CSM) was coated with chitosan to improve the mechanical properties, cytocompatibility, and hemocompatibility. The original CSM and chitosan-coated CSM (CH/CSM) were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis, scanning electron microscopy, water contact angle testing, and tensile testing. CH/CSM had a smoother...

Rational approaches have been extensively used to investigate the role of active site residues in cytochrome P450 (CYP) functions. However, recent studies using random mutagenesis suggest an important role for non-active site residues in CYP functions. Meta-analysis of the random mutants showed that 75% of the functionally important non-active site residues are present in 20% of the entire prot...

Three basal diets containing 0%, 27.5% and 55.0% solvent-extracted cottonseed meal (CSM) as replacements of 0%, 50% and 100% of solvent-extracted soybean meal (SBM) on an equal nitrogen basis were each supplemented with three levels of iron (40, 336 and 671 mg/kg) from ferrous sulfate heptahydrate (3 3 factorial experiment). Each diet was fed to juvenile channel catfish in triplicate aquaria tw...

Fermentation flavors of corn distillers' grains (CDG) were removed more completely by extraction with hexane:ethanol (82:18 v/v) azeotrope (HEA) than with hexane (H). Desolventizing included air drying followed by heating to 101°C for 10 min with agitated steam injection. Enriched corn-soy-milk (CSM) blends were formulated with up to 10% REAor H-extracted CDG. Color was slightly darker in CSM w...

Data from neural crest cultures indicate that cell surface coat material (CSM) is directly involved in cellular migration and events surrounding differentiation. To investigate whether the CSM also has a morphogenetic role, embryos of the amphibian Ambystoma maculatum were examined ultrastructurally throughout the stages of neurulation. Segments of the neural axis were fixed in glutaraldehyde-c...