OBJECTIVES This study sought to explore the influence of different body weight statuses on 24-hour urine compositions in adults without urolithiasis based on a nationwide study of a Chinese Han population. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-four-hour urine samples from 584 Chinese Han adults without urolithiasis in six cities were analyzed. The participants were divided into four body weight status ...

l- carnitine has been recognized as a new and important dietary supplementation, essential for human and animal nutrition. this study was conducted to evaluate the use of dietary l- carnitine supplementation and its effects on the growth (body final weight, daily growth rate (dgr), feed efficiency (fe), feed conversion ratio (fcr), daily feed intake  (dfi), protein efficiency ratio (per), lipid...

Article history: Received 16 August 2007 Received in revised form 16 February 2008 Accepted 26 February 2008 This studyassessed refined canola oil (CO) as a supplemental dietary lipid source for juvenile fall chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, parr with respect to possible effects on their growth and osmoregulatory performance and body composition. Diets with equal protein (∼57%) and lip...

BACKGROUND Many plants with antidiabetic properties probably act in part through their content of fibre, vitamins, bioactive or mineral content OBJECTIVES This study investigated the mineral, proximate, phytochemical compositions and hypoglycaemic effect of Commelina africana and Ageratum conyzoides extracts in diabetic rats, and the likely relationship between this property and the mineral, ...

Let $m$ and $n$ be positive integers, let $p$ a prime. $T(x)=\Phi_{p^m}(\Phi_{2^n}(x))$, where $\Phi_k(x)$ is the cyclotomic polynomial of index $k$. In this article, we prove that $T(x)$ irreducible over $\mathbf Q$ $\left\{1,\theta,\theta^2,\ldots,\theta^{2^{n-1}p^{m-1}(p-1)-1}\right\}$ basis for ring integers Q (\theta)$, $T(\theta)= 0$.