Virgin female Sprague-Dawley rats (50 days of age) were administered a single intragastric 10-mg dose of 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA). Twenty-one days later they were placed on diets containing either 20% corn oil (CO), 15% menhaden oil plus 5% corn oil (MO + CO), 20% CO plus 0.5% w/w of the irreversible ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor, D.L-2-dif1uoroinethylornithine (CO + DFMO), 20%...

In the current study the plasma metabolites of silvery-black porgy (Sparidentex hasta) juveniles fed with different lipids sources were analyzed in order to bio-monitoring fish health condition. In this regard, an eight-week feeding trial was conducted using seven isonitrogenous (50%) and isolipidic (20%) experimental diets : FO, CO (canola oil), SO (sunflower oil), T (tallow), FC (fish oil + c...

BACKGROUND Numerous disorders impairing or diminishing a patient's ability to swallow may benefit from a PEG tube placement. This is considered the elective feeding technique if a functional digestive system is present. METHODS A PubMed-based search restricted to the English literature from the last 20 years was conducted. References in the results were also reviewed to identify potential sou...

Food intake is necessary for survival, and natural reward circuitry has evolved to help ensure that animals ingest sufficient food to maintain development, growth, and survival. Drugs of abuse, including alcohol, co-opt the natural reward circuitry in the brain, and this is a major factor in the reinforcement of drug behaviors leading to addiction. At the junction of these two aspects of reward...

This study aimed to compare maternal and paternal feeding practices with male and female children and examine the influence of the gender of both the parent and child on the relationship between parental unhealthy eating attitudes and controlling feeding practices. One hundred and eighty-eight participants (94 co-habiting mother-father dyads, mean age 36.4 years, SD=4.9), who were the parents o...

The log periodic antenna and Yagi-Uda antenna are used in the applications where very high directivity is required. They also give very high gain in the range of 17-20dBi. This paper presents a review on various configurations of log periodic and Yagi antennas, their advantages and problems. One problem encountered with Yagi-Uda antenna is relatively less bandwidth. This problem is solved by lo...

To better understand the magnitude of the effects of livestock feeding operations on residential property values, we constructed a new dataset that merges data on home sales with data on the location and size of livestock feeding operations in five rural counties of Iowa. We estimated a hedonic model to explain variations in residential sales price with standard house attributes, such as number...