The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of ambient temperature and sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) supplementation in diets for growing lambs on meat fatty acids composition. A slaughter study was carried out on 12 male Black Belly Barbados lambs randomly drawn from a prior growth trial (245 days). The lambs were divided into four equal groups and allotted in a 2×2 factorial design. ...

We present an extension of the structural motif model [Cioslowski et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2000, 122, 8265], originally proposed to predict the relative stability of medium-sized neutral fullerenes (C60-C102), to account for the correct graphene limit, thus widening its range of applicability to giant and supergiant icosahedral fullerenes. The new model has been parameterized using the densit...

A carbon heptagon ring is a key unit responsible for structural defects in sp(2)-hybrized carbon allotropes including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphenes, with consequential influences on their mechanical, electronic and magnetic properties. Previous evidence concerning the existence of heptagons in fullerenes has been obtained only in off-line halogenation experiments through top-down d...

A series of buckybowls with different sizes and structures have been tested as potential receptors of fullerenes C60, C70 and C40. Among these bowls are corannulene (C20H10), sumanene (C21H12), pinakene (C28H14), hemifullerene (C30H12), circumtrindene (C36H12), pentaindenocorannulene (C50H20) and bowl-shaped hexabenzocoronene derivatives. An exhaustive study, taking into account different orien...

Escherichia coli C20, isolated from domestic chicken gut microbiota, demonstrated multidrug resistance to the tested antibiotics. Here, we present the draft genomic sequences of E. coli C20, along with that of its plasmid. The final assembly yielded a chromosome of 4,640,940 bp and plasmid of 277,380 bp, with average coverages of 146.95-fold and 35.63-fold, respectively.

Both the eigenfunctions and the local density of states (DOS) near the pentagonal defects on the fullerenes was calculated analytically as a numerically. The results shows that the low-energy DOS has a cusp which drops to zero at the Fermi energy for any number of pentagons at the tip except three. For three pentagons, the nonzero DOS across the Fermi level is formed. Graphite is an example of ...

To improve beef quality, a selection of specific breeds for crossbreeding, genotyping, and candidate genes in breeding animals can be some the solutions. The objective this study was to determine effects FASN, SCD, GH on carcass fatness fatty acid (FA) composition intramuscular lipids crossbred Holstein × (Simmental, Belgian Blue, Limousin, Piemontese). allelic genotypic distribution polymorphi...

The diether core membrane lipid sesterterpanyl-phytanyl-glycerol (so-called extended archaeol and often abbreviated C20-C25) is considered as a hallmark of Haloarchaea, clade archaea thriving under extreme high salinities. We here report about occurrence in different saline aquatic settings with salinity ranging from ca. 50 psu (5 % NaCl w/v) to saturation (ca. 350 psu). This demonstrates that ...

The introduction of pin-up oxygen on C60, such as in the oxidized fullerenes C60O and C60On, induced noticeable increase in the antioxidant activity as compared to pristine C60. The water-soluble inclusion complexes of fullerenes C60O and C60On reacted with linoleic acid peroxyl radical 1.7 and 2.4 times faster, respectively.

In this study, oil was extracted from the liver and visceral fat of Patin (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus) and refined. The yield of oil after refining was 49.98%. The major yield loss (34.20%) happened during the degumming procedure. Fatty acids found in the crude and refined oil were C12:0, C14:0, C14:1, C16:0, C16:1, C18:0, C18:1, C18:2, C18:3, C18:4, C20:0, C20:1, C20:4, C20:5, and C22:6. The ...