Thirty-two crossbred (Suffolk x Rambouillet) wether lambs were used to examine the effectiveness of protein source (soybean meal [SBM] or fish meal [FM]) in alleviating decreased performance associated with dietary aflatoxin (AF) in growing lambs. After a 21-d adaptation period to concentrate diets, lambs were assigned to the following dietary treatments: 1) SBM, 0 mg of AF; 2) FM, 0 mg of AF; ...

Abstract Feeding high-grain diets can result in reduced ruminal pH, inflammation of and other tissues, subacute acidosis. Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), a gut hormone with anti-inflammatory functions, could have beneficial role ruminants fed high-concentrate diets. To determine the effects VIP injection on dry matter intake, average daily gain, gain:feed, wether lambs (n=16; BW=68.5 ±...

The effects of single-dose and fractionated whole-brain irradiation on brain methotrexate (MTX) has been studied in a rat model. The amount of MTX present in the brain 24 hr after a single i.p. dose (100 mg/kg) was the same wether animals were sham irradiated or given a single dose of 2000 rads 6 or 48 hr prior to the drug (6.9, 8.3, and 6.8 pmol MTX/g, wet weight, respectively). Animals sham i...

Forty crossbred wether lambs, 44 kg initial body weight, were used to study relative bioavailability of Mo in supplemental Mo sources and their effects on body Cu storage. The basal maize-soya-bean meal-cottonseed hulls diet contained 11.5 mg kgÿ1 Cu, 1.1 mg kgÿ1 Mo and 2.1 g kgÿ1 S (DM basis) and was supplemented with 0, 15, 30, or 45 mg kgÿ1 (as-fed basis) added Mo as reagent grade sodium mol...

BACKGROUND/AIM Enoxaparin (ENOX), the low-molecular-weight heparin, used in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) could lead to hemorrhage. The aim of this study was to determine wether bleeding was more often in AMI patients older than 65 or 75 years who receive ENOX or unfractionated heparin (UFH). METHODS Among the patients with AMI hospitalized during three successive months receiving ENOX or...

In his seminal work, Kleinberg showed how to augment meshes using random edges, so that they become navigable; that is, greedy routing computes paths of polylogarithmic expected length between any pairs of nodes. This yields the crucial question of determining wether such an augmentation is possible for all graphs. In this paper, we answer negatively to this question by exhibiting a threshold o...

In this article, we are interested in studying locomotion strategies for a class of shape-changing bodies swimming in a fluid. This class consists of swimmers subject to a particular linear dynamics, which includes the two most investigated limit models in the literature: swimmers at low and high Reynolds numbers. Our first contribution is to prove that although for these two models the locomot...

the pathergy phenomenon (pp) is one of the hallmarks of behcet's disease (bd). it has been reported to be positive from 17.5% to 83% of cases in different studies. pp is used as a diagnosis criterion in the dilsen criteria, the japan criteria, the international criteria, and the iran criteria. it is therefore important to know wether pp is a fix manifestation of the disease or a cyclic manifest...