Hypothalamic tanycytes are glial-like glucosensitive cells that contact the cerebrospinal fluid of the third ventricle, and send processes into the hypothalamic nuclei that control food intake and body weight. The mechanism of tanycyte glucosensing remains undetermined. While tanycytes express the components associated with the glucosensing of the pancreatic β cell, they respond to nonmetabolis...

The nutritive value of isonitrogenous and isoenergetic levels of these processed beans, raw NB-SOY and NB-SOY extruded at 121, 135 or 157OC was assessed by pig growth assay. The raw NB-SOY diet caused severe scouring and was fed only for two weeks. Growth rate and feed conversion of pigs fed extruded NB-SOY improved as the extrusion temperature increased to 135OC but declined with higher temper...

To begin with, the importance of the prediction of the nutritive value and intake of feeds for the ruminant animals is stressed. The prediction is mainly correlated to digestibility, NDF content and lignin content. Then the most important chemical methods, enzymatic methods and biological methods (in vitro, in vivo, in sacco) which can be used as predictors, are reviewed and commented. It is co...

AIM To determine whether NTrainer patterned orocutaneous therapy affects preterm infants' non-nutritive suck and/or oral feeding success. SUBJECTS Thirty-one preterm infants (mean gestational age 29.3 weeks) who demonstrated minimal non-nutritive suck output and delayed transition to oral feeds at 34 weeks post-menstrual age. INTERVENTION NTrainer treatment was provided to 21 infants. The N...

I N much of the Northern Great Plains area native grasses are of paramount importance to livestock production and hays from these grasses constitute the chief roughage harvested to maintain livestock when grazing will not support them. Tonnage of prairie hay harvested in South Dakota in 1948 and 1949, a total of 4,492,000 tons, was twice as great as the harvested tonnage of all tame hays combin...