In an earlier study we established that timely and adequate tissue repair response following the administration of a six-fold dose-range of thioacetamide (TA; 50, 150, and 300 mg/kg) prevented progression of injury and led to recovery and animal survival. Delayed and attenuated repair response after the 600 mg/kg TA dose resulted in a marked progression of injury and 100% lethality. The objecti...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Heterogeneity in cortical signal intensity on T2-weighted MR images has been recently documented. Using a whole-brain, multiecho MR imaging technique, we sought to determine the T2 relaxation times of nine predefined regions in the cerebral cortex and one region in the deep gray matter. METHODS Ten adult volunteers (nine men and one woman; age range, 18-40 y; average ag...

essential amino acids such as methionine have been increasingly included into diets of lambs. however, few studies have determined the effects of methionine supplementation in the general performance and economic returns of lamb production. to address this question, 21weaned male rahmani lambs were allotted to 3 dietary treatments: control diet (c), control diet plus 3.30 g of methionine/kg con...

Satellite microwave and infrared instruments sensitive to upper-tropospheric water vapor (UTWV) are compared using both simulated and observed cloud-cleared brightness temperatures (Tb’s). To filter out cloudy scenes, a cloud detection algorithm is developed for the Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature-2 (SSM/T2 or T2) data using the 92and 150-GHz window channels. An analysis of the effect of c...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in vivo for the characterization of tissue changes associated with acute myocardial rejection after cardiac transplantation. Of 15 dogs that underwent heterotopic cardiac transplantation, six served as untreated controls, and nine received immunosuppressive therapy (25 mg/kg/day cyclosporine, 1 mg/kg/day...

BACKGROUND An experiment was conducted in Vietnam to test the hypothesis that total dry matter (DM) intake and liveweight (LW) gain would increase in a curvilinear manner with increasing amounts of concentrate offered. METHOD There were five treatments: a basal diet of Guinea grass fed at 1 % of LW and rice straw fed ad libitum (T0), or this diet supplemented with concentrate at 0.6 (T1), 1.2...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) accuracy can vary substantially depending on the dynamic susceptibility-weighted contrast-enhanced (DSC) acquisition and postprocessing methods, due to blood-brain barrier disruption and resulting T1-weighted leakage and T2- and/or T2*-weighted imaging (T2/T2*WI) residual effects. We set out to determine optimal DSC conditions that ad...

A field experiment was carried out during kharif 2021 (June-November) and 2022 at the Agronomy Main Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, College Agriculture, OUAT, Bhubaneswar. The laid in randomized complete block design with twelve treatments i.e. T1-RDF (80:40:40 kg N:P2O5:K2O ha-1), T2 - 20 N ha-1 LCC score <4 no basal N, T3 basal, T4 g SPAD value <35 T5- T6- Green seeker (GS) >1...

The experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of dihydropyridine on laying performance and fat metabolism of laying hens. Five hundred and forty laying hens, 40 weeks old, were randomly allotted to three groups, each of which included four replicates of 45 hens. The groups were given a basal corn-soybean meal diet supplemented with 0, 150 mg/kg and 300 mg/kg dihydropyridine. Results s...

capsule) administration for 30 days on some liver function parameters and antagonize or decrease these effects by black seeds. Fifteen mature female rabbits randomly divided into three groups( 5 /group) drenched for 30 day: control group received physiological normal saline (1ml/kg B.W); first treated group T1 received green lean body capsule (4.2mg/kg B.W) ; second treated group T2 received gr...