An experiment was conducted to study the eff ect of phytase enzyme (Natuphos 500) supplementation in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) (3 to 45 days of age) on body weight, carcass performance, percentage of tibia bone ash and tibia phosphorus. Data were analyzed as a completely randomized design arranged with fi ve levels (150, 300, 600, 1200 and 2400 FTU/Kg) of phytase enzyme as treatments 1...

Caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), derived from honeybee hives, is a bioactive compound with strong antioxidant activity. This study was designed to test the neuroprotective effect of CAPE in 3-nitropropionic acid (3NP)-induced striatal neurotoxicity, a chemical model of Huntington's disease (HD). Initially, to test CAPE's antioxidant activity, a 2,2'-azino-bis-3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfoni...

Society benefi ts on a large scale from improved medical care and pharmaceuticals. The prescription of pharmaceuticals, however, also carries risks such as the possibility of an increased risk of falls, which may lead to severe injuries and increased health expenditures associated with these injuries. This study investigates the infl uence of several fall risk increasing drugs (FRIDs) on the nu...

D. Vykydal, J. Plura, P. Halfarova, R. Fabík, P. Klaput, VŠB – TU Ostrava, FMME, Ostrava, Czech Republic The quality of a product is given by the extent, to which the product meets customer requirements. It is generally accepted that the extent, to which the product meets such customer requirements, and, consequently, the resulting quality of the product itself, substantially depend on the earl...

408 www.thelancet.com Vol 379 February 4, 2012 a full 14 days. Sequential therapy was less eff ective than has been reported in other trials, but a careful appraisal of the data shows that TT-14 was not remarkably better than ST: the number need to treat in favour of TT14 was 18, with a wide 95% CI (9–175) suggesting uncertainty in the true estimate of eff ect. In conclusion, caution should be ...

Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these micro-breweries and estimate the implied welfare eff ects through the woodfuel market on private households as well as the environmental eff ect. We fi nd substantial wood savings among the breweries and, subsequent...

Global declines in biodiversity create an urgent need to address the impact of infectious disease in the small and fragmented populations that characterize threatened species. However, the paucity of empirical data provides little ability to predict whether disease generally accelerates threatened species towards extinction or becomes less important as populations decline. Th is study tests whe...

Calving is a key event on any cattle farm, with both economic and animal welfare consequences when complications arise. Although mostly reported in highly selected breeds, problematic calving performance is also a worry to the unselected dualpurpose Murboden breed, local to Austria. Th is study presents genetic parameter estimates for calving ease and stillbirth in Murboden cattle. Furthermore,...

We investigated whether prunetin affects the proteolytic activity, secretion, and gene expression of matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP-3) in primary cultured rabbit articular chondrocytes, as well as in vivo production of MMP-3 in the rat knee joint to evaluate the potential chondroprotective eff ect of prunetin. Rabbit articular chondrocytes were cultured in a monolayer, and reverse transcriptio...

We read the article by Hamza et al with great interest [1]. Th e authors have investigated the risk factors and whether antibiotic prophylaxis helps prevent recurrence of cellulitis in cirrhosis . We agree with the authors that bacterial infections are frequent in cirrhotic patients because of their defective defense mechanisms and that these infections precipitate decompensation of cirrhosis. ...