Dental caries, the most chronic disease affecting mankind, has been in the limelight with regard to its prevention and treatment. Professional clinical management of caries has been very successful in cases of different severities of disease manifestations. However, tertiary management of this disease has been gaining attention, with numerous methods and agents emerging on a daily basis. Higher...

The sorghum grains are of great economic importance in the arid Southwest. They are immigrant crops, native to South Africa, which have proved themselves to be well adapted for growth in the southwestern plains, for they are drought resistant and high yielding with a minimum amount of water (19).^ For this reason they are widely used in animal feeding rations in place of yellow corn, which can ...

Soybean contains a high concentration of carbohydrates that consist mainly of non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) and oligosaccharides. The NSP can be divided into insoluble NSP (mainly cellulose) and soluble NSP (composed mainly of pectic polymers, which are partially soluble in water). Monogastric animals do not have the enzymes to hydrolyze these carbohydrates, and thus their digestion occurs b...

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...

Tifton 85 bermudagrass has been widely used in tropical and subtropical regions. Owing to its high forage yield, the fertilizer requirement of is also high. Inoculation with Azospirillum brasilense an alternative reduce use nitrogen fertilizers decrease their environmental impact. However, effects inoculation grasses remain poorly understood. This study aimed evaluate productivity, pasture char...

BACKGROUND The effects of non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) on glucose metabolism and appetite regulating hormones are not clear. There is an ongoing debate concerning NNS use and deleterious changes in metabolism. OBJECTIVES The aim of this review is to analyze the scientific available evidence regarding the effects of NNS on glucose metabolism and appetite regulating hormones. DATA SOURCES A...