The effects of replacing 50% of cereals-based concentrate with feed blocks (FB) including wastes of tomato fruits (diet ACT), wastes of cucumber fruits (diet ACC), or barley grain (diet ACB) on nutrient use, ruminal fermentation, microbial N flow to the duodenum, methane emissions, and abundances of total bacteria and methanogen were studied in goats. Four adult, dry, nonpregnant, rumen-fistula...

The cannabinoid system is known to interact with a variety of neuromodulators in the central nervous system and impacts diverse behaviors. Previous studies have demonstrated that limbic norepinephrine is a critical determinant in the behavioral expression of cannabinoid-induced aversion. The present study was carried out to define the adrenergic receptor subtype involved in mediating cannabinoi...

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright © 2012. Anatomy & Cell Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.5115/acb.2012.45.3.214 pISSN ...

The aim of the present work was to study, in dairy goats, the effect of replacing 35% of concentrate in the diet with feed blocks including tomato fruits wastes on CH4 emission, milk yield and fatty acid and amino acid profiles. Eight Granadina goats (39.6 ± 1.89 kg BW) in the middle of the third lactation were used, and a two-periods trial was carried out following a crossover design. In each ...

Clinical infections caused by Acinetobacter spp. have increasing public health concerns because of their global occurrence and ability to acquire multidrug resistance. Acinetobacter calcoaceti-cus–Acinetobacter baumannii (ACB) complex encompasses A. calcoa-ceticus, A. baumannii, A. pittii (formerly genomic species 3), and A nosocomial (formerly genomic species 13TU), which are predominantly res...

The ring expansion of small-ring compounds provides a powerful method for the construction of various cyclic compounds. Herein, nitrene equivalent mediated metal-free ring expansions of alkylidenecyclopropanes (ACPs) and an alkylidenecyclobutane (ACB) were described. In this synthesis, a series of aryl-substituted cyclobutylidene and cyclopentylidene hydrazine derivatives were obtained under mi...

Anatomical tracing studies indicate that the nucleus accumbens receives inputs from limbic structures, and projects to the ventral pallidurn. In order to get more fundamental insight into how information from the limbic areas is relayed via the nucleus accumbens, electrophysiological experiments were carried out in rats under halothane anaesthesia. Inputs originating in the subiculum were activ...

INTRODUCTION Co-occurring psychiatric conditions and concerning behaviours are prevalent in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and are likely to be detrimental to functioning and long-term outcomes. The cognitive rigidity and deficits in emotional literacy and verbal behaviour that commonly occur in ASD can adversely affect clinicians' confidence to identify concerning behaviours...

Metastatic melanoma is near-to-invariably a fatal disease. As novel therapeutic strategies against metastatic melanoma are urgently needed, we have tested a combinatorial regimen consisting of conventional chemotherapy coupled to bevacizumab, a monoclonal antibody that inhibit angiogenesis, demonstrating some clinical benefit. A preliminary assessment of one of our clinical trials points to a p...