A ten-week trial was carried out to determine the effect of different levels of nano-calcium carbonate (NCC) on egg production performance and egg quality. A completely randomized experiment was designed comprising 6 treatments, each with 4 replicates of 5 hens. Groups 1 and 2 were fed diets containing 8.06% and 6.045% calcium carbonate (CC) as positive and negative control respectively. Groups...

The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which Need for Cognitive Closure (NCC), an individual-level epistemic motivation, can explain inter-individual variability in the cognitive effort invested on a perceptual decision making task (the random motion task). High levels of NCC are manifested in a preference for clarity, order and structure and a desire for firm and stable knowledge. T...

Background: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is endemic in non-developed regions of the world. Two forms NCC have been described, for which neurological morbidity depends on location lesion, can be either within cerebral parenchyma or extraparenchymal spaces. The form (EXP-NCC) considered most severe NCC. EXP-NCC often requires several cycles cysticidal treatment and concomitant use glucocorticoids to ...

Neurocysticercosis is the commonest parasitic disease of the human central nervous system. The incidence of intra ventricular form of neurocysticercosis (NCC) is less common accounting 10-20% that of total central nerve system cysticercosis. Intra ventricular NCC is complicated due, to its high incidence of acute hydrocephalus caused by ball valve mechanism. The only reliable tool for diagnosis...

in NCC. Detailed analysis of one protease, the gelatinase MMP9, confirmed its distribution in cranial and trunk NCC. Exogenous MMP9 resulted in enhanced and precocious delamination of NCC, evident by Foxd3 or HNK1 staining. Conversely, prevention of MMP9 production or activation, using morpholino oligonucleotides or a pharmacological inhibitor, respectively, revealed a dramatic inhibition in NC...

in NCC. Detailed analysis of one protease, the gelatinase MMP9, confirmed its distribution in cranial and trunk NCC. Exogenous MMP9 resulted in enhanced and precocious delamination of NCC, evident by Foxd3 or HNK1 staining. Conversely, prevention of MMP9 production or activation, using morpholino oligonucleotides or a pharmacological inhibitor, respectively, revealed a dramatic inhibition in NC...

choice. However, the data regarding the surgical management of NCC is quite insufficient, especially for extraparenchymal NCC. Many scholars advocate that anti-parasitic therapy should be considered as a priority in parenchymal NCC and steroids and anti-epileptic drugs are also chosen commonly in case of brain edema and seizures caused by the cysticerci (2,5,10). In contrast, extraparenchymal N...

Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system that affects thousands of people all over the world, mainly in Latin America (Mexico, Central America, equatorial zone, and Brazil), Asia (India and China), and Africa. Also because of the high immigration rates from endemic to nonendemic areas, NCC is now commonly seen in countries that were previously ...

the objective of this research was to compare the tensile, permeability, solubility and color properties of plasticized starch-polyvinyl alcohol-montmo-rillonite (ps-pva-mmt) and plasticized starch-polyvinyl alcohol-cellulose nanocrystal (ps-pva-ncc) bionanocomposite flms. the results showed that adding mmt (7%), increased the ultimate tensile strenght from 4.2 mpa to 4.61 mpa, however, ncc (7%...