The aim of this study was to determine the effect of animal management and farm facilities on total feed intake (TFI), feed conversion ratio (FCR) and mortality rate (MORT) of grower-finishing pigs. In total, 310 batches from 244 grower-finishing farms, consisting of 454 855 Pietrain sired pigs in six Spanish pig companies were used. Data collection consisted of a survey on management practices...

Goals: an evaluation of effectiveness Fludarabine, Cyclophosphomide and Rituximab (FCR therapy) for patients with newly diagnosed Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) validation results from multi-centered clinical trials in real practice. Materials methods: sixty six (66) diagnosis CLL were included to this prospective study average age 58 years old (39-73 old). Stage I - II according Rai stagin...

We have demonstrated that one Fc receptor for IgG (FcR) (CD16) on cultured human monocytes appears to be a developmentally regulated membrane protein. This receptor appears to contain less carbohydrate (if any) than does its counterpart on human neutrophils. Expression of CD16 on cultured monocytes increases with respect to both percentage of positive cells and numbers of sites per cell with le...

Streptococcus pneumoniae fructose bisphosphate aldolase (FBA) is a cell wall-localized lectin. We demonstrate that recombinant (r) FBA and anti-rFBA antibodies inhibit encapsulated and unencapsulated S. pneumoniae serotype 3 adherence to A549 type II lung carcinoma epithelial cells. A random combinatorial peptide library expressed by filamentous phage was screened with rFBA. Eleven of 30 rFBA-b...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) restricts transport of immunoglobulin G (IgG) in the blood to brain direction. However, IgG undergoes rapid efflux in the brain to blood direction via reverse transcytosis across the BBB after direct intracerebral injection. This BBB IgG transport system has the characteristics of an Fc receptor (FcR), but there is no molecular information on the putative BBB FcR. ...

A total of 100, day-old broiler chicks were randomly divided into 5 equal groups and kept under elevated temperature (93-97F) to see the effect of ascorbic acid and acetylsalicylic acid on the feed conversion ratio (FCR), immune status and ratio of weight of bursa, thymus and spleen to body weight. Heat stress increased the FCR but decreased the immune response and ratio of bursa, thymus and sp...

IgG FcRs are important mediators of immunity and play a key role during Ab-based immunotherapy. Within the leukocyte IgG receptor family, only FcγRI is capable of IgG binding with high affinity. FcγRI exists as a complex of a ligand binding α-chain and an FcR γ-chain. The receptors' α-chain can, furthermore, elicit several functions independent of the ITAM-bearing FcR γ-chain. Functional implic...

An abnormality of femoral anteversion (FA) is often recognized in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip joint (hip OA). And it is considered that rotation abnormality in the knee and the lower leg occurs as compensation, in cases of FA abnormality. The purpose of this study was to assess the magnitude and variability of FA and femoral condyle rotation (FCR) in order to identify the associatio...

at a commercial feed mill and were of similar nutritional composition. Feed form variations were made my grinding a portion of the pellets produced for each diet phase. The HQP diets averaged 78.6% intact pellets and the GP diets averaged a 1,108 micron particle size. On D42, YP1 improved ending weight (EW; P=0.022) and feed conversion ratio (FCR; P=0.022). However, no YP Carryover effect was d...

A small number of network components failures can cause high-speed networks (LANs) or System Area Networks (SANs) to be partitioned. This issue has been resolved with the introduction of redundant network components (ie. interfaces) into the network. A cost effective solution can be achieved with switch interconnects. Recently, such networks have been successfully implemented[6] with Myrinet ne...