Ross L. Prentice received his B.Sc. from the University of Waterloo and Ph.D. Toronto. He joined Washington (UW) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (the Hutch) in 1974, is currently Professor Biostatistics at these institutions. was Senior Vice President Hutch, Director its Public Health Sciences Division, for more than 25 years. Dr. Prentice’s expertise research interests are fields biosta...

Survival in young adult patients after mechanical aortic valve replacement is reported to be significantly reduced compared with the general ageand gender-matched population, whereas survival after the Ross procedure is excellent and comparable to that in the general population. There is ongoing debate about whether the excellent survival rates observed in Ross patients are a consequence of a h...

in the present study, interactions between lead exposure with nitric oxide precursor (l-arginine) or nitric oxide synthase (nos) inhibitor (l-name) on naloxone-induced jumping and diarrhea in morphine-dependent mice were examined. chronic lead acetate (0.05%) exposure altered naloxone-induced jumping and diarrhea in mice. jumping was decreased after 7 days and was unchanged 14 and 28 days after...

The development of the poultry industry in last years demanded evaluation different broiler chicken strains order to improve production efficiency and welfare, considering physiological livability parameters. Thus, present study aimed compare growth performance three (Lohmann, Hubbard Ross). All birds were fed a similar standard commercial diet ad libitum, separately allocated treatment groups....

Recounts the career and contributions of Ross Stone.

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different commercial multi enzymes and nutrients levels of diets on performance and carcass traits of broilers. in this experiment 288 day old ross – 308 broilers (male and female) were used as (2*4) factors include: two levels of nutrients in diets (ross- 308 nutrients recommendation and 5% less than ross- 308 nutrients recommendation) a...