an experiment was conducted to study the effects of soybean, linseed and sunflower oil (various sources of fatty acids) with and without l-carnitine supplements (0 and 50 mg kg-1) on performance, blood biochemical parameters and carcass traits of japanese quail. one hundred and ninety-two of 7-day old female japanese quail were randomly assigned to 6 dietary treatments with 4 replicates and fed...

Abstract Background and Aims Improvement in quality of life survival have been reported after parathyroidectomy patients with end-stage kidney disease. In addition to bone loss, protein-energy wasting has also linked excess parathyroid hormone (PTH) level. The present study examined the changes nutritional parameters receiving maintenance hemodialysis compared non-parathyroidectomized patients....

BACKGROUND Glutamine supplementation is a novel approach to perioperative nutritional management. METHODS This study was a prospective randomized clinical trial of effects of enteral glutamine supplementation in surgical patients with head and neck malignancy in a tertiary center. This study measured the effects of supplementation within 4 weeks of the postoncologic surgical period in relatio...

Thiol group functionalized silica-coated magnetic nanoparticles (Si-MNPs@SH) were synthesized for rapid and selective magnetic field-based separation of mixed proteins. The highest adsorption efficiencies of binary proteins, bovine serum albumin (BSA; 66 kDa; pI = 4.65) and lysozyme (LYZ; 14.3 kDa; pI = 11) were shown at the pH values corresponding to their own pI in the single-component protei...

Here we show that dielectrophoretic (DEP) liquid actuation can be used to dispense arrays of nanoliter-sized droplets loaded with biomolecules. Size-based enrichment of these biomolecules occurs rapidly and simultaneously with the droplet dispensing. The physical mechanism responsible for the effect is the positive DEP force directed toward the electrodes that is imposed by the non-uniform elec...

abstract background: nutrients meeting recommended dietary intakes take time to establish and once established are rarely maintained throughout hospital stay in preterm infants. methods: our purpose is to define the nutritional status and growth parameters of hospitalized patients at discharge in our hospital. data were obtained concerning all 50 infants born weighing < 1800 g and < 34 weeks of...

The kinetics of enzymatic reactions are usually interpreted in terms of the Michaelis-Menton (1) reaction scheme which postulates formation of an intermediate enzyme-substrate complex. Although the concept of an enzyme-substrate complex has long been of great importance to our understanding of enzymatic reactions, only in relatively recent times has the existence of such a complex been directly...

The studies support the previous conclusion that two uridine phosphorylating enzymes exist during germination of Zea mays, of which only one is active in vitro during the initial 48 hours of germination. The early appearing enzyme is less heat stable and of higher molecular weight than the second one, which becomes active after this time. The evidence presented indicates that the second enzyme ...

 ABSTRACT Background: Nutrients meeting recommended dietary intakes take time to establish and once established are rarely maintained throughout hospital stay in preterm infants. Methods: Our purpose is to define the nutritional status and growth parameters of hospitalized patients at discharge in our hospital. Data were obtained concerning all 50 infants born weighing <1800 g and <34 weeks of ...

purpose: the gole of this study is to survey attitudes of council members' of rural relative to the preference quality of life in rural areas of villages of dehgolan in kurditan province. it reveals the priority of indices in terms of the quality of life improvement in this region. methodology: this study was descriptive - analytical. data was collected through a questionnaire survey. the study...