Vegetable proteins such as soybean meal, canola meal and lupins are widely used as the main protein source in poultry diets. However, there is only limited information on the nutritive or anti–nutritive effects of indigestible non–starch polysaccharides in vegetable proteins. This review discusses a number of experiments which investigated the effects of feed enzymes on the utilisation of non–s...

Background: In addition to passive immunotherapy using anti-HER2 monoclonal antibodies, active immunotherapy via HER2 targeting is an interesting approach to inducing specific anti-tumor immune responses. We have recently reported the immunogenicity of HER2 subdomains following DNA immunization and HER2 protein boosting. In the present study, we evaluated the immunogenicity of different HER2 ex...

Proteins and peptides of housefly larvae (HFL) have potential applications in food therapy. The fate HFL proteins following human gastrointestinal (GI) digestion is unknown. This study adopted a computational approach to discover released from upon GI digestion. In silico eight major 783 peptides. comprised 243 exhibiting 13 types bioactivities. Ninety-two single-function anti-dipeptidyl peptid...

When allowed to choose between different macronutrients, most animals display a strong attraction toward carbohydrates compared with proteins. It remains uncertain, however, whether this food selection pattern depends primarily on the sensory properties intrinsic to each nutrient or, alternatively, metabolic signals can act independently of the hedonic value of sweetness to stimulate elevated s...

background: recently, botulinum neurotoxin (bont)-derived recombinant proteins have been suggested as potential botulism vaccines. here, with concentrating on bont type e (bont/e), we studied two of these binding domain-based recombinant proteins: a multivalent chimer protein, which is composed of bont serotypes a, b and e binding subdomains, and a monovalent recombinant protein, which contains...

Background: Recently, botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT)-derived recombinant proteins have been suggested as potential botulism vaccines. Here, with concentrating on BoNT type E (BoNT/E), we studied two of these binding domain-based recombinant proteins: a multivalent chimer protein, which is composed of BoNT serotypes A, B and E binding subdomains, and a monovalent recombinant protein, which contains...

This study evaluated the nutrient and anti-nutrient content of four rice varieties in Port Harcourt metropolis. Four (Tomato gold TG, Mama’s pride MP, Ultimate UG daily choice DC) were used this study. The purchased, milled into fine flour for proximate, mineral analysis using standard methods. Proximate composition revealed that moisture ranged from 11.51-12.80%, ash (0.45-0.60%), fat (0.39-1....