Strontium is currently prescribed for patients with osteoporosis to increase bone density and reduce bone fractures but its relevance in animal nutrition is obscure. In order to investigate the effect of supplemental strontium and vitamin D3 on performance, egg quality and skeletal integrity in poultry a total of 108 laying hens, 99 weeks of age, were fed three levels of strontium (0, 500 mg/kg...

Vitamin D deficiency is emerging worldwide and many studies now suggest its role in the development of several chronic diseases. Due to the low level of vitamin D naturally occurring in food there is a need for supplementation and use of vitamin D-enhanced products. The aim of the present study was to determine if daily consumption of vitamin D2-enhanced mushrooms increased vitamin D status in ...

The low-energy theory on the world volume of parallel static D3-branes of type 0 strings is the Yang-Mills theory with six scalar fields in the adjoint representation. One-loop corrections in this theory induce Coleman-Weinberg effective potential, which can be interpreted as an interaction energy of D3-branes. The potential is repulsive at short distances and attractive at large ones. In the e...

We study the dynamics of a D3-brane moving in the background of a bulk tachyon field of a D3-brane solution of Type-0 string theory. We show that the dynamics on the probe D3-brane can be described by a geometrical tachyon field rolling down its potential which is modified by a function of the bulk tachyon and inflation occurs at weak string coupling, where the bulk tachyon condenses, near the ...

Plasma levels of 1,25 dihydroxy-vitamin D (1,25-(OH)2-D) were low in 3 children with hypophosphataemic vitamin D-resistant rickets (HVDRR) during childhood, but increased after very large doses (0 * 5 to 2 ,g/kg per day) of 1 ao-hydroxy-vitamin D (1 ac-OH-D3). This treatment has two advantages. Firstly, hypercalcaemia is easily controlled by reducing the dose of oc-OH-D3 because of its short ha...

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1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1, 25 (OH)2 D3) and mechanical stimuli in physiological environment contributes greatly to osteoporosis pathogenesis. Wide investigations have been conducted on how 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and mechanical stimuli separately impact osteoblasts. This study reports the collective influences of 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and flow shear stress (FSS) on biological functions...

Background: We investigated serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 and the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphisms (Fokl, Bsml) in Egyptian patients with Behçet’s disease (BD) and their relationship to disease manifestations and activity. Methods: We studied 45 patients with BD fulfilling the international study group criteria ISG for BD (1999) and 45 healthy, matched controls. We evaluated V...

Context Vitamin D deficiency disproportionately affects nonwhite individuals. Controversy persists over how to best restore low 25D levels, and how to best define vitamin D status [total (protein bound plus free) vs free 25D]. Objective To assess the effects of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol, or D3) vs 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (calcifediol, or 25D3) on total and free 25D in a multiethnic cohort of a...

The Type 0 string theory is considered as a dual model of a non-supersymmetric gauge theory. A background geometry with N electric D3-branes is calculated in UV/IR regions. In this paper, we study a D5-brane around N D3-branes from the D5-brane world volume action as in the Type IIB case, and we obtain some baryon configurations at UV/IR regions. 6/99 † [email protected]