Heat stress is detrimental during gestation; however, the effects of heat on goat placental characteristics and kid survival remain unclear. The objective this study was to evaluate at final gestation cortisol concentration, placenta characteristics, expression genes related placenta. Forty-six primiparous multiparous Saanen goats were subjected control (CT; under a thermoneutral environment: a...

BACKGROUND Invasive ventilation for COPD has significant mortality, and weaning can be difficult. At Papworth Hospital, we provide a specialist weaning service using noninvasive ventilation (NIV) for patients requiring prolonged invasive ventilation after recovery from acute illness. We analyzed our results for patients with COPD to identify factors associated with weaning outcome and survival....

OBJECTIVES We conducted this study to determine the result of prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and the predictive factors for hospital discharge and ECMO weaning. BACKGROUND Prolonged CPR carries considerable associated mortality and morbidity. As yet, ECMO for prolonged CPR has no definite results. Only small groups of patients and...

A total of 25 preruminant Granadina breed goats were used. They were bottle-fed goat milk ad libitum from postnatal day 3 to 28. Until the age of 3 d, kids were fed colostrum. Body weight, pancreas weight, total protein concentration, enzyme activities in pancreatic tissue and hormone concentrations (cortisol, gastrin, T3 and T4) were determined at 3, 7, 14, 21 and 28 d of age. Our results show...

BACKGROUND Longevity is the amount of time breeding females stay active in a herd by avoiding death or culling because of illness or reproductive failure. This is a trait of economic relevance in commercial small ruminant breeding herds as it affects lifetime reproductive output. The purpose of this study was to determine if breed of meat goat influences breeding doe survival rates and cumulati...

Pregnancy rate, calf survival rate to weaning and calf age at weaning of several types of crossbred cows (2/3 or more Brahman) were compared to those of straightbred Brahman and Angus cows over a 1 2 9 period at Subtropical Agricultural Research Station near Brooksville, FL. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance of additive vs nonadditive genetic effects on reproduc...

BACKGROUND Rehabilitation is a non-pharmacologic therapy that can restore health and reverse the patient's disability, but the efficacy of rehabilitation in critically ill patients is not well documented. METHODS In a prospective cohort study, we assessed whether the degree of change in functional status after comprehensive rehabilitation influenced clinical outcomes in 77 tracheotomized pati...

the data were collected from 1992 to 2009 in burri, white boni and black boni sheep maintained at the regional research station in the central highlands of yemen. data were analyzed to study the effects of environmental and genetic factors on body weight and growth rate from birth to weaning. the least square means for body weights (bw) were 2.54, 2.18 and 2.26 kg for birth; 12.49, 10.58 and 11...