Thirteen horses of Thoroughbred or Standardbred breeding were used to study the effect of dietary fish oil supplementation on blood lipid characteristics. Horses were assigned to either fish oil (n = 7) or corn oil (n = 6) treatment groups for 63 d. The fish oil contained 10.8% eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and 8% docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Each horse received timothy hay and a mixed-grain conce...

Birth asphyxia is a leading cause of neonatal mortality in India. At present there is no reliable early marker to predict the outcome in these cases. We conducted this study to evaluate 8-hydroxy 2-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) as a biochemical marker for predicting outcome in perinatal asphyxia. Term neonates fulfilling the inclusion criteria were recruited in the study. Cord blood was collected imm...

Introduction Hydrogeologic investigations are often hampered by insufficient information about the site-specific hydrostratigraphic features that control ground water flow and solute transport. Field and modeling studies in a wide variety of geologic settings have shown the importance of a detailed description of aquifer heterogeneity for applications ranging from prediction of contaminant tran...

The adsorption behavior of ions at liquid–vapor interfaces exhibits several unexpected yet generic features. In particular, energy and entropy are both minimum when the solute resides near the surface, for a variety of ions in a range of polar solvents, contrary to predictions of classical theories. Motivated by this generality, and by the simple physical ingredients implicated by computational...

The effect of bromocriptine, a dopamine agonist, administered in the form of bromocriptine alginate nanocomposite (BANC) was studied on Parkinson’s disease (PD) model flies. The synthesized BANCwas subject to characterization and, at a final concentration of 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 μM, was mixed in diet. The PD flies were allowed to feed on it for 24 days. A significant dose-dependent delay in the los...

Amniotic band sequence (ABS) is the term applied to a wide range of congenital anomalies, most typically limb and digital amputations and constriction rings, that occur in association with fibrous bands (1). These alterations may be associated or not with cutaneous and visceral abnormalities. This work, which is a literature review, examines several studies that relate to cases of amniotic band...