Six Holstein steers (initial BW 335 kg) were used in a replicated 3 x 3 Latin square design to study the distribution of Zn in ruminal contents from a conventional Zn source (ZnO) or Zn sequestered to a polysaccharide (PC-Zn). Treatments consisted of a basal diet (no Zn supplementation) and the basal diet supplemented with Zn from either PC-Zn or ZnO. Steers were provided with 208, 920, or 896 ...

This study examined the effect of an antioxidant intervention in biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress (OS) in the blood of Down syndrome (DS) children and teenagers during four different stages. A control group was composed by healthy children (n=18), assessed once, and a Down group composed by DS patients (n=21) assessed at the basal period (t0), as well as after 6 months of antioxi...

Introduction: Consumption of anabolic steroids causes damage to various tissues, including the heart. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of resistance training (RT) on malondialdehyde (MDA) and protein carbonyl (PC) in the heart tissue of rats exposed to stanozolol (S). Methods: In this experimental study, 18 rats with mean age of 8 weeks and weight range of 150 to 200 g were ...

Experimental investigations of the neural substrate of consciousness typically take one of two paths, studying (1) contents or (2) levels of consciousness. It seems obvious to most that these two "paths" are interrelated, yet much less obvious how. This paper gives one suggestion to grasp the interrelation, arguing that conscious levels are determined by conscious contents in a very specific wa...

Background: Pemphigus diseases including pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and bullous pemphigoid (BP) are autoimmune diseases that cause severe blistering of the skin and mucous membranes. Among inflammatory mediators, reactive oxygen species (ROS) are involved in the pathogenesis of a wide variety of diseases through oxidative stress for which protein carbonyl (PC) and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) ...

This study examines the effects of consensus and resulting organizational learning on new strategy implementation. In doing so, we consider two challenges inherent in implementing new strategy: breaking and reestablishing organizational and individual routines and managing uncertainties and unexpected problems. By sampling 113 groups within a large company, we found that group performance can b...

Research on neural correlates of consciousness has been conducted and carried out mostly from within two relatively autonomous paradigmatic traditions - studying the specific contents of conscious experience and their brain-process correlates and studying the level of consciousness. In the present paper we offer a theoretical integration suggesting that an emphasis has to be put on understandin...

Using rat striatal slices, we examined the effect of cytidine on the conversion of [3H]choline to [3H]-phosphatidylcholine ([3H]PC), and on net syntheses of PC, phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), and phosphatidylserine, when media did or did not also contain choline, ethanolamine, or serine. Incubation of striatal slices with cytidine (50-500 microM) caused dose-dependent increases in intracellular...