Certain strains of Campylobacter jejuni are implicated not only in diarrhea in humans, but also in the rare, but more serious Guillain-Barré syndrome, which may be fatal. Since poultry are the major reservoirs of C. jejuni, reducing contamination of poultry meat with this organism will decrease risk to the human consumer. Poultry meat which is contaminated with Campylobacter spp. and other huma...

A 3 to 4 week feed restriction of about 20% to 25% of the free intake is widely applied in rabbit breeding systems to reduce post-weaning digestive disorders. However, a short intensive feed restriction is described in few studies and can be beneficial for growing rabbits due to a longer re-alimentation period. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ad libitum (AL) and two restrict...

It has been postulatedthat the intestinal anaerobes play a role In the etiology of large bowel cancer. This study was designed to characterize and compare the fecab anaerobes of patients with large bowel cancer, patients wfth nonheredbtarylarge bowel pobyps,and healthy control subjects. Although some distributional variationsof the anaerobicgenerawere observedamong the studygroups,significantdi...

[1] Observations from the Polar satellite during a substorm on 29 August 1996 are used to characterize electrodynamic properties of a nightside field line resonance (FLR). A negative H bay and Pi2 pulsations were simultaneously observed at midlatitude SAMNET ground stations (L = 2.6 4.5, 0000 MLT). During the pulsations, Polar was moving outbound on a 0330 MLT meridian and crossing L shells fro...

PURPOSE To determine the topographic effects of zonular tension on the anterior surface of the human crystalline lens. METHODS Real-time topography of the anterior surface of seven fully relaxed, freshly extracted intact, clear, human crystalline lenses aged 3, 17, 45, 54, 54, 56, and 56 years was qualitatively obtained before, during, and after the application of zonular traction. Zonular tr...