the present experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of vitaminpremix(vp), fed during the last three weeks of a broiler rearing period (22-42 days), on its growthperformance and carcass characteristics. four hundred 22 day old broilers received diets containingfour levels of supplementary vp (0, 33.33, 66.66 and 100%) each at a different weeks of finisherperiod. the ...

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Biogenic polyamines are essential for cell growth and differentiation, while polyamine analogues exert antitumor activity in multiple experimental model systems, including breast and lung cancer. Dendrimers are widely used for drug delivery in vitro and in vivo. We report the bindings of biogenic polyamines, spermine (spm), and spermidine (spmd), and their synthetic analogues, 3,7,11,15-tetraza...

The effects of monocytic/macrophage and granulocytic differentiation induced by phorbol myristate acetate (TPA) and all-trans retinoic acid, respectively, were tested on the induction of apoptosis in human promyelocytic leukemia HL60 cells treated with topoisomerase I and II inhibitors. Using a filter-binding assay, we observed a strong inhibition of DNA fragmentation induced by 3and 24-hour co...

Bcl-2 has been shown to inhibit apoptosis induced by several anticancer agents and to cause a dissociation between etoposide (VP-lot-induced protein-cross-linked DNA strand breaks and VP-16-induced cell death. We suggested previously that VP-16-induced cytotoxicity is mediated by a series of events leading from cleavable complex formation to aberrant UNA recombination, as measured by sister chr...

Controversial results regarding the role of vasopressin as a mediator of ethanol-induced diuresis raise the question, whether ethanol may stimulate diuresis directly on the level of the kidney, possibly by its vasodilating properties. We thus studied the effects of different ethanol-concentrations (0.5 ‰, 1 ‰, 2 ‰, and 4 ‰; n = 4 to 6, respectively) – in the presence of 10 mU/l vasopressin in t...

The concentration and composition of wheat gluten proteins and the presence, concentration and location of cysteine residues therein are important for wheat flour quality. However, it is difficult to identify gluten proteins, as they are an extremely polymorphic mixture of prolamins. We here present methods for cysteine labeling of wheat prolamins with 4-vinylpyridine (4-VP) and iodoacetamide (...

In this study, we test the hypothesis that there are differential splicing patterns between the expressed oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (VP) genes in the rat supraoptic nucleus (SON). We quantify the low abundance, intron-containing heteronuclear RNAs (hnRNAs) and the higher abundance mRNAs in the SON using two-step, quantitative SYBR Green real-time reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and external ...