Cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAPs) defend against pathogens and, in some cases, exhibit potent anticancer activities. We previously reported that the pleurocidin NRC-03 causes lysis of breast cancer and multiple myeloma cells. NRC-03 also reduces the EC50 of other cytotoxic compounds and prevents tumor growth in vivo. However, the therapeutic utility of NRC-03 may be limited by its suscepti...

Nine thousand eight hundred, day old male Cobb X Cobb broilers were utilized in a 5x2 factorial design (10 replications/treatment) to determine the effects of five B-vitamins (riboflavin, pantothenic acid, niacin, B12 and folic acid) fortification levels (NRC, 2X, 4X, 8X and 16X NRC) and two levels of stress (low and moderate) on the performance of 0-49 day broilers. Diets were formulated to be...

PURPOSE To characterize the retinal physiology of the zebrafish visual mutant no optokinetic response c (nrc) and to identify the genetic map position of the nrc mutation. METHODS Electroretinograms were recorded from wild-type and nrc zebrafish larvae between 5 to 6 days postfertilization. Responses to flash stimuli, On and Off responses to prolonged light stimuli, and responses to flash sti...

Clostridioides difficile is a Gram positive spore-forming rod and mainly responsible for nosocomial diarrhea in developed nations. Molecular antimicrobial surveillance important monitoring the strain composition including genotypes of high epidemiological importance such as ribotype 027 (RT027) corresponding resistance patterns. 1535 isolates obtained from samples sent between 2014 2019 to Germ...

a study was conducted to evaluate the effect of feeding different levels of protein to black baladi breed kids. weanling baladi kids (n=18; 75 to 90 days old) were selected and individually housed at our experimental farm. kids were divided randomly to one of the three treatments for 12 weeks. the three dietary treatments were: t1: control ration, formulated according to nrc to cover the protei...

The impact of religious coping (RC) on health has been a subject interest in recent years. Despite the increase research RC, Puerto Rico there not identified studies aimed to examine mediating role positive (PRC) and negative (NRC) mental variables. Therefore, objectives study are: (1) Examine relationship between perceived stress (PS) with PRC/NRC, psychological symptoms (PSx; depression, anxi...

this study was carried out to determine the effects of different levels of protein and probiotic (protexin) on performance, and immune response in ross (308) broiler exposed to heat stress. five hundred and forty one-day old broilers were employed in a compeletly randomized design (3×3 factorial arrangement) of 3 replicates for each treatment. the diets were formulated according to nrc (1994) r...

This experiment evaluates the effect of decreasing dietary CP, in addition to the effects of dietary supplements of L-Thr to low CP diets, in Large White Nicholas toms from 0 to 18 wk of age. Toms were fed dietary treatments consisting of four levels of dietary CP as a percentage of NRC (1994) recommendations (100, 92, 84, and 76% of NRC recommendations). Additional treatments consisted of supp...

This study was conducted to find the effect of methionine and threonine supplementations higher than the NRC recommendation on growth performance and white blood cell differentiation of broiler chickens challenged with infectious bursal disease. A total of 450 day-old male broiler chicks were assigned to nine groups. Chickens were fed by three graded levels of DLmethionine [NRC (M1), 2 times NR...