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... Studies report beneficial effects of 3-hydroxybutyrate (3-OHB) on the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity, but the effects of 3-OHB on diabetic nephropathy have not been elucidated. This study was designed to investigate the efficacy and mechanism of 3-OHB against progression of diabetic nephropathy (DN). Mice (db/db) were fed normal chow, high-fat, or ketogenic diets (KD) containing precurso ...
cages; chemical communication; diastereomers; regioselectivity
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... Cryptophane cages can adopt either an anti or syn configuration that present different recognition properties. While the synthesis of anti-cryptophanes is well reported, the synthesis of syn-cryptophanes remains a challenge. Herein, we demonstrate that the use of HFIP as a co-solvent during the second ring closure reaction significantly affects the regioselectivity, providing easier access to the ...
... This study describes the patterns of mortality and investigates the sources of variation in mortality during the marine phase of commercial salmon farming. The study included daily mortality records from stocking to harvest of 21 million salmon from ten hatcheries in 136 fish‐groups (fish in the same cage from the same hatchery). The fish was stocked in 2017–2018 at 21 marine farms within two Norw ...
Raman spectroscopy; barns; biomarkers; cages; carotenoids; food industry; food safety; profitability; public health
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... The aim of this study is to show that Raman spectroscopy is a sensitive tool, which can be used to analyse eggs obtained in various hens' housing breeding systems. This study provided a new and simple method for testing hens’ eggs breeding systems. Raman methods have the potential to be applied by commercial inspections in the food industry for verification labels placed on eggs. The development o ...
animal behavior; animal welfare; cages; certification; laws and regulations; mink; nests; protocols; variance; Denmark; Finland; Italy; Lithuania; Netherlands; Poland; Sweden
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... Although the welfare of farm mink has been debated for decades, the status at mink farms has not previously been reported. Likewise, little is known about the variation in housing conditions and animal responses between mink farms, although relevant for identifying key opportunities and challenges. We present for the first time comparable data on animal welfare at mink farms across the European co ...
... The objective of this study was to determine the nitrogen-corrected apparent ME (AMEₙ) content of tannin-free red/bronze, white/tan, and US No. 2 varieties of grain sorghum fed to commercial broilers and evaluate its effects on growth performance as an alternative to corn in poultry diets. Nitrogen-corrected apparent ME content of red/bronze, white/tan, and US No. 2 grain sorghum varieties was det ...
... As lowering crude protein (CP) in poultry diets continues to minimize amino acid excess, it is important to understand the limiting order of amino acids and the impact of their deficiencies. Therefore, a pair of experiments were conducted to observe the effects of individual amino acid deletions on growth performance, carcass traits, and nutrient utilization. Both experiments involved 3 control di ...
... Since antibiotic resistance is a global health issues, the use of antibiotics in animal feed for growth promotion has been restricted in many countries. Bacillus licheniformis probiotic is a potential alternative to antibiotics for increasing poultry performance. Through metagenomic sequencing, this study investigated the effects of B. licheniformis–fermented products (BLFPs) and enramycin on the ...
... Cryptocaryoniasis is a severe disease of marine cage culture fish, caused by the protozoan Cryptocaryon irritans. However, the sources of C. irritans infection in cage culture farms are still unclear. Previous studies confirmed many cases of biological fouling on the nets of the culture cages. Therefore, we speculate that fouling may be a key infection source of the cryptocaryoniosis outbreaks. Th ...
Etroplus suratensis; body weight; cage culture; cages; feed conversion; fish; food conversion; freshwater; nylon; phytoplankton; protein efficiency ratio; sediments; specific growth rate; water quality; weight gain; zooplankton; India
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... Cage culture of Etroplus suratensis (Pearlspot) was carried out in Krishnagiri reservoir, India, a highly productive reservoir to analyze the feasibility of growing this species in freshwater cages and to investigate the effect on selected environmental parameters. Fish of average weight 5.98 ± 0.52 g were stocked at 10 ind. m³ in High‐Density Poly‐Ethylene floating cages (3 × 3 × 2 m) made of nyl ...
DNA barcoding; Salmo trutta; biodiversity; cages; cluster analysis; community structure; decline; environmental DNA; fish communities; freshwater fish; rivers; transportation; Canada; Saint Lawrence River
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... Protection of freshwater fish diversity is a global conservation priority in face of its alarming decline in the last decades. A crucial step to protect freshwater fish diversity is the production of prompt and precise evaluation of community composition and spatial distribution. Metabarcoding of environmental DNA (eDNA metabarcoding) generally surpasses traditional methods for documenting diversi ...
Ladislav Molnár; Alžbeta Königová; Ladislav Pleva; Juraj Ciberej; Katarína Kuzyšinová; Peter Major; Vladimír Vrabec; Lucia Kottferová; Monika Petrillová; Marián Várady
Ursus arctos; anesthesia; body weight; cages; carnivores; ketamine; municipal solid waste; protocols; tongue; xylazine; Carpathian region; Hungary; Slovakia
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... The population and distribution of the European brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Slovakia are expanding as bears were observed beyond the southern border of the country in Hungary. This study presents the authors' experience with field anaesthesia of wild brown bears trapped in a custom-made container trap and of free-ranging individuals. A total of 25 bears were captured and translocated using a spec ...
... BACKGROUND: The peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata, and the Oriental fruit fly, B. dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae), are economically important fruit fly species in various regions of the world. We evaluated the effects of separate and combined applications of the entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) Beauveria bassiana (WG‐18) and Metarhizium anisopliae (WG‐02), and the entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) He ...
biomarkers; cages; claws; corticosterone; egg yolk; eggs; heterophils; temperature
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... The objective of the current experiment was to compare various stress biomarkers including the heterophil to lymphocyte ratio (H:L ratio) in blood and the corticosterone (CORT) concentrations in feathers, claws, and egg yolk and to find the potential stress biomarkers in laying hens exposed to a long-term multiple stress condition. A total of 24 Hy-Line Brown laying hens at 47 wk of age were allot ...
... This study reports the guest molecular conformation selectivity of a clathrate hydrate and lattice shrunk by hydrogen bonds between the guest and host water frameworks. Cyclohexanol (CHnol) exhibited two conformations (equatorial and axial structures) with small energy differences. The Rietveld refinement results of the powder X-ray diffraction profiles of two structure II (sII) hydrates enclosing ...
... The influence of dietary non-phytate phosphorous (NPP) on growth performance, carcass characteristics, bone quality and serum parameters were investigated to determine the NPP requirement of slow-growing feather-frizzled broilers aged from 1 to 21 days. A total of 480 1-day-old indigenous slow-growing male feather-frizzled broilers were assigned to 1 of 6 treatments with 8 cage replicates of 10 bi ...
alkaline phosphatase; average daily gain; biotechnology; blood serum; bone density; cages; calcium; dietary calcium; genes; growth performance; males; phosphorus content; protein synthesis; skeletal development; tibia
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... BACKGROUND: The current calcium (Ca) recommendation for broilers is primarily based on studies conducted more than 30 years ago with birds of markedly different productive potentials from those which exist today. And the response indicators in these studies are mainly growth performance and bone ash percentage. Therefore, the present study was carried out to investigate the effect of dietary Ca le ...
Haliotis discus hannai; Saccharina japonica; abalone; air; aquaculture; body composition; byproducts; cabbage; cages; chemical composition; feed prices; juveniles; specific growth rate; weight gain
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... Dietary substitution effect of cabbage extract by‐product (CEB) for Saccharina japonica on the growth, body composition and air exposure stressor of juvenile abalone (Haliotis discus hannai) was determined. A total of 1260 abalone were randomly distributed into 18 net cages (seventy per cage). Five formulated diets were prepared. The control (CEB0) diet contained 20% S. japonica powder. Twenty-fiv ...
... This research was conducted to determine the effects Achyranthes japonica extract (AJE) supplementation to corn-soybean meal-wheat-based diet on the growth performance, nutrient digestibility, cecal microflora, excreta noxious gas emission, and meat quality of broiler chickens. A total of 432 one-day-old male Ross 308 broiler chickens, having initial body weight (IBW) of 41.11 ± 1.65 g were random ...
... A ten-week feeding trail was conducted to determine the dietary vitamin A (VA) requirement of coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch (Walbaum, 1792) post-smolts by formulating seven experimental diets containing graded VA levels of 367, 1060, 1823, 3482, 6715, 9984 and 22,935 IU/kg, respectively. Each diet was fed to triplicate groups of fish with the initial mean body weight of 185.86 ± 1.14 g. Stocked ...