Feedlot growth performance and carcass characteristics of steers backgrounded on buffel grass or buffel-Desmanthus mixed pastures.

Feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of tropical beef steers backgrounded on buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) only or buffel grass oversown with desmanthus (Desmanthus spp. ; 11.5% initial sward botanical composition) were evaluated. It was hypothesized that tropical beef cattle steers backgrounded on buffel grass only or buffel grass oversown with desmanthus with similar backgrounding growth performance will not differ in feedlot growth performance and carcass quality. Three hundred and twelve Bos indicus × Bos taurus tropical composite steers, 20-23 months old and weighing 413 ± 24 kg, previously backgrounded on buffel grass only or buffel-desmanthus mixed pastures for 147 days were finished on a concentrate diet in the feedlot for 110 days before slaughter. Buffel-desmanthus backgrounded steers had a slightly higher average daily gain (ADG; 1.8 kg/day) than the buffel grass backgrounded steers that had 1.7 kg/day ADG (p < 0.01). However, the final live weight and dry matter intake were not different (p ≥ 0.59). All the carcass traits measured were not different (p ≥ 0.18). Only 4% buffel grass and 8% buffel-desmanthus backgrounded steers fell short of the Meat Standards Australia (MSA) index, a level that is within the 4-9% reported for cattle produced in Queensland and slaughtered between July 2019 and June 2020. These findings indicate that desmanthus can be used to background beef cattle in northern Australia vertosol soil regions, where there is a paucity of adapted pasture legumes, with no negative impact on feedlot performance and carcass quality. The hypothesis that tropical beef cattle steers backgrounded on buffel grass only pastures or buffel grass oversown with desmanthus with similar backgrounding growth performance will have similar feedlot growth performance and carcass quality was accepted.

Biomarker interaction selection and disease detection based on multivariate gain ratio.

BACKGROUND: Disease detection is an important aspect of biotherapy. With the development of biotechnology and computer technology, there are many methods to detect disease based on single biomarker. However, biomarker does not influence disease alone in some cases. It's the interaction between biomarkers that determines disease status. The existing influence measure I-score is used to evaluate the importance of interaction in determining disease status, but there is a deviation about the number of variables in interaction when applying I-score. To solve the problem, we propose a new influence measure Multivariate Gain Ratio (MGR) based on Gain Ratio (GR) of single-variate, which provides us with multivariate combination called interaction. RESULTS: We propose a preprocessing verification algorithm based on partial predictor variables to select an appropriate preprocessing method. In this paper, an algorithm for selecting key interactions of biomarkers and applying key interactions to construct a disease detection model is provided. MGR is more credible than I-score in the case of interaction containing small number of variables. Our method behaves better with average accuracy [Formula: see text] than I-score of [Formula: see text] in Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Diagnostic) Dataset. Compared to the classification results [Formula: see text] based on all predictor variables, MGR identifies the true main biomarkers and realizes the dimension reduction. In Leukemia Dataset, the experiment results show the effectiveness of MGR with the accuracy of [Formula: see text] compared to I-score with accuracy [Formula: see text]. The results can be explained by the nature of MGR and I-score mentioned above because every key interaction contains a small number of variables in Leukemia Dataset. CONCLUSIONS: MGR is effective for selecting important biomarkers and biomarker interactions even in high-dimension feature space in which the interaction could contain more than two biomarkers. The prediction ability of interactions selected by MGR is better than I-score in the case of interaction containing small number of variables. MGR is generally applicable to various types of biomarker datasets including cell nuclei, gene, SNPs and protein datasets.

A robust and stable gene selection algorithm based on graph theory and machine learning.

BACKGROUND: Nowadays we are observing an explosion of gene expression data with phenotypes. It enables us to accurately identify genes responsible for certain medical condition as well as classify them for drug target. Like any other phenotype data in medical domain, gene expression data with phenotypes also suffer from being a very underdetermined system. In a very large set of features but a very small sample size domain (e.g. DNA microarray, RNA-seq data, GWAS data, etc.), it is often reported that several contrasting feature subsets may yield near equally optimal results. This phenomenon is known as instability. Considering these facts, we have developed a robust and stable supervised gene selection algorithm to select a set of robust and stable genes having a better prediction ability from the gene expression datasets with phenotypes. Stability and robustness is ensured by class and instance level perturbations, respectively. RESULTS: We have performed rigorous experimental evaluations using 10 real gene expression microarray datasets with phenotypes. They reveal that our algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms with respect to stability and classification accuracy. We have also performed biological enrichment analysis based on gene ontology-biological processes (GO-BP) terms, disease ontology (DO) terms, and biological pathways. CONCLUSIONS: It is indisputable from the results of the performance evaluations that our proposed method is indeed an effective and efficient supervised gene selection algorithm.

Supplementation with Yucca schidigera improves antioxidant capability and immune function and decreases fecal score of dairy calves before weaning.

Yucca schidigera (YS) is a species of plant rich in antimicrobials, antioxidants, and immunomodulators. It has been used as feed additive to improve animal performance and decrease methane emissions in cattle. However, few studies have evaluated YS in dairy calves. In this study, we evaluated the effects of YS on the growth performance, antioxidant capacity, and immune function in dairy calves before weaning. We randomly assigned 40 newborn female Holstein calves (4 d old; 40 ± 5 kg of body weight) to 1 of 4 treatments (n = 10 per treatment), which were fed 0, 3, 6, or 9 g/d of YS powder. The YS allowance was mixed into milk or milk replacer and fed twice daily. Dry matter intake (both liquid and starter feed) and fecal score were recorded daily, and body weight, withers height, body length, and heart girth were measured at 4, 14, 28, 42, and 60 d of age. Blood was sampled from the jugular vein at 14, 42, and 60 d of age after the afternoon feeding for analysis of serum antioxidant capacity and immune function. Feeding YS did not affect dry matter intake, but decreased the feed-to-gain ratio with a quadratic dose effect. Over the whole study period, the average daily gain tended to linearly increase with the increasing YS doses, and it was 6.8% higher in diets supplemented with 9 g/d of YS than in the basal control diet without YS. The YS supplementation linearly decreased fecal score in a dose-dependent manner, and the frequency of diarrhea was significantly decreased as the YS supplementation increased throughout the whole study period. The YS supplementation also linearly decreased maleic dialdehyde concentration in the serum compared with the control group. The activity of catalase tended to linearly and quadratically increase, and that of glutathione peroxidase increased linearly with the increased YS supplementation. Serum concentrations of IgA and IgG increased linearly with the increased YS supplementation, and that of IgG tended to increase quadratically. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that demonstrated that feeding YS to young calves could improve growth, feed efficiency, and immunity, and decrease fecal score and diarrhea. The results of this study indicated that feeding YS at 9 g/d may be recommended to benefit dairy calves before weaning.

Computational advances of tumor marker selection and sample classification in cancer proteomics.

Cancer proteomics has become a powerful technique for characterizing the protein markers driving transformation of malignancy, tracing proteome variation triggered by therapeutics, and discovering the novel targets and drugs for the treatment of oncologic diseases. To facilitate cancer diagnosis/prognosis and accelerate drug target discovery, a variety of methods for tumor marker identification and sample classification have been developed and successfully applied to cancer proteomic studies. This review article describes the most recent advances in those various approaches together with their current applications in cancer-related studies. Firstly, a number of popular feature selection methods are overviewed with objective evaluation on their advantages and disadvantages. Secondly, these methods are grouped into three major classes based on their underlying algorithms. Finally, a variety of sample separation algorithms are discussed. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the advances on tumor maker identification and patients/samples/tissues separations, which could be guidance to the researches in cancer proteomics.

Experimental Study on the Fracture Parameters of Concrete.

This study aimed to determine the influence of the volume fraction of steel fibers on the fracture parameters of concrete. Fifty notched steel-fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) beams and ordinary concrete beams with 100 mm × 100 mm × 515 mm were cast and tested via a three-point bending test. Among them, the type of steel fiber was the milling type (MF), and the volume fraction of steel fiber added was 0%, 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% and 2%, respectively. The effects of the steel fiber volume fraction (VF) on the critical stress intensity factor (KIC), fracture energy (GF), the deflection at failure(δ0), the critical crack mouth opening displacement (CMODC) and the critical crack tip opening displacement (CTODC) were studied. Through the analysis of test phenomena and test data such as the load-deflection (P-δ) curve, load-crack mouth opening displacement (P-CMOD) curve and load-crack tip opening displacement (P-CTOD) curve, the following conclusions are drawn: with the increase of the steel fiber volume fraction, some fracture parameters increase gradually and maintain a certain linear growth. The gain ratio of the fracture parameters increases significantly, and the gain effect is obvious. Through this law of growth, the experimental statistical formulas of fracture energy and the critical stress intensity factor are summarized.

Dietary l-threonine supplementation attenuates lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory responses and intestinal barrier damage of broiler chickens at an early age.

This study was conducted to investigate the protective effects of l-threonine (l-Thr) supplementation on growth performance, inflammatory responses and intestinal barrier function of young broilers challenged with lipopolysaccharide (LPS). A total of 144 1-d-old male chicks were allocated to one of three treatments: non-challenged broilers fed a basal diet (control group), LPS-challenged broilers fed a basal diet without l-Thr supplementation and LPS-challenged broilers fed a basal diet supplemented with 3·0 g/kg l-Thr. LPS challenge was performed intraperitoneally at 17, 19 and 21 d of age, whereas the control group received physiological saline injection. Compared with the control group, LPS challenge impaired growth performance of broilers, and l-Thr administration reversed LPS-induced increase in feed/gain ratio. LPS challenge elevated blood cell counts related to inflammation, and pro-inflammatory cytokine concentrations in serum (IL-1ß and TNF-α), spleen (IL-1ß and TNF-α) and intestinal mucosa (jejunal interferon-γ (IFN-γ) and ileal IL-1ß). The concentrations of intestinal cytokines in LPS-challenged broilers were reduced by l-Thr supplementation. LPS administration increased circulating d-lactic acid concentration, whereas it reduced villus height, the ratio between villus height and crypt depth and goblet density in both jejunum and ileum. LPS-induced decreases in jejunal villus height, intestinal villus height:crypt depth ratio and ileal goblet cell density were reversed with l-Thr supplementation. Similarly, LPS-induced alterations in the intestinal mRNA abundances of genes related to intestinal inflammation and barrier function (jejunal toll-like receptor 4, IFN- γ and claudin-3, and ileal IL-1 ß and zonula occludens-1) were normalised with l-Thr administration. It can be concluded that l-Thr supplementation could attenuate LPS-induced inflammatory responses and intestinal barrier damage of young broilers.

Source Localization in Acoustic Sensor Networks via Constrained Least-Squares Optimization Using AOA and GROA Measurements.

A constrained least-squares (CLS) 3D source localization method is presented for acoustic sensor networks with sensor position errors. The proposed approach uses angles of arrivals (AOAs) and gain ratios of arrival (GROAs) measured simultaneously at each node to estimate the source position jointly. Compared to AOA-only localization methods, the GROAs can be used in conjunction with AOA measurements so as to get more accurate results by exploiting the geometrical relationship between these two measurements. Compared to time difference of arrival localization methods, the proposed algorithm does not require accurate time synchronization over different nodes. The theoretical mean-square error matrices of the proposed approach are derived and they are exactly equal to the Cramér-Rao bound for Gaussian noise under the small error condition. Simulations validate the performance of the proposed estimator.

Serum metabolomics study of nutrient metabolic variations in chronic heat-stressed broilers.

To investigate the effects of heat stress on broiler metabolism, we assigned 144 broilers to normal control (NC), heat stress (HS) or pair-fed (PF) groups and then monitored the effects using growth performance, carcass characteristics, biochemical assays and GC-MS-based metabolomics. The up-regulation of cloacal temperature confirmed that our experiment was successful in inducing chronic heat stress. The average daily gain and average daily feed intake of the HS group were significantly lower than those of the NC group, by 28·76 and 18·42 %, respectively (P1 and P<0·05). The greater feed:gain ratio of the HS group was significantly positively correlated with the leg, abdominal fat, subcutaneous fat and intramuscular fat proportions and levels of some free amino acids (proline, l-cysteine, methionine and threonine) but was negatively correlated with breast proportion and levels of some NEFA (stearic acid, arachidonic acid, palmitic acid and oleic acid). These findings indicated that the heat-stressed broilers were in negative energy balance and unable to effectively mobilise fat, thereby resulting in protein decomposition, which subsequently affected growth performance and carcass characteristics.

The Effect of Electrical Impedance Matching on the Electromechanical Characteristics of Sandwiched Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducers.

For achieving the power maximum transmission, the electrical impedance matching (EIM) for piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers is highly required. In this paper, the effect of EIM networks on the electromechanical characteristics of sandwiched piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers is investigated in time and frequency domains, based on the PSpice model of single sandwiched piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer. The above-mentioned EIM networks include, series capacitance and parallel inductance (I type) and series inductance and parallel capacitance (II type). It is shown that when I and II type EIM networks are used, the resonance and anti-resonance frequencies and the received signal tailing are decreased; II type makes the electro-acoustic power ratio and the signal tailing smaller whereas it makes the electro-acoustic gain ratio larger at resonance frequency. In addition, I type makes the effective electromechanical coupling coefficient increase and II type makes it decrease; II type make the power spectral density at resonance frequency more dramatically increased. Specially, the electro-acoustic power ratio has maximum value near anti-resonance frequency, while the electro-acoustic gain ratio has maximum value near resonance frequency. It can be found that the theoretically analyzed results have good consistency with the measured ones.

Available energy content, nutrients digestibility of chili meal and effects on performance of growing pigs.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the digestible energy (DE), metabolizable energy (ME) content, apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of nutrients in chili meal (CM), and to determine the effects of CM on the performance of growing pigs. In Exp. 1, 12 barrows (Duroc x Landrace x Yorkshire) with an initial body weight (BW) of 50.9 ± 1.8 kg were allocated to one of two treatments, corn-soybean meal basal diet or diet containing 194.2 g/kg CM, which replaced corn and soybean meal in the basal diet. Pigs were placed in metabolism crates for a 7-d adaptation period followed by a 5-d total collection of feces and urine to detect DE, ME and ATTD of nutrients in CM. Exp. 2 was conducted for 4 wk. to evaluate the effect of CM on performance of growing pigs. 150 growing pigs (58.4 ± 1.2 kg BW) were allocated to 1 of 5 treatments. Treatment 1 was a corn-soybean meal basal diet met the DE requirement for growing pigs recommended by NRC (2012). Treatment 2 or 3 were diets containing 50 g/kg or 100 g/kg CM respectively. TREATMENT: 4 or 5 were based on treatment 2 or 3, while soybean oil (SBO) was added to improve the DE content to that in treatment 1. In Exp. 1, the DE and ME content of CM were 9.08 and 8.48 MJ/kg. The ATTD of dry matter (DM), gross energy (GE), organic matter (OM) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) were 0.60, 0.54, 0.66 and 0.38, respectively. In Exp. 2, addition of CM linearly decreased (P < 0.05) average daily gain (ADG) and the ATTD of DM, GE and OM while ATTD of crude protein (CP) had a quadratic (P < 0.05) change. When SBO was supplemented in diets containing CM, greater values (P < 0.05) of ATTD of most nutrients were observed. With the dietary inclusion of CM, the albumin/globulin ratio in serum had a quadratic change (P < 0.05), and the level of low-density cholesterol linearly (P < 0.05) increased. In treatments with 50 g/kg CM, a significant reduction (P < 0.05) of total antioxidant capacity was found in diet formulated with SBO. In treatments with 100 g/kg CM, the level of total cholesterol was lower (P < 0.05) in the diet with SBO. In conclusion, CM had moderate energy density and nutrients digestibility in pig diets. 50 g/kg CM with SBO in diets could be fed to growing pigs with no significant negative effects.

Effect of stocking rate and floor types on performance, skin temperature and leukogram in pigs raising / Efecto de la carga animal y el tipo de piso sobre el rendimiento, la temperatura de la piel y leucograma en la cría de cerdos

ABSTRACT Objective. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance, thermoregulatory characteristics and the leukogram of growing finishing pigs reared in different stocking rates kept on compact floor pens or with shallow pool pens. Material and methods. Thirty-six pigs were used in two steps (total of 72 animals were used). In the first step it was analysed performance pig (daily feed intake, weight gain and feed: gain ratio) and backfat thickness (P2). In the second step, the same analyzes were repeated, in addition, analysis of leukogram and skin temperature was performed in P2 and anal region, at the end of growing and finishing phase. Results. It was evaluated for differences between treatments and stocking. It was not found effect of floor type on growing phase, but the use of shallow pool had a negative effect on the gain and feed: gain ratio in the finishing phase, as well as lower surface temperature in the anal region on treatment with shallow pool in the finishing phase. No effect of treatments and type of floor on pig leukogram. Allowing more space/animal decreased backfat thickness. The use of shallow pool affected negatively the performance in the finishing phase. Conclusions. The shallow pool uses impair the finishing pig performance, despite improving thermolysis, with no effect observed on cell immune response.

RESUMEN Objetivo. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el rendimiento, las características de termorregulación, y el leucograma de cerdos de engorde, criados en diferentes densidad mantenidos en corrales de piso compactos o corrales con lámina de agua. Material y métodos. Treinta y seis cerdos se utilizaron en dos etapas (un total de 72 animales utilizados). En el primer paso, se analizaron las características zootécnicas (consumo diario de alimento, ganancia de peso y la conversión alimenticia) y el espesor de grasa dorsal (P2). En el segundo paso, los mismos análisis se repitieron, además, el análisis de leucograma y temperatura de la piel se realizó en P2 y la región anal, al final de la recría y terminación. Resultados. Se evaluaron las diferencias entre los tratamientos. No se encontró efecto del tipo de corrales en fase de recría, pero el uso de los corrales con lámina de agua tuvo un efecto negativo sobre la ganancia y conversión alimenticia en la fase de terminación, así como una menor temperatura de la superficie en la región anal en el tratamiento con lámina de agua en la fase de terminación. No hubo efecto de los tratamientos y tipo de corales sobre el Leucograma de los cerdos. Permitiendo más espacio/animal disminuyó el espesor de grasa dorsal. El uso de la lámina de agua afectó negativamente al rendimiento en la fase de terminación. Conclusiones. El uso de lámina de agua afectó el rendimiento de los cerdos de terminación, a pesar de la mejora de termólisis, sin efecto visible en la respuesta inmune celular.

Selenium-enriched Saccharomyces cerevisiae improves growth, antioxidant status and selenoprotein gene expression in Arbor Acres broilers.

One hundred and fifty 7-day-old Arbor Acres broilers were randomly assigned into five groups: group 1 served as a control that was fed a basal diet without selenium (Se) supplementation; groups 2, 3 and 4 were fed the basal diet supplemented with 0.15, 0.5 and 1.5 mg Se as Se-enriched Saccharomyces cerevisiae (SSC) per kg of diet; and group 5 was fed the basal diet supplemented with 0.15 mg per kg of Se as sodium selenite (SS). Growth performance, glutathione peroxidase (GPX ) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities, total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC), and malondialdehyde (MDA) content in plasma and liver, and cellular glutathione peroxidase (GPX -1) and phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase (GPX -4) mRNA levels in liver were determined. Compared with group 1, groups 2-4 exhibited higher body weights (p < 0.05), lower feed/gain ratios, and higher GPX activities in plasma (p < 0.05) and GPX and SOD activities and GPX -1 and GPX -4 mRNA levels in liver (p < 0.05). Compared with group 5, group 2 exhibited higher GPX activity in plasma on day 21 (p < 0.05). Compared with group 2 and 5, group 3 exhibited lower MDA content in plasma on day 7 (p < 0.05), higher GPX activity in plasma, SOD activity and GPX -1 mRNA levels in liver on day 14 and 21 (p < 0.05), and higher GPX -4 mRNA levels on day 14 (p < 0.05). Compared with group 4, group 3 exhibited lower MDA contents in plasma on day 14 (p < 0.05) and in liver on day 21 (p < 0.05), higher T-AOC in plasma and higher GPX -1 mRNA levels on day 14 and 21 (p < 0.05), and higher SOD activity in plasma and higher SOD and GPX activities in liver on day 21 (p < 0.05). Thus, SSC improves growth and antioxidant status of broilers; the short-term bioavailability of SS was faster than that of SSC, but the long-term bioavailability of SSC was greater than SS.

The present situation and progress of 125I particle implantation therapy guided by multimodality imaging for malignant tumors / 中国医学装备

How to study a method that can significantly improve the therapeutic gain ratio of malignant tumor is one of the problems must be solved in the field of cancer therapy. However, how can effectively treat malignancy patients with contraindications of operation, radiotherapy and chemotherapy has been a difficult problem in cancer therapy. The 125I brachytherapy was suitable for malignancy patients with contraindications of operation, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The guidance of multimodal imaging could contribute to the definitions of tissue density imaging target and biological target, and could ensure the targeting and conformity of treatment. Using the quality assurance and quality control measurements (QA/QC) optimized by radiation dosimetry; using therapy planning system (TPS) to make plan, and adopt optimizing radiation dosimetry and dose volume histogram (DVH) to evaluate TPS, and using image to guide particle implantation and adopt series of methods, such as real-time location verification, dosimetry verification post-implantation, therapy efficacy determination, follow-up and so on, to improve therapeutic gain ratio and partially control therapy efficacy, and then significantly reduce adverse reaction. All of these have important clinical value for increasing survival rate and quality of life.

Parkinson's disease hand tremor detection system for mobile application.

Parkinson's disease currently affects millions of people worldwide and is steadily increasing. Many symptoms are associated with this disease, including rest tremor, bradykinesia, stiffness or rigidity of the extremities and postural instability. No cure is currently available for Parkinson's disease patients; instead most medications are for treatment of symptoms. This treatment depends on the quantification of these symptoms such as hand tremor. This work proposes a new system for mobile phone applications. The system is based on measuring the acceleration from the Parkinson's disease patient's hand using a mobile cell phone accelerometer. Recordings from 21 Parkinson's disease patients and 21 healthy subjects were used. These recordings were analysed using a two level wavelet packet analysis and features were extracted forming a feature vector of 12 elements. The features extracted from the 42 subjects were classified using a neural networks classifier. The results obtained showed an accuracy of 95% and a Kappa coefficient of 90%. These results indicate that a cell phone accelerometer can accurately detect and record rest tremor in Parkinson's disease patients.

Effects of Bacillus subtilis ANSB060 on growth performance, meat quality and aflatoxin residues in broilers fed moldy peanut meal naturally contaminated with aflatoxins.

This study was conducted to investigate the toxic effects of aflatoxins and the efficacy of Bacillus subtilis ANSB060 for the amelioration of aflatoxicosis in broiler chickens. Six replicates of ten broilers each were assigned to one of seven dietary treatments, which were labeled C0 (basal diet); M0 (basal diet containing moldy peanut meal); C500 and C1000 (C0+500 or 1000 g/t aflatoxin biodegradation preparations, composed mainly of ANSB060); and M500, M1000 and M2000 (M0+500, 1000 or 2000 g/t aflatoxin biodegradation preparations). The concentrations of aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 in the moldy diets (M0, M500, M100 and M2000) fluctuated around 70.7±1.3, 11.0±1.5, 6.5±0.8 and 2.0±0.3 µg/kg, respectively. The results showed that the M0 diet caused a significant decrease in average daily weight gain and increased feed requirements, with a gain ratio increasing from d 8 to 42, deterioration in meat quality and aflatoxin residues in broilers' livers as compared with the C0 diet. The addition of ANSB060 to the aflatoxin-contaminated diets offset these negative effects, leading to the conclusion that ANSB060 has a protective effect on growth performance and meat quality while reducing the amount of aflatoxin residues in the livers of broilers fed naturally moldy peanut meal.

Suplementação de acidificantes em rações de leitõesdesmamados: desempenho e digestibilidade / Supplementation of acidifiers in diets of weaned pigs: performance and digestibility

Em dois ensaios experimentais avaliou-se efeito dietético da suplementação de acidificantes sobre o desempenho (ensaio1) e coeficientes de digestibilidade aparente de nutrientes (ensaio 2) em suínos. No ensaio 1, com duração de 42 dias,120 leitões desmamados aos 21 dias foram distribuídos em oit8 blocos experimentais com três leitões por baia, foramaplicados cinco tratamentos, sendo um controle e4quatro com a inclusão de acidificantes. No ensaio 2,0dez leitões compeso médio inicial de 16,4 kg foram distribuídos em dois blocos experimentais, cada um com cinco repetições, sob doistratamentos (ração sem acidificante ou com 1,0% de ácido fumárico). No estudo de desempenho, a adição de ácidofumárico nas rações determinou aumentos no consumo de ração nos períodos de 0 aos 15 dias, 0 aos 32 dias e ganhode peso de 0 aos 42 dias, quando comparado ao tratamento controle. No ensaio 2, a adição de 1,0% de ácido fumáricona ração não alterou os coeficientes de digestibilidade aparente da matéria seca e demais componentes químicos dasdietas. A ausência de diferenças nos coeficientes de digestibilidade aparente dos nutrientes dietéticos com a inclusão doacidificante provavelment, deveu-se ao curto período de avaliação. A inclusão de ácido fumárico nas rações de leitõesdesmamados favoreceu o desempenho dos leitões.

In two experimental assays it was evaluated the diet acidifier supplementation effect on performance (assay 1) and onnutrient apparent digestibility coefficients (assay 2). During 42 days in assay 1, 120 piglets weaned at 21-days years oldwere allotted in8eight experimental block design with3three pigs per experimental unit. The treatments were a controland4four acidified diets. In assay 2,0ten piglets with an average weight of 16,4 kg were allotted in two experimentalblock design receiving two treatments under five replications (control diet without acidifier or supplied with 1,0%fumaric acid). On performance study the fumaric acid inclusion in the diet permitted a feed intake increase from 0 to15 days, and weight gain from 0 to 32 days and from 0 to 42 days. In assay 2, the diet 1,0% of fumaric acid inclusion didnot modified the apparent digestibility coefficients of dry matter and moreover diet chemical compounds. The similarapparent digestibility coefficient of dietetic nutrients with the acidifier inclusio, probabl, occurred due to the shortperiod of evaluation. The fumaric acid inclusion in weaned piglet diets improved performance of piglets.

Efficacy test of sustained-release somatotropin by implantation in steer, cow and barrow / 대한수의학회지

Sixteen steers were used to investigate the efficacy of the sustained-release implant of bovine somatotropin (bST) in improving growth and feed:gain ratio during 12 weeks. Administration of the 400 mg bST implant resulted in a 16.1% increase in growth rate, and this increase was significant (p .05) feed intake and feed:gain ratio. Thirty-four cows were used to investigate the efficacy of the sustained-release implant of bST in milk production during 4 weeks. Administration of the 200 mg bST implant resulted in an 8.7% increase in milk production, and this increase was significant (p .05) growth rate and feed intake.

Relação entre os níveis de lisina da dieta e as características de desempenho de codornas de corte EV2, durante o período de crescimento / Relationship between lysine level in the diets and performance of EV2 meat-type quails during the growing period

Estudou-se a exigência de lisina total para a linha EV2 de codornas de corte na fase de crescimento. Foram utilizadas 312 codornas de corte EV2, de ambos os sexos, em delineamento experimental inteiramente ao acaso, cujos tratamentos consistiram de dietas com seis níveis lisina total - 1,4; 1,5; 1,6; 1,7; 1,8 e 1,9 por cento - e quatro repetições de 13 codornas por unidade experimental. Para avaliação do desempenho, estudaram-se peso corporal ao final de cada período (g), ganho de peso (g), consumo alimentar (g) e conversão alimentar (g de alimento/g de peso) durante os períodos experimentais inicial (nascimento ao 21º) e total (nascimento ao 42º dia de idade). No período inicial, houve efeito significativo dos níveis de lisina total da dieta sobre o peso corporal, ganho de peso, consumo e conversão alimentar, com máximo desempenho das codornas nos níveis de 1,66; 1,66; 1,40 e 1,59 por cento de lisina total, respectivamente. Para o período total de criação, houve também efeito quadrático dos níveis de lisina da dieta sobre o peso corporal ao 42º dia, ganho de peso, consumo e conversão alimentar, com os pontos de máximo desempenho estimados em 1,62; 1,62; 1,60 e 1,61 por cento, respectivamente. A exigência de lisina total para o máximo ganho de peso de machos e fêmeas de codornas de corte do nascimento ao 21º dia é estimada em 1,66 por cento e do nascimento ao 42º dia de idade, em 1,62 por cento da dieta.

The total lysine requirements for EV2 meat-type quails during the growing phase were evaluated in a completely randomized experimental design, using 312 quails of both genders, with six levels of total lysine (1.4; 1.5; 1.6; 1.7; 1.8; and 1.9 percent), four replicates of thirteen quails per experimental unit. Body weight (g), weight gain (g), feed intake (g), and feed:weight gain ratio were recorded for all the experiment and growing period (initial - from birth to 21 days and total - from birth to 42 days of age). Significant effects of total lysine level on body weight, weight gain, feed intake, and feed:weight gain ratio were observed from birth to 21 days of age, with maximum performance for quails fed 1.66; 1.66; 1.40; and 1.59 percent of total lysine in the diets, respectively. Quadratic effects of total lysine level on body weight at 42 days of age and weight gain, feed intake, and feed:weight gain ratio, were observed with estimated maximum performance for quails fed 1,62; 1.62; 1.60; and 1.61 percent of total lysine in the diets, respectively. The total lysine requirement for maximum weight gains for males and females from birth to 21 days of age was estimated in 1.66 percent and from birth to 42 days of age in 1.62 percent of the diet.

Desempenho de codornas de corte EV1 alimentadas com diferentes níveis de lisina na dieta / Performance of EV1 meat type quail line fed different lysine level diets

Estudou-se a exigência de lisina total para a linha EV1 de codornas de corte na fase de crescimento utilizando-se 288 aves, de ambos os sexos, em delineamento experimental inteiramente ao acaso, cujos tratamentos consistiram de dietas com seis níveis de lisina total, 1,4; 1,5; 1,6; 1,7; 1,8 e 1,9 por cento, e quatro repetições de 12 codornas por unidade experimental. Estudaram-se o ganho de peso (g), o peso corporal ao final de cada período (g), o consumo alimentar (g) e a conversão alimentar (g de alimento/g de peso) nos períodos inicial (do nascimento ao 21º dia) e total (do nascimento ao 42º dia de idade). No período inicial não se observou efeito do nível de lisina sobre o consumo alimentar, mas houve efeito quadrático sobre o peso corporal, ganho de peso e conversão alimentar, com máximo desempenho nos níveis de 1,74; 1,75 e 1,70 por cento de lisina total, respectivamente. Para o período total houve efeito quadrático do nível de lisina da dieta sobre o peso no 42º dia, ganho de peso, consumo e conversão alimentar, com máximo desempenho das codornas nos níveis de 1,65; 1,65; 1,62 e 1,64 por cento de lisina total, respectivamente. A exigência de lisina total para ganho de peso de machos e fêmeas de codornas de corte do nascimento ao 21º dia foi estimada em 1,75 por cento e do nascimento ao 42º dia, em 1,65 por cento da dieta

Total lysine requirements for EV1 meat type quail line, during the growing phase were evaluated in a completely randomized experimental design with four level of lysine (1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 1.9 percent) and four replicates of 12 quails per experimental unit. The recorded traits were weight gain (g), body weight (g), feed intake (g), feed:weight gain ratio (g/g) for the initial (from hatch to 21days of age) and total period (from hatch to 42 days of age). The effects of lysine level on body weight, weight gain and feed:weight gain ratio were quadratic and significant with maximum values estimated for 1.74, 1.75 and 1.70 percent of total lysine respectively, but no effect on feed intake from hatch to 21 days of age was observed. Significant effects of lysine level on feed intake and feed : weight gain ratio from hatch to 42 days of age and on body at 42 days of age were observed, with maximum values estimated for 1.65, 1.65, 1.62, 1.64 percent of total lysine in the diets . The total lysine requirements for weight gain (males and females) from hatch to 21 days of age were estimated in 1.75 percent and from hatch to 42 days of age in 1.65 percent of the diet