Effects of Dietary Supplementation With , as an Alternative to Antibiotics, on Growth Performance, Serum Immunity, and Intestinal Health in Broiler Chickens.

() as in-feed probiotics is a potential alternative for antibiotic growth promoters (AGP) in the poultry industry. The current study investigated the effects of on the performance, immunity, gut microbiota, and intestinal barrier function of broiler chickens. A 42-day feeding trial was conducted with a total of 600 1-day-old Arbor Acres broilers with similar initial body weight, which was randomly divided into one of five dietary treatments: the basal diet (Ctrl), Ctrl + virginiamycin (AGP), Ctrl + A (BSA), Ctrl + B (BSB), and Ctrl + A + B (1:1, BSAB).

Corrigendum: Intestinal Morphologic and Microbiota Responses to Dietary spp. in a Broiler Chicken Model.

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Intestinal Morphologic and Microbiota Responses to Dietary spp. in a Broiler Chicken Model.

Dietary inclusion of probiotic spp. beneficially affect the broiler chickens by balancing the properties of the indigenous microbiota causing better growth performance. The effects of three spp.

Menopausal symptoms and risk of coronary heart disease in middle-aged women: A nationwide population-based cohort study.

Objective: To assess the relationship between coronary heart disease (CHD) and menopausal symptoms in middle-aged women in Taiwan.

Patients And Methods: The present study identified 14,340 symptomatic menopausal women without a history of CHD from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database from January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2013. A total of 14,340 age- and Charlson-comorbidity-index-score-matched asymptomatic women were used as controls.

Expression patterns of members of the ethylene signaling-related gene families in response to dehydration stresses in cassava.

Drought is the one of the most important environment stresses that restricts crop yield worldwide. Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is an important food and energy crop that has many desirable traits such as drought, heat and low nutrients tolerance. However, the mechanisms underlying drought tolerance in cassava are unclear.

[Mechanism for clofarabine inducing autophagic death of acute myelocytic leukemia cell U937].

To explore the mechanism of autophagic death of acute myelocytic leukemia cell U937 induced by clofarabine, the MTT bioassay was used to analyze the growth inhibitory effect and half inhibition concentration on U937 incubated in vitro with different concentrations of clofarabine for 24 and 48 hours, and the flow cytometry was used to detect the autophagy rate of U937. The expression of Beclin 1 in U937 treated by clofarabine for 48h was measured by Western blot. The results indicated that when U937 cells were treated with 0.

[Effect of clofarabine on proliferation and Bcl-2 expression of NB4 cells].

The aim of this study was to observe the effect of clofarabine on proliferation of NB4 cells and its possible mechanism. MTT method was used to detect proliferation of NB4 cells treated with clofarabine 0.01 - 0.