An assessment of the impacts of litter treatments on the litter quality and broiler performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: The choice of the most suitable litter treatment should be based on scientific evidence. This systematic review assessed the effectiveness of litter treatments on ammonia concentration, pH, moisture and pathogenic microbiota of the litter and their effects on body weight, feed intake, feed conversion and mortality of broilers.

Methods: The systematic literature search was conducted using PubMed (Medline), Google Scholar, ScienceDirect and Scielo databases to retrieve articles published from January 1998 to august 2019.

Translating Discharge Instructions for Limited English-Proficient Families: Strategies and Barriers.

Background: Access to written hospital discharge instructions improves caregiver understanding and patient outcomes. However, nearly half of hospitals do not translate discharge instructions, and little is known about why.

Objectives: To identify barriers to and potential strategies for translating children's hospital discharge instructions.

Application of recombinant human leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) produced in rice (Oryza sativa L.) for maintenance of mouse embryonic stem cells.

Embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells have the ability to differentiate into any somatic cell type, and thus have potential to treat a number of diseases that are currently incurable. Application of these cells for clinical or industrial uses would require an increase in production to yield adequate numbers of viable cells. However, the relatively high costs of cytokines and growth factors required for maintenance of stem cells in the undifferentiated state have the potential to limit translational research.

High-throughput screening AlphaScreen assay for identification of small-molecule inhibitors of ubiquitin E3 ligase SCFSkp2-Cks1.

Decreased levels of cell cycle inhibitor p27(Kip1) due to excessive degradation occur in a variety of aggressive human tumors. Since reduced p27(Kip1) expression has been associated with a poor prognosis in many human cancers and resistance to certain antitumor therapies, elevation of p27(Kip1) expression could improve prognosis and prevent excessive cell proliferation. SCF(Skp2) is one of the major ubiquitin E3 ligases responsible for degradation of p27(Kip1).

Only one ATP-binding DnaX subunit is required for initiation complex formation by the Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme.

The DnaX complex (DnaX(3)δδ'χ psi) within the Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme serves to load the dimeric sliding clamp processivity factor, β(2), onto DNA. The complex contains three DnaX subunits, which occur in two forms: τ and the shorter γ, produced by translational frameshifting. Ten forms of E.