Publications by authors named "M Cristobal"
The objective was to test the hypothesis that nitrogen-corrected true metabolizable energy (TME), standardized amino acid (AA) digestibility, and apparent ileal P digestibility are not different in soybean expellers produced from high-oil soybeans (SBE-HO) compared with expellers produced from conventional soybeans (SBE-CV). The two soybean expellers contained approximately 46.3 % crude protein (DM basis).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChagas disease (CD), caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, is a life-threatening neglected anthropozoonosis primarily transmitted by triatomine bugs. Affecting an estimated 5.7 million people globally, CD has significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in Latin America.
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- Migrants and refugees often struggle with mental health issues but have limited access to proper services, prompting this study to explore ways to deliver psychological support in Colombia using a group intervention called gPM+.
- The study compared two training methods for nonspecialists delivering gPM+: one receiving support from a psychologist and the other from a trained nonspecialist, enrolling 128 distressed adult women in the process.
- Results showed higher attendance in the psychologist-supported group, but the trained nonspecialist group was more cost-effective and maintained fidelity in delivering the program, highlighting the potential for using community-based methods for mental health interventions.
Background: Diets with high inclusion of corn co-products such as corn fermented protein (CFP) may contain excess Leu, which has a negative impact on feed intake and growth performance of pigs due to increased catabolism of Val and Ile and reduced availability of Trp in the brain for serotonin synthesis. However, we hypothesized that the negative effect of using CFP in diets for weanling pigs may be overcome if diets are fortified with crystalline sources of Val, Trp, and (or) Ile.
Methods: Three hundred and twenty weanling pigs were randomly allotted to one of 10 dietary treatments in a completely randomized design, with 4 pigs per pen and 8 replicate pens per treatment.
Article Synopsis
- Colombia is hosting a large number of Venezuelan refugees and migrants who are facing significant mental health challenges due to trauma and displacement, but existing mental health services in Colombia are inadequate to meet their needs.
- Group Problem Management Plus (Group PM+) is a scalable mental health intervention that could help address this gap by training community members to provide support, yet there is limited understanding of its effectiveness across different groups.
- A study involving 128 migrant and refugee women in northern Colombia found that those in more stable conditions benefited the most from Group PM+, and additional research is needed to explore other factors that impact the effectiveness of such psychological interventions.