Growth performance, plasma metabolites, meat quality, and meat and lipid health indices of New Zealand White rabbits as affected by dietary dried tomato pomace powder supplementation during the summer season.

One hundred and twenty New Zealand White rabbits (NZW) (5-week-old; 735.27 ± 27.23 g) were kept in an open-sided house during the summer season.

Chronic Low Back Pain: Prevalence, Impact on Quality of Life, and Predictors of Future Disability.

Background: In primary healthcare settings, chronic low back pain (cLBP) is a widespread health issue with a great global impact.

Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study was performed on 918 adults attending primary healthcare settings in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, to estimate the cLBP prevalence, its effect on health-related quality of life (QOL), and predictors of subsequent disability. The visual analog scale of pain (VAS), World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (WHO-QOL), and Oswestry low back pain disability index (ODI) were used to assess back pain severity, impact on QOL, and physical disability, respectively.

Relative CTLA-4, PTPN-22, and interleukin 37 mRNA expressions in patients with lupus nephritis.

Objectives: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by T-cell immune-dysregulation and loss of tolerance to self-antigens. CTLA-4 and PTPN-22 are involved in the inhibition of T-lymphocytes activation. IL-37 is an anti-inflammatory cytokine that suppresses innate immunity.

Efficacy of ascorbic acid and different sources of orange peel on growth performance, gene expression, anti-oxidant status and microbial activity of growing rabbits under hot conditions.

Orange peel and its extract are good sources of phenols and vitamin C that can be used as powerful antioxidants and antibacterial. The effects of dietary ascorbic acid (AA), orange peel powder (OPP) and orange peel extract (OPE) supplementations on growth performance, blood biochemicals, gene expression and antioxidant status of growing rabbits under hot conditions were investigated. A total of 80 weaned Giant Flander male rabbits, five weeks old (606.

Three key genes expression profiling in Egyptian rheumatoid arthritis patients.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a multi-system autoimmune disease with synovial joints involvement. The triad of autoimmunity, genetics, and environment is the key player in RA pathogenesis. We intended to investigate gene expression of C-C Chemokine Ligand 2 (CCL2), protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 22 (PTPN22), and Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) in RA patients versus controls, and its correlation with the activity of the disease.