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Effect of supplemental trace minerals on standard and novel measures of bull fertility. Theriogenology 2021; 172:307-314. [PMID: 34311222 DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2021.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2020] [Revised: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Two studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of trace mineral supplementation on traditional and novel measures of bull fertility. In Experiment 1, 37 mature bulls received one of three dietary supplements daily for 71 d: 1) Supplement without Cu, Zn, and Mn (CON); 2) Supplement with Cu, Zn, and Mn sulfate (SULF); and 3) Supplement with basic Cu chloride, and Zn and Mn hydroxychloride (CHLR). In Experiment 2, 128 Angus or Angus-Hereford bull calves were maintained on a growing diet for 75 d (year 1) or 119 d (year 2) in Calan gate equipped pens without mineral supplementation. Bulls (n = 32 head/treatment) received one of four trace mineral supplements daily for 84 d: 1) Zn with no Cu (ZN), 2) Cu with no Zn (CU), 3) Cu and Zn (ZNCU), or 4) no Cu or Zn (CON). Bull fertility measures included a breeding soundness evaluation (BSE) and novel fertility measures conducted using flow cytometry. In mature bulls, final liver Zn concentration was positively correlated (P = 0.02) with sperm concentration (r = 0.31) and tended (P = 0.06) to be negatively correlated with acrosome damage (r = -0.39). Peripubertal bulls receiving ZNCU had greater ADG than bulls in the CU group (P = 0.05). Each BSE and novel fertility component improved from Day 0-84 in peripubertal bulls and were not affected (P > 0.10) by mineral supplementation. Bulls that received no supplement (CON) had greater (P < 0.01) percentage of sperm with distal midpiece reflex (6.9 vs 4.0% for CON and TM supplement, respectively) and Dag or Dag-like defect (2.6 vs 1.4% for CON and TM supplement, respectively) in their ejaculates. Sperm viability after 30 min of incubation were not affected by trace mineral supplementation, but after 3 h incubation, sperm viability tended to differ (P = 0.06) between treatments and tended to be less for CON bulls (48.5%) compared to ZNCU bulls (55.1%). Among contrast comparisons, trace mineral supplemented bulls had greater (P < 0.05) percentage of viable sperm at 3 h post collection and reactive oxygen resistant sperm than CON bulls. Addition of Zn to trace mineral containing Cu (ZNCU) improved (P < 0.05) percentage of sperm in the ejaculate with high mitochondrial energy potential and viable sperm with intact acrosome membrane. In summary, it appears the homeostasis mechanisms for bull trace mineral maintenance are extremely efficient and mineral supplementation of mature and peripubertal bulls did not have major improvements in any laboratory or chute-side measures of bull fertility, however bulls exposed to breeding or in environments with diet antagonists might respond differently.
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Pre-inverse-crowns: synthetic, structural and reactivity studies of alkali metal magnesiates primed for inverse crown formation. Chem Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c3sc52816b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The synthesis, structure and reactivity of donor-free sodium and potassium magnesiates are assessed culminating in the unique 1,4-dimetallation of naphthalene.
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Single electron transfer (SET) activity of the dialkyl-amido sodium zincate [(TMEDA)·Na(μ-TMP)(μ-tBu)Zn(tBu)] towards TEMPO and chalcone. Chem Commun (Camb) 2012; 48:1541-3. [DOI: 10.1039/c1cc12869h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Assignments and Mechanism of SERRS of the Hydrazone Form for the Azo Dye Solvent Yellow 14. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/j100003a008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Results of liver transplantation (LT) for hepatitis B have improved significantly with the use of hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG) and/or lamivudine. The aim of this study is to review the long-term outcome of patients who underwent LT for hepatitis B. Records of 41 patients who underwent LT for hepatitis B and survived 3 months or longer post-LT were reviewed. Twenty patients were administered no immunoprophylaxis or short-term intramuscular HBIG, whereas 21 patients were administered high-dose intravenous (IV) HBIG. Median post-LT follow-up in these 2 groups was 76 months (range, 4 to 155 months) and 25 months (range, 4 to 68 months), respectively. Hepatitis B recurred in 15 (75%) and 4 patients (19%) who underwent LT in the pre-HBIG and post-HBIG eras, respectively. Cumulative rates of recurrent hepatitis B at 1 and 3 years post-LT in these 2 groups were 66% and 77% and 20% and 20%, respectively (P <.001). Recurrent hepatitis B in the post-HBIG era correlated with antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen titer less than 100 IU/L. Nine patients with recurrent hepatitis B were administered lamivudine for 13 to 49 months (median, 28 months); 6 patients continued to have stable or improved liver disease, whereas 3 patients developed virological breakthrough with slow deterioration of liver disease. Long-term IV HBIG is effective in preventing recurrent hepatitis B. The risk for recurrent hepatitis B is negligible after the first year post-LT. Among patients with no virological breakthrough, lamivudine can stabilize or improve liver disease for up to 4 years in patients with recurrent hepatitis B post-LT.
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Differences in etiology for graft loss in female renal transplant recipients. Transplant Proc 2001; 33:1288-90. [PMID: 11267295 DOI: 10.1016/s0041-1345(00)02481-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The uptake of radionuclides by beans, squash, and corn growing in contaminated alluvial soils at Los Alamos National Laboratory. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH. PART. B, PESTICIDES, FOOD CONTAMINANTS, AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES 1998; 33:99-121. [PMID: 9491570 DOI: 10.1080/03601239809373132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Pinto beans (Phaselous vulgaris), sweet corn (Zea mays), and zucchini squash (Cucurbita pepo) were grown in a field pot study using alluvial floodplain soils contaminated with various radionuclides within Los Alamos Canyon (LAC) at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. Soils as well as washed edible (fruit) and nonedible (stems and leaves) crop tissues were analyzed for tritium (3H), cesium (137Cs), strontium (90Sr), plutonium (238Pu and 239,240Pu), americium (241Am), and total uranium (totU). Most radionuclides, with the exception of 3H and totU, in soil and crop tissues from LAC were detected in significantly higher concentrations (p < 0.05) than in soil or crop tissues collected from regional background locations. Significant differences in radionuclide concentrations among crop species (squash were generally higher than beans or corn) and plant parts (nonedible tissue were generally higher than edible tissue) were observed. Most soil-to-plant concentration ratios for radionuclides in edible and nonedible crop tissues grown in soils from LAC were within default values in the literature commonly used in dose and risk assessment models. Overall, the maximum net positive committed effective dose equivalent (CEDE)--the CEDE plus two sigma for each radioisotope minus background and then all positive doses summed--to a hypothetical 50-year resident that ingested 352 lb ([160 kg]; the maxiumum ingestion rate per person per year) of beans, corn, and squash in equal proportions was 74 mrem y-1 (740 microS y-1). This upper bound dose was below the International Commission on Radiological Protection permissible dose limit of 100 mrem y-1 (1000 microS y-1) from all pathways and corresponds to a risk of an excess cancer fatality of 3.7 x 10(-5) (37 in a million), which is also below the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's guideline of 10(-4).
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Investigation into the structural chemistry of Cu2+ ions in doped nearly perfect single crystals of ammonium sulfate with reference to their role in habit modification. Faraday Discuss 1993. [DOI: 10.1039/fd9939500347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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EEG was continuously recorded from Mongolian gerbils for 4 days after transient bilateral forebrain ischemia, to determine whether ischemic brain damage in this species is necessarily associated with seizures. Gerbils were chronically implanted with EEG recording electrodes in hippocampal area CA1, striatum and frontal neocortex and were subjected to a 5-10 min occlusion of both common carotid arteries. During the first few hours after the occlusion, the EEG was dominated by slow waves similar to those recorded from human brain after a damaging episode of cerebral ischemia. Amplitudes of the hippocampal and striatal EEG declined markedly with time, presumably as a result of neuronal degeneration. Ictal activity was never recorded, even from animals that suffered extreme damage to the hippocampal formation and striatum. Therefore ischemic brain damage in the gerbil does not result from seizure activity.
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Efficacy of baclofen and phenobarbital against the kainic acid limbic seizure-brain damage syndrome. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1986; 239:612-7. [PMID: 3772812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Baclofen and phenobarbital were tested for anticonvulsant efficacy against limbic seizures produced by i.c.v. infusion of kainic acid (KA) in unanesthetized rats. All rats treated with KA alone developed a prolonged status epilepticus associated with extensive neuronal degeneration. When administered immediately after the KA infusion, baclofen (5 mg/kg i.p.) protected five of six animals against the development of status epilepticus and did not alter the behavioral expression of the residual discrete electrographic seizures. Phenobarbital (40 mg/kg i.p.) given 15 min before KA also prevented the development of status epilepticus in five of six rats, but blocked the behavioral expression of the residual electrographic seizures. In two of five additional rats, baclofen prevented or reversed status epilepticus when administered 50 to 60 min after the end of the KA infusion. The ability of these drugs to prevent KA-induced neuronal degeneration correlated with their anticonvulsant action.
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Comparison of seizures and brain lesions produced by intracerebroventricular kainic acid and bicuculline methiodide. Exp Neurol 1986; 93:621-30. [PMID: 3743707 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4886(86)90181-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Intracerebroventricular kainic acid produces in rats brain lesions similar to Ammon's horn sclerosis in humans. To test the hypothesis that these lesions result indirectly from prolonged seizure activity and not from a direct action of kainic acid on the neurons that are destroyed, the effects of intracerebroventricular kainic acid and bicuculline methiodide were compared. Although bicuculline methiodide seizures differed dramatically from kainic acid seizures, both electrographically and behaviorally, the resulting brain lesions were similar for a given total limbic seizure duration. These results, in combination with other data, support the view that lesions made by intracerebroventricular administration of convulsants are indeed caused by prolonged limbic seizures. The total duration of seizure activity appears to be one important variable.
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Baclofen suppresses bursting activity induced in hippocampal slices by differing convulsant treatments. Eur J Pharmacol 1986; 126:289-92. [PMID: 3019716 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(86)90059-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Epileptiform activity was induced in area CA3 of hippocampal slices by superfusion of medium containing 50 microM bicuculline and 3.5 mM K, 50 microM bicuculline and 5 mM K, 50 nM kainic acid and 3.5 mM K, or 7 mM K. Burst potentials were recorded at rates between 5 and 44/min, depending on the convulsant treatment. Baclofen reduced the frequency of burst firing in all slices tested in a dose-dependent manner, with little change in the morphology of individual bursts. Thus baclofen primarily affected the initiation of epileptiform discharges. IC50 values varied between 27 and 500 nM and were positively correlated with the rate of bursting. These experiments indicate that baclofen, at concentrations present in the CSF of patients treated for spasticity, has an anticonvulsant-like effect in the hippocampal formation and suggest that its mode of action is to reduce the excitability of pyramidal cells.
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Kainic acid seizures and neuronal cell death: insights from studies of selective lesions and drugs. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1986; 203:673-86. [PMID: 3788712 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-7971-3_51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Amination reactions of alkoxymidolithium compounds; an ab initio S.C.F. M. O. model involving an (N–O)-lithium-bridged intermediate. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1039/c39850000789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The nature of the chemical bonding in boron carbide. IV. Electronic band structure of boron carbide, B13C2, and three models of the structure B12C3. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B: STRUCTURAL SCIENCE 1983. [DOI: 10.1107/s0108768183002487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Muscimol and some aza analogues: molecular orbital calculations relating to their potency as GABA mimetics. J Theor Biol 1982; 97:267-76. [PMID: 6290798 DOI: 10.1016/0022-5193(82)90103-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Behavioral kinetics: a method for deriving qualitative and quantitative changes in sensory responsiveness following septal nuclei damage. Physiol Behav 1980; 24:479-84. [PMID: 7375568 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(80)90240-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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A theoretical investigation of Ziegler-type catalysis. Part I. Soluble catalyst systems. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1972. [DOI: 10.1039/dt9720001972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The electronic structures of some tetrazaborolines and dimethyltetrazadieneirontricarbonyl. Theor Chem Acc 1972. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00529309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Calculation of the electronic structure of boranes by the self-consistent molecular orbital method. Part I. B10H14 and some neutral chloroboranes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1971. [DOI: 10.1039/j19710003674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Epidemiologic and serologic investigations of filariasis in indigenous populations and American soldiers in South Vietnam. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1970; 19:227-31. [PMID: 4910118 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1970.19.227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Ab initio calculations, including d-orbitals, of the electronic structure of thiophen. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1970. [DOI: 10.1039/c29700000319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Non-empirical LCAO-MO-SCF calculations with gaussian type functions on the electrocyclic transformation of cyclopropyl to allyl. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1969. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00527014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Electronic structure of aminoborane: a comparison between non-empirical and semiempirical theoretical methods. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1969. [DOI: 10.1039/j19690002566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Calculation of the electronic structures and the gas-phase heats of formation of BH3,NH3 and BH3,CO. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1969. [DOI: 10.1039/j19690001044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The π-electronic structures of some compounds containing boron–oxygen bonds. Part II. Cyclic compounds. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1967. [DOI: 10.1039/j19670000790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The π-electronic structures of some compounds containing boron–oxygen bonds. Part I. Compounds where boron is not in a ring. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1967. [DOI: 10.1039/j19670000123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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