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Quality characteristics of ground round formulated with three fat sources
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This research was performed to determine if changing the source of fat for inclusion in ground beef from the round will cause a change in the number of days that the ground beef has a viable shelf-life as influenced by ...
Feedlot cattle response to rumen undegradable protein and diet fiber level of high concentrate diets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Studies were conducted to determine the effects of feeding rumen undegradable protein (RUP) on subsequent feedlot cattle performance. The first experiment was conducted to determine if growth rate and gain to feed ratio ...
Effects of reduced protein and diet complexity on performance and cost of nursery pigs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Two 35-d experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of reducing crude protein by 2.5% and diet complexity with amino acid supplementation on performance and feed cost during the nursery phase. In Exp. 1 and 2, ...
Effects of aflatoxin B₁ (AFB₁) on hepatic gene expression in pigs and turkeys
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The objective of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of curcumin (CMN), an antioxidant supplied by turmeric (Curcuma longa) powder to ameliorate the adverse effects of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) on performance of pigs ...
Determination of allelic expression of H19 in pre- and peri-implantation mouse embryos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
H19 is a maternally-expressed imprinted non-coding RNA with tumor suppressor activity. H19 is located in an imprinted cluster which contains the paternally-expressed fetal growth factor Igf2. Monoallelic expression of H19 ...
Behavioral and physiological phenotype of the viable yellow mouse (AVY/a)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Epigenetics is the study of how heritable phenotypes are transmitted without changes being made to the DNA sequence. One of the best characterized animal models for epigenetics is the viable yellow (Avy) mouse. These animals ...
Modeling EAA requirement and developing low fishmeal diet for yellow perch
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Overall, my dissertation research sought to enhance production of yellow perch by developing a low cost, complete diet for juvenile yellow perch by ...
Improvement in stored forage utilization during feeding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Three experiments investigated methods to reduce forage waste during stored forage feeding using large round bale feeders (LRBF). In the first experiment, cone and sheeted LRBF reduced (P < 0.05) fescue hay waste 54 and ...
Abundance of TRIM28, SETDB1, and TP53 mRNA is dynamically regulated during porcine early embryogenesis and is abnormal in preimplantation embryos produced by in vitro fertilization in comparison to in vivo derived and nuclear transfer derived embryos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In vitro embryo production is important for research in animal reproduction, embryo transfer, transgenics, and cloning. However, in vitro-derived embryos ...
Determining pork fat quality of pigs fed 20% DGS as measured by three methods with a standard industry marketing strategy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Fat quality is important in meat products as it can influence further processing characteristics and pork export potential. The use of non-traditional fat sources such as dried distillers grain with solubles (DDGS) changes ...
Effects of the use of assisted reproduction and high caloric diet consumption on body weight and cardiovascular health of juvenile mouse offspring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Maternal obesity and the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are two suboptimal developmental environments that can lead to offspring obesity and cardiovascular disease. We hypothesized that these environments ...
Overcoming endometriosis-associated preimplantation embryo developmental anomalies by culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Endometriosis, characterized by the localization and establishment of ectopic endometrial tissue, afflicts 10 to 15% of reproductive-aged women worldwide. Due to the anomalous substances secreted from these endometriotic ...
Stem cells and DNA methylation reprogramming in pigs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In mammals, the majority of cells in the body contain the same genome as other cells. The concept of nuclear totipotency has been well demonstrated by ...
NIR fluorescent sensors for blood pH and fructose
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Blood serum parameters are tightly associated with human beings' physiological activities, therefore the real-time monitoring of blood serum parameters ...
Generation and characteriazation of porcine induced trophoblast
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Trophoblast stem cells are progenitors of all trophoblast lineages that compose fetal placental portion. Trophoblast stem cells provide an unlimited ...
Development of laboratory methods to detect meat tenderness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Tenderness has been identified as one of the most important attributes for consumers concerning their meat quality desire, so there is a clear need to accurately determine and grade meat accordingly to tenderness. A ...
The inhibition of cysteine peptidases improves in vitro maturation of porcine cumulus-oocyte-complexes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The cell permeable cysteine peptidase inhibitor, E-64, has shown utility as a potent and irreversible inhibitor for many cysteine proteases. Consequently, ...
Analysis of Gbx genes during neural development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The understanding of how transcription factors regulate neural patterning in the anterior hindbrain, and how the assembly of specific neuronal circuits ...
Effect of commercial feed additives on production variables and metabolic markers of the periparturient dairy cow
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Three experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of commercially available feed additives on production variables and metabolic markers when supplemented during the periparturient period. The hypothesis was that ...
Improving fiber by-product utilization in high concentrate diets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The effects of starch and fiber combinations in feedlot diets were examined to determine maximum whole shell corn (WSC) inclusion rate in high fiber diets and determine the effects of fibrolytic enzyme addition to WSC diets ...