Search Results - "ASHWELL, M"

Waist‐to‐height ratio is a better screening tool than waist circumference and BMI for adult cardiometabolic risk factors: systematic review and meta‐analysis by Ashwell, M, Gunn, P, Gibson, S

“…Our aim was to differentiate the screening potential of waist‐to‐height ratio (WHtR) and waist circumference (WC) for adult cardiometabolic risk in people of…”
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A study of central fatness using waist-to-height ratios in UK children and adolescents over two decades supports the simple message - 'keep your waist circumference to less than half your height' by MCCARTHY, H. D, ASHWELL, M

“…To examine the influence of age and gender on the waist:height ratio (WHTR) in children and to compare changes over time in WHTR, a measure of central fatness…”
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Effects of acute and chronic heat stress on the performance, egg quality, body temperature, and blood gas parameters of laying hens by Barrett, Nathaniel W., Rowland, Kaylee, Schmidt, Carl J., Lamont, Susan J., Rothschild, Max F., Ashwell, Chris M., Persia, Michael E.

“…The goal of this experiment was to measure the physiological response of individual laying hens exposed to heat stress (HS). Performance, egg quality, body…”
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Measurement of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in the clinical laboratory: Current procedures, performance characteristics and limitations by Wallace, A.M., Gibson, S., de la Hunty, A., Lamberg-Allardt, C., Ashwell, M.

“…In this review we describe procedures, performance characteristics and limitations of methods available for the measurement of 25-hydroxyvitamin (25OHD) since…”
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Nearly one third of adults in the ‘healthy’ BMI range are at early cardiometabolic risk according to their waist-to-height ratio by Ashwell, M., Gibson, S.

“…The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recently acknowledged the potential value of waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) as a proxy for…”
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Differences in the microbiome of the small intestine of Leghorn lines divergently selected for antibody titer to sheep erythrocytes suggest roles for commensals in host humoral response by Nolin, Shelly J, Siegel, Paul B, Ashwell, Christopher M

“…For forty generations, two lines of White Leghorn chickens have been selected for high (HAS) or low (LAS) antibody response to a low dose injection of sheep…”
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Immunomodulatory effects of heat stress and lipopolysaccharide on the bursal transcriptome in two distinct chicken lines by Monson, Melissa S, Van Goor, Angelica G, Ashwell, Christopher M, Persia, Michael E, Rothschild, Max F, Schmidt, Carl J, Lamont, Susan J

“…Exposure to heat stress suppresses poultry immune responses, which can increase susceptibility to infectious diseases and, thereby, intensify the negative…”
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Combining supervised machine learning with statistics reveals differential gene expression patterns related to energy metabolism in the jejuna of chickens divergently selected for antibody response to sheep red blood cells by Nolin, Shelly J., Taylor, Robert L., Edens, Frank W., Siegel, Paul B., Ashwell, Christopher M.

“…Since the 1970s, 2 lines of White Leghorn chickens, HAS and LAS, have been continuously divergently selected for 5-day postinjection antibody titer to…”
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Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and immunity in chickens that vary in Marek's disease resistance by He, Yanghua, Taylor, Robert L., Bai, Hao, Ashwell, Christopher M., Zhao, Keji, Li, Yaokun, Sun, Guirong, Zhang, Huanmin, Song, Jiuzhou

“…Marek's disease virus (MDV), a naturally oncogenic, highly contagious alpha herpesvirus, induces a T cell lymphoma in chickens that causes severe economic…”
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Selection for high and low antibody responses to sheep red blood cells influences cytokine and chemokine expression in chicken peripheral blood leukocytes and splenic tissue by Swaggerty, Christina L., Siegel, Paul B., Honaker, Christa F., Kogut, Michael H., Anderson, Robin C., Ashwell, Christopher M., Taylor, Robert L.

“…White Leghorn chickens from a common founder population have been divergently selected for high (HAS) or low (LAS) antibody responses to sheep red blood cells…”
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Combinatorial metabolomic and transcriptomic analysis of muscle growth in hybrid striped bass (female white bass Morone chrysops x male striped bass M. saxatilis) by Rajab, Sarah A S, Andersen, Linnea K, Kenter, Linas W, Berlinsky, David L, Borski, Russell J, McGinty, Andrew S, Ashwell, Christopher M, Ferket, Peter R, Daniels, Harry V, Reading, Benjamin J

“…Understanding growth regulatory pathways is important in aquaculture, fisheries, and vertebrate physiology generally. Machine learning pattern recognition and…”
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RNA-seq analysis of broiler liver transcriptome reveals novel responses to high ambient temperature by Coble, Derrick J, Fleming, Damarius, Persia, Michael E, Ashwell, Chris M, Rothschild, Max F, Schmidt, Carl J, Lamont, Susan J

“…In broilers, high ambient temperature can result in reduced feed consumption, digestive inefficiency, impaired metabolism, and even death. The broiler sector…”
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Transcriptome analysis of post-hatch breast muscle in legacy and modern broiler chickens reveals enrichment of several regulators of myogenic growth by Davis, Richard V N, Lamont, Susan J, Rothschild, Max F, Persia, Michael E, Ashwell, Chris M, Schmidt, Carl J

“…Agriculture provides excellent model systems for understanding how selective pressure, as applied by humans, can affect the genomes of plants and animals. One…”
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Evaluation via Supervised Machine Learning of the Broiler Pectoralis Major and Liver Transcriptome in Association With the Muscle Myopathy Wooden Breast by Phillips, Chelsea A, Reading, Benjamin J, Livingston, Matthew, Livingston, Kimberly, Ashwell, Chris M

“…The muscle myopathy wooden breast (WB) has recently appeared in broiler production and has a negative impact on meat quality. WB is described as hard/firm…”
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Articular cartilage gene expression patterns in the tissue surrounding the impact site following applications of shear and axial loads by McCulloch, R S, Mente, P L, O'Nan, A T, Ashwell, M S

“…Osteoarthritis is a degradative joint disease found in humans and commercial swine which can develop from a number of factors, including prior joint trauma. An…”
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Effect of dietary copper amount and source on copper metabolism and oxidative stress of weanling pigs in short-term feeding by Huang, Y L, Ashwell, M S, Fry, R S, Lloyd, K E, Flowers, W L, Spears, J W

“…Forty-eight weanling barrows were used to determine the effects of amount and source of dietary Cu on Cu metabolism, oxidative stress in the duodenum, and VFA…”
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Unique genetic responses revealed in RNA-seq of the spleen of chickens stimulated with lipopolysaccharide and short-term heat by Van Goor, Angelica, Ashwell, Chris M, Persia, Michael E, Rothschild, Max F, Schmidt, Carl J, Lamont, Susan J

“…Climate change and disease have large negative impacts on poultry production, but little is known about the interactions of responses to these stressors in…”
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Natural Selection Footprints Among African Chicken Breeds and Village Ecotypes by Elbeltagy, Ahmed R, Bertolini, Francesca, Fleming, Damarius S, Van Goor, Angelica, Ashwell, Chris M, Schmidt, Carl J, Kugonza, Donald R, Lamont, Susan J, Rothschild, Max F

“…Natural selection is likely a major factor in shaping genomic variation of the African indigenous rural chicken, driving the development of genetic footprints…”
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Plea for simplicity: use of waist-to-height ratio as a primary screening tool to assess cardiometabolic risk by Ashwell, M.

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Detection of quantitative trait loci affecting milk production, health, and reproductive traits in Holstein cattle by Ashwell, M S, Heyen, D W, Sonstegard, T S, Van Tassell, C P, Da, Y, VanRaden, P M, Ron, M, Weller, J I, Lewin, H A

“…We report putative quantitative trait loci affecting female fertility and milk production traits using the merged data from two research groups that conducted…”
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