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Lean pork consumption is linked with functional efficiency within the visual and ventral attentional networks of the brain, as well as favorable brain age, motivating the design of randomized controlled trials to establish the role of lean pork consumption in cognitive performance and brain health.
This research program applied interdisciplinary methods in nutritional cognitive neuroscience to investigate the role of pork consumption on cognitive performance and brain health.
Partnering to expand testing capacities, support further evaluation and validation of two commercially available CSF PCR assays, and enhance preparedness across the NAHLN.
This study confirms previous research that bacon is highly susceptible to lipid deterioration when using an oxygen permeable food-service packaging format and frozen storage conditions.
The overriding objective of this study is to conduct, within the limitations of current knowledge, an economic analysis of investing in new gestation housing facilities for a farrow to wean operation. There is still much that is not known about increasing the square feet per sow in group housing. This holds at least as much for the costs as it does for the productivity impacts. Hence, the assessment to be presented here is more demonstrative than definitive. Still, using available data, the analysis employs a detailed and transparent method to assess new facility investment alternatives.
Actual piglet mortality is a combination of a set of complex interactions between sow, piglet, environmental, and management factors. While crushing by the sow may be the ultimate cause of piglet mortality, there are many factors influencing the outcome, including hypothermia, starvation, and others. This study’s goals were to create a better environment for the piglets and the sow and to work towards methods of selecting sows with better mothering ability.
The objective of the project is to determine the occupational and community health outcomes associated with swine production with an emphasis on respiratory health outcomes, using a standard quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) approach.
In this study, we aim to explore the potential of mRNA vaccine technology for the development of a subunit vaccine against ASFV. For this pilot project, we focused on assessing the immunogenicity of mRNA vaccines containing four well-characterized ASFV antigens: p32, p54, C-type lectin, and CD2v. Each of these antigens plays a distinct role in the viral lifecycle.
The objective of this study was to assess consumption patterns and the nutritional contribution of total, processed, fresh, and fresh-lean pork to the diets of participants age 2+ years enrolled in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007–2018 data cycles.
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