139 results about "Metabolic energy" patented technology

Metabolic energy capacity enhancing compositions and methods for reducing oxidative stress and improving vitality in a mammal are disclosed. A composition for increasing metabolic energy capacity may be in a palatable liquid formulation or a solid dosage form and typically includes an anti-oxidant containing phytonectar and an energy catalyst. An anti-oxidant may include a polyphenol, anthrocyanin, bioflavonoid, proanthocyanidin, and a xanthone. An energy catalyst may include a mineral, vitamin, co-vitamin, carbohydrate and a lipid. In a presently preferred embodiment a composition includes phytonectar extracts from grape, aloe vera, apple, morinda citrifolia, scullcap, blueberry, prune, cranberry, elderberry, bilberry, and gentain and a mineral blend containing calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, chromium, selenium, iron, copper, molybdenum, vanadium, potassium, iodine, and cobalt. A method for increasing metabolic energy capacity in a mammal may include consuming a chemical component having the ability to undergo oxidation, producing free radicals and administering a composition having an anti-oxidant containing phytonectar and an energy catalyst.

Embodiments of the invention relate to walking/running braces and to devices for enhancing locomotion, specifically human bipedal locomotion. More particularly, it relates to a controlled mechanical device which provides support of the torso via the hip sockets, reduces the metabolic energy associated with walking/running and reduces the incidence of falls caused by insufficient leg thrust. Embodiments of the invention also relates to reducing the strain and metabolic energy consumption associated with walking/running with a heavy backpack or other significant carried load.

A method for obtaining an assist torque to be applied to a human joint, in a human assist system in order to reduce the load on muscles, according to the present invention comprises the step of obtaining a moment due to gravity, acting on a joint of each human segment, based on equations of force and moment balance on each segment. The method further comprises the step of obtaining an assist torque to be applied to the joint to compensate for the moment due to gravity, acting on the joint. In one embodiment of the present invention, various criteria are used such as mechanical energy, metabolic energy and/or a stability/equilibrium factor. In addition, the present invention can account for the situation where there is substantially no relative motion between segments of a given joint and thus, where the mechanical energy component of gravity compensation is approximately zero.

The present invention relates generally to a ligand for a protein associated with modulating obesity, diabetes and metabolic energy levels in animals including humans. More particularly, the present invention provides a ligand of the protein, Beacon, and its homologs. The identification of a Beacon ligand permits the identification of agents which agonize or antagonize the Beacon-ligand interaction and, hence, the development of therapeutic molecules useful in modulating obesity, diabetes and/or energy imbalance.

The disclosure belongs to the technical field of lower limb exoskeleton, and specifically discloses a hip-knee passive exoskeleton device based on clutch time-sharing control, comprising a waist support subassembly, connection subassemblies, thigh subassemblies, clutch subassemblies, shank subassemblies and elastic member subassemblies, the waist support subassembly is configured to be connected to the waist, the connection subassemblies are configured to include two connection subassemblies which are arranged in bilateral symmetry on two sides of the support subassembly, the thigh subassemblies are configured to include two thigh subassemblies which are respectively connected to the two connection subassemblies, the clutch subassemblies are configured to include two clutch subassemblies which are respectively mounted on the two thigh subassemblies, the shank subassemblies are configured to include two shank subassemblies which are arranged in bilateral symmetry below the two thigh subassemblies, the elastic member subassemblies are configured to include two elastic member subassemblies which are arranged in bilateral symmetry. The disclosure can assist the movements of the knee and hip joints, thereby improving the energy utilization efficiency and reducing the metabolic energy consumption of walking.

The invention belongs to the field of lower limb assisting exoskeletons, and discloses a hip joint passive exoskeleton device based on energy time-sharing regulation. The hip joint passive exoskeletondevice comprises a waist arc-shaped support assembly, hip joint assemblies, thigh assemblies and elastic component connecting assemblies, wherein the waist arc-shaped support assembly comprises surrounding support devices and flexible bandages; each hip joint assembly comprises a hip joint inwards folding and outward unfolding connector and a hip joint bending and stretching connector; each thighassembly comprises a thigh outer-side connecting rod, a thigh front hoop and a thigh rear hoop; each elastic component connecting assembly comprises an L-shaped cantilever, an force arm, a digging rope clutch, an extension spring and a flexible rope. For the hip joint passive exoskeleton device based on energy time-sharing regulation provided by the invention, through the digging rope clutches triggered along with the joint angle, the extension springs stretch for storing the mechanical energy of the human body when the human hip joint does negative work and contract for releasing the energywhen the human hip joint does positive work, so that the time-sharing regulation on the mechanical energy of the human body is realized finally, the movement of the hip joint is assisted, the metabolic energy consumption generated during walk is reduced, in addition, the hip joint passive exoskeleton device has the advantages that the structure is simple, the cost is low, the weight is small, andthe wearing is comfortable.

The invention relates to a dual-mode passive ankle power-assisted exoskeleton, and belongs to the technical field of wearable power-assisted machinery. The dual-mode passive ankle power-assisted exoskeleton solves the technical problems that the walking gait of a wearer is unnatural due to the fact that an existing exoskeleton exerts additional load on a human body due to the own weight and an elastic element of the exoskeleton exerts resistance to movement of an ankle joint. The dual-mode passive ankle power-assisted exoskeleton comprises a calf mechanism, a mode switching device, a calf length adjusting rod, a spring, a rope, a pre-tightening mechanism, a tension sensor, an ankle joint mechanism and a sole support plate. The mode switching device is arranged on the calf mechanism, and the calf mechanism is connected with the ankle joint mechanism through the calf length adjusting rod. The sole support plate is disposed under the ankle joint mechanism. The spring is connected with themode switching device and the pre-tightening mechanism through the rope, and the pre-tightening mechanism is disposed on the ankle joint mechanism. The dual-mode passive ankle power-assisted exoskeleton can provide assistant power for an ankle, reduces the metabolic energy consumption of the human body, and does not affect the normal gait of the wearer.

The invention discloses a formula feed of broilers and a preparation method thereof. The formula is as follows: 50-65% of corn, 0-2% of fishmeal, 20-25% of soya bean meal, 0-3% of corn protein powder, 0-1% of whole hen egg, 0-5% of wheat middling, 0-5% of rice pericarps, 0-5% of rice bran, 0-3% of cottonseed meal, 0.5-1.5% of bean oil, 0.1-0.3% of acidulant, 0.05-0.1% of sodium butyrate, 0.03-0.05% of compound enzyme preparation and 1.5-2% of compound premix. The feed is prepared by the steps of removing impurities from raw materials, grinding raw materials, weighing raw materials, mixing raw materials, palletizing and packing finished products, etc. in sequence. The invention selects the additives which promote the broilers to grow and develop and the feed materials which improve the immunocompetence, etc. The feed product has moderate metabolic energy value, high nutrition level and good palatability, is easy to digest and absorb and is easy to satisfy the nutritional requirements of 1-7 days of growth, therefore, the broilers grow fast and have high disease resistance, low mortality and low feed coefficient, and the coefficient of the formula feed is 0.8-0.9.

Nutrient compositions and methods that sustain and promote positive metabolic energy levels in a targeted manner are disclosed. Methods utilize endogenous energy stores (fat oxidation), increase use of those stores (increasing transport rate), increase available energy (increasing the ability to perform ADP to ATP phosphorylation,) as well as decrease catabolism and increase protein synthesis. Compositions are also disclosed, and include Mono- or Dicreatine-HMB salt; Putrescine Dihydrochloride; Alanine; L-Glutamine, which may be combined with Alanine in a 1:2 to 2:1 molecular ratio; Trimethylglycine; and Guanidinopropionic Acid.

The invention provides a corn bean pulp type feed complex enzyme additive and an application thereof. The complex enzyme additive comprises the components based on weight percentage: 10%-15% of xylanase, 8%-15% of cellulase, 3%-8% of beta-seminase, 5-15% of alpha-galactosidase, 5%-10% of acid protease, 10%-20% of moderate temperature amylase, 5%-10% of glucoamylase and 7%-54% of carrier. The complex enzyme additive can decompose the nutrient s in the corn bean pulp, a mass of anti-nutritional factors which are hard to digest by animals such as the crude fiber and the like, so that energy in the corn bean pulp can be abundantly explored, the digestion capability of the animals to the corn bean pulp type feed can be improved, and the material-meat ratio can be reduced; the digestibility of the nutrient substance and the appearance metabolic energy can be improved, and the microorganism quantity of the ileum can be reduced; the corn bean pulp type feed complex enzyme additive has the advantages of being high-efficiency, specific, small in additive amount and the like compared with the similar additive; and after the complex enzyme additive is used, the growth of the animals can be promoted, and the feed converting efficiency can be improved.

The invention discloses a compound emulsifier as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The compound emulsifier comprises the following components in parts by weight: 20-60 (preferably 20) parts of lecithin, 30-60 (preferably 60) parts of glycerin monostearate and 20-60 (preferably 40) parts of sucrose fatty acid ester. When the compound emulsifier is added to diet of livestock and poultry for broiler chicken raising and metabolic experiment, the feed intake of broiler chicken is increased by 9.1%, the rate of body weight gain is improved by 12.2%, the dietary metabolic energy is increased by 2%, and the lipase activities in pancreas and jejunal chyme of 18-day-old broiler chicken are respectively improved by 31% and 20.2%. Compared with the signal or compound emulsifier used in the prior art, the compound emulsifier disclosed by the invention has the beneficial effect of obviously enhancing the growth performance of livestock and poultry.

The present invention relates generally to nucleic acid molecules expressed at least in the hypothalamus, liver, mesenteric adipose tissue, or red gastrocnemius muscle conveniently identified using differential display techniques under differing physiological conditions. The nucleic acid molecules are associated with or act as markers for conditions of inter alia a healthy state, myopathy, obesity, anorexia, weight maintenance, diabetes, disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, genetic disorders and/or metabolic energy levels. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a nucleic acid molecule and/or its expression product for use in therapeutic and diagnostic protocols for conditions such as inter alia a myopathy, obesity, anorexia, weight maintenance, diabetes, disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, genetic disorders and/or metabolic energy levels. The subject nucleic acid molecule and expression product and their derivatives, homologs, analogs and mimetics are proposed to be useful, therefore, as therapeutic and diagnostic agents for inter alia a myopathy, obesity, anorexia, weight maintenance, diabetes, disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, genetic disorders and/or metabolic energy levels or as targets for the design and/or identification of modulators of their activity and/or function.

The invention applies for providing lipase capable of reducing cholesterol and blood fat levels in bodies of animals and use thereof. Researches on the influences of the addition of the lipase in daily rations on the growth property, apparent metabolizable energy, blood biochemical indexes and abdominal fat rate of commercial broiler chicken are performed. The results of the researches indicate that the addition of the lipase can improve the growth property and apparent metabolizable energy of boiler chicken and reduce the content of triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein in blood and abdominal fat rate and that the improvement on the e growth property and apparent metabolizable energy and the reduction in the triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein, high-density lipoprotein and abdominal fat rate reach the greatest extend in the middle term of a test.

The invention discloses a method for measuring plant leaf cell metabolic energy, and belongs to the technical field of biophysical information detection. A measuring device comprises a bracket, foam plates, electrode plates, wires, an iron block and a plastic rod, wherein the foam plates embedded with the electrode plates are separately adhered to the bottom end of the bracket and the plastic rod.The electrode plates are connected with an LCR tester through the wires during using, the two electrode plates clamp a plant leaf to be measured, and physiological resistance, physiological impedanceand physiological capacitance of the plant leaf under different clamping force are simultaneously measured in a parallel mode. According to the Gibbs free energy equation and the Nernst equation, models of the physiological capacitance of the plant leaf changing with the clamping force, the physiological resistance of the plant leaf changing with the clamping force and the physiological impedanceof the plant leaf changing with the clamping force are further constructed, and the plant leaf cell metabolic energy is calculated jointly by using parameters of the three models.

The invention discloses a formula feed of meat ducks and a preparation method thereof. The formula is as follows: 15-30% of corn, 15-30% of rice pericarps, 10-15% of soya bean meal, 5-25% of wheat middling, 5-15% of rice bran, 5-10% of corn germ meal, 0-5% of cottonseed meal, 0-5% of rapeseed meal, 1-4% of phosphatide oil, 0.01-0.03% of compound enzyme preparation and 1.5-2% of compound premix. The feed is prepared by the steps of removing impurities from raw materials, grinding raw materials, weighing raw materials, mixing raw materials, palletizing and packing finished products, etc. in sequence. The feed of the invention has wide raw material sources, low cost, moderate metabolic energy values of finished products and high nutrition level and is easy to satisfy the nutritional requirements of growth of the ducks at 4-8 weeks of age, therefore, the meat ducks grow fast and have high disease resistance and low feed coefficient, and the coefficient of the formula feed is 2.8-2.9.

The invention provides a method using a composite bacterium to ferment bean dregs to manufacture protein feed. The composite bacterium is composed of trichoderma, aspergillus oryzae and saccharomyces cerevisiae. Agriculture residues or food residues of a bean dreg class are added to base materials, and composite fermentation is carried out. Products after being fermented are rich in single-cell protein, digestible energy and metabolic energy of the products are improved, the content of rough fibers is reduced, and a great amount of probiotics, abundant enzymes and bioactivator are included. Through detection to unfermented essential nutrients and fermented essential nutrients, compared with the content of bean dreg protein of unfermented bean dregs, the fact that the content of bean dreg protein of bean dregs after being fermented is increased by about 8%, amino acid nitrogen is increased by 4.9 times, the activity of proteinase containing is 1157 U/g, and the bean dregs after being fermented are ideal protein feed.

The invention discloses an egg compound feed, which comprises the following components with part by weight: corns 50-55, soyabeans 8-15, cotton seed mills 5-10, peanut meals 3-8, wheat brans 8-15, soya-bean oil 0-1, salt 0.2-0.4, stone powder 0-1 and grits 0-0.1, and a method for preparing the egg compound feed. The egg compound feed is moderate in metabolic energy, reduces use amount of the soyabeans, does not use fish powder or bone powder, reduces cost of feeds, increases nutritional ingredients of the feeds, restrains the ingredients to reduce, enhances palatability, supplies enough amino acids which are needed by eggs, uses the stone powder to adjust the radio of calcium and phosphate, is overall and balanced to supply nutrients of the eggs, adjusts balance of intestinal floras, improves intestine microenvironment, promotes growth, improves disease resistane, reduces diseases which are caused because of nutritional deficiency, is high in conversion ratio of the feeds, and improves market competitiveness.

The invention belongs to the field of power driving devices, and discloses a power backpack device for assisting a human body in weight-bearing walking. The device comprises a substrate, and a load, ascrew rod, an elastic rope, a data acquisition unit, a motion control unit, a power supply and a controller which are arranged on the substrate. When a human body carries the knapsack device on the back and begins to walk, the data acquisition unit acquires the acceleration of the human body in the vertical direction during movement and transmits the acquired acceleration to the controller, and the controller sets the ideal acceleration of the load in the vertical direction according to the acceleration and enables the motion control unit to drive the load to move on the lead screw at the ideal acceleration; when the human body stops, the data acquisition unit acquires the position of the load and transmits the position to the controller, and the controller enables the load to stop on thelead screw through the motion control unit. According to the invention, the metabolic energy consumption of a human body during weight-bearing walking is reduced, the shoulder pressure is reduced, and the burden on the human body is reduced.

The invention discloses fodder composition for calf blue peacocks, which comprises the following components by mass percent: 40% of corn, 15% of soya-bean cakes, 10% of vital gluten, 10% of fish meal, 20% of sorghum, 1% of salt, 2% of amino acid and 2% of yeast. The crude protein content of the fodder composition is 22.6%, and the metabolic energy of the fodder composition is 11.9 megajoule/kg; the fodder composition is used for calf blue peacocks with less than 60 days in age, and is nutritious and low in cost.

The invention discloses a feed. The feed comprises the following ingredients in percentage by mass: 20-30% of coconut dregs, 5-8% of rapeseed dregs, 1-7% of cottonseed dregs, 20-35% of beer distiller grains, 1-15% of corn bran and 1-5% of pre-mixed materials. The invention also discloses a preparation method of the feed. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) crushing the coconut dregs, rapeseed dregs, cottonseed dregs, beer distiller grains, and corn bran with a 8.0mm screen; (2) mixing the pre-mixed materials with the mixture, so as to obtain the feed. The feed and the preparation method have the following advantages: through detecting the metabolic energy value of an unconventional feed, proper adding amount of different unconventional feed in a meat goose feed is determined, so as to form a feed formula with actual feeding effect and a preparation method. Through replacing the ingredients of a conventional feed by the dregs, on one hand, the processing cost is further saved, one the other hand, the animals can be fattened, the growth of the animals can be prompted, and the animal coarse fiber can reach the optimal level.