Dietary Thiamine and Pyridoxine Requirements of Young Turkeys

Dietary vitamin K1 requirement and comparison of biopotency of different vitamin K sources for young turkeys.

In a preliminary experiment, the inclusion of vitamin K1 (K1) at a dietary level of 0.1 mg/kg was as effective as 1 or 2 mg/kg in reducing plasma prothrombin time (PT). To obtain an estimate of the dietary K1 requirement and to compare the biopotency of different vitamin K sources for poults, three additional experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, an incomplete factorial arrangement of tr...

Nutritional requirements and actual dietary intake of adult burn patients

Background: Nutritional support of the burn patient is essential to optimize, host immune defenses and to promote prompt wound healing. Furthermore, the increased needs in calorie requirement of burned patients, the composition of proteins, carbohydrates and fats in their diet is important. The purpose of this study was to evaluate energy, macronutrient and micronutrient intake and comparing wi...

Modeling Amino Acid Requirements for Turkeys

Feed costs are the major cost of live turkey production. With recent use of grain and oilseeds for bio-energy production and increased need for feed worldwide, we have seen significant cost increases for feed ingredients and thus to the overall cost of turkey feed. While initially this was thought to be a market swing, it now appears that higher input costs are the norm and thus efforts to redu...

Impact of Thiamine and Pyridoxine on Alcoholic Fermentations of Synthetic Grape Juice

Triple therapy with pyridoxine, arginine supplementation and dietary lysine restriction in pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy: Neurodevelopmental outcome.

Pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy (PDE) is an epileptic encephalopathy characterized by response to pharmacologic doses of pyridoxine. PDE is caused by deficiency of α-aminoadipic semialdehyde dehydrogenase resulting in impaired lysine degradation and subsequent accumulation of α-aminoadipic semialdehyde. Despite adequate seizure control with pyridoxine monotherapy, 75% of individuals with PDE have...