world kidney day (wkd) is a joint initiative of the international society of nephrology (isn) and the international federation of kidney foundations (ifkf). seven years on from the first campaign, world kidney day (wkd) has turned into a global phenomenon. on march 13, 2014, medical professionals, government officials, the general public, celebrities and patients took action locally. in 2014, t...

this experiment was conducted to determine the effects of either twice or thrice a day feeding regimens on performance and as well on plasma hormone and metabolite levels of broiler breeder hens during 24 to 38 wk of their productive age. breeder pullets were provided form a commercial flock, and distributed in experimental units, in a compeletly randomized design with three feeding regimens (t...

rearing conditions such as density, temperature, water quality, and frequency of feeding are among the most important factors affecting fish growth in aquaculture. therefore, this study was done to evaluate effects of interaction between temperature and feeding frequency on the growth of juveniles caspian roach weighting approximately 0.5 ± 0.05 g during 45 days. juvenile fish were reared at fo...

Although the pool of cholesterol in the adult central nervous system (CNS) is large and of constant size, little is known of the process(es) involved in regulation of sterol turnover in this pool. In 7-week-old mice, net excretion of cholesterol from the brain equaled 1.4 mg/day/kg body weight, and from the whole animal was 179 mg/day/kg. Deletion of cholesterol 24-hydroxylase, an enzyme highly...