no domestic availability to breeder turkey stocks and turkey hatching eggs prompted the present experiment that aimed to evaluate the feasibility of a conventional artificial insemination (ai) procedure in british united turkey (but) for the first time in iran. broiler turkeys were restrictedly fed, grown for 46 weeks, and used for the current study (10 turkey toms and 24 turkey hens in total)....

A study carried out to compare the compositional quality of milk from healthy and mastitic buffaloes revealed mean ± S.E. content of sodium, potassium, chloride, protein, lactose and SNF in milk of healthy quarters as 40.00±1.19 mg/dl, 102.00±0.06 mg/dl, 0.126±0.006 per cent, 3.33±0.03 gm/dl, 5.92±0.01 gm/dl and 8.77±0.05 gm/dl, respectively. The milk from clinically infected quarters showed 85...

in the past two decade, the application of probiotics to the inhibition of pathogenic or microorganisms has recieved much interest. the aim of the present was to study the effect of bifidobacterium angulatum, bifidobacterium bifidum, lactobacillus acidophilus and lactobacillus casei on escherichia coli o157:h7 was evaluated during associated growth in milk. at first a quantity of 1. 5×108 e. co...

The methylene-blue reduction or reducíase test as a means of judging the sanitary quahty of milk has met with great popularity in this country. This method of analysis has the advantages of being very simple to operate, easy to interpret, and requires very little expense for materials. Many of the small milk plants not equipped with elaborate facilities necessary to make agar-plate counts are u...

Chicory plant (Cichorium intybus) belongs to Asteraceae family and contains flavonoids. This research carried out in order to evaluate the effect of chicory plant on the activities of bifidobacterium bifidum and lactobacillus acidophilus. Four containers containing a liter of 1.5 % sterilized skim milk were selected as four group in order to produce milk cont...

BACKGROUND Peritoneal dialysis fluids (PDFs) have been shown to alter mesothelial cell functions. To further determine the mechanisms involved, we investigated the effects of glucose, glucose degradation products (GDPs) and advanced glycation end products (AGEs) on the inhibition of human peritoneal mesothelial cell (HPMC) proliferation and the induction of apoptosis and oncosis. METHODS Four...

Callus induced from leaf explants of Pueraria lobata seedlings were suspended in Gamborg B5 medium supplemented with 1 mg l(-1) 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, 1 mg l(-1) naphthalene acetic acid, 0.5 mg l(-1) kinetin and 30 g l(-1) sucrose. The effects of coconut milk and casein hydrolysate (CH) on cell growth and yields of puerarin and isoflavones in cells suspension were studied. The contents...

With the recent introduction of the policy of absolute breast feeding of infants in Ghana for the first six months after birth, this triggered our interest in investigating the presences of some heavy metals in breast milk. Breast milk samples were collected from twenty lactating mothers below the ages of twenty five in the Odumanse-Atua community in the Manya Krobo district of Eastern Region o...

A total of 231 different soil Streptomyces isolates were recovered from 16 different locations in North Jordan. They were assessed for their phytotoxic activity on seeds of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) and ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) placed adjacent to a 2 cm wide Streptomyces culture strips grown at 28C degrees for 3 weeks on starch casein nitrate (SCN) agar. Phytotoxicity was ascertained on...