this study was conducted to investigate performance of native chickens produced in the centre of production and breeding of native chicken of isfahan in rural areas of isfahan province by using 1440 native pullets with age of 45 days in 4 towns and 2 climate zone of warm and cold. this study employed by coworking 60 rural families that 24 pullets with age of 45 days with ratio of 5 hen to 1 roo...

Estimating survival and documenting causes and timing of mortality events in neonate bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) improves understanding of population ecology and factors influencing recruitment. During 2010-2012, we captured and radiocollared 74 neonates in the Black Hills, South Dakota, of which 95% (70) died before 52 weeks of age. Pneumonia (36%) was the leading cause of mortality follow...

purpose this study was performed to assess and compare the effects of pilates exercise on flexibility and lumbo-pelvic movement control between the pilates training and control groups. methods a randomized single-blinded controlled design was utilized in the study. forty healthy male and female volunteers (mean age 31.65±6.21 years) were randomly divided into pilates-based training (20 subjects...

Congenitally primary hypothyroid growth-retarded (grt) mice exhibit a characteristic growth pause followed by delayed onset of pubertal growth. We characterized the developmental pattern of somatotropes, lactotropes and thyrotropes in the anterior pituitary, as well as plasma levels of their secretory hormones, in grt mice. Compared with normal mice, the weight of grt pituitary gland was simila...