background: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is a major public health problem worldwide. smoking is the number one cause of copd; however, genetic, environmental and dietary factors contribute to the etiology of this disease. in this study, we assessed the association between three diet quality indices -the healthy eating index-2005 (hei-2005), the healthy eating index-2010 (hei-201...

how to cite this article: ghazavi a, tonekaboni sh, karimzadeh p, nikibakhsh aa, khajeh a, fayyazi a. the ketogenic and atkins diets effect on intractable epilepsy: a comparison. iran j child neurol. 2014 summer;8(3): 12-17. abstract objective intractable epilepsy is a major difficulty in child neurology, because the numbers of drugs that are available for treatment are limited and new treatmen...

Ileal digestibility is widely used in diet formulation for pigs, and is normally determined using T-piece or re-entrant cannulas. Ileal cannulation allows multiple sampling from a single animal and causes little disturbance to the digestive tract. Leakage around the cannula is prevalent, however, and the studies are consequently highly labour intensive. An alternative is the intact ileal dissec...

this experiment was conducted to determine the ame, amen, tme and tmen of alfalfa meal for male ostrich at 90 d of age. experiment was done as a completely randomized design with 5 treatments of 4 replicate and 4 chicks each. different levels of alfalfa meal (0, 15, 30 and 40%) were replaced to the basal diet. ame and amen were determined via chromic oxid marker and total collection methods. th...

in order to improve local therapeutic techniques for the massively burnt patients and to minimize the pain associated with dressing change, the concept of topical film was utilized to formulate a topical antimicrobial spray. the commonly used topical antimicrobial silver sulfadiazine spray was formulated as a new drug delivery system. the release of therapeutic agents in vitro from medicated sp...

The black soldier fly (BSF) ( Hermetia illucens L.) is one of the most promising species for production ingredients, mainly protein, useful animal feed formulation, owing to its ability convert organic waste into biomass with a high nutritional value. However, low percentage n-3 series polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in acid profile limiting factor utilization BSF fish feed. Recent studies ...

Abstract The spiny lobsters Panulirus ornatus and homarus are important developing tropical aquaculture species, with high demand limited supply. established industry in Vietnam relies on wild‐caught mixed seafood bycatch as feed, a practice linked to water quality degradation potentially disease proliferation lobster aquaculture, necessitating formulated feed development. emerging Indonesian A...