in order to investigate the effects of artichoke leaf powder and vitamin eon performance, internal organs relative weight and some blood parameters, 240 day-old quails were assigned to four treatments including, basal diet (control), basal diet supplemented with levels of 1.5 and 3 percent of artichoke leaf powder and basal diet supplemented with 300 mg/kg diet vitamin e with four replicates an...

The objective of this paper was to study the responses on productive performance, carcass characteristics and plasma constituents of modern broiler chicks to administration of cinnamon powder (CP) in the diet. Commercial breeds (Ross 308) of broiler chicks examined from 1 to 42 days of age. This experiment was conducted as a completely randomized design with 5 treatments and four replicates (15...

objective: psychological factors such as the health locus of control play an important role on health behaviors such as adherence to diet regimen. the purpose of this study was to examine the role of health locus of control in predicting adherence to diet regimen among a group of patients with type 2 diabetes. materials and methods: research sample was recruited from several clinics in shiraz u...

a total of 160 day-old male broiler chickens (ross 308) were divided in a completely randomized design experiment, and assigned to 8 treatments and 4 replicates in their experimental units (cages). treatments included: t1: basal diet with no additional methionine, t2: basal diet plus 0.06, t3: basal diet plus 0.11, t4: basal diet plus 0.17 % of dl-methionine, t5: basal diet plus 0.06, t6: basal...

objective: persian leek is one of the most widely used herbal foods among iranians. in this study, effects of oral administration of persian leek on plasma and liver lipids were examined in hamster. materials and methods: male syrian hamsters were randomly divided into three groups: control (standard diet), high fat control (high-fat/high-cholesterol diet), persian leek (high-fat/high-cholester...

background and objectives evaluation of protein quality in food is of great importance due to the biological and economical impacts of food proteins. this study has been conducted with the aim of comparing the protein quality of homemade food (mixture of macaroni and soy bean) with commercial baby food (cerelac wheat) using casein as the refference point.   methods this study was conducted on 6...

two independent experiments were conducted with broilers to determine the effect of threonine and vitamin a on immune system. in first experiment, dietary treatments contained 0.8%, 0.87%, 0.94 % and 1.01 % total threonine. in second experiment, diets were as follows: basal diet without vitamin a; basal diet plus 1500 iu/kg vitamin a; basal diet plus 6250 iu/kg vitamin a; basal diet plus 11000 ...