wk. Feed consumption, body weight and feed conversion were measured at 2, 4 and 6 wk. Carcass yield and weights of abdominal fat, gizzard and ceca were also determined at 6 wk. All birds were intramuscularly immunized with killed vaccine of Newcastle and Avian Influenza (H9 N2) at 8 d and antibody titer responses to Newcastle and Influenza were determined by hemagglutination inhibition (HI) tes...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between percentage of body fat and macular pigment (MP) optical density. METHODS One hundred healthy subjects of ages between 22 and 60 years volunteered to participate in this study. MP optical density was measured psychophysically, serum lutein and zeaxanthin were quantified by HPLC, and dietary intake of lutein and zeaxanthin was assessed using a val...

Repeatability of ultrasound-predicted percentage intramuscular fat was studied using observations from 144 head of cattle. Animals were scanned at an average age of 433-d by a certified technician. Each animal was scanned five times using two Aloka 500V machines. Percent intramuscular fat was then predicted by placing a box at two different positions within an image. Overall standard deviation ...

Growth rate was 35, 32 and 29 g/d, food consumption was 87, 99 and 69 g/d, FCR was 2.54, 3.18 and 2.38, total body fat was 12.7, 16.2 and 11.3%, abdominal fat was 2.91, 3.91 and 2.06%,-metabolisability of dietary energy was 75.4, 73.8 and 77.0%, and daily maintenance energy requirement was 860, 937 and 796 kJ/kg W' in lines W, F and E respectively. Average reproductive performance in terms of d...

this study was designed to investigate the effects of different levels of tarragon powder on performance, carcass characteristics of broiler chickens. two hundred ross 308 male broiler chickens were randomly allocated into four treatments and five replicates per treatment. at each replicate ten birds were used. experimental diets were set on the basis of corn-soy-wheat and ross 308 broiler chic...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether a selective increase of visceral adipose tissue content will result in insulin resistance. METHODS Sympathetic denervation of the omental fat was performed under general inhalant anesthesia by injecting 6-hydroxydopamine in the omental fat of lean mongrel dogs (n = 11). In the conscious animal, whole-body insulin sensitivity was assessed by the minimal model (S...

The effect of dietary Terbutaline, a beta adrenergic agonist, on carcass characteristics and blood attributes in 288 Japanese quails was studied from 21 through 49 days of age. Dietary treatments included four levels of Terbutaline [0 (T0), 1 (T1), 3 (T3), and 5 (T5) mg/Kg of the diet]. Quails were bled at the end of the trial for biochemical assays and the carcass characteristics were then mea...

OBJECTIVE To develop mixed models for examining longitudinal associations between rates of change in visceral, subcutaneous abdominal, and total body fat with rates of change in fasting insulin (FI) and insulin sensitivity (SI) over 3 years in children. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Seventy-seven children (mean age, 8.3 years at baseline) from Birmingham, Alabama, with three or more annual ...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary alpha-lipoic acid (LA) and acetyl-L-carnitine (ALC) on growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality in Arbor Acres broilers. A total of 486 1-d-old male Arbor Acres broilers were randomly allocated to 9 dietary treatments, 9 treatments were group A (0 mg/kg LA and 0 mg/kg ALC), group B (50 mg/kg LA and 0 mg/kg ALC), ...