The effectiveness of 1,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxypyrid-4-one (Ll) in increasing iron excretion in iron-loaded patients improved the propsects for replacing desferrioxamine (DF) with an oral chelating drug.’,’ L1 belongs to a new group of iron chelators, the a-ketohydroxypyridines (KHP); which are cheap to p ~ e p a r e ~ . ~ and orally active. Recently, a detailed article by Porter et al.’ on in vivo...

Sleep spindles and spike-wave discharges are thought to originate from the same thalamic pacemaker. In the present work it is investigated whether sleep spindles and spike-wave discharges are also sensitive for the same drugs. Adult male WAGIRij rats were chronically implanted with frontal and occipital EEG electrode pairs. Rats were intraperitoneally injected with clonidine (0.00625 mgkg), phe...

In atherogenic diet induced hyperlipidemic model, the rats receiving treatment with the aqueous extract of the leaves of E. prostrata showed significant reduction in total cholesterol, triglyceride, total protein and elevation in high density lipoprotein cholesterol. The aqueous extract of E. prostrata was found to possess significant hypolipidemic activity. The results also suggest that E. pro...

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of different levels of Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) methanol extract on the growth performances (final weight (FW), daily growth ratio (DGR), feed conversion rate (FCR), voluntary feed intake (VFI) and protein efficiency ratio (PER) and some of hematological parameters (hemoglobin (Hb), hematocrit (Hct), red blood cell (RBC) and white blo...

Adult male rats were given an oral dose of 10 mgkg aspartame “C-1abelled in the methanol carbon. At timed intervals of up to 6 hours, the radioactivity in plasma and several organs was investigated. Most of the radioactivity found (>98 % in plasma, >75 % in liver) was bound to protein. Label present in liver, plasma and kidney was in the range of l-2 % of total radioactivity administered per g ...

Background: This study was conducted to assess the effect of neem (Azadirachta indica) leaves powder (NLP) and cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) oil (CNO) on growth performance broiler chickens. Methods: Four hundred twenty day old commercial Vencobb 400 chicks were randomly distributed into 6 groups 7 replicates each. Dietary treatments were; T0 (control: basal diet), T1 (basal diet + 2 g NLP/k...

two hundred and forty hubbard classic broiler chicks were used in a 35 day trial at chittagong veterinary and animal science university farm, bangladesh to study the effects of supplemental choline chloride on performance parameters, carcass characteristics and their association in commercial broiler. all birds had free access to ad libitum feeding. birds were fed four types of diet i.e. diet w...

Azolla (Azolla pinnata) was assessed for nutrient content and feeding value in laying hen diets. Proximate analysis, together with the estimates of digestible protein, ADF, NDF and metabolizable energy indicated that it was a fair source of plant protein (285.4 g kgÿ1) with a digestible protein value of 219.8 g kgÿ1 and a metabolizable energy value of 7.59 MJ kgÿ1 (906 g kgÿ1 DM). The feeding v...