the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary garlic on the growth performance, intestinal mucosa morphology, and pulmonary hypertensive response in broiler chickens with pulmonary hypertension induced by 3, 5, 3′-l triiodothyronine. chicks were reared for 42 days and treated with triiodothyronine (1.5 mg/kg diet) and 0 (control), 0.2, 0.6 or 1% garlic powder. intestinal segme...

1. To study the relative contributions of luminal nutrition, bile and pancreatic secretions and hormonal factors in intestinal adaptation, lactation hyperphagia was chosen as a model for increased luminal nutrition, either alone (intestinal transection control group) or in combination with (i) exclusion of bile and pancreatic secretions from the jejunum (by transposition of the jejunum above th...

Sexual dimorphism is a widespread feature in the Animal Kingdom. In lizards of Sceloporus grammicus complex, studies sexual that analyze allometric trajectories body traits remain unexplored. Here we investigate key phenotypic traits, including size (snout-vent length, SVL) as well head length (HL), width (HW), and forearm (FL). We use an approach to detect differences scale relationships among...

Allometric growth pattern and body shape changes of the Green terror (Andinoacara rivulatus)(Cichlidae) were studied using landmark-based geometric morphometric (GM) and traditional methods, from hatching up to 1266 Hours Post Hatching (HPH) under culture conditions. The left side of specimens were photographed using digital camera and morphometric characters, including total length, head lengt...

this study was conducted to investigate theallometric growth pattern and sexual dimorphism in the skull of both sexes ofiranian brown bear (ursus arctos) in thealborz mountains using geometric morphometric and traditional morphometric techniques. morphometric parameters were obtained from 2d pictures of skulls using the software imagej and allometric growth pattern was calculated as a power fun...

Heavy metal (HM) pollution in the marine environment has been of concern for decades. The potential impact HMs carried by emerging pollutants such as microplastics (MPs) attracted attention only recent years. In this study, we investigated single and combined chronic toxic effects (growth, burrowing behavior, histopathology) cadmium (Cd, three concentrations low, medium, high) polystyrene (PS) ...