We conducted two experiments using marginally Zn-deficient (-Zn) calves to determine which supplemental chemical form of Zn would most rapidly reverse certain Zn deficiency signs and to determine whether a change in protein turnover had occurred in Zn deficiency. In Exp. 1, 40 crossbred beef heifers were allocated by BW to four groups. The control group received 23 mg Zn/kg diet DM from ZnSO4 s...

Soils developed on serpentine rocks have serious limitations for agriculture. Intensive agriculture and forestry activities are carried out in the lands southwest of Turkey. Because lack information about heavy metal contents some important soil physic-chemical properties soils this area especially were aimed to be determined study. The results study showed that total Cd (5.4-6.8 mg kg-1) conce...

The growth of weaning piglets is effectively improved by feeding a high-Zn diet (3000 mg Zn/kg of diet). The present study examined whether feeding a diet supplemented with Zn (1016-3000 mg/kg) for 10 d induces growth benefits in rats. In addition, tissue weight, Zn content of tissues and expression of Zn transporters were examined in these rats. Zn supplementation did not significantly increas...

We previously showed that zinc (Zn) supplementation of Zn-adequate dams induced immunosuppressive effects that persist in the offspring after weaning. We investigated whether the immunosuppressive effects were due to in utero exposure and/or mediated via milk using a cross-fostering design. Pregnant rats with adequate Zn nutriture were supplemented with either Zn (1.5 mg Zn in 10% sucrose) or p...

Several Combination reducing systems of Zn(BH4)2 such as Zn(BH4)2/TMEDA 3a, Zn(BH4)2/ Me3SiCl 3b, Zn(BH4)2/TFA/DME 3c, Zn(BH4)2/H2O 3d, Zn(BH4)2/Al2O3 3e, Zn(BH4)2/C 3f, Zn(BH4)2/2NaCl 3g, Zn(BH4)2/U.S. 3h, and Zn(BH4)2/ZrCl4 3iare interesting and have been used for different reduction purposes.However, zinc tetrahydroborate has been used less than regular reducing agents in laboratory, probabl...

The aim was to study the effects of zinc (Zn) and fluoride (F) on remineralisation at plaque fluid concentrations. Artificial carious lesions were created in 2 acid-gel demineralising systems (initially infinitely undersaturated and partially saturated with respect to enamel) giving lesions with different mineral distribution characteristics (high and low R values, respectively) but similar int...

Fifty weanling crossbred pigs averaging 6.2 kg of initial BW and 21 d of age were used in a 5-wk experiment to evaluate lower dietary concentrations of an organic source of Zn as a Zn-polysaccharide (Zn-PS) compared with 2,000 ppm of inorganic Zn as ZnO, with growth performance, plasma concentrations of Zn and Cu, and Zn and Cu balance as the criteria. The pigs were fed individually in metaboli...

A collection of 235 samples were taken from 115 sites (representing a density of 1 sampling site ca. 130 km) on rural soils derived from the major rock types in the southern Iberian Massif. The geochemical baselines of selected trace elements (As, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) were determined on the b2 mm soil fraction. The sampling sites were not directly influenced by external pollution. Soil ge...