Martus, Wesley, Dennis Kim, Jeffrey L. Garvin, and William H. Beierwaltes. Commercial rodent diets contain more sodium than rats need. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 288: F428–F431, 2005; doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00310.2004.—The dietary sodium requirements for rats have been a matter of debate. Our hypothesis was that normal commercial rodent chow contains sodium in excess of dietary needs and that thi...

Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector and feeds over 3 billion people. Bivalve shellfish aquaculture makes up 25% of global aquaculture production and is worth annually US$19 billion, but continued growth is currently limited by suboptimal diets and limited tools for disease control. New advances in microencapsulation technology could provide an effective way to overcome these biologic...

Two main experiments and an auxiliary experiment were carried out to determine the effects of dietary available phosphorus and electrolyte balance on the growth performance and acid-base balance of broiler chickens. The results showed that mineral balance can affect the growth performance of broiler chickens fed practical-type diets in essentially commercial situations, and indicate that total ...

A total of 1905 mixed sex day old broiler chickens were reared in environmentally controlled house for 5 weeks to study the production performance of chicks by feeding different levels of canola meal in their diets. The chickens were randomly allocated to five dietary treatment groups ( A, B, C, D and E ) having three replicates of 127 birds in each group. Groups A, B, C, D and E were fed pelle...