The effect of postnatal age on serum bilirubin binding measurements was studied prospectively in extremely premature infants of 25-28 weeks' gestation. Serum was obtained from 10 infants at birth, 2-4 days of age, 1 week, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 10-13 weeks. Using peroxidase oxidation, the apparent unbound bilirubin concentration (AUBC) was measured and plotted versus the molar ratio of ...

the present experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of vitaminpremix(vp), fed during the last three weeks of a broiler rearing period (22-42 days), on its growthperformance and carcass characteristics. four hundred 22 day old broilers received diets containingfour levels of supplementary vp (0, 33.33, 66.66 and 100%) each at a different weeks of finisherperiod. the ...

The micropipette test was used to study the effects of age on the elasticity of red blood cell (RBC) membrane in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and age-matched normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY), ranging from 3 to 23 weeks of age. The development of hypertension in the SHR started at 3 weeks and was fully established at 7 to 8 weeks. In the developmental phase of hypertension (3-5 week...

BACKGROUND Although preterm infants born at 29 to 36 gestational weeks (GW) are at risk for developmental delay, they do not always benefit from systematic follow-up. Primary care physicians are then responsible for their developmental surveillance and need effective screening tests. This study aimed to determine whether the Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ) at 12 and 24 months' corrected ag...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of first-trimester Down syndrome (DS) screening with serum sampling at different weeks of gestation. MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied 35,431 singleton pregnancies (2005-2011), including 145 DS cases. Screening performance was determined in different maternal age groups with serum sampling between weeks 9 + 0 and 13 + 6. ...

the main aim of this research was to estimate the genetic and phenotypic parameters for productive and reproductive traits of esfahan native chickens. traits included body weights at hatch (bw1), 8 weeks of age (bw8), 12 weeks of age (bw12), and at sexual maturity (wsm)], age at sex maturity (asm), egg number (en), average egg weight (aew) in the first 12 weeks of production, and egg production...