The small bowel is essential to sustain alimentation and small bowel Crohn's disease (CD) may severely limit its function. Small bowel imaging is a crucial element in diagnosing small bowel CD, and treatment control with imaging is increasingly used to optimize the patients outcome. Thereby, capsule endoscopy, Balloon-assisted enteroscopy, and Magnetic resonance imaging have become key players ...

1Nutrition and Health Studies Unit, Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Bahrain, Sukhair, Bahrain 2Arab Center for Nutrition, P.O. Box 26923, Manama, Bahrain 3Exercise Physiology Laboratory, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2458, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia 4Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan 5Unite Mixte de Res...

The current study was conducted to investigate the effect of early feed restriction (FR, 8 to 14 d of age) on growth performance and immune function in broiler chickens. Birds were fed corresponding diets from 3 to 35 d of age, which consisted of three phases: starter (3 to 7 d of age), FR (8 to 14 d of age) and re-alimentation (15 to 35 d of age) phases. During the FR period, each group of bir...