The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of commercial herbal and chemical medicines on growth performance, serum lipids, intestinal selected bacterial population and intestinal morphology of broiler chickens. In this study, 450 day-old female broiler chickens (Arian strain) were divided into 10 treatments with three replicates of 15 chicks per replicate. On day 14 of the experiment,...

abstract the effect of different levels of potassium permangenate (kmno4) on quality of mango fruits were studied over a period of 21 days. a factorial trial in the form of complete randomized design as three levels of kmno4 (0, 5 or 10 g. kg-1 fruit) and three time period (7, 14 or 21 days) was used. means were compared using duncan’s test (p< 0.05). compositional parameters (ph, acidity, tota...

in this research 400 ross 308 breeder fertile eggs were weighed at day 16 of incubation and evenly distributed into 4 treatments with 4 replicates per treatment and 25 eggs per replicate in a crd design. on day 18 of incubation, 1 ml of an in ovo feed solution including: i) carbohydrate (cho), ii) amino acid (aa), and iii) butyric acid solution in 0.5% saline was injected into amniotic fluid of...

Changes in the activity of antioxidant enzymes, proline, and total soluble carbohydrates (TSC) were evaluated in tomato (Solanum lycopercicum cv. Superchief) plants in response to salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) and inoculation with CMV (Cucumber mosaic virus) on days 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 15 after virus inoculation (dpi). Results showed that proline content increased in all treatmen...

background: as glass ionomers have the ability to reload fluoride from outside sources, the aim was to compare the recharge pattern of six glass ionomer cements after exposure to fluoride. materials and methods: fuji vii, fuji ix, riva pink, riva bleach, ketac fil and fuji ix extra were investigated. the fluoride-containing materials used were tooth paste and mouth wash (colgate). specimens of ...

coccidiosis is one of the most important disease in poultry. since using of anti-coccidial drugs or vaccination are considered as the most common preventive measures of this disease, an experiment was conducted to compare effectiveness of these methods. nine hundred and sixty day-old male ross broiler chicks were randomly assigned to eight treatments and fed with a corn-soybean meal basal diet ...

introduction: the brain renin-angiotensin system (ras) has been reported having a pathological role in age-related impairment in learning and memory. therefore, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (acei) are expected to have positive effects on memory. longtime treatment with captopril (an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor) significantly attenuates the age-related impairment in learn...