One of the most important measures, in order to increase animal products and reduce imports, is the industrialization of animal husbandry units, specially the dairy cattle. The condition of milk production would be improved by this industrialization, which is in the direction of increasing the efficiency of milk production units. The purpose of this study is calculate , the efficiency of the tr...

Industralized cattle production is presently the subject of great changes, which in some respects have great detrimental impact on the animals. Modern intensive production systems often disregard the animals’ behavioural needs, causing unnecessary stress and disease. In the light of Swedish cattle husbandry standards, housing, management, feeding, transport and slaughter practices, and animal w...

Nutrigenomics applies genomic technologies to study how nutrients affect expression of genes. With the advent of the post genomic era and with the use of functional genomic tools, the new strategies for evaluating the effects of nutrition on production efficiency and nutrient utilization are becoming available. Nutrigenomics plays an efficient role in various fields of animal health like nutrit...

introduction: traditional medicine is not only useful in health care and improvement of quality of life, but also is applied in diagnosis and treatment of diseases. hence, paying more attention to this area is of high important. this study aimed to evaluate the scientific production and scientific mapping of iranian researchers in traditional medicine during 1990-2011 in “web of science” databa...

Z. Brand, S.W.P. Cloete, I.A. Malecki and C.R. Brown 1 Department of Animal Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa 2 Institute for Animal Production, Oudtshoorn, PO Box 313, Oudtshoorn 6620, South Africa 3 Institute for Animal Production, Elsenburg, Private Bag X1, Elsenburg 7607, South Africa 4 School of Biology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural S...

1 State University of São Paulo, Department of Animal Science, School of Agrarian and Veterinary Science Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2 University of Sao Paulo, Department of Animal Nutrition and Production, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science Pirassununga, Sao Paulo, Brazil 3 Federal University of Viçosa, Department of Animal Science, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil 4 Federal Unive...

The application of stable isotope analysis (SIA) has become a standard scientific approach in Agricultural and Ecological researches and, more in general, in several disciplines such as biology, botany, zoology, organic chemistry, climatology, and nutrition. The main objectives of this paper are (1) to provide a simple definition of stable isotopes and (2) to illustrate analytical measurement m...