A study was conducted to evaluate effects of age at weaning on various growth characteristics and stress measures of Zandi lambs. The lambs were weaned at 45 and 90 days of age. The body weights and average daily gain (ADG) were monitored during the experimental period and 5 months of age. Cortisol, glucose, blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and lamb behavior (agitation, vocalization) were recorded bef...

leptin (lep), the expression product of the obese gene produced primarily in the adipose tissue, is related to feed intake, growth and lipid metabolism. the aim of this study was to study the possible association between polymorphism of the lep gene with growth and carcass traits among three iranian sheep breeds of the shal, zandi and zel varieties. a total of 180 purebred animals of the shal, ...

melatonin regulates some major physiological processes such as maturation and function of reproductive system, pubertal development, seasonal reproduction and adaptation. the activation of melatonin hormone is mediated by melatonin receptor. previous studies showed melatonin receptor 1a gene (mtnr1a) is highly polymorphic in seasonally breeding species. the aim of the present study was detectio...

in this study, we aimed to investigate reproductive performance in estrus-induced zandi ewes treated with equine chorionic gonadotrophin (ecg) injection in combination with prostaglandin f2α (pgf2α)and gonadotrophin releasing hormone (gnrh) during non-breeding season. the estrous cycle was synchronized using controlled internal drug release (cidr) for 12 days. the ewes were randomly assigned to...

1 Slc26a9 is inhibited by the R-region of CFTR via the STAS domain Min-Hwang Chang, Consuelo Plata, Aleksandra Sinđić , Wasantha K. Ranatunga, An-Ping Chen, Kambiz Zandi-Nejad, Kim W. Chan, James Thompson, David B. Mount, Michael F. Romero § Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106 Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochest...

New methods of automating design generation differ greatly from the ways AI researchers have attempted to elicitate and implement design knowledge. The latter tradition is coined by the so called 'knowledge based approaches'. A good example for floor plan design can be found in (Zandi 1992). Using iterative algorithms (e.g. artificial neural networks), this programming work can be relieved, car...