BACKGROUND AND AIMS Cocoa flavanols are recognised by their favourable antioxidant and vascular effects. This study investigates the influence on health of the daily consumption of ready-to-eat meals supplemented with cocoa extract within a hypocaloric diet, on middle-aged overweight/obese subjects. METHODS AND RESULTS Fifty healthy male and female middle-aged volunteers [57.26 ± 5.24 years a...

Dietary flaxseed has been shown to have potent antiatherogenic effects in rabbits. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the antiatherogenic capacity of flaxseed in an animal model that more closely represents the human atherosclerotic condition, the LDL receptor-deficient mouse (LDLrKO), and to identify the cellular mechanisms for these effects. LDLrKO mice were administered a re...

in order to investigate effects of partial replacement of starch with neutral detergent soluble fiber (ndsf) on weekly weight gain, feed intake, feed conversion ratio, digestibility and some histopathological changes of rumen, 16 lambs were used in completely randomized design. the experimental period was 70 days. dietary treatments were 1- control (high starch), 2- beet pulp, 18 percent, 3- be...

an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of supplementing black cumin (nigella sativa) seeds (bcs) in diet on performance, liver weight and enzymes of broilers.the experiment was conducted as a randomized complete block design. two hundred forty day-old unsexed broiler chicks (cobb 500) were divided into four groups and assigned to four feeding treatments, with four replicates of 15 ...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the effects of feeding reduced-CP, AA-supplemented diets at two ambient temperatures (Exp. 1) or three levels of dietary NE (Exp. 2) on pig performance and carcass composition. In Exp. 1, 240 mixed-sex pigs were used to test whether projected differences in heat increment associated with diet composition affect pig performance. There were 10 replicati...

in this study, in vitro non-symbiotic germination of self pollinated seeds, protocorms survival percentage and protocorms growth of phalaenopsis ‘kyoto’ were investigated. for this purpose, five different modified media include vasin and went (vw), murashing and skoog (ms), ½ ms, knudson c (kc), fast that supplemented with two g/l peptone, 15 percent sterile coconut water or two g/l peptone tog...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate potato protein (PP, experiment 1) and refined PP (RPP, experiment 2) obtained from Gogu valley tubers as an antimicrobial agent in broiler diets. In both the experiments, 1-d-old male Ross 308 chicks were allotted to 5 treatments and performance, nutrient retention, and microbial populations in excreta and cecum were studied. Dietary treatments were as...

the poultry industry has been outbreak with an intricate problem called coccidiosis from the beginning and undoubted coccidiosis is one of the most widespread poultry diseases especially among breeder herds and ancestor. so the interest in alternative methods for the control of coccidiosis has been dramatically increased in recent years, and it is necessary to look for methods which are adaptab...