background: to ascertain the effects of tropical leaf meals on semen production and semen quality. objective: this study was conducted with the main objective of investigating the effect of neem leaf meal on physiological responses of rabbit bucks fed graded levels of neem leaf (azadirachta indica a. juss) meal. materials and methods: the varying levels of neem leaf meal (nlm) in the different ...

background oxygen therapy, as a therapeutic modality, can be used for long periods of times. however, it may be accompanied by potential complications and side effects. objectives to evaluate the side effects of normobaric oxygen therapy in rabbits. materials and methods in a double-blind experiment, 28 white new zealand rabbits were randomized into an oxygen treatment group (n = 14) and a cont...

Rabbits are animals affected by many different species of parasites, infection Lead to lower body weight gain compared with non-infected rabbits , while sever death although less likely develop epidemic diseases, but they exposed diseases care and malnutrition, as well parasitic . Turning previous studies that dealt the spread internal parasites in such (Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Eimeria sp., C...

This study investigated the effect of different corn levels on intake and digestibility in rabbits. The rabbits were divided into four groups given Asystasia gangetica ad libitum as a basal diet supplemented with either 80 g (T1), 60 (T2), 40 (T3), or 0 (T4) corn/head/day. Rabbits fed T4 demonstrated higher intake/kg metabolic weight than other treatments. Nevertheless, T1 diets depicted lowest...

Fish oil contains eicosapentaenoic acid (E.P.A.) and docosahexaenoic (D.H.A.) which are beneficial for heart health, controlling blood glucose, reducing atherosclerosis, lowering the risk of cancer. This study aims to determine effect commercial feed supplemented with cod liver on glucose levels pancreatic histology male rabbits. Twenty rabbits were divided into four groups, namely 3% (P1), 4.5...

The definition of pregnancy as the state of a female in the time interval between fertilization of her ova and the expulsion of the foetuses at term, lays focus on the maternal organism and casual thinking tends to emphasize maternal physiology and welfare. In part, this is due to the fact that the maternal organism is reasonably accessible for day to day observations and measurements which do ...

BACKGROUND Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease of the blood vessel wall, characterized in early stages by endothelial dysfunction, recruitment and activation of monocyte/macrophages. Glimepiride is one of the third generation sulphonylurea drugs, useful for control of diabetes mellitus type two and it may exert anti inflammatory activity, by induction of nitric oxide production or throug...