BACKGROUND/AIMS Maternal diet may have an effect on the health of the offspring in middle and later life. This study used the laboratory rat as an animal model to examine whether the fibre content of the maternal diet during pregnancy affected subsequent development of colonic diverticula in the offspring fed lifelong fibre deficient or higher fibre diets. METHODS The parents of experimental ...

An experiment was conducted on commercial Ven cob broiler chickens to investigate the effect of supplementing herbal methionine (methiorep) that replaced synthetic DL methionine (DLM) in the diets of broilers. One hundred and twenty day-old, commercial broiler chicks (Ven Cobb) were randomly divided into two experimental groups, each of which comprised four replicates. Each replicate consisted ...

background & aim: continuous use of antibiotics leads to drug resistance and thereby to a reduced efficacy of the drugs. antibiotics accumulate in the environment and fish pose a potential risk to consumers and to the environment.increased public awareness of the negative effects caused by overexposure to synthetic chemicals has led to the search for ‘‘green drugs’’, such as organic and syn...

Metabolic syndrome is an epidemic of non-infectious origin, which associated with the consumption a large amount high-calorie food and sedentary lifestyle. It not excluded that bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) may enter body during metabolic syndrome. The purpose this work to study combined effect lipopolysaccharide high fructose diet on concentration glycosaminoglycans their individual frac...

Three rat species, the Norway rat, black rat or ship rat, Pacific or Polynesian rat, and the house mouse are among the most widespread and destructive invasive mammals affecting islands. Through mostly unintentional introductions by humans, these rodents occupy >80% of the major islands worldwide. As a consequence of their omnivorous diet and large incisor teeth, introduced rats are probably th...

Albino rats weighing 160 to 175 gm. were fed a complete synthetic diet containing 0.003 per cent potassium and 0.7 per cent sodium for 40 days. Controls were given the same diet plus adequate added potassium. 1. Data from analyses of serum and skeletal muscle showed (a) a fall in serum chloride concentration and an increase in serum carbon dioxide concentration and pH in the potassium-deficient...

Salt-sensitive hypertension is known to be associated with dysfunction of the baroreflex control system in the Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rat. However, neither the physiological mechanisms nor the genomic regions underlying the baroreflex dysfunction seen in this rat model are definitively known. Here, we have adopted a mathematical modeling approach to investigate the physiological and genetic o...

It has been demonstrated in this laboratory that rats which cease growing on a synthetic “labile methyl”-free diet containing homocystine will resume growth if both folic acid and vitamin Blz are added simultaneously to the diet (1, 2). The growth indicates the synthesis of methionine from homocystine by the rat. It was also found that Lederle concentrated solution of liver extract, in the pres...