background: this study aims at investigating the possible effects of different daily doses of green tea (gt) intake for eight weeks on certain anthropometric, metabolic, and oxidative stress biomarkers of diabetic patients. materials and methods: this randomized clinical trial included 63 patients with type 2 diabetes (30 males and 33 females). after a two-week run-in period without green tea, ...

McCartney, D. H. and Vaage, A. S. 1994. Comparative yield and feeding value of barley, oat and triticale silage. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 74: 91-96. The yield and feeding value of barley (Hordeum vulgare 'Johnson'), oat (Avena sativa 'Calibre') and triticale (Triticosecale 'Carmen') silages were compared in a field study, a heifer growth trial (1 19 d in length, with four pens of eight Charolais cros...

Eight Mong Cai castrate male pigs of mean initial weight 12.3 kg were fed diets containing sugar palm (Borassus flabellifer) syrup and dry fish substituted or not with ensiled cassava leaves (0 and 50% of the daily ration in dry basis) according to a change over design. The silage was made from sun-dried, wilted, chopped leaves and petioles in a single batch of cassava foliage harvested after 8...

in order to investigate of different salinity stress and plant densities effects on quantitative and qualitative forage and grain yields of kochia a randomized complete block design in factorial arrangement with three replications was used. a field study was conducted in 2011 cropping season in agriculture experiment satiation, college of agriculture, islamic azad university, arak branch treatm...

The handling characteristics of whole cottonseed are improved by coating with gelatinized cornstarch, but limited information is available on the effects of feeding the coated cottonseed to lactating dairy cows. Thirty-six lactating Jersey cows were used in a crossover design trial with 4-wk experimental periods to evaluate the influence of coating whole cottonseed with 2.5% gelatinized cornsta...

This study aimed to assess the growth performance and nutritional status of sheep under intermittent water supply by means performance, intake, apparent digestibility nutrients, balance nitrogen. Thirty-two intact male (20.7 ± 2.63 kg, 8 months age) were distributed in a completely randomized design with 4 intervals via drinking trough (0h00, 24h00, 48h00, 72h00), replicates. The extension rest...