Broiler chick performance using Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cell wall as an anti-mycotoxin additive | Vinícius Machado dos Santos, Gabriel da Silva Oliveira, Cristina Amorim Ribeiro de Lima, Fernando Augusto Curvello Agricultural Journals

Experience and research demonstrated that the quality of the day-old chick has a big influence on the growth and final performance of the broiler. Describing and measuring chick quality is considered to be very difficult. Visual score, Tona or Pascar score, day-old chick weight and chick length are commonly used for measuring chick quality. Visual scoring include color of the chickens, navel qu...

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of three antibiotic alternatives with a control (Antibiotic-free) and an antibiotic diet on performance and gut morphology of broilers reared on litter. 600 day-old ROSS-308 chicks were assigned to 48 pens in a CRD design with 6 × 2 factorial arrangements, in which 2 levels of chick density (5 and 7.5 chicks/m2) and 6 experimental diets (control,...

Asymmetric expression of sonic hedgehog (Shh) in the left side of Hensen's node, a crucial step for specifying the left-right (LR) axis in the chick embryo, is established by the repression of Shh expression in the right side of the node. The transcriptional regulator that mediates this repression has not been identified. We report the isolation and characterization of a novel chick Polycomblik...

On a substrate of rostral/caudal tectal membrane stripes of adult fish, regenerating temporal retinal axons avoid the caudal membranes. Thus they behave like embryonic chick axons on chick E9 membranes. The caudal membranes of adult fish contain a repellent component that, as has previously been shown in the chick, is inactivated by the enzyme PI-PLC. Fish axons respond not only to their own bu...

The U.S. fast-food chain Chick-fil-A, Inc. has prospered financially and scored multiple rankings at or near the top of its industry by using unconventional management practices, including some that appear to be drawbacks. This paper attempts what previous academic research not: a thorough analysis Chick-fil-A’s practices policies, looking how they might function as “success factors” company tu...

When chick erythrocytes were fused with adenine-requiring mutants of Chinese hamster cells of two different complementation classes and grown in adenine-free medium for 1 week or longer, mitotic cells were observed containing both chick and Chinese hamster metaphase chromosomes within a single cell. Stable hybrid clones were subsequently isolated that possessed, in addition to a complete Chines...

Introduction: There is considerable evidence that glutamate-mediated excitatory neurotransmission plays an important role in mediating the behavioral actions of acutely administered ethanol. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of acute ethanol exposure on NR1 subunit of NMDA (n-methyl-d-aspartate) receptor distribution in the cerebral cortex of chick embryo on the 10th...

Chick embryos have been used as alternative experimental animals in various research fields, including virology, immunology, toxicology, oncology, and embryology. Until now, there have been no in vivo models using chick embryo to evaluate radiosensitizing activity. Here, the in vivo radiosensitizing activity of etanidazole, a well-known hypoxic cell radiosensitizer, was evaluated using tumor-be...

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of three antibiotic alternatives with a control (Antibiotic-free) and an antibiotic diet on performance and gut morphology of broilers reared on litter. 600 day-old ROSS-308 chicks were assigned to 48 pens in a CRD design with 6 × 2 factorial arrangements, in which 2 levels of chick density (5 and 7.5 chicks/m2) and 6 experimental diets (control,...