Plant proteins are plausible fishmeal substitutes but are deficient in some essential amino acids (EAA) like lysine and methionine. Combination of different plant proteins with complimentary EAA could be useful alternative. Bambaranut (Voandzeia subterranea) contains high amount of lysine while methionine is in sesame seed (Sesamum indicum). This experiment tested effects of combining sesame se...

Material and Methods Specific IgE for 20 common foods in 432 Romanian adults were evaluatted by MAST in sera. The patients were submited to our allergy department for urticaria (278 pts) and respiratory allergy (rhinits and/or asthma) (154 pts). We evaluated the presence of specific IgE to 20 foods. The foods evaluated were: hazelnuts, peanuts, walnuts, almonds, cow’s milk protein (casein and l...

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of different levels of sesame meal (SM) on performance and carcass characteristics of Japanese quail. One hundred sixty day-old Japanese quail chick were equally distributed into 16 cage pens and reared form 10 to 42 days of age. The treatments consisted of SM0, SM50, SM100 and SM150. The diet for SM0 treatment had no SM (control), while those ...

The aim of this experiment was to investigate the beneficial effect monensin, tannic acid and cinnamon essential oil addition on sesame meal degradability by three-step in vitro method. experimental additives rumen, after rumen whole gastrointestinal tract significant (P<0.05). ruminal intestinal digestibility crude protein with range 76 84% 49 60%, respectively. increased (about 10%). Addit...

I~TIS is a preliminary report of a series of studies in the American ropics on the nutritional value of local feedstuffs for growing and fattening pigs. Malnutrition in animals is a major problem in these tropical areas. Apparently the problem is related to inadequate storage and transportation facilities, the lack of regulation in feed production, and insufficient experimentation on the nutrit...

The steroid hormone estradiol decreases meal size by increasing the potency of negative-feedback signals involved in meal termination. We used c-Fos immunohistochemistry, a marker of neuronal activation, to investigate the hypothesis that estradiol modulates the processing of feeding-induced negative-feedback signals within the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS), the first central relay of the...