This study was conducted to determine the effects of organic and inorganic chromium (Cr) supplementation on performance parameters, eggshell quality and some serum parameters of laying Pharaoh quails (Coturnix coturnix Pharaoh). Laying quails (n: 360; 59 days old) were randomly divided into three experimental groups each including 120 birds. Basal diet applied to control group was based on corn...

Introduction: Skin resistance is greatly dependent on its collagen amount and nutritional substances such as crude protein that affect the skin collagen can indirectly influence the skin resistance and increase its strength. In this regard, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of in ovo methionine injection on histomorphometry of the skin layers. Methods: Thirty fertilized eg...

introduction: skin resistance is greatly dependent on its collagen amount and nutritional substances such as crude protein that affect the skin collagen can indirectly influence the skin resistance and increase its strength. in this regard, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of in ovo methionine injection on histomorphometry of the skin layers. methods: thirty fertilized eggs of ross 308 b...

All metals are toxic and our bodies require special transport and handling mechanisms to keep them from harming us. The toxicity occurs in humans due to environmental pollution via soil or water contamination or due to occupational exposure. Some of these metals are useful to us in low concentrations but are highly toxic in higher concentrations. These metal toxicity cause serious morbidity and...

Several low cost biomaterials such as baggase, charred rice husk, activated charcoal and eucalyptus bark (EB) were tested for removal of chromium. All the experiments were carried out in batch process with laboratory prepared samples and wastewater obtained from metal finishing section of auto ancillary unit. The adsorbent, which had highest chromium(VI) removal was EB. Influences of chromium c...

Reactions of salicylaldehyde 4-methylthiosemicarbazone (H2L) and salicylaldehyde 4phenylthiosemicarbazone (H2L) with assorted chromium(III) precusors, [Cr(H2O)6]Cl3, [Cr(H2O)6](NO3)33H2O and [Cr(H2O)6](CH3COO)3, afforded new mononuclear chromium(III) complexes of the general formula [Cr(HL)2]X (X = Cl, NO3 and CH3COO). In all isolated compounds, Cr(III) ion is coordinated by the O,N,S atoms of...

Chromium (Cr) has been studied since the end of the 19th century, when carcinogenic effects of hexavalent Cr were discovered. Essentiality of trivalent Cr was demonstrated in 1959; Cr3+ has been studied in humans and laboratory animals since the 1970s and it is only since the 1990s that Cr has been studied as an essential element in livestock animals with the same intensity. Trivalent chromium ...

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are an important family of extracellular proteases that process a variety of biologically significant molecules. MMPs are members of the metzincin superfamily of >770 zinc endopeptidases, which includes astacins, serralysins, adamalysins, leishmanolysins, and snapalysins. Metzincins are characterized by an absolutely conserved methionine residue COOH-terminal to...

Chromium contamination in the area of the Radomka river basin in Poland has lead to significant environmental problems. Therefore, chromium redox transformations were investigated in the aquatic environment under conditions as close to natural as possible at intermediate pH and in the presence of original bottom sediment and dissolved oxygen. Reduction of Cr(VI) in the Radomka river water occur...

Stepwise formation constants of folic acid, N[p[ [ (2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-pteridyl) methyl] ami­ no] benzyl] glutamic acid, with the carcinogenic metal ions, aluminium (III) , chromium (III) , beryl­ lium (II) , lead (II) and uranium (VI) have been determined at 30 °C, and at various ionic strengths, viz. 0.01 m, 0.05 M, 0.10 m, maintained by potassium nitrate solution. The formation of the chela...