In chronic renal failure (CRF), plasma concentrations of the products of protein metabolism are increased. Current dietary management is to prescribe a decrease in protein intake. The use of dietary fiber to increase fecal excretion of retained metabolites in CRF may be a beneficial adjunct to a low-protein diet (LPD). Colonic bacteria ferment dietary fiber, providing them with energy for growt...

Maternal dietary protein supplementation to improve fetal growth has been considered as an option to prevent or treat intrauterine growth restriction. However, in contrast to balanced dietary supplementation, adverse perinatal outcomes in pregnant women who received high amounts of dietary protein supplementation have been observed. The responsible mechanisms for these adverse outcomes are unkn...

1. In Expt I, a pelleted grass-meal diet was supplemented with hydrochloric acid, added to the grass pellets before feeding, at five levels from 0 to 628 mmol/kg dry matter (DM). Each diet was offered ad lib. for 21 d to five sheep in a 5 x 5 Latin-square design. 2. Voluntary food intake decreased rectilinearly with increasing HCl supplementation (P less than 0.001), to 42% of the control value...

The experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of β-1,3/1,6-glucan on growth performance, immunity and endocrine responses of weanling piglets. One hundred and eighty weanling piglets (Landrace×Large White, 7.20±0.25 kg BW and 28±2 d of age) were randomly fed 1 of 5 treatment diets containing dietary β-1,3/1,6-glucan supplemented at 0, 25, 50, 100 and 200 mg/kg for 4 wks. Each treatment wa...

An experiment utilizing Cobb-500 male broilers was conducted to evaluate the effects of vitamin E (d1-α-tocopheryl acetate) supplementation at various concentrations (0, 62.5, 125, 250, or 500 mg/kg of diet) on performance and serum concentrations of Triiodothyronine (T3), Thyroxin (T4), Adrenocorticotropine Hormone (ACTH), and some metabolites and minerals in broilers reared under heat stress ...

Article history: Received 30 January 2008 Received in revised form 9 July 2008 Accepted 17 July 2008 The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary cysteamine (CS) supplementation on growth performance and whole-body protein turnover in finishing pigs. This experiment contained 2 trials with the first trial of effect of dietary cysteamine supplementation on growth perform...

The present study investigated the effects of the supplemental dietary energy source on early lactating cows in a positive energy balance. Cows in the control group were fed a basal total mixed ration containing high-quality hay as forage, and the dietary concentrate to forage ratio was 45:65. The corn supplementation resulted in a significant decrease in the milk fat content (P < 0.05) and a l...

background: malnutrition is prevalent among patients hospitalized in intensive care units (icus) and causes various complications. dietary supplementation to provide appropriate nutritional support may reduce the malnutrition and complications through improvement in nutritional status. this study was carried out to assess the association between dietary supplementation and malnutrition among pa...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation with green tea extract on growth performance, meat quality and oxidative stability longissimus thoracis et lumborum (LTL) muscle in growing-finishing pigs. A total 16 crossbred pigs, half females males, were randomly assigned 2 treatments. lasted 9 weeks included grower finisher periods. The experimental diets ea...