I . The effect of dietary protein level and supplementation with thyroxine and thiouracil on depletion of liver stores of vitamin A, on the percentage of liver vitamin A in the alcohol form and on the plasma level of vitamin A and protein has been studied in chicks. In an experiment with cockerels the relation was investigated between the vitamin A level of plasma and the electrophoretic patter...

s of papers 71 307 Broilers compared to Leghorns show an imbalance of the autonomic nervous system. W.J. Kuenzel*1 and R. Grossmann2, 1University of Maryland, College Park, MD/USA, 2Institute of Animal Science and Behavior, Celle,Germany. The following experiment tested the hypothesis that the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) of broilers dominates over the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) a...

• It has been reported that MER-29, 1[(4-diethylaminoethoxy) phenylj-l-(p-tolyl)2-(p-chlorophenyl) ethauol, significantly lowers both serum and tissue cholesterol in rats and humans." Further investigation has demonstrated that drug-inhibited cholesterol synthesis in the body was due primarily to a block in a late stage of cholesterol synthesis. The present study was undertaken to study the eff...

• Atherosclerosis, the lipid-containing intimal lesion with marked fibrosis and calcification, morphologically similar to the human lesion, has been produced consistently in numerous animal species, mostly by feeding diets high in cholesterol and fat, with and without hormonal or other dietary manipulations. However, ulceration and thrombosis, the so-called "complicated" lesions so frequent in ...

Growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality of male chickens were evaluated using eight-week-old 360 cockerels from three exotic (Koekoek, Kuroiler Sasso-R) one Ethiopian indigenous (Horro) genotypes. Cockerels in each breed (90) randomly allocated into replications 30 birds housed deep litter pens for the experiment that lasted 8 to 16 weeks. The was arranged a Completely Rand...