The effect of prepared Ayurvedic formulation was evaluated on excision and incision wound models in rats. The wound-healing activity was assessed by the rate of period of epithelialization and skin-breaking strength. Histological study of the granulation tissue was carried out to know the extent of collagen formation in the wound tissue. The Ayurvedic formulation prepared was then promoted...

Muscle-bone relationships in healthy pre-pubertal children were investigated using four muscle measures as predictors of tibial strength: 66% tibia cross-sectional muscle area (CSMA) by pQCT; leg lean mass (LLM) by DXA; and muscle power (Power) and force (Force) measured during a two-footed jump. Polar strength strain index (pSSI), a calculated surrogate for bone strength at the 20% distal tibi...

A total of 600 male BUT Big 6 turkeys were randomly allocated to 60 pens, 10 birds in each. Each of six treatment groups consisted of 10 pens (replicates), 100 birds in each treatment, at a stocking density of 2.5 birds per m. The turkeys were reared until 112 days (16 weeks) of age, and they were fed diets based on corn, soybean meal and wheat. Group I (positive control PC) received a diet wit...

OBJECTIVES Assessment of additive impact of alfacalcidol 1 μg daily (Alfa) on bone mineral density (BMD) and on bone strength in postmenopausal women treated with alendronate 70 mg weekly + 500 mg calcium daily. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study, 279 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis or osteopenia participated (intention to treat analysis [ITT];...

Grape pomace (GP) is an industrial by-product of grape juice making and commonly discarded as a waste product, even with its large quantity phytochemicals. Thus, the objectives this trial were to examine effects graded dietary GP on laying rate, egg quality, yolk lipid profile, oxidative stability, shell quality ultrastructure, serum biochemistry. Two hundred 35-week-old hens allocated four tre...

There is some evidence that South Asian women may have an increased risk of osteoporosis compared with Caucasian women, although whether South Asians are at increased risk of fracture is not clear. It is unknown whether older South Asian women differ from Caucasian women in bone geometry. This is the first study, to the authors' knowledge, to use peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (pQC...

The maintenance of bone strength has been an important issue in the debate over cage use for laying hens. Bone strength depends on adequate mechanical load and cages restrict movement. Four laying crosses (Lohmann White, Lohmann Brown, H&N White, and Rhode Island Red × Barred Plymouth Rock cross hens) were housed in conventional cages or in floor pens equipped with perches and nest boxes to mea...

in heat-stressed broiler chickens. One hundred and twenty chicks were allocated into four groups of 30 each. Group A (feed restriction), B restriction + L-serine), C (ad libitum) D libitum L-serine). Feed (20%) was implemented on days 7–14, L-serine (200 mg/kg) provided orally from 1–14. Seven chickens slaughtered each group at 35 old to determine meat drip loss, cooking loss pH; tibia bone wei...

INTRODUCTION: Mechanical analogue composite bone models have been used as cadaveric bone substitutes in a wide variety of biomechanical tests. The objective of this study was to validate the diaphyseal structural properties in terms of flexural rigidity, ultimate bending strength, axial stiffness, ultimate compression strength, ultimate torsional strength, torque angle at ultimate torsional str...

BACKGROUND Areal bone mineral density is predictive for fracture risk. Microstructural bone parameters evaluated at the appendicular skeleton by high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) display differences between healthy patients and fracture patients. With the simple geometry of the cortex at the distal tibial diaphysis, a cortical index of the tibia combining mat...