This study was aimed to assess the impact of dietary energy density on liver health parameters, carcass characteristics and performance of broilers exposed to heat stress. 600 Cobb male chicks were assigned to five dietary treatments and four replicates. Chicks were fed diet based on corn as main energy source and energy level based on Cobb standard (C), corn based diet with 3% lesser energy th...

During the Islamic lunar month of Ramadan millions of Muslims abstain from drinking and eating from dawn to sunset. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of intermittent Islamic fasting on reproductive function, hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis and the peripheral metabolism of thyroid hormones in men. We measured serum levels of FSH, LH, testosterone, prolactin, TSH,...

The study was conducted at Haramaya university poultry farm to evaluate the effects of locally processed fish waste meal (FWM) in the diet of white leghorn layers on the performance and hatchability, egg quality, sensory flavor and profitability of the rations. One hundred eighty chickens at five months of age were randomly distributed (15 layers per each 12 pens). The pens were randomly assign...

This study was conducted to find the effect of methionine and threonine supplementations higher than the NRC recommendation on growth performance and white blood cell differentiation of broiler chickens challenged with infectious bursal disease. A total of 450 day-old male broiler chicks were assigned to nine groups. Chickens were fed by three graded levels of DLmethionine [NRC (M1), 2 times NR...

PURPOSE Cerebral vasospasm (CVS) is a major complication after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) induced by the rupture of intracranial aneurysms. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect and mechanism of cervical sympathetic block on cerebral vasospasm of the rabbits after SAH. METHODS After successful modeling of cervical sympathetic block, 18 healthy male white rabbits were r...

two hundred and forty hubbard classic broiler chicks were used in a 35 day trial at chittagong veterinary and animal science university farm, bangladesh to study the effects of supplemental choline chloride on performance parameters, carcass characteristics and their association in commercial broiler. all birds had free access to ad libitum feeding. birds were fed four types of diet i.e. diet w...

Market-size (61-68 day-old) AA broiler chickens were exposed to simulated high-cyclic summer temperatures of North, Central and South China for 5 continuous days. Blood samples were collected at 0AM, 4AM, 8AM, 0PM, 4PM and 8PM each day, and concentrations of triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) were determined by double-antibody radioimmunoassay (RIA). T3, T4 concentration and T3/T4 ratio h...

INTRODUCTION We analyzed the changes in serum catecholamine concentrations, i.e. adrenaline and noradrenaline, in response to surgical stress in patients with pheochromocytoma who undergone videolaparoscopic adrenalectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between January 1998 and March 2002, 11 patients underwent 12 videolaparoscopic adrenalectomies. In one case, the adrenalectomy was bilateral. Serum c...

Details are given of a double-blind trial involving 400 cases in which tetracycline 500 mg. four times a day for 7 days was compared with tetracycline 250 mg. four times a day for 14 days and also of the findings in 311 cases treated with Deteclo 300 mg. three times a day for 3 weeks. The treatment in the double-blind trial were equally effective and appeared to be as effective as the long-term...