I. The effects of dietary supplements of heather at different stages of growth on the breeding of captive red grouse were studied. 2. A supplement of heather which was beginning to grow in spring stimulated captive red grouse to lay more eggs and to lay at a faster rate than birds given a supplement of dormant winter heather. 3. Although laying was stimulated, no significant effect on the date ...

Blue-green algae Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA), rich in protein, vitamins, and polyunsaturated fatty acids, are used as food supplements. We studied the effect of varying concentrations (0.05-0.4%) of AFA on growth, feed consumption, and nutrient digestion in rats. A diet supplemented with 0.05% algae (equivalent to human daily consumption) had a stimulatory effect on weight gain and feed cons...

in a combination of amino acids. It was subsequently found that a mixture of phenylalanine and cysteine promoted partial reversal of the inhibition, but that in the presence of a B vitamin supplement, the activity of the cysteine was less pronounced, whereas a mixture of phenylalanine and glutamic acid showed even greater activity. The activity of the vitamin supplement resided in its niacin an...

Herbs as alternative cancer therapies have attracted a great deal of recent attention due to their low toxicity and costs. In this study, the antitumor activity and anticachectic effect of Coptidis rhizoma, an anti-inflammatory herb, were investigated in nude mice carrying a human esophageal cancer cell line YES-2, which constitutively secretes interleukin-6 (IL-6) and induces cachexia when inj...

Effects of two microbial feed supplements on microbial activities in rumen-stimulating cultures and the rumens of steers fed a fescue hay-based roughage diet were evaluated. The yeast culture supplement contained Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1.4 to 4.2 x 10(9) colony-forming units [cfu]/g), whereas the mixed microbial supplement contained yeast, lactobacilli and enterococci (1.4 to 2.7 x 10(9) cfu...

The market for dietary supplements in the USA was estimated as about 11.8 billion dollars in 1997 with a growth rate of 10-14% projected in the next 3 years. Data from the Food and Drug Administration collected in 1995 indicate that over 55% of adults surveyed used some type of dietary supplement. The marketing of dietary supplements in the USA has been essentially deregulated by the passage of...

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum D-E7 was studied to determine the impact of nutritional supplements and monosaccharides on growth, oxalate accumulation, and culture pH in broth media (initial pH c. 5). Cultures with 0.1% nutritional supplement (tryptone, yeast extract, or soytone) yielded minimal growth, 2-3 mM oxalate, and a final culture pH of 4.2-4.8. In contrast, cultures with 0.1% nutritional sup...

The main purpose of this article is to review role several organic growth additives such Apple juice, coconut water (CW), maize extract, banana homogenate (BH), peptone and protocorms etc which stimulate the multiplication rate various orchid species in vitro multiplication. These supplements help increase number shoots, root leaf culture medium. In many tissue culture, supplements, are most es...