in this study, the effect of maternal additive genetic and environment on body weight at 6 weeks (bwt6w), breast width (hbrs), carcass weight (carcwt), breast weight (brswt), blood hematocrit value (hem), residual feed intake (rfi), daily feed intake (dfi) and average daily gain (adg) were investigated in a commercial broiler dam line. with and without maternal effects, six different animal mod...

body weight (bw) and carcass traits are complex and important economic traits that may benefit from the implementation of mas. the objective of the current study was to identify qtl associated with bw and carcass traits in an experimental half-sib cross of japanese quails selected for bw at 4 weeks of age. body weight and carcass traits were measured in the f2 population. total f2 individuals a...

background: limited data are available indicating associates of stunting among iranian c hildren. objective: this study was conducted to investigate determinants of stunting in first grade primary school children of tehran in 2007. methods: in this case‑control study, 3147 school children were selected by multistage cluster random sampling method from 5 districts of tehran. anthropometric measu...

background breast feeding appears to play a role in determining obesity and abdominal obesity during childhood, specifically in children with a history of low birth weight. objective the purpose of this study is to investigate the relation of breast-feeding with either of abdominal obesity and obesity among iranian school children. materials and methods a total of 1184 students (625 girls and 5...

thirty-two exclusive and twenty-seven non-exclusively breast-fed infants were followed-up from birth to 4 months of age in a maternity hospital, with a rooming-in program. face to face bf education was given to mothers in two groups after delivery and also during 4 months post-partum. body weight (wt ), length (l) and head circumference (hc) of the infants were measured at monthly intervals, an...

this study was carried out to examine the effect of post hatch fasting (phf) period with and without subcutaneous injection of 0.6 ml ca-gluconate (ca-g) on productive performance and breast muscle development in broiler chicks up to day 28 of age. weight gain (wg) and feed intake (fi) were significantly reduced and fcr was increased as phf lasted for 36 h. injection of ca-g did not improve wg ...

introduction: the extreme reduction in breast milk intake during the first days of life leads to weight loss, kidney failure and hypernatremia. the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between hypernatremia in neonates and way of maternal breastfeeding in hospitalized infants in ghaem hospital of mashhad.   materials and methods: after obtaining parental consent, 687 infants referr...