Introduction: Muslims fast from dawn to dusk during Ramadan. The effects of prolonged food deprivation on endocrine hormones have been studied in healthy adults but no previous study has investigated this effect on children. This study aimed to evaluate the feasible changes in serum level of thyroxin (T3), tetraiodothyronin (T4), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and body composition in pre-men...

purpose: military personnel are expected to maintain the highest possible level of physical   fitness to do their duties. several factors including body composition and body mass index   affect the level of their physical preparedness. the current study was designed to investigate   the effect of body composition and body mass index in the level of physical preparedness of   iranian military pe...

wood vinegar is the aqueous phase of the liquid produced during the slow pyrolysis of wood.it has the potential to be used as a pesticide against various weeds, insects and molluscs. due to divergentfeedstocks, pyrolysis processes and storing conditions, the chemical composition of wood vinegar variesbetween producers and time. the aim of our current study was to use the copse snail arianta arb...

background & aim: identification, characterization and detection of medicinal plants chemical composition are very important for phytochemical scientific source. sumac is one of the medicinal plants in the world that uses for industrial and pharmacological application. in this study, chemical composition of rhus coriaria has been investigated. experimental: chemical composition of the matu...

to investigate the relationship between chemical composition of meat from the carcass cuts and thewhole carcass, 48 nine-month-old randomly selected ram lambs of ghezel and mehraban (24 rams per breed)were used in a trial arranged as a 2 × 2 factorial experiment with two breeds and two feeding levels (high andlow), in a completely randomized design. after 80 days, all animals were slaughtered a...

determination of the body composition weight due to the growing ostrich farms in iran is a beneficial subject. it is so important for dependent industries to know the effects of sex and slaughter conditions on carcass quality. in present study, the mean value for hot yield (55.93%) was higher than cold yield (54.70%). blood, feather and skin were evaluated as the maximum and the hide as the min...