Spasticity obstructs motor function recovery post-stroke, and has been reported to occur in spinal cord injury and electrophysiological studies. The purpose of the present study was to assess spinal cord circuit spasticity in post-stroke mice. At 3, 7, 21, and 42 d after photothrombotic ischemic cortical injury in C57BL/6J mice, we observed decreased rate-dependent depression (RDD) of the Hoffm...

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the potential for Forsythia suspensa extract (FSE) to substitute for antibiotic in broiler chicken. First, a well-diffusion assay procedure and a 2-fold dilution method were used to determine the bacteriostatic activity of FSE on Escherichia coli K88, staphylococcus aureus, and salmonella was assayed. An inhibitory effect of FSE was observed on the ...

A total of 448 Ross 308 male broiler chickens were assigned to seven treatments with four replicates, each containing 16 chicks. The birds were reared from d 21 to 42 and effects of physical sizes (ad libitum by a basal commercial broiler diet with 3050 Kcal/Kg ME and 19.06% CP/Kg from 21 to 42 d. The chickens which received clinoptilolite (1.5% with particle size of 0.4-0.8 mm) showed a signif...

Complete replacement of inorganic trace minerals (ITM) with proteinated organic (PTM) at equal or lower inclusion rates was evaluated. One thousand and eight, one-d-old male chicks were divided into 24 pens containing 42 chicks, randomly allocated to one the following: T1: control group ITM supplied standard commercial level in Ecuador; T2: PTM 100% T1; T3: 66% TI; T4: 33% T1. The 42-d experime...

two hundred eighty days old male broiler chicks(ross strain) were randomly distributed into seven groups with four replicates (10 birds in each replicate) and were fed diets supplemented with different dietary fat sources.the results indicated that the different dietary treatments did not affect weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion ratio at 21 d (p>0.05). however, addition of dietary fa...

An experiment was conducted to measure the response of broiler males to dietary lysine progressing from 0.75 to 1.15% between 42 and 56 d of age. Chicks (Ross x Ross 308) were placed in floor pens (30 pens having 35 chicks each) of an open-sided house and provided common feeds to 42 d of age. From 42 to 56 d, a corn-soybean meal diet (18% CP and 3,250 kcal/kg ME) having total lysine at 0.75% wa...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of L-carnitine on growth performance, organ weight, biochemical parameters of blood, heart and liver, and ascites susceptibility of broilers at different ages reared under a low-temperature environment. A total of 420 1-d-old male Ross 308 broilers were randomly assigned to two dietary treatments with fifteen replicates of fourteen broi...