No domestic availability to breeder turkey stocks and turkey hatching eggs prompted the present experiment that aimed to evaluate the feasibility of a conventional artificial insemination (AI) procedure in British United Turkey (BUT) for the first time in Iran. Broiler turkeys were restrictedly fed, grown for 46 weeks, and used for the current study (10 turkey toms and 24 turkey hens in total)....

Relatively mild heating of the spores of mesophilic aerobes has been shown to hasten their subsequent germination (Evans and Curran, 1943). Although effective in bringing about a more rapid germination, with one exception, such heating had no measurable influence upon the number of spores that germinated. This tangible evidence of pregermination stimulation led us to extend our observations to ...

Cheese-like systems were manufactured from sterilized ovine milk, using crude aqueous extracts of Cynara cardunculus or cardosin A isolated therefrom as clotting agent. The effect of adding a commercial starter culture was also assessed. The impact of the type of coagulant used during the initial 24 h of proteolysis was evaluated via separation of peptides in the water-soluble extracts by rever...

Silybin A (1), silybin B (2), and isosilybin A (3), three of the seven flavonolignans that constitute silymarin, an extract of the fruits of milk thistle (Silybum marianum), were detected for the first time from a fungal endophyte, Aspergillus iizukae, isolated from the surface-sterilized leaves of S. marianum. The flavonolignans were identified using a UPLC-PDA-HRMS-MS/MS method by matching re...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate safety issues associated with the reuse of sterilized endotracheal tubes (ETTs). DESIGN Prospective, randomized study. SETTING Laboratory in vivo testing. INTERVENTION Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were inoculated onto ETT cuffs. Following inoculation, ETTs were sterilized with either ethylene oxide or glutaraldehyde. Cu...

This article compares sterilized and non-sterilized women in relation to socio-demographic characteristics, reproductive history, and cohabitation status. Women from 30 to 49 years of age and residing in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, were interviewed with a pre-tested and structured questionnaire: 236 women sterilized at least five years before the interview and 236 non-sterilized women. T...