an experiment was conducted using 640 day-old sexed commercial broiler chicks (ross 308 strain) from 10 to 49 days of age. the experimental design was a completely randomized factorial one. the experimental units (pens) contained 20 chicks each and were allotted at random to 4 dietary treatments × two sexes with 4 replicates per treatment. four dietary treatments were formulated based on corn a...

BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence that vitamin D deficiency is common and has been associated with several non-bone related outcomes, including insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The influences of gender, puberty, and adiposity on serum hydroxyvitamin D (25-OH-D) levels and the relationship between 25-OH-D and insulin resistance in obese children were studied....

Two 2 × 2 factorial experiments were conducted to investigate the interaction between xylanase (0 vs. 200 mg/kg) and protease (0 vs. 200 mg/kg) enzyme supplementation on growth performance (Exp. 1) and coefficient of ileal and total tract apparent digestibility in grower-finisher pigs (Exp. 2). One hundred and twenty-eight individual fed pigs (BW = 34.2 kg; n = 32) were assigned to 1 of 4 dieta...

objective: epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder requiring long term therapy using antiepileptic medications. reports have incriminated long term antiepileptic drugs use in deficiency of vitamin d and bone diseases in all age groups. to investigate the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin d levels and pediatric epilepsy in indian patients.           methods& methods: we prospective...