Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the efficacy of replacing corn and dried whey with corn gluten meal (CGM) and lactose, and to evaluate two sources of edible-grade dried whey that elicited different postweaning pig growth performances. In Exp. 1, two corn-soybean meal (C-SBM) diets without or with 20% dried whey (C-SBM-DW) were formulated to contain 1.15% lysine. A third diet replac...

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of supplementing dried distillers grains soybean hulls, or combinations of the two to growing beef steers consuming bahiagrass hay. Angus steers were randomly allotted to one of four supplement treatments. Treatments included: 1) dried distillers grains; 2) dried distillers grains/soybean hulls; 3) soybean hulls/distillers grains; 4) soyb...

serovars of lisreria l1iollocyrogelles were determined. sera of aborted samples (200) were collected from different hospitals in tehran and were tested serologically by immunofluorescent antibody methods (if tests). 137 positive sera were identified. positive sera were tested against 12 serovars of listeria l1iollocytogelles separately. titers of antibody in patients' sera for all serovars...

BACKGROUND A β-mercaptoethnol (β-ME)-treated promastigote antigen of L. donovani was successfully employed in direct agglutination test (DAT) for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL). OBJECTIVE The β-ME-treated antigen was further incorporated into an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay set-up (β-ME ELISA) and evaluated for VL diagnosis against outcome of reference freeze-dried DAT (FD-...

Adducts of reactive chemicals with hemoglobin (Hb) or human serum albumin can be used as biomarkers of internal doses of carcinogens. Because dried blood spots are easier to collect and store than conventional venous blood samples, they encourage applications of biomarkers of exposure in large epidemiologic studies. In addition, neonatal dried blood spot can be used to investigate chemical expo...

The precise quantitation of smoking during pregnancy is difficult in retrospective studies. Routinely collected blood specimens from newborns, stored as dried blood spots, may provide a low-cost method to objectively measure maternal smoking close to the time of delivery. This article compares cotinine levels in dried blood spots to those in umbilical cord blood to assess cotinine in dried bloo...

BACKGROUND Quince has many health benefits. Dried quince has been used as a tea for centuries. The aim of this study was to investigate the influences of two drying methods on the antioxidant activity of the quince. MATERIAL AND METHODS Fifty two fresh Iranian quinces (Cydonia oblonga) were obtained from different parts of Shiraz. Half of the quinces were peeled and both peel and flesh immedi...

This study investigated the development of rat oocytes in vitro and in vivo following intracytoplasmic injection of heads from spermatozoa heat-dried at 50°C for 8 h and stored at 4°C in different gas phases. Sperm membrane and chromosome are damaged by the process of heat-drying. Oocyte activation and cleavage of oocytes were worse in oocytes injected with spermatozoa heat-dried and stored for...

Two antigen-antibody systems were Out of 42 sera from patients with acute viral hepatitis 33 were positive for HBsAg,all HBsAg positive individuals possessed anti-HBc. From 11 blood donors  sera 8 were positive for HBsAg and 9 were Positive for anti-HBc;2 leprosy sera were tested,both of them were positive for HBsAg and anti-HBc. 5 miscellaneous sam­ples,z·were positive for HBsAg and anti-HBc...

Bu araştırma ilkbahar ve sonbahar dönemlerinde kavunda büyüme, gelişme verim için uygun çevre şartları budama tipinin belirlenmesi amacıyla yürütülmüştür. Araştırmada ortam olarak plastik sera, cam sera %50 gölgeli kullanılmış 3 farklı tipi uygulanmıştır. Dikimden itibaren 15 gün aralıklarla bütün uygulamalarında; bitki boyu (15-390 cm), gövde çapı (3.3-11.1 mm), boğum sayısı (4-42 adet/bitki),...