Goats were among the first animals to be domesticated over 10,000 years ago and are part of human societies since beginning agriculture. play a major role both in commercial farming systems subsistence agriculture systems, particularly tropical, subtropical Mediterranean regions where they crucial for supply meat, milk, fibre dung. This review concerns Serrana breed, most important numerous ind...

OBJECTIVE To define the Mediterranean diet model inside a Mediterranean social and cultural food framework and from the perspective of a local model of consumption. DESIGN Reflexion and review of literature available in relation to the Mediterranean diet, locality and proximity. SETTING AND SUBJECTS Mediterranean region and its populations. RESULTS The Mediterranean local food system unde...

Terrestrial reptiles are threatened by numerous anthropogenic activities, including agriculture. Many agricultural methods and techniques affect the herpetofauna located in oldest known tree crops Mediterranean Basin, olive trees. For first time, we present a case of unintentional capture (and killing) 12 snake-eyed skinks Ablepharus kitaibelii (Bibron & Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1833) on ...

Polypore fungi are an important group of wood-inhabiting basidiomycetes that have significant roles in biomass recycling in forests and woodland ecosystems. Figures on the polypore diversity in Iran have been partly made available through few checklists, but there have been no comparative studies on the pattern of geographic distribution of the species. The prevalence of the Mediterranean biocl...

Familial Mediterranean fever, an autosomal recessive disorder, is a member of the periodic fever syndromes, and considered to be the most common cause of recurrent febrile episodes in children. It is important to understand the disorder as familial Mediterranean fever falls on a spectrum of various presentations; the recurrent episodes of familial Mediterranean fever may be so severe that the q...

familialmediterranean fever (fmf) is a hereditary syndrome characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and serositis. liver involvement in fmf has been reported in association with amyloidosis or rarely with vasculitis.in this report, a 32 year-old man with recurrent attacks of fever, abdominal pain and arthralgia is described who had moderate increase in liver transaminases only during disease...

glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) in humans is in x-linked disorder, housekeeping enzyme and vital for the survival of every cell. it catalyses the oxidation of glucose-6-phosphate to 6-phospho gluconat in the first committed step of the pentose phosphate pathway, which provides cells with pentoses and reducing power in the form of nadph. nadph is required to protect the cells against ox...

Nutrition has always straddled sectors, health and agriculture being the obvious two. The environment sector is a logical and important partner sector for nutrition, although not often recognized as such. Informally and incidentally, nutritionists have included environment sector issues in their research and practice. For example, food composition databases occasionally turn up nutrient data on...

Abstract Synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilization has helped boost agricultural yields, but it is also responsible for direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Fertilizer-related emissions are promoted by irrigation manure application, which increased with livestock industrialization. Spanish agriculture provides a paradigmatic example of high industrialization under two different climat...