Phytochrome that was induced by red irradiation in vivo to pellet with subcellular material and that was released from the pellet by removal of divalent cations exhibited altered characteristics. Compared to phytochrome extracted in a soluble red-absorbing form from etiolated tissue, pelleted and released phytochrome, which was also assayed in the red-absorbing form even though pelleted in the ...

SMUTZ, E. R., E. H1RSCH AND H. L. JACOBS. Caloric compensation in hypothalamic obese rats. PHYSIOL. BEHAV. 14(3) 305-309, 1975. The present study explored the influence of pelleted diets on adjustment to caloric dilution in hypothalamic obese rats. Medial hypothalamic lesioned and normal rats were maintained on a high fat diet until the static stage of hyperphagia was reached, They were given t...

A 2 x 2 factorial experiment with pigs was undertaken to investigate the effect of particle size (fine and coarse) and feed processing (pelleted and nonpelleted) on morphological characteristics in the small intestine, cecum, and colon of pigs and on the adhesion of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium DT12 to the ileum in vitro. Ninety-six pigs (average BW = 33 +/- 7 kg) were fed the experi...

In most southern provinces of Iran, Soil Salinity is a growing problem particularly in the irrigated agricultural areas and has been found to reduce crop yields. In order to investigate the role of pod removal in seed germination, seedling growth and antioxidant enzymes activity in annual medics (Medicago scutella L.) under salinity stress conditions, a factorial experiment was conducted at Col...

Treating male albino rats with the pyrethroid insecticide, deltamethrin induced various histological changes in the liver. These changes included congestion of blood vessels, leucocytic infiltration, cytoplasmic vacuolization of the hepatocytes and fatty infiltration. Deltamethrin also caused significant elevation in serum ALT and AST enzymes after 2 and 3 weeks of treatment. . Silymarin, an ex...

This research was designed to examine the effect of both physical form of the roughage (chaff or ground/pelleted) and or urea supplementation on intake, and digestion by sheep fed barley straw housed at high ambient temperature (40C). The experimental design was factorial 2 x 2 x 4. Sixteen Merino sheep, weighing 26.3 ± 2.1 (SE) kg were randomized into four groups (n=4). Each group was fed one ...

Experimental comparisons of the nutritional value of different wheat cultivars commonly use feeds in meal form even though the large-scale broiler producers use steam pelleted feeds. The aim of this experiment was to examine the effect of steam pelleting on the performance, dietary N-corrected apparent metabolisable energy (AMEn), total tract dry matter retention (DMR), nitrogen retention (NR) ...

1. Measurements were made of portal blood flow, heat production and oxygen consumption in the digestive tract of sheep either fasted or given the following diets: chopped, dried grass, pelleted, dried grass; chopped, dried lucerne; pelleted, dried lucerne, or a pelleted barley diet. 2. For sheep that had been fasted for 48 h, portal blood flow was 1.84 l/min, total visceral heat production was ...