This retrospective study included 133 children aged between 2 and 16 years with elevated serum food-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE), including 59 children clinically diagnosed with atopic dermatitis (AD) and 74 children clinically diagnosed with atopic disease without AD (asthma, allergic rhinitis, or both). Six common serum food-specific IgEs were detected by the Pharmacia ImmunoCAP test, incl...

OBJECTIVES To assess modifications in baseline specific IgE- and anti-IgE- and antigen-specific-mediated basophil activation in egg-allergic children. The values were compared before and after the children completed specific oral tolerance induction (SOTI) with egg. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied 28 egg-allergic children who completed SOTI with egg. The basophil activation test and specific ...

BACKGROUND Hen's egg is one of the main causes of food allergy in children. Accidental exposure is common in food-allergic patients. However, the few studies that analyze this problem focus mainly on peanut allergy. We sought to calculate the frequency of accidental exposure reactions in children allergic to hen's egg during a 12-month period, to analyze the clinical characteristics and circums...

Brown eggs have gradually entered the traditional white-egg markets as a distinctive mode for packaging specialty eggs. A test was conducted at the Brigham Young University Sensory Laboratory (Provo, UT) to understand how consumers view attributes of the brown egg relative to the white egg. The objectives were to see how the consumer viewed properties of eggs by color and to examine the prefere...

Two experiments were conducted to determine whether taurine supplementation to laying hens would influence laying performance. In Experiment 1, a total of 120 White Leghorn hens were fed diets supplemented with 0, 0.25, or 0.5% taurine for 5 wk. Egg weight was reduced significantly by supplementing 0.25 and 0.5% taurine; however, taurine did not affect other laying performance variables. In Exp...

abstract  introduction: this experiment was conducted to study the effects of different levels of flaxseed (0, 5, 10 and 15% of diet) and copper (in the form of cupric sulfate pentahydrate, 0 and 250 ppm of diet) on fatty acids and cholesterol in egg yolk of laying hens. methods: a total of 128 white leghorn layers aged 50 weeks were used in a factorial design and randomly assigned to 8 treatme...

S OF PAPERS 253 145 Effects of Originial XPC on performance of layers. K. E. Anderson1 and J. Frank*2, 1North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 2Diamond V, Cedar Rapids, IA. Laying hens (11 white and 7 brown strains; approximately 17 weeks of age; n = 9594) were utilized in a 16 week study to determine the effect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation product (Original XPC) on hen day and h...

This experiment was conducted, during a seven-week period to investigate, the effects of using various levels of garlic cloves and turmeric rhizome powders, on laying hens’ performance, egg quality characteristics and cholesterol content in yolk. Two hundred and sixteen, 27-weeks old Novogen white laying hens were assigned randomly into nine treatments with eight replicates of three birds each....

Abstract—Gastric content’s mass and pH commonly assessed invasively using endoscopic biopsy, or semi-invasively using swallowable transducer. EGG (electrogastrography) is a technique for observing gastric myoelectrical activity noninvasively, that could be designed as mobile device. In this research, 72 EGG recordings were obtained from 13 local white rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Recorded EG...

The present study was carried out to determine the sex of the fertilized white layer eggs with using morphological measurements. A total of 300 Super Nick White Layer (54 wks of age) eggs were incubated and sexed in the end of incubation period. Before incubation egg length, width and weight were measured. The egg volume and shape index were estimated with using these measurements for each egg....