A total number of 60 weaned male New Zealand White rabbits at 6 weeks age with an average initial body weight 704 ± 20g were randomly divided into four groups, fifteen /each during the experimental period (May−June 2020). First group was fed basal diet without any additive as a control group, while 2nd ,3rd and 4th groups hydrolysable tannin Silvafeed® ATX (HT, 1.5 g/kg diet), grape seed extrac...

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of herbal and immunomodulatory die-tary supplements their combinations on growth performance, slaughter traits meat quality in male broiler chickens. A total 210 one-day-old Ross 308 chickens were randomly distributed after weighing 7 groups (3 replicates each, n=10 chickens). Broilers reared deep litter until 42 days age divided as follows: Group I – con...

Kathryn Dewey and Mary Arimond discuss new research in PLOS Medicine that assesses the effect of blanket provision of ready-to-use supplementary food to children at high risk of malnutrition in Chad, and highlight some of the challenges of investigating the efficacy of supplementary foods for malnourished children.

Lipid droplets are cellular organelles that consists of a neutral lipid core covered by a monolayer of phospholipids and many proteins. They are thought to function in the storage, transport, and metabolism of lipids, in signaling, and as a specialized microenvironment for metabolism in most types of cells from prokaryotic to eukaryotic organisms. Lipid droplets have received a lot of attention...

A completely randomized design experiment consisting 5 treatments with 5 replicates (6 birds per replicate) was carried out by allotting 150 white Lohman laying hens at 18 weeks old. The experimental diets were prepared by addition of different levels of E-selenovit supplement (0.0, 35, 65, 80 and 100 mg / kg of feed) to the diets. The diets were isonitrogenous and isocaloric and of fered ad li...

In this work, microbial lipid production from non-detoxified Eucalyptus bark hydrolysate (EBH) with oleaginous xylose-utilizing Ashbya gossypii strains was explored. The best producing strain a set of engineered identified in synthetic media mimicking the composition EBH (SM), profile characterized, and yeast extract corn steep liquor (CSL) were pinpointed as supplements enabling good balance b...

OBJECTIVE The use of dietary supplements has been increasing rapidly in Korea over the last decade. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between the pattern of dietary supplement use and the sociodemographic/lifestyle characteristics of Korean consumers. METHODS Participants were asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire on their sociodemographic and lifestyle chara...

Two experiments were conducted with broiler chicks to determine the nutritive value of highoil sunflower meal (HO-SFM), a sunflower oil extraction by-product obtained through screw-press extraction and expanding processes with a proximate composition of 32% CP, 12% crude fiber, and 19% ether extract. In Experiment 1, the effects of a high level (46.4%) of HO-SFM on chick performance and gastroi...